Numbers

Be careful what you pray for! Last Friday night at our regular youth meeting we reached in numbers an all time high. We had 74 in attendance. I know to some of the larger churches 74 isnt a huge number, but lets look at this in perspective.

Last February 2010 I had 35 kids and was praying for 40. At the beginning of this year, 50 was a good night, but we had an aim to reach over 70 by December. It’s June.

Post School Exo Day Reflections

Last Wednesday week I overcame my inhibitions and we threw a local school exo day. When I first became a youth pastor and someone said school exo day I truthfully thought that was way to hard and to much trouble and simply just couldn't be pulled together in such a small country town from a similarly small church.
To be honest i wasn't even sure what it was, or what it was for. But yet.... we did it! And it rocked!! How I hear you ask?
I had so many questions, so here are a few that were running around my head,