St. Patty Celebration

The house was packed with new faces as well as old. I have not seen that many girls at a Club ever! They might have actually out numbered the guys tonight. When girls come.....guys follow, and when girls are engaged and having fun......guys are too. It's funny how that works. It was an absolute blast tonight, from singing Backstreet Boys, to having a spitting contest, to blowing eggs on one another, to having a cheeseburger challenge, kids were all in it tonight. It is especially fun to look across the room and see kids laughing, singing, yelling, and having their phones out taking video. When those things are happening, you know you are doing something right.

Tonight was also the night that Jerrell had the opportunity to be God's mouthpiece up front. He shared about his struggles growing up with abuse, neglect, and suicide. He shared how most of the time he felt like a broken toy with no purpose. He shared the story of Jesus washing his disciples feet and how through that Jesus showed the greatest extent of his love. Jerrell closed by saying that Jesus will wash the dirtiest places in your life no matter what they are, just like the disciples nasty dirty feet. Jesus loves you that much.

God's Work

I must say it is nice being able to have several Clubs in a row, momentum builds, kids start hearing about Young Life, and we see it in the amount of kids showing up. Kids are all about what is trending, what's cool, and they ask the question are my friends doin it? If those things are happening, more kids are hearing about the love of Jesus! And that is what it is all about...Jesus!

We have two senior boys who have begun to lay down some prayer goals, some things that they want to see God do this spring. One of them is to see Club grow too big for our current location. We are at a little over 50 kids right now, if we had 80 show up we would be too big. They have begun to write down names of kids they want to invite to Club. One boy has been praying for his brother to come to Young Life. This week his brother came. Those are the stories that are fun to hear. Stories of kids growing, reaching out, seeking God ,and in turn witnessing God's faithfulness.

Both of those boys were far away from God their freshmen year. They were no where near a personal relationship with Jesus. Now 4 years later their lives have been changed. All because a Young Life leader decided to enter their world, where they were, and love them. Thank you Jesus for Justin and Marcos, what you are doing in their lives, and what is yet to be done.

March 5th

It really felt like the Holy Spirit was with us tonight! From the mixers, to games, to skits, to songs, to video, to talk, it all went so smoothly. Kids were completely engaged and attentive.

Everything we did felt like we did it together. We started out with a mixer called Human Knot, kids grab hands in a giant circle and have to work together to untangle themselves, we sang Lean On Me, and then played an up front game where the girls fed guys gummy worms with there feet. Nasty!

Kevan had the opportunity tonight to lay the framework for who Jesus is. He shared about how in our world lust is a huge struggle and even excepted, sex for everyone is the norm. He shared about David, and how he was a man after God's heart, yet, he struggled incredibly with lust. He shared about how David could only get so close to God in relationship before he would mess up and a huge gap would form between he and God. He related that to how we can feel when we mess up or do something we shouldn't do. But God did something to close that gap, the Word became flesh and walked among us that we may see. Jesus! It was cool to see kids dialed in and listening to Kevan. I even had some great talks on the car ride home!