You know it’s been a good night at youth group when you walk away with a sore throat and wonder why it’s only an hour and a half long. We started out with some human bowling on skateboards, something I’ve never tried before. We set up 10 2-liter bottles filled with water at the end of an “ally” set off with orange cones. The concept is pretty simple: be the team with the most points at the end of 10 frames. Sit a team member on the skateboard and then launch ‘em down the “ally” into the “pins.” I don’t think there’s one girl who went down that ally without screaming. The girls beat the guys by 4 points. Of course when the game is over what better thing to do with the water-filled 2-liter bottles than start throwing them into the air to watch ‘em explode on impact. Most of us got kinda wet. When we went inside and met up in the youth room a student named Bianca and I played a little joke on the group, which was pretty funny. I also felt like the lesson went pretty well. Most of the students who were gone for the summer have returned, so we had our normal Wednesday night group of 20-some kids again. Good times. Afterwards I started talking with a girl about creation/evolution, which she’s really interested in. So I gave her some books from my office library to borrow that address the issue from a Christian perspective. She seemed pretty eager to read ‘em, which is cool. I felt bad, though, because I know there’s another student that wanted to talk with me a little more privately about something, but by the time I finished with the evolution/creation girl that other student was already on their way out the door with their parent. God’s in control, though, so I guess it’s something He wants the student to work through by themselves for the time-being. These kids are in His hands, not mine. I just like to hear what’s going on with them and how I might be of help.

To transition to the mundane, I’m coordinating a Guild Wars tournament between 8 guilds. So far it’s all coming together nicely. It’ll be a lot of fun, I’m sure…. Just thought I’d throw that news in there too.