Water Balloons

So I just got done with the first 200 water balloons that are going to be filled for Sunday Night, I am hoping to have about 1000. While filling them I thought about Youth Ministry and the overall goal, I mean I better have filled these water balloons for a reason because my hands were pruney, my fingers hurt from tying them, and I was soaked by the end of the ordeal.

Youth ministry is about more than throwing water balloons at each other and smearing everyone with ice cream and its toppings (Granted there is a place for that). Youth Ministry is about providing an avenue for kids to meet God, a place for God to crack their tough outer shell and let His love pour in. There are a lot of students in the Selma area with a lot of hurt who don't know where to turn, and that is where we come in. Our goal as a ministry is to provide events to engage students from outside the church walls so we have the right to speak truth into their lives.

Students know when people are fake, they know when others have an agenda, they are all too familiar with the he said she said, so we want to provide a place where they are loved unconditionally by leaders, accepted without hesitation by their peers, and met by the one true God. Filling water balloons alone provides a great time to chew on stuff... dontcha think?