Last Night & Reality TV

Man, last night was awesome! We had almost 50 middle school students for our service. We also had 12 high schoolers helping out and it was a great service. We did team challenge and went back through our last series "Love in 3D" The students got points based on some Love in 3D trivia based on the messages and services. I was so impressed what the students remembered and learned from the series. Many times in youth ministry you just have to pray that the students are "getting it" because 6th-8th grade can be a tough group to connect with if your not careful. But man did they get it! They were spitting out answers left and right! I was so proud of them!!!

Our next series is going to be, "Reality TV - is it really real?" We are going to take some of my favorite and not so favorite shows and talk about God's perspective on it! We will take shows like, "The Apprentice" and talk about how to be God's apprentice and living the Christian life - in it to win it! Also shows like, "The Biggest Loser" we will talk about life is about coming in 2nd place and serving others, dying to our pride! Shows like, "Mythbusters" we will talk about the myths we believe about God. It is going to be a fun series and our leaders are going to speak on some of the nights too! I like to have a running element in our series we do. For example the, "Out of the Box" series we talked about a different Bible character each week. For Love in 3D we ended with a human video (drama) each week. For this next series we are going to have some of our different leaders share and let our students hear some teaching from different perspectives. I love getting leaders involved and giving them an opportunity to speak life into these students. I also think it is great for the students to hear different leaders speak. It shows how our leaders are passionate and fired up for the things of God as well! It is going to be a great next few months!!!