Yay THursday

Wednesday is when it all officially breaks loose for me. Wednesday night I leave work in teh afternoon, rush home to work out, get a shower and then start picking up kids for church. Then, I take them all home afterward making a 1 hour youth meeting about 4 hours of work for many of us. As Tara does pick ups at the highschool from football, Jordon does pickups from Pedro from football and I do everything in between the 2. It's a full night but it's well worth it if we can get into just one person's life and change their lifestyle with a personal relationship with God.
Last night was no different except that I decided to do an exercise with the kids instead of highs and lows. Each kid took a paper and wrote their name on it. Then, it was passed to someone and they had to write down what that person would be when they grow up, what kind of food they would be if they were a fruit, what cartoon character they would be if they were a cartoon character and finally who they will marry.
This little exercise is always funny as students pass the papers around and get to anonomously write down things about their fellow students. The things they write are hilarious. Like Ethan would be Elmer Fudd, or Jordon would be Patrick Star, Shae Defore would be a tater tot, and so on. It's fun, it's interactive and I have done it every few months for about 10 years now. I actually came up with the idea when we had a youth group that didn't interact much and I can't stand that. To have a group of kids who only talk in their cliques is disgusting in the youth ministry setting so this exercise gets them out of there.
As for the church projects, the 3 main sides are all painted with the base coat, we are going to paint the trim next week and I already ripped up the carpet to re-do the surface under the front entrance. So we are moving right along on our project to spruce things up and get attention from people as they pass by.
Things are all going pretty much status quo nothing mountaintop to share, nothing too valley low to share.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!