So I have a wall in my office that has a bunch of pictures of the teens, as well as their handprints. I dont have even close to all of their handprints, but I'm working on it.
Today one of my teens was here with his parents, and he was hanging out in my office with me and Javier for a while. Javier asked him if he'd put his handprint on my wall yet. The kid said no, so we decided to add him to the wall. As I'm painting his hand, I asked him if it felt weird, he quickly replied, "No, I did this in kindergarten!" to which I had to stifle a laugh because it was quite funny. Then he said something about how he falls a lot, and since we were talking about how paint felt on his hand, I assumed he meant he fell into paint (don't ask me why that would happen a lot...). So I say, "You fall into paint?", he quickly replied, "No, onto pavement!"
Hilarious.
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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