serial youth pastor

It’s a tradition every year at Bethel to host a HUGE Super Bowl party.  Last year we had 200+ students show up.  It was a blast.  At half-time I exploded some cans of pop with my bare hands, rolled 3 frying pans and broke a baseball bat.  Then I gave the Gospel – you could hear a pin drop off of the carpet.  It was amazing.  I was actually asked by my leaders to do the frying pans and stuff.  They had heard a rumor or something that I could do it and thought it would be a great half-time show.  So I did it.

This year we talked a little bit about some ideas that we could do for half-time.  Nothing was really striking an interest with them until someone said,

“Hey can you do something like last year but different?  The kids loved it so we need to do something bigger.”

I now have my work cut out for me.  I can’t say yet exactly what I will be working on.  I do know this – I have about 3.5 months to get ready for it this time.  I’ll be a little over 100lbs lighter and a whole lot stronger by February 2010.  I’m now praying about it to see if I can get some confirmation from God about what we should do this year.

We definitely want to make this year bigger and better than anything that has ever been done.  We have talked about having Michael Fugitt come back and do an after show concert for the students that come.  Last night I talked with one of my leaders, Geoff, about doing something huge with Michael.  Pray for God’s leading in this.  If we can swing it it’ll be huge and we could draw in more kids than we ever have to hear of God’s redeeming love.  That’s what excites me more than anything.

We’re not sure what we’re doing this year but we do know this.  We want God to be honored and we want to see lives changed.