The Shenanigans of Sherry

Fall is here!  Well, and pretty much over.  For those of us living far enough north to experience it, snow is on the way my friends.  This season brought our youth group once again to acts of service.  For the past several years we have raked the yards of the widows, elderly, injured, and pretty much any one in our church who cannot do it themselves.  This year we again had the opportunity to do the same.  I am so proud of them!  They showed up in the rain, in the cold, in the dark, in the frigid wind, whatever the conditions, with rakes in hand.  They came early and they stayed late.  All to bless others.  They are an amazing bunch of teens! I am not sure they see the big picture yet. As leaders, we schedule the yards and houses and dates and times, and pass the info down to the youth.  I don't know if they see it as just a chore to be done. Something that we "force" upon them.  Do they sigh when we aren't looking?  Do ...

As Youth Pastors we are always looking for way to "show" students something tangible in the natural  that can reflect something that goes on in the spiritual.  For instance, if you have ever watched a cut on your hand heal over time, you can then visualize how over time, God can heal a wounded heart.  So, we recently had this great idea!  Mike, my amazing husband, has three horses.  This gives us access to manure ta-boot.  We decided to scoop up this manure and form it into two piles.  I then went to the dollar store and purchased toy sport cars, plastic diamonds, coins and paper money, anything that would represent real value and luxury in the real un-toy form.  I then buried those in each of the piles.  We divided the youth into two teams, which this night was all guys on both teams, and gave them the challenge to dig through the piles and see which team could come up with the most items of "value". Team one was all about it.  (I s...