A Night To Remember!

I want to start this post out with a quote from a students Facebook status tonight after Young Life. It read, "thank you lord for putting young life in my life." It's things like that that remind us why we do this. Tonight is a night I'm reminded of the word of Saint Paul, "If it seems that we are crazy, it is to bring glory to God." 2 Corinthians 5:13   So much of what we do is ridiculous in Young Life. Tonight we had a game where one student took off all their clothes under a blanket playing the game "Take of Something You Don't Need" (He didn't really take off all his clothes, we just played a wonderful trick on the audience!) We do thing after thing that, to the untrained eye my look to be insane, but really we are crazy to bring glory to God. Tonight, judging by the Facebook status, that glory was in fact brought into the life of at least one high school student. Caitlin Marshall brought us a message this evening that spoke to the need in our lives. Amanda and Caitlin shared brief stories in their lives where they tried to use things to fill the voids in their life only to realize that only God can meet our needs. Their stories were paralleled along with the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15 (easily one of my fav's!). She did a wonderful job, as was expected, and in my car on the way home when I asked three boys what their favorite part of Young Life tonight was, the answer was 'Caitlin's talk' across the board. Sprague Young Life is in an incredible place right now. Students are wrestling with Jesus at a level rarely experienced out side of a summer camp/missions trip sort of experience. In short, God is good and faithful, and the proof of that can be seen in the blessings being shown to this group of ragamuffin leaders! Special thanks tonight to Mike and Joy Fargo for hosting us for a delicious lasagna dinner! To Mark and Rebecca Butler for hosting all of us for Young Life (We were in the upper 50's tonight between students and leaders!). And as always, our deepest thanks to Limeberry for really becoming Sprague Young Life's hang out place! What an amazing community we are a part of! Thank you all for your support, through both prayer and financial gifts! None of this would be possible without you! -Mat