God Things

Last night was a high school leaders' meeting. (It still seems a little odd sometimes to be in meetings with people who were my leaders in high school, back in my holding up the wall days...I always imagined that there was more...planning, or strategizing, or something that went on during meetings. Last night, we played Scrabble.)

All of those sticky notes are stories of cool things that people have seen in the youth ministry lately. It only took about four minutes to come up with that many, and there are no repeats up there. For fourteen leaders, that's a lot of stories.

There may be a billion things that we all want to see changed, but good things are happening too. God is present, and He is moving.

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Story: We were handed extra copies of the here's-the-list-of-places-we're-going-this-year ministry trip sheets at the meeting last night, and I grabbed one, with the vague thought that E, the freshman guy who couldn't find the youth group last Sunday might want a copy.

Of course, I then proceeded to almost walk out the door without it when I left for work this morning (because I'm just ADD like that).

I set it on the counter at work and forgot about it until, out of the blue, he asks, "So, do you know where the ministry trip is this year? I didn't get to go on any in middle school, I want to go this year."

Um. Yes. Actually...Let me grab you something.