youth group was quality last night. yay for two quality weeks in a row! yay for new term and new focus. had awesome fun playing round the world for almost an HOUR(!) at the end with lauter, joel, ben, rich, tim bell, tamara and kirstyn. those boys are so very funny. so tiring though! lauter is my arch nemisis. i think i won :) ultimate round the world is the bomb - except i couldn't stop laughing, and it's way tiring.
charades and pictionary were also hilarious... it's funny when old games get played how enjoyable they still are! it was a cack some of the things we got. unbelievable. i haven't laughed so hard for a long time. those sort of experiences are so valuable in building community within the group. it relaxes you, and you feel free. and you can see that in the guys as well. and thats exciting!
during the talk (which i was doing on the parable of the widow and the judge) i learnt an important lesson - make sure you're phone is on silent during youth group. my phone rang from the other end of the room (and it's a huge room) and that was annoying to myself. in the end it was luke, who i was probably talking about at the time in the talk, as i was sharing about how prayer brought him to Jesus. i really enjoyed learning as i prepared for this talk. persistent and passionate prayer is something i often struggle with. the whole "too busy not to pray" thing. it's gonna take a lot for me not to be a hypocrite in all the things i said last night, and encouraged the guys to be striving for. humbles you a bit. but our God is good. and he's always there!