To my surprise, I have enjoyed working with and being with our youth group at church. Jr. High and Sr. High kids have never been on my ministry radar. As a matter of fact, they've never been on any radar screen-ministry or otherwise. I've never understood the purpose of teenage drama, even when I was a teenager, and therefore veered away from any form of the likes. Maybe because I am now the mother of a Middle-schooler, I have a heart to reach out to these kids! I know...I'm just as shocked as you are! Just a reminder that my ways are not God's ways!
Our church sponsored a bonfire and hayride last night that I attended. There were probably about 20 kids that came out for it. Our youth minister planned for us to roast hot dogs for dinner and marmallows for s'mores. The guy who built the huge bonfire decided not to start the fire until after the kids arrived. I think he secretly wanted to show off his bonfire skills. :) The problem with that is that we were suppose to eat first and then go on the hayride. The fire was so big and HOT that we couldn't get close enough to the fire to roast anything but our hands and faces! I think most people just had the chill taken off their dogs because that was as long as they could stand to be that close to the fire! So afterwards we went on a hayride, and I thought it was a pretty good trip. The kids all seemed to enjoy it. They did take them through a cemetery and tried to scare them with guys in costumes carrying chainsaws. Unfortunately, the scare tactic was a little lame! The biggest scare the kids got was when some redneck let his dog loose from his house to chase the trailer full of kids! Some people are just idiots! We made to it back to the house safe and sound though! The irony though was that the fire was just right for roasting when we returned, but there wasn't anything left to roast! Ky had invited a friend to go with her, and needless to say, on the way home we stopped by Sonic!!! ;)
I really had a good time. I have to find that balance though of chaperoning and letting Ky have her space. She doesn't seem to want me around as much any more. The joys of living with a pre-teen! I would post some pictures from this event, but I forgot to take my camera with me. So I'll post a picture from See You At The Pole that was in September. This was our first time to participate. It was an amazing time to see these kids gather in front of their school to pray together.
Isn't this one of the coolest things you've ever seen? These kids were there at 7:15 a.m. Most of them probably don't even crawl out of bed until then! It makes me proud to say that most of these kids are friends of Ky's. It's nice to know the kind of people she is hanging out with.
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I hate that I missed the bonfire! I would have loved to have gone but I didn't even know about it until I saw Zach's message on Facebook. Next time they do something like that, make sure I know about it!!! I probably couldn't have gone anyway because I'm still working on my HOUSE.
Youth groups are a different breed all the way around, but can't help but love'm anyway. My parents helped in the youth for years and now mom loves the college kids. The bonfire looks like so much fun. Glad the dog didn't get ya'll. What a ding dong for letting it out!
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