This past week has been a busy one for me. I've gone to several meetings and have a definite schedule for what I'm going to be taking on the rest of the summer. I had a youth committee meeting last Thurs. which was very informative. I mostly sat and listened and added some input, but it was good to see how the inner workings of the youth program works in a church, or at least my church. They decided that they want me to speak at the 5-8th grader camp at the end of the summer, so I'll be giving about a 10-15 talk for three nights. I had a meeting for that and we just discussed basics and how camp usually runs. The theme this year is road trip, so I have to come up with a series of talks to go off of that. I think that I'm going to do a "follow Jesus around" thing ending with the salvation talk and the Road to Emmaus. I need to put a lot a lot more work into it, but I'm excited about that.
Tonight I had my first work night in at our youth building. Jr. High and High school were there from 6-8. There were not many kids at all, so I felt kinda useless, but I was told that many nights they have 30-40 kids, so I'm hoping it picks up by the time I go back in again. I think I'm also going to be running at least one day a week with the cross country team around town. I guess there are about 12 girls and it is a great chance to get to know them. Not so excited about the running mileage thing, but I'll get over it. :)
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Hey Rachel! Its good to hear about your work this summer. I feel like we are experiencing alot of the same things. That means we will have alot of great stories to talk about when we get back to school this fall. I hope that your talks are going well, I just started giving mine this week and I feel pretty confident in them. Some of the kids are here because they have to be so that always makes it harder. Anyways, I read that you didn't have very many kids this week but thats okay. Our Kids Club started yesterday and we only had 6 kids! There were around 25 youth there to help out which means that there were many people just standing around. I hope that everything else is going well and know that I am praying for you. Keep in touch as much as possible and I will hopefully write back to you in a week! God Bless!
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