I walked around the gym last Wednesday night after youth group and something caught my eye.
It was a pair of pants.
Jeans actually.
Complete with a belt.
And they were laying there on the gym floor with no one in them....
So I picked them up and loudly announced into the gym, "who's running around without their pants?" To this most of the teens giggled and started looking around for a pants-less teenager... in the meantime, a red-faced boy ran up and grabbed them out of my hand. He explained to me that "I had shorts on underneath!" but he said it with the tone of "sheesh, do you come from Mars?" I burst out laughing at the whole idea.
So then on Friday night as we're reminiscing about this whole experience with some of the leaders, three of the boys standing by start taking their pants off. Luckily they too were wearing gym shorts.
Apparently we've started a trend.
Welcome to my Blog!
I'm a youth pastor in Southern California at a Nazarene church. I've been serving here for about 4 years. We have a large youth group of around 100 teens from all different cultures and backgrounds.
We merged with a Spanish church in January of 07 and our youth groups are now ONE! As of a little more than a year ago, I am working with a co-youth pastor named Javier. If you want to know more about me, you can read my very first blog post here.
I started this blog as a way to remember the amazing things that happen in my everyday life in ministry... the hilarious things that my teens say and do, the joys and victories, and the life stories of the amazing teenagers that are the future of our church, and our world. But I am also glad when it brings encouragement and joy to others. Feel free to leave your comments and let me know you're reading!
I am so blessed to be here, I love my teens... they are my heart!
And by the way...
at our church...
we speak 5 languages!!!
English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese and Gypsy! :)
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