New Home, Fall, Homecoming and Kathryn

OCTOBER 21, 2010

New Home, Fall, Homecoming and Kathryn
When I first came on Young Life staff everyone around me told me I wouldn’t be busy for a few weeks and that I should bask in it because the busyness would come and it would come hard. Ok, I thought I believed them but apparently I didn’t because the past two weeks have been unreal when it comes to being busy. I love it, but I can already see how I am giving hickory girls, leaders, and the young life area part of myself not all of myself, that isn’t healthy. I just moved into a new home and it is beautiful don’t worry you are welcome ANYTIME! But for now I want to share with you why I thinking the Fall is such a beautiful time for ministry.
Last Friday was Hickory’s homecoming football game, football games is where my office is in a weird way. At this football game some of our club guys were caught streaking and I saw girls that I took to camp enveloped in guys arms, lost and looking for love in ALL the wrong places. I met girls that were high and dating boys that were older than me but I above anything else I saw Christ, I saw Him sweetly whispering to all these lost kids in all of these situations.
Here is a picture of some girls that are so dear to my heart. I love these girls, they are broken but amongst their brokenness is my friend and key campaigner girl Kathryn.

This girl is unreal, she is beautiful and she is running HARD after Christ she longs for Him thirsts for Him and here she is loving her friends and trying to share Christ with them. This girl is absolutely wonderful and I am so thankful for her.
This week was our Young Life Banquet, we had about 400 guests who already support young life or have no idea what young life is about. Our committee had been working day and night for weeks trying to make this night so incredibly special to introduce this beautiful ministry. Kathryn and I were able to do something extremely special during this time. If you have ever been to young life camp you have seen something called “real life.” During camp they will pick staff people to share thoughts about their life before Christ. Kathryn got to do this, and what was even cooler was that my thoughts were also displayed. We got to stand on that stage together and share her story, the story Christ wrote for her. When I met Kathryn I knew her heart was in pleasing everyone around her, was lost in being liked and after a week at Lake Champion Christ grabbed her and shook her, and completely altered her. Gosh I cannot say enough about this girl, she is a rockstar and she is going to change her high school!
(She is the one in the middle)