The youth group I have been working in is mostly made of junior high kids and freshmen in highschool. The reason being I am new in town and when I got here there were only about three people 10th grade or older in the youth group and highschoolers just don't seem to be interested in new things. They are pretty much set in their ways and do not want to try new things. Well, as you can probably imagine our singing has been quite off since I have been here for several reasons. One, they just don't know any of the songs. And two, the junior high girls' voices have just not matured enough to sing out and sing loud. So anyways, I prayed to God to improve our singing though I'll admit I did it with somewhat of a doubting spirit. Well, last night my prayer was answered. There is a girl, an 11th grader, who goes to the other church of Christ in town where they have even less in their youth group than us and they don't have a youth minister. Well, she decided to start coming with one of her friends last Sunday. And now she tells me that she has decided to come to our church permanently. Now to the best part of the story. Last night in youth group we sang a couple of songs and I almost started crying. This girl has got an awesome set of lungs on her! She was belting it out! And with her singing, the other girls were encouraged to sing out and the girls were almost outsinging the boys! It was so awesome! These type of things seem so small. But the main lesson I have learned is the fact that God works when you ask him and give him the chance. I can hardly wait to see what he does when I ask for something big.
Josh
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