TBC Youth Group

We had two things going against us, this week: It was March Break, so we’d have less kids than usual, and it was a youth rally, which the kids wouldn’t think they’d enjoy. (We say that they “wouldn’t think” that they’d enjoy it, because we’d been to a youth rally before, and they’d all enjoyed it very much.) David had a brief conversation about this with Shawn, from Urban Promise; how do you get kids excited in the LORD? If they’re only coming out for things like roller skating, and not for things like youth rallies, doesn’t that mean that you’re doing something wrong? Unfortunately, they didn’t really come to a conclusion. (Other Youth Group leaders, feel free to leave comments…) All David could come up with is that your best bet is for the leaders to be excited about the LORD, so that they can lead the kids toward Him. (If the leaders aren’t excited, how can they expect the kids to get excited?)

So, because of all of this, we had fewer kids than normal, and—as is very not usual for us—way more seats than kids, in all of the various cars we’d brought. So we let John go home, since he wasn’t feeling well, and also let Stephen go home, because he needed some sleep.

The rally itself was good. We’d gone to one before, put on by the same people, so we knew that it would be pretty good.