What a double-edged sword: to be working on the Residents Encounter Christ weekend at the Kentucky State Reformatory, or to be at our Youth Sunday event at Drennon. I didn't have a choice, since I had already agreed to work on the REC, but I wish I had been at Drennon too. I wrote in an earlier post about the changed lives that occurred at KSR, including some surprising developments at the tail end of the weekend that truly showed the importance of programs like REC, but sometimes something small and simple like just having the young people get together to make an ordinary church weekend into something special is a beautiful thing too. I'd like to thank Eleanor Sharp for stepping forward and having the idea to present her "Tools of Life" message from when she was a youth a few years ago, alongside most of our active youth. From everything I have heard from those in attendance, the service was a smashing success. I'm not the only one that missed it--we had pretty low attendance numbers to due a lot of circumstances--but I'm also probably not the only one that regrets missing it.
I know we can't afford to wait very long before we do something like this again at Drennon. Our Fishers of Men Youth Event will take place in the early summer, which will be here sooner rather than later. Maybe we'll have to do something that Sunday...
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