TBC Youth Group

I kind of wish I had a more exciting Youth Group event to write about, for my first post to this blog, but I guess I have to start somewhere…

The default Youth Group event, when nothing is [properly] planned, is to do a “Games Night” at the church. What kind of games we play can be anything from Charades to Crazy Eights to Boneyard. (Boneyard is a version of Hide and Go Seek in the dark. It’s incredibly popular with the kids at Thistletown.) Unfortunately, we’d already done a Games Night, the week before—including a game or two of Boneyard—so this outing was even more lackluster than usual.

We had a smaller group of kids, this time. (Again, probably because we’d just done a Games Night the week before.) If I remember correctly, there were five kids, and three leaders.

As we were waiting for people to arrive, some people went into the Sanctuary to play the drums. This quickly turned into an impromptu jam session, with various people taking turns on the drums, myself on guitar, and everyone else singing. (They were singing songs about milk; I’d missed the beginning of the jam session, so I don’t know how that became the topic…)

When we were done, we did our devotions. John did the devotion on the concept of faith; what does the Bible really mean, when it talks about “faith?” Is it enough to just know about something? Or to know about it and believe it? No, it was decided, Biblical faith means that you have to know about God’s Grace (Knowledge), believe that it’s true (Assent), and actually trust that God can save you (Trust). Which forms the acronym KAT.

After devotions, we hung around a bit longer, and went home at the normal time (which is not normal).

Next week, we’re planning to go bowling, along with the Urban Promise YMAD group. This means that we’ll probably have over twenty kids, instead of five.