Young Life Update 3.24.08 – Kidnap Club

Wow! Wow! Last night was an amazing night! Its the Spring semester, kids are bored and checking out! 9 weeks to the end of school! And all they want to do is lay around and not do anything.  So Spring time at Young Life is a time when we’ve decided to go to them.  Last night we had our first annual Kidnap Club.  I, like every other Young Life Area Director stole this one out of the pages of another YL Club.  We started with about 20 kids last night @ 7:30pm and split into groups.  Every group was given a sheet that listed 30 different kinds of high school kids, ex. (Bearded high school kid, sophomore football player, junior cheerleader, etc.) and were given one hour to total the most points in finding their high school friends! What started as 20 kids ended with 75 to 80 kids, 3 dogs, and 3 Elementary aged kids in Club last night.  Everyone made it back to YL @ 8:35pm, we had a short YL Club that included Human Bowling and we all went and hung out at Sonic afterwards.  My talk last night was on Mark 6 when Jesus fed 5,000.  How fitting as last night we saw the numbers grow in 1 hour.  It was so amazing as I told kids that whatever we are or whatever we have Jesus can give us more than we dream of and even more! He showed us that as he fed 5,000 with 5 loaves and 2 fish.  There was also 12 baskets of leftovers! That’s what Jesus can do for us if we bring him our lives! It was fun to see new faces light up as they might have been told this story for the first time.  One kids eyes never left me as I talked about Jesus! Wow! That’s what this is all about! Last night was a great picture of Jesus coming for us.  Our YL leaders and high school friends went out into Boerne and grabbed all the kids they could to get to Club, to eventually hear about Jesus.  Jesus! Amazing stuff! Out of last night came tons of interest to go to camp and others to be involved in YL.  Kids just came out of the woodwork! Thanks for supporting us as we go get kids and bring them to Jesus!