Meet Your New Youth Pastor!

Today was our first day at Immanuel Lutheran church, and boy was it a long day!  We attended both the 8:00 am and 10:45 am services, in order to get a feel for both of them.  The first service is very traditional, while the second is contemporary.  It brought back a lot of memories from when I attended the Lutheran church back in the day with my friends Rachel!  Although we didn't know many people, we did know Libby, who was sweet enough to come to both services in order to help us feel right at home there!  She is such an awesome woman!  In between services, we all gathered in the reception hall for a meet and greet, complete with yummy donuts that Kyle and I couldn't eat because of this diet!  But, I don't think we would have had time to eat anyways, because we met and talked to so many people.  They all seemed wonderful though!  They really made us feel so welcome.  You could see how excited they all were to finally have someone leading their youth ministry!  Libby even gave me a dozen roses...again, she is just the sweetest!  After the last service, a group of us went out to lunch, and we got to know some people even better.

Haha, ignore the heaping pile of recycling in the background!

Tonight was the first official youth gathering, where we got to meet most of the junior high youth group, and some of the high school youth group.  A lot of the high schoolers were gone tonight, so we are looking forward to meeting them all soon!  The gathering was at Libby and Mike's house.  We chatted, played games, ate, and swam in the lake!  It was such a great night.  I can't even tell you how excited we both are to be at Immanuel Lutheran!  Some people may be thinking...but hey, you aren't Lutheran!  Well, we are all believers in Jesus Christ, and that is all that matters!  And nothing that I heard during service today conflicted with anything we believe in.  It's really best just to drop titles in this situation, because we are all wanting the same thing...to teach these awesome kids about Jesus! 

Some of Kyle's youth group