One last bit from my conversation in Christchurch with Sara, John and Mary Beaumont, and David and Nina Rice:
We need young people to get to know God as a consuming fire that captures the whole of their being and instills in them a passion for him that takes them far beyond anything we’ve ever seen or done. That’s what had taken our hearts at a young age. God wanted to make himself known to every one with such a burning reality that everything else in our lives takes a back seat to him and his reality.