Dear Revolve

Dear Revolve Tour and Women of Faith (cause you kind of run Revolve),

I'm writing this to tell you my story, about how Revolve changed my life – to help you realize the amazing things you're doing, if you didn't already know(:

My names Kirstin, I went to Revolve in 09' and 11'. I heard about Revolve through my friend Hannah, she invited me to go with her, her mom and some of the people from her church. I accepted only because I didn’t have plans that weekend. During that time in my life my friend was threatening to kill herself, and I was the only one that knew. I had started cutting a couple months before I went to Revolve 09' . When I was there I remember feeling God's overwhelming presents in the room, filled with thousands of teen. Even though I knew about God I didn’t have a personal relationship with Him. The whole time I was there I was hoping that one of the speakers or artist would say something about suicide - anything to help my friend. I didn’t care about myself, I wanted to help her. The only thing I remember that really stuck out to me was Britt Nicole’s song 'Feel the Light'.

Once Revolve was over I went home and looked up Britt Nicole, someone who I never heard about before Revolve, in fact before Revolve I didn’t know Christian music out of the hymns at my church! When I looked her up I came across the song 'When she Cries', both of these songs helped me through that time, although my cutting continued.

This past year, Revolve 11' was the changing point in my life. I had continued cutting up till then, I had started drinking, and doing other bad things, but NEVER drugs. A week before I planned on doing drugs, Hannah invited me to Revolve which was also that weekend! So I had a choose Revolve or drugs. I choose Revolve, best decision of my life, that was definitely a God thing. Every word that came from the speakers, artists, and drama teams mouth I took to heart. I decided I would actually listen this year, and get as much as I could out of it.

We where unfortunate and didn’t get tickets to Britt's signing, which was a big reason why I came this year. After Britt was done, she walked by me, looked me in the eyes, smiled, and waved. I'll never forget that moment, that made my life. I remember being the happiest I had been in a long time. Her eyes where amazing. She has Jesus eyes. I could feel Jesus in her, and from that moment I told myself “I want to be like her”, “I want to find Jesus like she did”. I gave my life to Jesus at Revolve. I promised myself I would never go back to my old ways - you know what I haven't, I'm 8 months clean!

I now sponsor two kids, one from Zimbabwe and one from India. I am fully responsible for them, I have to raise all the money for them. So I started doing charity events for World Vision, all by myself with no help from anyone. So far I have raise over $800! Also through my blog, I have gotten to share my story and influence many other teens who have gone through the same thing. On facebook I created a fake facebook account for my high school, which instead of the account being used for cyber-bullying, I am using it as a site to encourage people and realize they aren’t alone. I have helped countless people who where thinking suicide and many who were cutting themselves. We make uplifting status, and do things called My stories, where people from my school write in and tell us their story and we post it anonymously. This facebook account is getting very popular, ive been told by many people how I have helped them - I couldnt even count how many!

Without Revolve and Jesus I wouldn’t have been able to do any of this! Thank you so much for everything you guys are doing, I hope and pray that you guys will be able to continue spreading Jesus’s love. I know many other people who's life has been changed through Revolve, you guys are making a difference and I want you to know this! Revolve was my hope. Revolve was God's way of giving me a “wake up call”. Honestly without this conference I would be cutting, drinking, and doing drugs. I'm so blessed to have been part of something amazing like this. Please never stop doing what your doing.

Also I wanted to say thanks to Jenna for something she said about cutting near the end of the 11' year, “leave the engraving up to Him”. That stuck with me, thank you. Jamie thank you for being so awesome, your music always picks me up when i'm down. I was so happy when you talked to me after Creation! I'm always so happy when you reply to me on twitter, I geek(: Never stop talking to your fans, cause that what separates you from others - you care enough to talk to people. Thanks! Britt your music has helped me, honestly, it helped me realize GOD IS LISTENING! HE IS WITH ME! I love you for that, hopefully one day I will be able to talk to you in person and tell you how much it means. Chad thanks for giving me the courage to break up with my boyfriend who was doing some bad things and being a bad influence on me. Court thank you for never not smiling, every time you smile I can't stop smiling at your smiling! You don’t realize how much that means to me, I love how crazy you are, NEVER CHANGE! Blanca thanks for come up to my group after your signing and talking to us, and just being awesome! Drama team, thank you for the suicide skit, that was one of the deepest moments and much needed moments of my Revolve experience.

Revolve tour and Women of Faith, THANK YOU for letting God use you to helping thousands of women!

Love,

Kirstin Beck, 15