The Fourth Go Around

Well It's once again Monday which means we had another Young Life tonight! It was a great night tonight. There is so much energy in that room, the video just doesn't do it justice! We borrowed a sound system tonight (Trinity Covenant Church, the second part of my job, has part of a spare sound system so with that and taking another part of our current sound system we have enough for a working system for now, that said, it is a lot of work and not really right for us, it'll do for now, but we're only $200 away from the sound system of our dreams, well not our dreams, but a very affordable sound system that would meet our needs, so if you're interested in helping us reach that goal feel free to let me know!) and having the system made all the difference, we were able to lead songs well, keep students attention, and really add energy with louder songs and a better sounding camp video. It was incredible to be able to push ourselves technologically, and student's commented on the positive change! Tonight we had our first encounter with our "Run-on Characters" (Two characters that come on and talk about their "fitness camp" at Washington Family Ranch July 3-9th (the dates of our Young Life camp at Washington Family Ranch) Our leaders Julie and Ben were Pectorals Major, and Gluteus Maxine, two work out instructors featured in the video, they'll be back in weeks to come! We played a full body version of rock paper scissors tonight and sang some great songs (which we received multiple compliments about) and ended the evening with a talk. I started by playing the song "Nobody Knows Me at All" by The Weepies (if you haven't heard it give it a listen! The song includes so many good lines including "I've got lots of friends, yes, but then again, nobody knows me at all" I stated that I feel like all of us felt that way sometimes. I shared a personal story about an occasion when I felt completely unknown and alone, and from their transitioned into the story from John 4 of the Samaritan Woman at the Well. I talked about how she certainly felt the way that song described and then pointed out how Jesus knew "everything she has ever done" and LOVED her in spite of it. I heard multiple positives comments from the talk, so despite all my shortcomings God did some good things through it! Thank you all for your prayers! On a quick side note, we've been giving out 6 dozen donuts for free at Sprague High School on Thursday mornings and on Sunday I shared with Trinity Covenant what we were doing, at the end of both services I had been given $421 (not counting the $150 we had already raised) bringing us to a grand total of $571 to purchase donuts for Sprague students! Needless to say we will be buying more donuts this week and will certainly be able to be there through the rest of this year! Anyway, this has been a long one. Thanks again for everything, you are all such a blessing to us all! -Mat