TBC Youth Group

With the help of some medication, David was finally able to make it back out to Youth Group, so all of the leaders were present.

There had been plans to go to Laser Tag, joining with the other Youth Groups we’d previously met with. Unfortunately, the other groups’ plans changed at the last minute, but we decided to continue on to Laser Tag on our own. We knew it would present a problem for rides, because events like Laser Tag always draw out a lot of kids, but it wouldn’t be the first time we’d had to squeeze too many kids into too few vehicles.

Normally, when we have an event outside of the church, David switches cars with the pastor; we take the pastor’s van, and the pastor takes David’s car. However, after a quick head count, we realized that we weren’t even close to having enough seats. So we called the pastor, and asked if he really needed the car; he didn’t, and we went and got it. That gave us three vehicles: David driving the pastor’s van, John driving David’s car, and Odele driving his own car. Altogether, it was seventeen seats, for nineteen people. We’d have to squeeze two extra people into the van.

Due to a miscommunication, John hadn’t realized that he’d need to prepare a devotion. (Since we were going out, it was assumed we wouldn’t need one. However, David is trying to make sure we do devotion every week—something we haven’t been good at in the past. (John has been a big help in making this happen.)) So David did the devotion, which was a parable from his own life, illustrating the way that God is in control of our lives, even though we have our own free will. The devotion was much shorter than usual—preparation is a good thing, and winging it often causes problems.

After the devotion, we piled into the vehicles, and left for the Laser Tag arena. We played two games, and the kids seemed to have a really good time. (It’s always a coin toss as to whether kids will enjoy Laser Tag; sometimes they love it, and sometimes they’re just bored with the whole thing. For a high-school-aged group, it seems to be the younger ones who enjoy it more, and the older, jaded kids who get bored with it.)