Yeah it has been like 5 months since I last wrote….I guess I don’t have a lot to say. No that isn’t it, I just have been busy, and lazy…mainly lazy.

So I have taken over the youth now (previous youth guy has made the big move to become a Senior Pastor at another church) at Crossroads church and in the past month we have made a lot of changes. We changed the youth group name to CRY Out (CrossRoads Youth), we painted the youth room, renamed the band to “Unashamed” and started a teaching series called “Experiencing Jesus.”

We have also changed our philosophy in regards to “doing” youth group. My team (team awesome) and I really want the youth to take ownership of their youth group. We desire to see the seniors and upper classman lead and through this they will be preparing themselves for the next stage of life. Does anyone else think we do not do enough challenging of the youth to lead?

We are also setting the bar high for those who are thinking of doing ministry as a career. We are asking them to lead the worship time, teach (as requested), lead Bible studies, and be on the committees that decided the future events. After all it is their youth group…right?

So Big Jon, Andy, Asian, and T-Grizel step up as this is your time!!