10 random thoughts from the CORE

This weekend, six of us youth leaders when to the CORE conference. We had a great time. Here are 10 random thoughts I had about our day:

1. I'm gonna really miss Kelly as a youth leader.

2. Our youth ministry can do a much better job of making sure each student knows that they are wanted and needed.

3. I haven't played basketball with a bunch of students in a while.

4. Jim Reilly is becoming a great mentor for the teenage boys in our group.

5. It's weird to go to a conference and have a female speaker.

6. Speaking of having a female speaker, I could be a whole lot more sensitive to the fact that usually half of my audience is female whenever I speak.

7. This Sarah McLachlan video is maybe the most moving music video I've ever seen.

8. The class of 2005 has had an entirely different high school experience than the class of 1995 (my graduating class, by the way).

9. I love each and every one of the adults who help out in our youth ministry.

10. I better spend more time on my knees if I want to see God genuinely changing lives in our ministry (I think that my life needs the genuine changing too).