Junk Food Night

Yesterday we had our "Junk Food Night" in Rhinelander. Things started out with "bobbing for worms in chocolate pudding". It's a relay race where you have to run up and dive into a bowl of chocolate pudding covering gummy worms. Then you grab it and spit it out into another bowl. I'm not going to brag or anything, but MY TEAM WON!!! After that game we played "Junk Food Relay". It's the same as the food torture relay, but with more edible food. It was a great night once again and a neat development is in our worship. I was joined by Ben Guzik and Eric Kirby and the worship felt much more alive! It was great!!! The topic of the message was trusting in God no matter what the circumstances. I really feel that a lot of Christians and some churches believe that when things are going great that you are in God's will. But what happens when things go bad? Does that mean that you aren't in His will anymore? Sometimes that is the case, but more often than not it is God's way of shaping and molding us into the people that He wants us to be. Or He might use trials to develop the character trait that we are the most lacking in. Whatever the case may be, I wanted the teens to know that God is ALWAYS in control and that He has a plan for all of us. The sooner we trust in Him to get us through the hard times and give Him the glory in the good times, the quicker we will see what He has in store for us. Even better than that we have someone to go to when things are falling apart all around us. Someone that we know has us in the palm of His hand and won't give us any more than what we can handle!