Club is Back!!!

Watch new video: Young Life in Action 

Just wanted to update you that YL CLUB is back for the Spring semester!!!  We are excited about are new location and excited about ALL Area Club.  All schools are welcome:  LSN, LSW, LSHS, and others!

Club will be Tuesday nights:  7:47pm-9:00pm 

@ Lee's Summit Community Church in their Common Grounds Coffee Shop! 

(1440 Southwest Jefferson Street  Lee's Summit, MO 64081)

We are super grateful for the donated space from LSCC.  

Everything

A semester of YL just came to a close.  It's funny how you know if students listen is by what they tweet on Twitter.  After YL Club tonight here are some tweets:
"Most intense Young Life yet.  If you missed this, you missed something truly amazing.  Thank you YL!"
"Leaving YL and wanting more.  I appreciate everything YL has done this semester."
"That was literally the most inspirational thing ever.  So glad I didn't miss it.  YL - God is Good."
And from a new YL leader- "Most amazing YL Club ever hands down amazing job leaders!  Wow, that was so cool, love Jesus!"

So you get the picture... tonight we had a party on a school night where we told truth.  Truth that Jesus Christ is mighty to save and is everything.  We just need to take the step toward Him, He fights for us.
Please watch this video... we performed a version of this tonight for students.  It is what they are all "tweeting" about- intense, and truth.  This is why we have YL... to fight for students to know and choose Christ. 

What is going on? God is moving...

Listen to a letter from a YL student about what God has been doing in her life.

Before I knew Christ, fear ruled my life. Every day I let it control who I was. I was afraid for my family. That divorce, unfaithfulness, alcohol and gambling would show itself to me again. I was afraid for my friends. That out group was falling apart and we wouldn't have each other to lean on anymore. I was most of all scared for myself. I think a lot of us find it easier to look for all the negatives in life. To just call it quits and throw yourself a pitty party. I almost gave up on dance which was my true passion and outlet. But then god showed himself to me when I was at my lowest point. Life had tried to rip me down and it succeeded. But I realized reaching you bottom is when you desire Jesus the most. I was screaming for God. I needed someone to tell me it was gonna be okay. I needed someone to be there for me cause I felt like everyone and everything had left me feeling empty. Though s actions God started showing himself to me though. He was showing me a lot of love and patience. After I went to YL camp for the 2nd time. I learned a very different message then the 1st year I want to camp. My faith in God became so much stronger. I have found myself in him. I pray every day that I can become more like him. I know he has a plan for me even in my days of doubt he is there and will never give up. He's put people in my life who I can walk on my journey with. I'm so blessed and proud to have friends who want to pursue God as badly as I do. He has given me people like Tracee Cobb who give me so much encouragement and who I honestly don't know what I would do without because she has gotten me through so much. I am so in love with god. I am ready to start fresh and live my life fully dedicated to him. Even if I hit a couple speed bumps along the way he's the only one who can completely get me past those and satisfy me. Through my struggles it has made me run to God. I choose to completely surrender myself to the Lord. To know him and be known. I am no longer alone.

Movement

Wow... Lee's Summit!  God is moving.  The invisible God is visible and at work.  There are so many things I could share that God is doing in LS and in the students of LS. 

1.  YL kicked off its first club with 115 students.  So many new faces showed up to have fun, hang out, laugh, sing, and hear TRUTH.  I asked a senior from LSN who had never been to YL before, "What did you think?"  She replied, "I love it here!  I just wished it didn't take me 3 years to come."  

Or second club was strong with 99 students.  One junior from LSW said, "I just don't know why yet, but after leaving YL  I just feel better."  Students are showing up.  YL leaders are pursuing students and earning the right to be heard.  Hearts are being shaped and TRUTH of Jesus is being spoken.  

2.  I just left Fields of Faith- FCA puts in on and all the schools come together to worship, share truth, and hear a message.  Over 300 LS students came.  We sang "How He Loves Us" in the stands at LSN football stadium!  They had a time of open mic and some YL students whom I'm so proud of- got up and shared to the crowd their story of saying yes to Jesus.  It brought me to tears.  Seeing new life in them and other students is inspiring.  One YL student shared that following Christ isn't easy her life didn't just get magically better.  However, she knows that God is not invisible and He will never leave her.  She cannot make it without Him.  Another shared of how giving her life to Christ made her feel loved and finally good enough where as before she was lost and searching for love.  

I texted them as soon as it was over and here are two of their replies:

"I just want to thank you for all that you've done.  Young Life has seriously changed my life.  Jesus is awesome and I love talking about Him and to Him.  Thank you for showing me that!"

"You and all the YL leaders have made a huge change in my life for the better!  I don't know where or who I would be without YL and God."

Muckfest-a success of a mess

Muckfest a time to have a food fight, bob for onions, throw oatmeal at each all in the name of fun.
YL had a success of a mess at our annual Muckfest.  Thanks to all who came out to help or participate.  A great way to kick of YL this year.

YL CLUB- Begins Tuesday 9.27.11 @ 7:47pm All Area at Deerbrook (across the street from LSN).

Check out the report on Titan TV's weekly report by clicking Titan TV below.  Great job Aly!


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MuckFest is coming!!!!

Muckfest is our annual food fight is going to be Tuesday, Sept. 13th @ 7pm!!!  A time to get messy, have fun, and just go crazy to kick of a semester of YL.

For:  All High School students!!!

Location:
Behind Deerbrook Church- across from LSN @ 7pm Tuesday, Sept. 13th.
Bring a can of whipped cream to get in, and let the games begin!!

-Our first All Area YL club of the semester will be Tuesday, Sept. 27th 7:47pm-9pm at Deerbook Church.
-After that club we will split up by school LSHS & LSN together at Christie Coleman's house Tuesday's at 7:47pm and LSW house TBD at 7:47pm.... Spread the word! 

If you need more info. stay tuned on facebook- friend:  Tracee Mela Cobb- LSN/ LSHS and Paul Moore- LSW :)

Dog Fight

I texted over 35 students what is the hardest thing about following Christ.  Read their honest responses:

-Staying consistent with it and sharing it with others

-I know it was a lot easier to follow Him at camp, then on my own

-Having faith that He exists, w/o Him humanly existing in the present

-Hanging out with people who don’t understand your relationship with God and just being in high school

-Feeling guilty

-Trying to do the right thing when most people don’t

-Being around someone who is being negative which can rub off on me and make me not think of God as much

-Thinking I’m not good enough for him to love me.

-Staying true to it everyday

-Giving Him the times and credit He deserves

-Knowing through the good and bad and knowing that there is a plan through everything

-Constant pressure to sin and do things everyone else does

-Not to be angry at God when something is hard in your life

-Not giving into temptations and distractions we are faced with daily

-Not having time to go deeper with God- busy

-Not understanding why bad things happen, and temptation

-I’m not satisfying Him or doing enough

-It’s hard to live for Him and not myself

YL wants to be alongside students as they discover who they are in Christ and try to follow Him.  

So we use the analogy of a dog fight with students.  Two dogs are fighting-which dog will win? 1. The one of self and the world desires (or)  2.  The one that is your relationship with Christ.  Which ever dog you feed the most wins the fight.  So we are challenging our students to feed the dog that is the relationship with Christ by attending- YL events, small groups- campaigners, attending a local church, talking with God, being honest with friends and staying connected to their YL leader, reading the Bible, etc.   

Are you feeling distant in your relationship with Christ? 
Which dog are you feeding more?