Saturday, February 20, 2010

First Night Back to Youth Group

So our youth group is one that you can't try and tame with any cookie cutter approach to youth groups. We have kids from 10-20 years old, middle school and high school, orphans and ones with parents, poor and rich, healthy kids and some who have AIDS. Trying to find ways to minister to them effectively is not always easy and us as a youth team are always trying to think of ways to better minister to the kids, to get them involved in ministry, help them to know their Bibles, and above all else get them to know their Savior. We went through a season of discouragement for a while with how the group was looking and honestly didn't know what to do, of course those are the times when God seems to shine the most. Tonight was my first night back to youth group and it was awesome! We had over 70 students crammed onto the veranda outside of the church and we began with some awesome worship that Ryan led and then a teaching by one of our pastors Stephen from 1 Peter, and then there was a pretty legit time of fellowship afterwards. It's encouraging to see not necessarily the numbers (although those help sometimes) but to also see the involvement of the kids, the older ones helping the younger ones find the passage, and when there weren't enough Bibles or seats the students who've been around for a while, actually got up to help out with those things. Just keep praying for our youth group, so much of me feels that we're on the brink of something really amazing, I just don't know what it is yet.

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