Last night was our regular monthy concert of prayer and pizza night. I have grown very fond of this "crazy idea" that we launched in 2004.
The really incredible part about what is happening this year is that we’ve been asking students to just come and share their stories. These stories of intruige, salvation, and messy life stuff may be the most powerful stuff the youth group has ever said and it didn’t come out of my mouth.
The idea was born out of desperation. As an intern I ran a large high school group going through a nasty transition. When I was given the reigns as the interrim… the whole thing was a mess. The adult leaders didn’t trust the church leadership. The students didn’t trust the adults or the church leadership, they had even been meeting on their own in addition to our weekly times. The previous youth pastor had left, sadly, unprofessionally and it was all very messy.
It was a time for that group when the 3 hours on Thursday nights was just too much and wasn’t helping anything… in fact I feared that it was making problems go from bad to worse. So one day I asked the leaders, "What do you think about asking people to share stories?"
It began simply but as the months wore the stories began to get more and more of what’s really going on in my life.
It’s that feeling of meeting the "what’s really going on" needs that LF wants to go for. We just wnat to help guide students and point them to the cross…
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