We kicked off youth emphasis week yesterday with a pretty sweet chapel service. The band played Agnus Dei, and it was powerful. For some reason the driving beat of the drums on some songs stirs people to sing more, making it really cool. Then we showed a great video spoof of Lord of the Rings (Click here to watch it in Spanish). And I preached out of Psalm 71:17-18 about the RAP of youth ministry. The key words were remember, announce, and worry (preocuparse in Spanish). These three things are key for any church that wants to work with young people.
I added a new page to the site. It’s a page of Spanish resources. Since most of what I do is in Spanish, I have decided to put those things up on this new page. Right now it has audio files, video files, Powerpoints, and documents. Most of the resources will be focused on Spanish youth ministry resources. Anyway, if you know someone who might be able to benefit from this stuff, please let them know about it.
I’m sitting in a Starbucks here in Mexico, drinking out of my red cup and listening to Christmas music. We waste no time here getting things ready for Christmas. There are decorations all over (both on houses/in stores AND being sold). Of course, I love Christmastime, so I’m not complaining. Just thinking out loud. Oh, Starbucks has their Christmas drinks available, too. Of course, they might have that in the US by now, too.
This week is “Youth Emphasis Week” at the seminary, which means I’m really busy. Basically, we are leading every chapel service for the week. The idea is to expose the rest of the seminary students to youth ministry. Hopefully, we will do a good job. Tomorrow, I’m preaching. I am hopefully going to communicate that it is more than just fun and games and that it should be important to every congregation. We’ll see how that turns out. We’ve got some creative things planned, too. Hopefully, those will get finished in time, too. Gotta go. Lots of work.
Last night, the “Mi Esperanza” campaign was supposed to begin at 9 pm. We turned on the TV to the correct channel, and it was “The Simpsons.”
I was shocked. The website boasts of over 18,000 churches participating in the event. There has been talk of it all over the Evangelical community. But there we were, at 9 pm, with nothing. We waited. I called friends to see what was going on. And then, around 9:15, the TV switched to the program. Like many things here, it was going to start late. I still have no explanation for it, but it started. Hopefully tonight it will start on time.
