This Friday Night

A couple of weeks ago we had a meeting with the elders from our church, which is now a larger group since the group now consists of the elders from both churches that fused last month. We really appreciated the words of encouragement and advice, but the part that really stood out to me was their concern and love for our youth. Some of the elders have been concerned with a recent trend with some of our youth which is to go the “Las Llanas”, the place where youth go to party on the weekends. It's not that they think going there is all together bad, but what they don't like is how some of the youth, especially some of the High Schoolers, look forward to going there every week. For some it has become the highlight of their week. So after much discussion we came to the conclusion that we need to offer an alternative for our youth on the weekends. Up to this point the vision of our youth center has not taken flight and suddenly we felt like this might be our opportunity to start doing something, even though we don't have our own place yet. So the last Friday of this month we are going to start opening the church up on Friday nights after our normal youth meetings so the youth can hang out , play games and for the first night we will have pizza!. We would like to do this a couple times a month hoping this will keep our youth at church rather than at the parties and that also it will encourage the youth to invite their friends and other youth from our neighborhood to come and hang out with us. Please pray for us as we prepare this time and that the youth would be encouraged to come and hang out. Also pray that God would give us creativity in the types of activities we plan. They are very excited about the possibilities and the plans we have to come!