Campaigner Weekend

A couple weeks ago I thought I was taking 3 kids 2 campaigner weekend for sure, and possibly 5. Up until last Friday I was still pretty confidant that 3 were going to go. Through a series of things none of the kids I thought were going to go are actually going. This is frustrating for me, and very discouraging. I really believe that I don't need to take kids on a camp trip or a weekend trip or anywhere else for them to experience Christ. I believe in my heart that God can work in their lives without the program of Young Life at all. However, I am still trying to hold onto hope that we may not be ending things in Mt. Healthy. This certainly doesn't help that case.

I want Young Life to work in Mt. Healthy because when YL works kids know Christ. Every time I am in the school I see kids who are dieing inside for a savior. I know kids that have fathered aborted babies, kids who cut themselves, kids who do drugs, who sell drugs, kids who want to drop out of school, kids from broken homes, I know tons of kids living in messed up lives just like mine is messed up, and I want them to know the God I know. I want my friends in that school to know the God of love. John 6:65 is a verse I have been praying about for a while now. I pray all the time that God would allow kids to know Him. Paul once said that he would trade his life for the life of his friends, I at least am willing to trade my ministry for them. If leaving is God's direction for that school then I want to leave in the hope that God has something better planned for them than the ministry of YL has to offer.

"For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father."