HALLOWEEN!!!

TONIGHT, WE HAD A HALLOWEEN PARTY, AND THAT'S ALL WE DID! IT WAS WONDERFUL! THANKS TO THE BUTLERS FOR LETTING US TURN THEIR HOME INTO A HALLOWEEN PARADISE!!!! 

Do You Wanna Get Well?

Club tonight was rocking! We kicked it off with a sweet mixer that led to lots of laughter. For the first time, we had two of our students lead the songs (shout- out to Macklin Kelly and Hannah Herrera) and the kids loved it! The game was a spoof on the leaders (John, Reid, Haley and Tina) . . . they were told they had to act out things like “You just won the Tour De France” or “Someone is chasing you with a chain-saw” and the kids were told they had just taking the biggest poop of their life. The laughter was INSANE. I (this is Amanda) gave the talk tonight and the Lord definitely showed up. I spoke about the Invalid at the Whirlpool (John 5) and asked the kids the simple question “Do you want to get well?” and discussed how easy it was to say “Yes” to Jesus and “”Yes” to a better life with Jesus.

A special THANK YOU to Megan, Joel and lil Anders Webb for the delicious taco soup and hosting our team for dinner! And as always the Butlers for hosting Young Life! 

Blessings!  -the Sprague YL team

High Energy Night!!!!

Caitlin here again! Tonight was awesome. It started off with an AMAZING dinner made by the best team of Father Rock and the Hancocks. We all left in a food-coma from those hand-crafted meatballs. YUM.

Club was just as awesome. The kids had SUCH high energy that brought us out of the food coma. Lilly thought of a great Mixer that had groups trying to fit on a piece of paper, that we made smaller and smaller. It was pure chaos as kids were jumping on top of each other and climbing on shoulders to fit. Tina thought of the game, where the contestant followed a flashlight behind a sheet…and ended with a pie in the face! And then, John gave his first talk!! He did awesome. I think the kids really respect John, and care what he has to say, because they were all ears as he spoke on the prodigal son. The questions they asked at the end were really deep too, which is encouraging to us; we know they are listening!

We all left Lime berry feeling excited— yet exhausted. It was a good night!
Thanks to everyone who helped make it a success!!!

Huge thanks to the Butlers for hosting our crazy students and the Hancocks for delicious food! Thank you all so much!!

The Tenth of October Already!!!!

Hey it’s Lily here,

Tonight’s club was a fun one. We started out the night at the Young’s for dinner, and after some mind-blowing ravioli lasagna and mint fudge brownies, we all headed out to the Butler’s for club! This week was my first week doing the slideshow, which was definitely an adventure for me, our team, and the kids. We kicked off the evening with a great mixer from Jon called “Ninja, Cowboy, Bear”.  The kids loved it, and it got everyone excited for the rest of club. Then we sang a few songs, played an epic game of “Burping Babies”.  In this game, two girls were picked to “feed” to guys Pepsi in a bottle, whichever guy could finish the Pepsi and burp the loudest won. The kids loved it. Afterwards we sang “Hey Jude” and Mat gave a great talk about the story of Jesus and the woman who touched his cloak. He shared about a story from his own life when he had tried to impress a girl, and pointed out that Jesus doesn’t need impressing. That Jesus felt the smallest touch and put the woman first, even when others were asking for His help, He still invested His full love and attention on her. Shout out to the Youngs, the Butlers, and Limeberry for supporting Sprague YL in an amazing and life-changing way! 

Toe Fencing, Cold Feet, and Creation

Caitlin Here! Tonight we had our 2^nd Young Life of the year and I think it went great. We had a little over 40 students show up, and I got to speak. First, we played toe-fencing to warm the room up, sang some songs and played “Cold Feet” where girls fished with their foot for gummy worms and fed it to boys. I think the energy was high, everyone enjoyed themselves, and there were even a few new faces! Tonight, I spoke about the beginning of the Story, where God created us. I talked about the fact that if God could spend so much time on putting the galaxies in place, how much more detail might he put into us? God created us like a work of art, not to “do” things for him, but to be in relationship with him. Before we could even screw up he called us his beloved, simply because he created us. There were some great questions afterwards that lead me to think that this year will be a great one! I think kids today are really wrestling with this idea of identity and it’s hard to believe that God could really love us for who we are. But hopefully they’ll keep coming to Young Life, hear the message of Truth, and begin to believe it. Special Thanks to the Collier's for hosting us for a delicious dinner, and to the Butler's for hosting Young Life once again! On a side note: We're looking for a new place to hold Young Life that will hold around 100 people! If you know of a place in South Salem, let us know!!