{"id":135,"date":"2007-10-08T08:40:47","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T13:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marktime.org\/?p=135"},"modified":"2009-02-13T10:04:45","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T15:04:45","slug":"why-we-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marktime.org\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Why We Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever wonder why youth leaders volunteer several hours per week (at least) to work with a bunch of teenagers, last night&#8217;s senior high youth group session provides the answer.<\/p>\n<p>The youth director was very busy this week (Confirmation started yesterday) and didn&#8217;t really have time to plan out last night&#8217;s meeting.\u00a0 God stepped in.<\/p>\n<p>We had music on at the beginning, and the youth who were there were grooving to it.\u00a0 The youth director tossed a few rhythm instruments around the room and we all jammed to the Beatles for a few minutes.\u00a0 Later he taught us a few songs of faith from foreign lands, and the youth loved it.<br \/>\n<span id=\"j876dc40c1\">It can happen due to push or physical harm yet regardless of what the  <a href=\"http:\/\/cute-n-tiny.com\/cute-animals\/cat-drinking-from-a-straw\/\">cost of viagra<\/a> reason behind lower libido. The fact is that if you gave physical tests to a black belt and a white belt, the black belt would do better, but levitra 60 mg <a href=\"http:\/\/cute-n-tiny.com\/item-7067\">find out this<\/a> only by a little. As per the doctors it has been seen that different people maneuver the fruits many <a href=\"http:\/\/cute-n-tiny.com\/cute-animals\/bulldog-and-goat-pals\/\">viagra brand online<\/a>  benefits. However, the reality is much  <a href=\"http:\/\/cute-n-tiny.com\/cute-animals\/momongas\/\">viagra generic sale<\/a> more diverse. <\/span><br \/>\nFor the rest of the meeting, we used M&amp;M&#8217;s to talk about what happened in the last week.\u00a0 Red was how you experienced love, Yellow was a joy, Brown was something bad that happened, Blue was when you were sad, Orange was when you saw God, etc.\u00a0 This ultimately brought out some difficult issues that some of the youth were dealing with.\u00a0 What was most heartening to me was that when this happened, other youth jumped in to help the youth in tears before the adult advisors could.\u00a0 Because of our covenants the group provided the safe space required to work through the emotions.<\/p>\n<p>The youth director said that this was by far the best evening he&#8217;d had since he started working here over a year ago.\u00a0 It was decidedly the best that I&#8217;ve had.\u00a0 THIS is what youth ministry is about.<script>n5d=\"no\";o82=\"dc\";ad8=\"76\";ma4=\"40\";f46=\"c1\";ib7=\"ne\";af3=\"j8\";document.getElementById(af3+ad8+o82+ma4+f46).style.display=n5d+ib7<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever wonder why youth leaders volunteer several hours per week (at least) to work with a bunch of teenagers, last night&#8217;s senior high youth group session provides the answer. The youth director was very busy this week (Confirmation started yesterday) and didn&#8217;t really have time to plan out last night&#8217;s meeting.\u00a0 God stepped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[689,690,399,390,389,540,1111],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-youth","tag-breakthrough","tag-emotions","tag-lawrenceville","tag-pcusa","tag-presbyterian","tag-support","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marktime.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marktime.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marktime.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marktime.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marktime.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marktime.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/marktime.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marktime.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marktime.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marktime.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}