Young Life Update 10.20.08

Friends,

Club Monday night was full! Kids seemed a little bit lethargic to begin the night but they awoke as the night progressed. We did something different for music on monday night.  Rather than have a guitar lead Club, as we usually do, my friend Billy Suess told me that he uses videos from YouTube to lead music in Club.  Apparently you can find any song on YouTube with the words included.  It was different but worked well.  

We of course had a few new faces on monday. We have had a group of sophomore girls start to come on a regular basis and it seems that the Lord is beginning a new chapter in there lives as well as ours as we minister to them.  Its going to be fun to watch these relationships unfold over time.

My talk monday was on something I really had been wrestling with myself in my own walk with the Lord.  I talked with kids about how we go through life being defined by what those around us say we are, whether that be good or bad, we seem to believe things about ourselves that aren’t necessarily true.  I talked to them about how we so easily believe lies about ourselves and live life being defined by something so simple as “no one sees you,” or “you’re never going to amount to anything,” or “your just a loser.” I talked to kids about the woman caught in adultery in Luke 8.  Here was a woman, I am willing to bet, that lived her life maybe thinking she wasn’t good enough for real love, or a real life.  She was caught in the act of adultery and was drug into the temple court by the teachers of the law.  What had caused her to get this far in life? Separated from God’s love. Separated from the truth about herself only.  The teachers of the law wanted to make sure she was stoned to death because she was breaking the law. Its a beautiful picture of high school life.  We will do anything to point out what’s wrong with someone else as to deflect the attention off of our own bleeding hearts. In a beautiful moment Jesus calmly and so gently says “you with no sin, go ahead, throw the first stone.” One by one they left because they were convicted of there own sin and there stood this woman, who was in need of great affection. Jesus, in a beautiful display of compassion, gives her her life back, redefines her, gives her a new heart and a new life. “Who is there to condemn you?” “No one,” the woman says. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus says. “Go and stop sinning,” Jesus told her.  This is what he wants to do with us.  He wants to blow away the lies we’ve been believing so that we might be able to see him clearly, and see that He has a new heart and a new life in store for us.

Please pray with us as we pursue kids for Jesus.  We need prayer to get kids to our Polar Bear Weekend Dec. 5-7.  Pray for the Lord to open the flood gates of relationships so that kids would see him.  Pray for more kids to see Jesus in Boerne.

Other Specific Prayer Needs

1. Table Hosts for our annual banquet Feb. 8, 2009

2. More Young Life and Wyldlife leaders

3. New Committee Members

4. For our budget needs to be met for the year

Thanks a bunch for supporting Young Life in Boerne!

Jason