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But it does make you wonder how long it took them to burn it up, doesn’t it?

Tonight was the first of what I hope is many late Wednesday nights. 6-square and wall-ball was played, movie clips were watched, and volunteers got to dig into some teens’ lives. A couple of things that never really change from youth ministry to ministry…

1. It’s always going to take twice as long to get ready as you think it does.

2. Middle school boys will degrade every conversation to either bodily functions or girls.

3. There is always one family/mom/dad that gets around to picking up their kids an hour later than everybody else. (Which you know, is okay. It used to bother the heck out of me…now, not so much. I see it as an extra slot of time I’ve got to hang with a student.)

4. Youthworkers love to hang out and laugh…at themselves and each other.

5. The more unstructured and informal the game/icebreaker time is - the better.

It was a good start. We’ve got a long way to go but this was a fun start.