YoungLife

I’ll admit it. I am a Younglifer. I love everything about it. People that haven’t ever gone to Younglife or haven’t even heard of it before just can’t understand it.  Honestly, it’s almost like a different culture. You can act crazy and nobody thinks twice about it because everyone else is acting crazy too.  All of the Younglife people I’ve ever known have been real and genuine.  They truly care about other and their mission in life is to love people.

I’ve been working on my portfolio that I have to submit to get into the teacher ed program and one of the sections we have to do is a personal section.  For my personal section I knew I was going to do my family for one of the two things I put, but I just couldn’t figure out what to do for the second.  When I thought about it, I realized that I basically needed to include Younglife for my second thing.  So my portfolio is going to be awesome because I just made two videos with iphoto and imovie.  One with pictures of my family and the other with pictures from when I did work crew, summer staff, and from Wyldlife this year.  As I was working on this, I started to miss everyone that I’ve met and worked with over the years.  I’ve been so blessed to meet so many amazing Godly people.  Plus, YL people are just cool; I think you have to be cool to do it.

It was when I did work crew, the summer before I came to Anderson, that it finally clicked and I understood for the first time what it meant to truly know Jesus and have a relationship with Him.  The people that I’ve met through YL have shown me Christ’s love and how share at times when I really needed encouragement/had no idea what I was doing.  So YL isn’t just your normal ministry, it’s people, mostly college students, who give up hours and hours of their time to go out into the community sharing God’s love and then sticking around to keep pursuing those teenagers.   So next time you wonder why I spend so much time at McCants or over at Clemson for Younglife/Wyldlife, you’ll know why I do it.  I want to show Christ’s love to those crazy middle schoolers and be there for them and if that means going to McCants and sitting through 4 or 5 lunches with them and putting myself out there and fighting past the intimidation, yes middle schoolers can be intimidating, then that’s what I’ll do.