Just Reach Out and Touch Jesus

Sorry for the delay in posting this video... I have had a little technical difficulty as of late.

We enjoyed the great outdoors for once due to the glorious sunshine. It is not everyday we get to enjoy cloudless skies. When the leaders were sitting around the dinner table before Club we were thinking that we may not see a single kid at Club. Every kid we texted or talked to had other things going on, but we figured that even if one kids showed up to hear about Jesus it would be all worth it. To our surprise one kid after another began to trickle in, by Club time 35 kids were throwing frisbees, kicking soccer balls, and taking in the rays.

Tonight I shared about how Jesus healed the bleeding women. I said that everyone of our stories is not too far off from the women who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. We all have had struggles, hardships, and or pain that we have suffered with for much of our lives. Like the woman we too can reach out and touch Jesus. Jesus has the answers, Jesus has the power to heal.

Jesus Is Love!

A prayer this week was that the love of Jesus would be on display at Club. That His love would be on display in the things we do, the conversations we have, and the way leaders interact with one another as well as with the kids who show up. Last night at Club, Jesus was indeed present.

There was once again a handful of new kids. As well as a handful of kids who have begun to make Monday night a Young Life night. It was a joy to watch leaders interact and connect with a variety of kids and go out of their way to make these new kids feel welcome. If you were to stand back and watch, you would never know that these kids are not the best of friends, that they don't run with the same crowd, and that they don't come to Young Life every week, you would have seen the opposite. Jesus is working, knitting hearts together, and forming common ground. Young Life is common ground, a ground where love is found, a ground where Jesus is.

It was exciting to see Kate share the Gospel with such passion, authority, and power. This was her second or third talk ever at Young Life and she nailed it out of the park. You could hear a pin drop; kids were captivated. JESUS IS LOVE! It doesn't matter what you have done, we have all fallen short. No longer walk in condemnation, but go and sin no more.

Everything Is Meaningless

Kids continue to show up on Monday nights and I ask the question, why exactly are kids always coming? We continue to see new kids come every week, kids I would never expect to show up. To many, we probably sing some pretty dumb songs, to many, we play some stupid games, and we give away some ridiculous prizes, yet kids still come. As I think about this question, I am reminded that in every day life kids are faced with pressures of fitting in, being cool, having it all put together, being successful. In Young Life, we offer a place where kids can really just have fun.... child-like fun. It is not everyday that we are free to jump around catching flying balloons, but as little kids we were, and we loved it. Why does that have to change? These kids are accepted, they are loved, they are free to laugh, sing, and play. They are getting touched by the refreshing hand of Jesus, that is why they come. Everything under the sun is meaningless, everything with out Jesus, and where Jesus is, there is meaning and freedom.