Students Say the Darndest Things

By Adam McLane on November 16 2008

This is a guest blog post from Brian Ferry from Cincinnati, OH

It doesn’t take long working with students before you realize that it’s the best gig around. Paid to play. We carry around wiffle ball bats and Bibles, we prep games involving gummy worms and discussion questions to help students encounter God. Most of us who got into this gig did so because we love being around teenagers. We may spend more time now with adults equipping them to invest in students but some of the best times we spend is engaging in conversation with these kids who God loves even more than we do.

Youth ministry is at once fantastic and extremely taxing. We need to know we aren’t alone. And we need to laugh. A lot. Whenever our tribe gets together we share stories of the hilarious stuff that goes down on the job. There are no shortage of stories. My only problem is that I don’t get to share and hear some of these things often enough.

I have some students that say the most amusing and ridiculous things. And I know my colleagues (that’s you) do as well. So I thought, this stuff needs to be heard and I need to hear what students are saying in other youth ministry contexts.

Recently I launched a blog called “Students Say the Darndest Things” where we, as youth workers, can get a quick, 10 second, laugh and a little jolt to keep us lighthearted and plugging away at curriculum or calendaring or writing notes to students or whatever.

Also, and more importantly, youth workers can contribute by sending a text via the blog and it’ll be posted.

Humor as fuel for ministry.

Comments

From Chris VandeLinde on November 27, 2008

I got one for you.

“Please pray for my grandfather.  He’s having trouble with his menstrual cycle”.

During a serious group prayer time
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From Jasmine on March 06, 2009

wow. that is alot of information. I dont even know if I could do all that. And thank you so much for lettming me in on all the info.