Lilypad here! Tonight club was great, we started off with a "get to know you" mixer from Caitlin called "What's Your Name?" Then we played the craw dad song and Caitlin and Matt did a great program about a doctor and a patient that has a giant hole in his body!! (his belly-button) After their shenanigans we played a game which involved two kids, a boy and a girl, on either side of a plexi-glass with peanut butter on it. Their goal: to lick the peanut butter of their side of the plexi-glass the fastest. Finally Kyle brought us home tonight with a message about sin and how our relationship with God is like a bridge, and sin damages that bridge between us and God. It was a great message full of laughs, good questions, and overall positive feedback from the kids. Shout out to the wonderful Hancocks who made us a delicious dinner of chicken tacos and ice cream for dessert. Also to the Butlers who love on us and our club every week by opening up their home. Much Love!

Hey Sprague Young Life community!!! Just thought I would catch you up on the happenings of Club at Sprague Young Life.  We started off club with a mixer designed by Lily wherein we finally forced kids to learn each other’s name. We were mildly successful, but were slightly shocked to realize that our leaders struggled to remember one another’s names. The mixer was followed with the world’s most famous song, 500 miles by The Proclaimers, after a slightly failed raffle attempt.  After an incredible walk on by our favorite Siamese Twin Thugs (Hailey and Amanda) Ellie gave a talk about how problems that are too big for us aren’t too big for Jesus. Tonight also marked a milestone for Sprague because it was the first night the capable Mat Hollen was not up front. After the talk and questions, everyone went to lime berry and participated the fourteenth weekly lime berry dance off! Huge thanks to our Young Life committee, the Fargo family for hosting our meal, and of course the Butlers for being so kind as the open their home to us. Until next week!!!

-Mack

WHAT A NIGHT!

Hello Blog Readers and supporters of Sprague Young Life!

Tonight was such a fun, and refreshing night of Young Life in the Butlers basement. After a week of small attendance, tonight seemed to be at least 50% of new faces. Some of our regular attenders brought friends, and it was so fun for us leaders to meet them all.  We started the evening with a mixer brought to us by Haley, trying to untangle human pretzels. Kyle came up with a game that involved spit wads and ski goggles. Mack, Matt R. and Lily brought us some laughs in a skit about old people at a gas pump, and Amanda finished the night off with the talk! She spoke on John 11, where Jesus weeps with Mary and Martha. She shared about how He loves us SO much that he enters into our grief and suffering with us, even when he knows the end result will be okay. It was amazing the way the 40+ students sat there, quietly, listening so intently to the words Amanda spoke. Afterwards, they had so many great relevant and real questions, and she answered them confidently, beautifully and honestly. There were a few questions about suicide, trying to figure out where God is in the middle of grief like that? It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Please keep our students in your prayers, as it’s evident that kids are still grieving over the loss of Dana (a fellow classmate), and definitely searching for God in messy and hard situations. Pray for us leaders as they come to us with questions that we may or may not know the answers too, and pray that all the new students who came today will be back!

Thank you SO much for reading this blog, and being interested in the ministry that God is doing at Sprague, through our team. You are a vital part of this team and community, and it’s exciting to know that people care and want to hear about our exciting nights at club! Thank you to the Fargo’s for the delicious lasagna and salad dinner, and of course to Mark and Rebecca for welcoming us into your home, and being so gracious, even when high school boys accidentally put holes in your wall.

Tonight was a good night, God is Good, and He is at work! Thanks for reading : )

Caitlin, and the rest of the team!

80's Night!!!

Hello Sprague Young  Life and Community! It was great to see everybody after an awesome spring break. Tonight we celebrated one of the craziest decades… the 80’s. We wore our bright colors, acid washed jeans, and danced to Vanilla Ice. We played some amazing games and we got deep reading a dramatic poem written by the one and only Ke$ha. Lily shared the story of how Jesus healed a blind man by rubbing dirt in his eyes gave and answered some great questions about how Jesus can open up our eyes and change our lives. This was all followed, of course, by limeberry.

Not only was it a fun, post-spring break Monday night, it was a great night to get the students amped for all the fun that will be had at camp in June. We are currently organizing fundraisers and getting students to turn in camp forms. We are also looking forward to the epic CT Studd basketball tournament here in Salem. We hope you call can come out and watch April 21^st!

Lastly, we just want to thank everybody who supports us in any way at all, from prayer to hosting our leaders for a nice dinner. We couldn’t do what do without your powerful prayers that back us. A special thanks to the Marshall family for cooking our leaders a wonderful dinner tonight before club. We hope you all have a great week and tune in next week for our club following Easter Sunday. Grace and peace to everyone! -Kyle