Young Life; You Were Made For This.

With the coming of the new school year, one of the bigger aspects of my life starts anew as well. Young Life starts. If you're unfamiliar with or haven't grown up around Young Life, it's pretty much just a big high school youth group, but without the direct coralation to God or the Christian faith. So basically it's where all high schoolers from Skyline (or wherever you go) can get together for an hour, play games, win prizes, sing songs and laugh until you're crying hysterically, then wind down for a few minutes and just get real with each other.
Let's be honest here, when do we as random high school students, ever really get asked "HOW ARE YOU?", and someone actually wanting to know our genuine answer? The answer is usually not a lot. But here, the leaders make you feel included. Accepted. It's such an overwhelmingly positive environment that I don't know what I would do without. I started in sixth grade at Wyldlife, the middle school sector of Young Life. And now, 7 years later, I'm in charge of leading a group of middle school girls at Wyldlife, as well as being a student leader at Young Life. I just want to give back as much as I can. Because contrary to what you believe, and I'm not here to shove religion down your throat- but God is so good. I hope you can see that. Unfortunately in our society there are a lot of people with extreme views on controversial topics like that. It's either you're extremely conservative, or extremely atheist. I'm neither. In fact, when it comes to religion, there's a lot of stuff I'd rather not have to deal with. I just can't imagine my God discriminating against people based on their sex, gender, or sexual orientation. He created them that way, and loves us all equally. But if I start talking about this, I might go off on a tangent.

THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS IS TO TELL YOU THAT I'D LOVE IF YOU CAME TO YOUNG LIFE AT SOME POINT. IT'S REALLY AWESOME AND YOU WOULD ALWAYS HAVE AT LEAST ONE FRIEND THERE, ME.

If you want more information, I'd be more than ecstatic to talk to you about any questions you have!