WEEK 4

This is a post for October 18th through the 24th. This was a very busy week in my practicum and there were three days in which I was active with the youth group. Every Wednesday night we have our weekly meeting at Pastor Trexler's house and discuss what will be going on the upcoming week. We talked about our small group experiences from the past weeks and the kids that were in our groups. GJ and I only had one kid in our group so it wasn't really that eventful. We also discussed what the message plan was going to be for the Sunday night service and what we were expected to do. It was actually really good this week and I felt that I got to know the other sponsor better throughout the meeting.This past Saturday our youth group took a van full of kids down to Indy to do some manual labor at one of Charlie Alcock's mission house. We raked leaves and cut down a tree and other stuff around the yard. It was really cool to see the mission house and all that it entails. I really got to know some kids better throughout the day and felt that I was fitting into the youth group finally. It felt good to do some hands on work instead of just being in the same building night after night too. It as a great day.Then on Sunday night we had our weekly youth meeting at "The Warehouse." We played an opening game that consisted of bobbing for snicker bars submerged in giant tubs of water. I got soaking wet along with everyone else but it was fun. It was great to see everybody participating despite the fact that it was freezing cold outside. The night went better than other weeks and the kids really seem to be bonding with the sponsors. I number of them initiate conversations now and know us by name. I really feel like things are going better than before now and I am really enjoying myself more and more each week.I estimate that I put in around 9 hours this week between the meeting, Saturday service project, and the Sunday night service.