Being encouraged

Hey everyone. Hope you all had a good valentines day supporting hallmark! No, but seriously, hoping that it was awesome. Really. So I’ve had a really good first couple of weeks in the office. I’ve sorted out my desk, oh, and I figured out how to fix the office chairs so they lean back which has made me a bit of a hit. Seriously, my youth pastor was super excited by it.
On a more serious note we had our staff conference and it was really good to get to know the rest of the staff better. We have a really good team. God’s blessed us and I’m really happy that I have this opportunity to work with them. All of us interns seem to get along really well and that is a blessing. It would suck if one of us was a bully…although not sure that they would then be an MTS!
I’ve got to start to hang out with the team I’ll be coordinating at youth group, year six and what an awesome team it is. My co year coordinator is lovely, and totally passionate about really building up an environment that allows the kids to be in a safe place to hear about Jesus. The rest of the team is a really good mixture of experience and first year leaders. They are all passionate to see kids transformed for Jesus which is excellent.
Youth group (called Crossfire at our church) has started really well. We have great kids. Year sixes will sit down and listen with no fuss! It’s amazing! One of the boys had a party last Friday and brought along four friends so it’s sick that they’re really starting to get into inviting friends and feeling comfortable with that.
We also had our first training session of the year and we started to look at how the Bible fits together and it was good discussion as well. I also start college this week and so it should be really good to start being steeped in knowledge about God’s word. I’m looking forward to it.
Since starting work at church I’ve noticed that there’s so many different people who put in behind the scenes and work hard for the kingdom and that’s just been so encouraging. I guess I’d really appreciate prayer for starting college and also that youth group will continue to go well.