Youth work

Youth work is rewarding, challenging, emotional, exhausting, fantastic, and probably every other word you can think of if you are in the same line of work.  Now I don't do it for money, purely voluntary which does have its benefits because i can say no to things and not feel too guilty. Saying that I do love doing it and why else would I give my free time every week, my home to have them round and my food for them to eat. 

I love them as a group of young people.  We had a phrase a few years ago that when working with 11 to 14's when you throw mud some of its sticks, so we keep throwing the gospel at them hoping some of it will stick eventually.  I have come to learn that it is more likely all to happen at Newday when they make a response to a complete stranger and then ask us why we hadn't told them how great God was.  We sit there thinking what have we been doing for the past year!!!!!!

Well this morning I was talking about the Resurrection.  However I have come to learn that personal accounts and stories always tend to keep there attention.  They didn't appear to be interested in the evidence for the Resurrection but when it came to my personal testimony they actually stayed really quiet and for a minute or so after i had finished.  either I sent them to sleep or they really were listening.  So a bit of mud slinging it was this morning.

I had also forgotten how emotional teenage girls can be and how fickle.  I don't remember being that bad but if you ask my parents I am sure I was.  The latest crush appears to be Justin Beiber, who they keep telling me is christian and they are all saving themselves for him,  I suspect that there are thousands of young girls across the world who are doing the same thing and declaring their undying love for him. Oh to be a teenager again, or may be not.  

Youth work, its got to be love