YAG!! :D

Today I have a special shout out to my yaggers....some of you have NO IDEA who I'm talking bout. So I'll explain for ya! At my church we have the Youth Group, which is for kids in high school to hang out and have fun with some spiritual growth obviously. But a few years ago one of the confirmation teachers, Toni, decided that those kids who were out of high school but still really involved at church needed there own space. Youth Group is a great program but it tailers to high school kids with mostly high school problems. So she knew the young adults needed a program that was more "grown up" in the issues they talked about and addressed more adult problems or the same problem just in a more mature way. So she started the Young Adult Group hence..YAG lol creative I know hahah so might as well give you the rest of the history, after running it for a little over a year Toni stepped down and Theresa took over as person in charge of running YAG and person who organizes the young adults for events and such. Well a few weeks ago Theresa announced that she is going back to school and will not be free to attend YAG anymore and even though we are all very sad cause it really wont be the same with out her, we are all also very proud of her and wish her all the best. Plus we will still see her at church so she really isnt "leaving" hahaha

So now that Theresa has also stepped down she left YAG to two young woman. Trisha and myself will be teaming up to run YAG and hopefully we can do half of the amazing job that Toni and Theresa have done in the past :)

But I would like to take this moment to say how thankful I am to this young adult group, at the beginning I was extremely reluctant to join especially since there was a few people who I did not know and at the time I was the youngest member for about 2 years. But quickly I came to love it. It honeslty has helped me a lot in understanding things in a differnt way and I can honeslty say I have never really read and talked about and tried to understand the bible before YAG. To some it may seem like, ANOTHER THING FOR CHURCH??!! but for me it's more of a midweek time with God, cause even though idealy we should make time for him each day but life can get hectic and I love my midweek OLG visits hahah.

Plus the people there I must say are pretty dang awesome!! I am no longer the youngest won! lol and I know I can go to them whenever I need them and it's not just a group i go to, it's another family and you can never have to much family in your life haha

So I am thankful for YAG and how it helps me, I am thankful that Toni realized the young adults needed a place to go, I am thankful for all Theresa has done to help the program grow stronger, and I am terrified at "taking over" hahahah but at the same time thankful and humbled that Theresa and the other "yaggers" trust Trisha and myself with such a responsibility.

This is way back in the old school days of YAG when we would meet at Theresa's house lol ok so not THAT long ago but still!! lol love this people! <3

CHALLENGE: I mentioned it real quickly in this blog, but it is really important. Do you give God a good amount of you life, year, month, week, day even?? If yes, then good for you, if you're like me and can honeslty admit that no you dont then thats my challenge not just for this blog but for this lent. Yag helped me with having one hour in the middle of the week to think about God and pray and at the same time a mid week hangout with some of my best friends every week (you know our motto lol) So find a way to give God a few hours a week, just to say thank you, and honeslty to give yourself that one hour of peace away from the rest of your life to just think, it honeslty can not hurt but only help. :)