These are the things that make me want to throw up my hands and quit youth ministry.
1. A jr high boy sees every rhetorical question as an opportunity to shout out something stupid that might possibly bring attention to himself. Oh jr high boys...bless their hearts.
2. A student sneaks into the ceiling at the high school, falls through the ceiling, gets sent to the hospital and therefore causes us to never be able to do church events at the high school again.
3. Someone (most likely a youth) breaks the push bar off the outside door to our new building. The suspect just leaves the push bar leaning against the wall instead of fessing up.
4. Hearing that one of your students was tested positive for drug use, or has been cutting, or got pregnant, etc.
5. Having to break up a make out session in the Senior Ladies Sunday School room.
6. Asking that student (30 minutes after bible study was over) when his ride was going to be there and him responding with, "Oh, can I borrow your phone and call my dad to come get me?" I mean seriously...do they think we live at the church and want to hang out with them until the wee hours of the morning?
But then...there are those few moments with students that make this all worth it. Like...
1. Seeing about 8 of our students (no adult help) lead the entire congregation in worship...and do it well!
2. Getting a text that says, "I found that verse that you were telling me about."
3. Having a student come up to me and say, "I want to talk to you about what you taught tonight."
4. Leading a girl with a learning disability to Christ.
5. Seeing a young man, who 3 years ago would never be caught doing anything in front of a crowd of people, play the bass guitar in front of our church congregation.
6. A student gives up her entire "new cell phone savings" to give to World Hunger.
2 comments:
LOVE this!!!
Amen and amen! *with tears in my eyes*
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