God at Work

Submitted by Christina…This week at Life Lutheran Church, we had our second service with 8 youth students attending.  Most of the youth were returnees from last week, but we were also happy to see three new faces.  We started off our time together with an icebreaker. Lydia asked us each to think of a superpower we wanted and/or a superhero we would like to be, and we all had some good laughs seeing each other act out powers such as invisibility, force field, and psycho-kinesis. Afterwards, we sang 2 praise songs during which many adults came in to join us. Pastor Roy dropped by to express his appreciation as well as greet the 3 relatively new youth students. Jacqui then gave a message about the misconception of God as impossible to please. She used cups (and her cup piercing skills!) to demonstrate how we fall short of God’s holy standards but are made new in Jesus Christ, and the students were quite intrigued and attentive. They also enjoyed watching clips from G-live and Star Wars, and by the end of the service, each student could easily remember and share an important take-away point they got from the message. Josh then went over the Interhigh Devotionals packet and encouraged the students to try doing them. After lunch, we all had a fun time bonding while making (extremely wacky) cards to celebrate our fathers.