Well hey there! So a lot of changes have been happening this weekend and they are all things that I am really truly excited about! To start things off My buds Canela and Willy were put in charge of a new Sunday school group at our Church, Newlife.
They are both apprentices there and its been crazy awesome watching both of them really grow in both their relationships with each other and their relationship with God these past few months. But yeah they were approached by the leaders and asked to start a group for 5th and 6th graders. The 5th and 6th graders are all too old for the kiddie group (kids theater) but not quite old enough to be able to sit there in the adult service and understand what Brandon is talking about. So it's called Zone56 and I was asked by Nella to be a group leader for it (big item #1) This Sunday was the first day and it was a big hit. There were 22 kids there and Willy did a great job! We talked about Solomon and it was weird seeing by bud Willy who I've known since we were these kids age and when I think of him I remember the Willy that used to be obsessed with baseball and would pull out chairs before I sat in them. I never would have thought that he would be where he is today but it makes me so happy that he has. He has come so far from what he was and I know God has big plans for both him and Canela.
(this is us @ a Creation Fest 2008)
So big thing #2 is that after being a part of the Bainbridge Bible Chapel youth program since I was in 6th grade I am now a leader at Newlife's Bainbridge youth group. I was approached by a fellow leader at Newlife and asked if I would be interested a while ago. I didn't want to leave BBC because it was where I felt I wanted to be and I had friends there and yadda yadda yadda but as time passed I realized that yes I the youths wanted me there but I wasn't needed. They had no great need for me to help most of the kids at the youth group are either graduated of graduating this year and so I will remain close with all of them but after much thought and prayer I feel led to where there is a need for leaders for young high school girls. I'm so thankful for this opportunity and I hope I can help show God's love to these girls and really help them through these difficult years. At their ages I wished I had a Christian girl a little older than me (who wasn't family) that I could talk to about stuff so now I have a chance to do that and I'm so thankful for that! Tonight was my first night and the topic was True Love we read out of 1 Corinthians 13 and it really amazes me how pure and great God's love is compared to ours. My favorite part lately is in vs. 2 "... and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing." We can have the greatest knowledge of God and know everything but if we don't act on that faith is it really there because God calls for us to LOVE not just to have faith. How can we show our faith to others if we don't love? I really enjoyed this evening :)
Next week we're starting a new series though called If You Really Knew so check it out it should be good!
OK final change and this is by far my favorite!!!! I have finally reconnected with my buds Mary and Milo! It's great! We used to be buds when we were younger but as we got older we went our own ways and drifted apart for various reasons but now that we are back together at Newlife we have been hanging out and Milo might be working with me at the pool!!!! I'm just thankful to have these girls as well as the other leaders at Newlife in my life now because for a while I had been praying that God would bring good Christians who were my age into my life and he has :)
( Mary aka Merv and Milo aka Meatloaf)
OH and here is a video of 2 of the other leaders doing a rap for youth on Tuesdays :)
(Not going to lie after watching this I finally finished part of my own rap I'd been working on since CCBC)
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