FIRST EVER Tech YL club!

After 4 years of praying, meeting, and fundraising, we had our FIRST YL club on Tech's campus! We had over 50 kids, ate 15 pizzas, and spent 2 hours hanging out. I was blown away by our amazing leaders, the great turn out, and how awesome God is. It was a little surreal for me to stand back and watch our leaders at work. I couldn't believe we were actually having a YL club at Tech! God is faithful!

Playing Man, Gun, Gorilla...




Hanging out...







Making Eggs...



God at work...

God is Faithful!

Today was an awesome experience! Kelsey, Shelbe, and Jared met me at Tech. They turned in all of their volunteer paperwork and got Tech ID's so they are now "official" on campus. After school, they hung out a met a TON of kids! I was so impressed with how outgoing they are! They are very intentional about meeting kids and remembering their names. Watching them interact with the students brought me back to my leader days at IU. Their enthusiasm is super contagious. I was able to introduce them to several of the students who went to YL summer camp this year or fall camp a few years back. Those kids were really excited to meet the leaders and to finally have Young Life on campus. They all mentioned wanting to go to camp again this year, which is AWESOME! We are already starting to pray about getting as many students as possible to go to camp in June.

After hanging out on the 3rd floor of Stuart, we headed over to the auditorium where fall play rehearsal was going on. The fall play is THIS FRIDAY and SATURDAY nights at Tech. Check it out if you're looking for something fun to do this weekend. They are performing “Donovan’s Daughters,” at 7:00 p.m. The leaders enjoyed meeting some of the students who will be in the play. Jared stuck around after we left and also met up with Rob Wynkoop. Rob introduced him to the Head football coach and some of the players! It was a GREAT day!

God is really at work on Tech's campus! To see actual Tech leaders on campus today, meeting with students, made me want to get on my hands and knees and PRAISE the LORD! Our committee has been praying for leaders for 3 years and God is FAITHFUL!

Leader mania

Tuesday was a HUGE night for Tech Young Life!!! Kathy Queen has been going to the leader training all semester. On Sunday night, interviews were held. Although all of the leaders were amazing, we had our eye on 3 that we thought would be perfect for Tech. However, we had no input into the decision. So, Tuesday night was leader placement. Of the 14 leaders that went through training, Tech was blessed with 3! AND they were the exact 3 we had been hoping for!!! How awesome is God?

The night was super crazy! We met at the Nikcevich house and it was covered with string. It looked like an enormous spider web all over their house. Each leader started with a piece of yarn and had to follow it up and down stairs and all over the house. Then they ended up at the team they had been placed on!



Here are the leaders on their quest to find their team!




The Tech team anxiously awaiting our leaders! (Jason, Rob, JC, and Sara --- Kathy was taking the photo)