Youth...part 2
From having to postpone the date, to not knowing if we could pull off the music, to having to make last minute changes to somethings,...I think it went rather well.
To be honest I was pretty skeptical of how well this whole thing would turn out and if it would be a flop or not. The day before there were some things that I was worried about that we wouldn't be able to do and it would turn out bad. However, Sunday mornings sermon by Grant really put things in perspective for me.
I wasn't doing this for myself, for anyone, or anything. I was doing this for God. Like Grant said his sermon, we are to have an audience of One, Him. We were there to fellowship, listen, and worship Him; thats it. The only audience was God.
After realizing that it was about him, I think that it turned out great. Granted there were a few mistakes in the a few songs, but that is just a minor detail.
I think it was good for the youth to get together and fellowship. I thought Harry did a great job of giving them some encouragement in this time of transition.
Sunday night reminded me of back when I was in youth and we did this on a regular basis. Now that I am not in youth anymore it was just awesome to see all of them getting together to hang out and worship God.
I am hoping that we can start doing this more often and make this a regular thing.
Youth
Turner and I have been working (talking about) on getting a youth service together for the youth at Grace. I think it has been hard on the youth program not having a youth pastor around. I am not around that often but from what I hear things aren't going so great. The life groups are struggling and there is nothing going on for large group meetings. This means that there is no unity amoung the group and I think that is something that needs to be there.
So we finally got things worked out and we are going to start a service for the youth. We were going to have the first one last sunday night but because of the weather we postponed it to this coming sunday night. I am really excited about doing this. I think it will be a good opportunity for the youth to come together, which hasn't happened in a while. I am praying that this will give people some encouragement while they don't have a youth pastor.
It's Snowing!!!!
Ok so after all of the hub bub about this huge winter storm we actually do get some snow. One thing I hate about Arkansas is that every time the news says anything about snow, everyone makes a huge deal about it and freaks out; and most of the time it doesn't even do anything.
However, this time they were right. It started snowing about 3 hours ago and is still coming down pretty good. The campus looks really cool all covered with snow and lit up.
Way to go weather team...you got it right this time.
Heaven
What do you think heaven is going to be like? In my bible study we are going through Ephesians and tonight an interesting point was brought up. I don't think it really had too much to do with what we were talking about but it was interesting.
Someone said how God made the earth in 6 days. Then he said that He has been preparing a place for us since then.
If God made the earth in 6 days and it is beautiful, what is heaven going to be like? I can't even begin to comprehend this.
I just though that was an interesting point and totally crazy to think about.
What to do??
Ok so I have been thinking hardcore about somethings. I am trying to decide what I am going to do this summer. I have a couple of options and I want to be able to do them all but I know I can only do one. Stumo does a summer project called Kaleo which is a leadership training/evangelism thing. I have talked to some people that did it last summer and I have heard nothing but good things about it. Also I would like to do a youth internship somewhere. I would like to do it at Grace but without a youth pastor I don't really know how that would work. Also there is a youth camp that I heard about that might be good to work at this summer. I wish I could do all of them but I can't. Right now my thoughts are this:
- I only have 2, mabey 3 summers left...it seems like I have longer but in reality I am going to be graduating sooner than I think
- I want to to something that would be good for my future plans
- I want to do kaleo at some point and my thoughts are it would be better to do it sooner than later
- I'm thinking I can always do an internship the next summer or even mabey during the year next year
I don't know...
