I am so privileged to help out with this organization called Young Life. Young Life is an organization that works with High school kids and the key of Young Life is just to build relationships with High School kids. God just blew my mind today! Listen to all the situations where he shined today. I went to Northside today for lunch (the school I do Young Life at) and there is this kid who told me that he attempted to commit suicide last week. He was really open about it and trusted me with the information. I just offered out a hand to help him and he really wanted the help from me. He wanted someone to be there to talk about his life situations with. I got show Christ to him!
So there is this other kid who has been really wanting to get involved with Young life but he can't because his Grandmas a Jehovah witness and she is against anything else that doesn't have to do with being a Jehovah witness. He asked his Grandma if he could go but then she just said no but guess what..? He was at club tonight and he loved it!
Young Life club was so good tonight. There was so much diversity in the room which is something that we all have been praying for. I really felt like club tonight was an answered prayer in many different ways.
There is this other kid who has been struggling with some things in his life. He really just explained to me that he had this moment tonight where he just felt God speaking to him. He felt God's presence during the song came to my rescue and also during the club talk. I gave the talk tonight at club which I felt pretty good about just because I really felt God speaking through me. I talked about how God wants to enter into our messy situations but how its easy for us to put up fences up around our messy situations. This Young Life kid was telling me how he wants to bring the fences down because he has been keeping them up. He wants to let God in.
Amen
God is good.
Hi Ryan--I found your blog because we have the book "The Ragamuffin Gospel" in common. I enjoyed hearing a testimony of what God is doing there--that is so awesome.
ReplyDeleteI volunteer in student ministry at my church, and I know how it feels when they are blessed by God, Himself (not anything added to Him, just Him). Sometimes those moments seem few and far between, but I have to trust that He's the grower. :)
Praise God for the lives that are being touched and you're getting to be a witness/vessel in it! :)
Grace and peace, brother,
Jen