Guam youth at passion 2025
Sometimes, it only takes one encounter with God to shift everything.
This year, youth and young adults from Guam Christian Life Fellowship (GCLF) made the long journey to Passion 2025, and what they experienced wasn’t just another event. It was a divine moment, a space where heaven felt near, where fear bowed to faith, and where the presence of God changed lives forever.
Matt Mercado described it like this:
“Standing in a room with 40,000 people worshipping together, I was overwhelmed by God’s presence. It truly was a glimpse of Heaven. Every ounce of fear I had turned into faith. Since then, I’ve stopped living halfway in and halfway out. I’m learning to live fully surrendered to God.”
Aron Marquez walked in with guarded expectations, but left with a powerful revelation:
“Expectant. Be expectant for what the Lord will do.
I entered the arena with the idea that I should not have any expectations for how the Lord would move. If I don’t expect anything, how could I ever be disappointed? But this point of view was based on my personal experiences with the world.
The Lord is not the world… He is greater.
Instead, what God taught me during Passion 2025 was to raise my expectations, especially for how He would move in my life, not in the ways that I could ever think of, but instead in ways immeasurably more than I could ask or imagine.
God would be glorified whether I was all in or not… the amazing thing is that He wants me. He wants us to experience it for ourselves, as a child of God. All glory to Him alone.”
Worship was led by voices like Cody Carnes, Kari Jobe, and more, but the focus wasn’t on the platform. It was on Jesus. Every word spoken, every song sung, every heart lifted in praise pointed back to the One who is worthy.
And since returning to Guam, things haven’t been the same. There’s a deeper fire, a louder faith, and a growing hunger to see revival, not just in big arenas, but in homes, in classrooms, in churches, and in hearts.
So if you’ve been waiting for the “perfect moment” to go all in with God, this is it. He’s not asking for perfection. He’s asking for your yes. No matter where you live or what season you’re in, the same God who moved at Passion is the same God moving here and now.
“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us.”
— Ephesians 3:20 (NIV)
