Young Life, Chapter 5

Tonight was a good night! We started off with a wonderful dinner by some of our even more wonderful Sprague Young Life supporters (every week before Young Life we have a team dinner hosted by different families in the community, so far we have been blessed to eat at the Marshall's, the Schaefer's, the Rawlings', the Hancock's, and the Chin's. If you read this and think, "Gee Wiz, I'd love to host dinner for them" let us know!) After a great meal we headed for set up, and boy, what a night! I'm always amazed by the amount of energy and noise high schoolers make, and how much they make me laugh. We had our characters come out again tonight and teach us how to work out while we eat (attach 25 pound weights to our forks) and had Brad and John demonstrate the technique in a race. We sang some current songs (and one not-so-current, brown eyed girl anyone?) And then onto the talk. Tonight I shared from Luke 5:17-26, which is the story of the paralyzed man lowered through the roof. I shared how he could not get out of that situation without Jesus' help, and posed the question, "Are there places in our life where we are stuck, and would there be any of these places we could ask for Jesus' help in?" All in all, it was a good night. We have finally raised enough money for our base sound system (now for getting necessary additions like microphone stands, cables, etc...) and our donuts have built up quite the reserve (of course, we could always use funds if you are interested in helping support this mission). We had just over 20 high schoolers again tonight. I am encouraged to say that each week we have new people join us, and each week some can't make it because of outside commitments. That said, I believe we have over 40 people that come to Young Life, so please pray that they all show up next week, and that they each bring a friend. Next week is our last Young Life before Spring Break, I'd love to have to spend Spring Break looking for a new (larger) space to have our Young Life club! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the support you have all showed us, whether it's prayer, or meals, or funds, or all of the above, we couldn't do this without each and every one of you (and of course, the Holy Spirit). Thank you, thank you, thank you. -Mat

*on one final note, dear Austin, sorry I didn't get this uploaded by 10:30, there were some very important things that came up that I had to get done first, I hope you forgive me ; )