Outward

I don't understand kids, but to be honest I don't understand most adults.....LOL. Anyway, this past week has been an event called Outward. It is a week long event where kids (teenagers) come together and serve their community. Outward was made up of 3 churchs, Compass here in Cincinnati and a church from Michigan and one from Pennsylvania. These 2 out of town churches are with a mission team called Powerplant. They go to different parts of the country and help new church plants. These kids are interested in either starting a church of their own someday or go into the mission field. They have a time of teaching and worship in the morning and then they head out to the church that they are here to help. In this case it was Compass. My boys went everyday this week and did outreach. They washed cars, gave out water, prayed for people and help put on an outdoor party. Cody and Austin loved it. But I did find out that Cody liked a girl so that meant come hell or high water, he was going.....LOL. I found out about this from the girl's mother but that's another post at another time. Honestly I don't care that he wanted to go to see a girl because regardless he still went out and did the outreaches and told the world that he is a christian. What more could a parent want, right? Austin loved it. He came home one day and told us that he actually got to pray for someone (he didn't do the praying but was with a group who did) and he was looking forward to Sunday to see if that person would come to church.

So they had a week like that but today, Friday, they are back to being demanding and self absorbed. I guess I was like that at their age. My mom was right, I would have children that behave like I did. Oh well, at least I can rest in the fact that God worked on them this week and it gives me hope that they will become men of God.