Weekend Wrap-Up Late Edition
I can’t believe all that happened this weekend. I so don’t deserve all that God has been blessing me with lately. I love students and their families and want the absolute best for them. I am so encouraged to work for a church who makes teenagers a priority instead of using them for any other reason. I have the greatest youth staff anywhere in the Northeast, I know others say they do, but they are lying…trust me. I have a phenomenal church staff that put in so many hours to make our weekend a success.
This weekend we launched our student version of “Hostage” and it was incredible. Students telling me about their anger, their pain, their heartache. So many things that would shock most of you but have become a regular occurrence for me dealing with youth culture. I heard that UNITED was better than camp, that the worship was insane, incredible, unbelievable and as good as the original. What a credit to Donny and the Praise Ninjas, yes that is our student band name. They did awesome. God gave me the words to say and lives were changed because of it. Last I heard we had 10 students receive Christ and 1 parent. God is Awesome!
The room itself is simply another tool to allow us to reach teens for Christ. So many times I’ve been to conferences and seen the stage and wished that was us or have been to large youth groups or seen them on video and wished that was us…I walked out Saturday night saying, “that is us.” Other youth departments will be looking at our building and program as the standard for youth ministry in the Delaware Valley.
Our life groups were awesome because we have such good leaders. They were excited and filled with passion as we experienced our best numbers yet and saw students getting real with bitterness. Can’t wait to see what God has in store for our team and our students.
Also a special thanks to all who blessed my family with our weekend getaway. I don’t know who to exactly thank so I thank all of you. It was much appreciated. Just know there were so many people who were behind the scenes that made this vision come to be…make sure you thank them as well.
