Junior High Youth Group met for the first time on Sunday, February 17, and it was a complete success! The implicit theme for the night was laughter and celebration, and we sure had a lot of it. The afternoon was a good reminder to us that there is much joy and celebrating to be done in life. We looked at Psalm 126 and read,
“Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then it was said among the nations, ‘The Lord has done great things for us, and we rejoiced.’”
We shared ways in which this is true.
The highlight of the night was, by far, the blindfold cupcake decorating. My fellow youth advisor Emily insisted that we all participate, and I am so glad she did - I had planned on "overseeing" the activity, but I'm so glad she pushed me to join in. One of the youth completely missed squirting the frosting on his cupcake; another got most of her frosting on the side and dumped tons of sprinkles on top, and a third somehow managed to turn her plate upside down while frosting the cupcake. I ended up with a boatload of hot cinnamon buttons on mine....
....and we were each reminded that sometimes, jumping in blindly yet with great faith yields unexpected, delicious, joy-filled results.
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