Young Life, The Journey Begins!

I just wanted to write a quick blurb about Young Life tonight! I think the video speaks for itself but here's a bit more:
We started off the night at the wonderful home of Teri and Rick Schaefer, who were so kind to make our leaders dinner!!! (If you're in the Salem area and are interested in doing something like this feel free to let me know!) From there we went to Charley and Nancy Marshall's home where we held our first club. Boy let me tell ya, I was NERVOUS, not having done club at Sprague before I didn't know if we would get big numbers or not. I was hoping for 30-35 young people tonight. And we ended up having just under 30!! It was such a good night! We sang some great songs, had a wonderful mixer, a talk (I shared a talk about our story, I tried to make the case that we all have an idea of who we are and we tell people accordingly, but I pushed to say, "what if there is a bigger story we could be a part of?" and "what is Jesus has something to do with that story?" I included the story of the bleeding women in Mark 5:24-34. I said that she was a women who wouldn't accept the story those of her world told her (that she was unclean and incurable) and instead reached for the story God wants to invite us into. I asked us all to think about if we are open to the idea that we might have a better story than the one we already know. I think kids really enjoyed themselves! We went to Dairy Queen after and everyone joined us! It was such a good night. Thank you all for praying! I'm sorry if this video isn't perfectly edited and I'm sorry if my spelling or grammar isn't perfect. I just really wanted to get this up as soon as possible to let you all in on all the great things God is doing in South Salem! -Mat