YoungLife is Good
This week all across the Auburn-Opelika area and even into Phenix City, YoungLife clubs are starting back up for the fall semester.
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Club is the term members familiar with YoungLife use as a synonym for the organization's weekly meetings.
Will McWhorter, volunteer team leader at Smiths Station High School, explains that club is a very high energy night filled with about fifteen minutes of just hanging out, throwing the frisbee, getting to know high school students. Then, it transitions into a time where the students sing a variety of songs led by leaders, play a couple of games to get students to interact and have a good time, enjoy a comical skit performed by leaders, and listen to a talk about the message of the Gospel and Jesus Christ.
There are more than 90 volunteer leaders at five high schools and three middle schools in the surrounding area. All of these leaders are students at Auburn University and have chosen to go through a year-long training process to be a part of this ministry and the lives of teenagers.
Most students get involved for similar reasons as McWhorter, who readily claims that “I love that it’s a ministry that serves the unreached kids in high school” and also that it “goes after the kids that no one else has gone after who really want nothing to do with the gospel.”
Area director, Eric Faison states that the volunteer leaders are “passionate, committed, and give so much of their lives away to kids.” He also claims that “it is fun to watch them pursue and love kids and to share their lives with them.”
The committee members of YoungLife, comprised of parents and adults in the area, hosted its annual YoungLife fundraising banquet last Tuesday, August 31, 2010. McWhorter declares that it went really well and “it was early this year, which I think was good for everyone.”
Faison reports that last year, YoungLife raised about $33,000 (11,000 in actual money given and 22,000 in pledges). This year, this goal was set at $50,000. Faison admitted that he “chuckled at
that amount because the economy has been so bad that I thought it would be nearly impossible to reach that goal.”
Nevetheless, the goal was set and then YoungLife had an anonymous donor say that if $50,000 was reached, he would match that $50,000 as well as any amount given over $50,000.
“I think that really motivated people to dig deep,” exclaims Faison.
The total amount isn’t out yet and will be unknown until September 15. However, overall, the banquet was a huge success in that “we were able to get the word out about Young Life to a larger group of
people,” says Faison.
For more information on Auburn-Opelika YoungLife, visit the website at www.auburnopelika.younglife.org
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Club is the term members familiar with YoungLife use as a synonym for the organization's weekly meetings.
Will McWhorter, volunteer team leader at Smiths Station High School, explains that club is a very high energy night filled with about fifteen minutes of just hanging out, throwing the frisbee, getting to know high school students. Then, it transitions into a time where the students sing a variety of songs led by leaders, play a couple of games to get students to interact and have a good time, enjoy a comical skit performed by leaders, and listen to a talk about the message of the Gospel and Jesus Christ.
There are more than 90 volunteer leaders at five high schools and three middle schools in the surrounding area. All of these leaders are students at Auburn University and have chosen to go through a year-long training process to be a part of this ministry and the lives of teenagers.
Most students get involved for similar reasons as McWhorter, who readily claims that “I love that it’s a ministry that serves the unreached kids in high school” and also that it “goes after the kids that no one else has gone after who really want nothing to do with the gospel.”
Area director, Eric Faison states that the volunteer leaders are “passionate, committed, and give so much of their lives away to kids.” He also claims that “it is fun to watch them pursue and love kids and to share their lives with them.”
The committee members of YoungLife, comprised of parents and adults in the area, hosted its annual YoungLife fundraising banquet last Tuesday, August 31, 2010. McWhorter declares that it went really well and “it was early this year, which I think was good for everyone.”
Faison reports that last year, YoungLife raised about $33,000 (11,000 in actual money given and 22,000 in pledges). This year, this goal was set at $50,000. Faison admitted that he “chuckled at
that amount because the economy has been so bad that I thought it would be nearly impossible to reach that goal.”
Nevetheless, the goal was set and then YoungLife had an anonymous donor say that if $50,000 was reached, he would match that $50,000 as well as any amount given over $50,000.
“I think that really motivated people to dig deep,” exclaims Faison.
The total amount isn’t out yet and will be unknown until September 15. However, overall, the banquet was a huge success in that “we were able to get the word out about Young Life to a larger group of
people,” says Faison.
For more information on Auburn-Opelika YoungLife, visit the website at www.auburnopelika.younglife.org
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