Youth Sports Day
We hosted a Youth Sports Day at Curtis Park on Sunday, September 22nd!
Five other youth groups from local churches of like faith joined us! While the more precise number on our team sign-up sheets got thrown away, from the number of teams and players on each team, we can say we had at least 110 youth there! We also had
40 adult helpers with 13 from Ramoth Baptist Church to make this event possible!
I want to say a big thank you to all the adults who helped from setting up tents and running sign up tables to refereeing games and picking up pizzas. I also want to give a big thanks to the youth leader at Choice Baptist Church, who helped me plan and run the event! I also am grateful to God, who gave us His Son and the community we have Him! Not to mention the rain cleared up for the event (and it rained that morning and the days before and after).
Our event started with prayer and icebreakers to help the youth mingle with peers from the other churches. Then we divided everyone up into teams with 8 or more players from 2 or more churches to compete in tournaments of Ultimate Frisbee and Volleyball. Surprisingly, we had a team with all Middle Schoolers and one freshman place 1st for Ultimate Frisbee and 2nd for Volleyball!
Next, we played Wiffle Ball before we chowed down on a lot of pizza! After dinner, we had a gospel message for believers and unbelievers from Philippians 3:7-12, 17-20. We introduced it with an illusion (see if you can figure out its hidden message below!). Lastly, we had an awards ceremony and adorned the winners of the tournament with medals! It was a fun event which reminded us of the larger presence of Christ’s body in our local community!
I enjoyed seeing many of the youth mingle and fellowship with their peers from other churches as well as our church team working alongside other church teams! Sometimes we can fall into the same thinking of Elijah “I am the only one of the LORD’s prophets left” (1 Kings 18:22, NIV). Yet God is bigger than we can grasp and working in more ways and in more people than we notice! As the Apostle Paul tells the Church of Ephesus, “19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.” (Ephesians 2:19-22).
The Churches who joined us: Choice Baptist Church, Rockhill Baptist Church, Mount Carmel Baptist Church, Redeemer Bible Church of Stafford, and Pillar Church of Stafford!
Five other youth groups from local churches of like faith joined us! While the more precise number on our team sign-up sheets got thrown away, from the number of teams and players on each team, we can say we had at least 110 youth there! We also had
40 adult helpers with 13 from Ramoth Baptist Church to make this event possible!
I want to say a big thank you to all the adults who helped from setting up tents and running sign up tables to refereeing games and picking up pizzas. I also want to give a big thanks to the youth leader at Choice Baptist Church, who helped me plan and run the event! I also am grateful to God, who gave us His Son and the community we have Him! Not to mention the rain cleared up for the event (and it rained that morning and the days before and after).
Our event started with prayer and icebreakers to help the youth mingle with peers from the other churches. Then we divided everyone up into teams with 8 or more players from 2 or more churches to compete in tournaments of Ultimate Frisbee and Volleyball. Surprisingly, we had a team with all Middle Schoolers and one freshman place 1st for Ultimate Frisbee and 2nd for Volleyball!
Next, we played Wiffle Ball before we chowed down on a lot of pizza! After dinner, we had a gospel message for believers and unbelievers from Philippians 3:7-12, 17-20. We introduced it with an illusion (see if you can figure out its hidden message below!). Lastly, we had an awards ceremony and adorned the winners of the tournament with medals! It was a fun event which reminded us of the larger presence of Christ’s body in our local community!
I enjoyed seeing many of the youth mingle and fellowship with their peers from other churches as well as our church team working alongside other church teams! Sometimes we can fall into the same thinking of Elijah “I am the only one of the LORD’s prophets left” (1 Kings 18:22, NIV). Yet God is bigger than we can grasp and working in more ways and in more people than we notice! As the Apostle Paul tells the Church of Ephesus, “19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.” (Ephesians 2:19-22).
The Churches who joined us: Choice Baptist Church, Rockhill Baptist Church, Mount Carmel Baptist Church, Redeemer Bible Church of Stafford, and Pillar Church of Stafford!
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