Thursday, April 24, 2008

Contagious Last Night

Last night at Contagious was a whole bunch of good times.  Nacho night!  Need I say more.  Cool thing is that of the students that are youth group "members" only 4 were absent.  We had 96% of our youth group there last night and then on top of that we had several guests which brought us to the percentage of 103%.  

Now I'm not about numbers and numbers don't equal health or success.  BUT healthy groups grow, each number represents a life in need of a relationship with Jesus or a life that is a follower of Christ looking to grow spiritually, or a kid required to be there by his parents ;).

I'm excited because last night we went over a pivotal attendance mark.  There are some numbers that seem to haunt you until you can get over that hump.  I remember at NHC when we were watching our church grow and just waiting to bump over 100 members.  

I'm more excited because last night and the next 5 weeks I get to teach on my favorite topic, HABITS.  The disciplines we need to do to be spiritually healthy and growing and self-feeding on God's Word.  Last night was H for hang time with God.  A bunch of students took the 6 week challenge in putting these HABITS into practice. 

Next Week - Accountability

3 comments:

TerryKM said...

4 were missing which means you had a 96% attendance. . .WHOAH!!!

That means you're up to 100 kids coming now. That's crazy cool!

Andy Lawrenson said...

No, not a hundred! Perhaps my math thinking is wrong. If you have lets say 30 kids in your youth group. If all 30 are there you have %100. If you have 96% than that means you had 28 there. That's if your number was 30.
We aren't at 100 yet but are heading that way.

Lee said...

2, 10, 200....as long as they are coming to Christ....HURRAY FOR YOUR MINISTRY!!!!! But of course, 100 kids becoming disciples and bringing
100's more would also be uber cool!

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