Switch 2-10-06

Even though last night’s numbers were down, we still had an awesome night. One of the student’s sister threw a Valentine’s Day party, so many of our regulars attended that instead of Switch.

We had about 18 students, a drop from our regular 25. But that’s ok. It was still an awesome night. God totally moved at the altar during worship. But I’ll get into that in a moment.

The band showed up ON TIME this time, much to my shock. Due to that, we got enough practice time in before the students showed up. We’ve been doing 5-6 songs during the worship time, I think I am going to cut that down to 4. Up until the worship and message time, the time is like clockwork. But after that, worship seems to go on a little longer. Then of course my message never stops at 20 minutes.

During the “Hang out” time, Jason Buchanan started tossing the football around, and of course, all of the guys join in. Eventually, the game became “Smear the queer.” I think I enjoyed watching one of our smaller guys attempt to jump tackle Jason, who is easily 5 times bigger than him. And of course, Jason is an experienced tackler. As the student flew into the air to nab Jason, he gets straight armed and literally flies into the air before hitting the ground. It was fantastic.

Worship was great. At first, the guys rushed the altar area to jump around. Pretty normal. The girls always take a little longer to get into it. But by the time we did our third song, “King of Majesty,” the girls started getting into it. Towards the end of worship, the Holy Spirit spoke to me about them getting things right with Him. It was awesome.

I spoke on God’s Word, and to be honest, it was difficult to write. Speaking was easy, but making the Word of God interesting to Jr. Highers was quite a challenge. Not that the Word isn’t interesting, but to make it interesting to them. I think I did decently, and I knew they were getting it as I spoke. Thank you Jesus.