This week our youth outreach staff are at the Urban Youth Workers Institute conference in southern California. We know they are excited and, those of us remaining at the office, are also excited for them as they are renewed your ministry and encouraged by others in ministry.
This well-made video gives you a better idea of the Institute's mission and the intention of this week's conference.
Voice of Hope from UYWI on Vimeo.
You can visit the Urban Youth Worker's Institute here.
As the school year winds down, it goes almost without saying that our after school programs are beginning to wind down as well. (We have quite the line-up of summer programming, but that's for another entry.) Peering into the multipurpose room yesterday during Club 2-5-2 - our tutoring program - you'd see no sign, though, of any type of wind down. Rather, things were seemingly winding up as Dave Clark, Pete Blodgett, and their fine team of high school and college volunteer reached back into their past and pulled from a stash of Awana games. I can't say there was any great Biblical meaning or academic tie-in, just an opportunity to stretch those legs and see who could run fast. I couldn't help but grab a few snapshots of all the excitement.
Pete, Dave, and Aron (front to back) show the kids how the relay is played.
