Youth Group

Last Tuesday I had the distinct pleasure of heading out to Montreal Lake and helping out with the youth group for an evening!

Heading onto the reserve you first see run down houses, cops knocking at someone's house, and a lot of people walking around. But you also see the potential that it could have if there were love and care put into the reserve.

That's exactly what Dan and his wife Pam have been doing! God has put it on their heart that they needed to go into Montreal like and share God's love with the youth and children all around.

When we pulled up at the youth center, there were already youth waiting to come in! The youth are excited because they know that Dan and Pam are consistent. They are putting their trust in the couple and because they see the couple as trustworthy the youth open their ears and listen to what they have to say. And what they have to say is always loving and caring and hope filled.

They start the evening off with opening the youth center and making supper for everybody! The youth help set up the tables and clean up the youth center a little bit before we start and some of them helped serve the food. Then everybody sits around the table like a giant family and visit while eating.

After supper it gets cleaned up and then they do Bible study! This is the highlight of the night! Everything else comes second to Bible study. They know that in order to pour hope into the youth's lives they need to hear the truth of how Jesus came to this earth and died for them. They need to know that there is hope and there is more to life than just what they've seen on the reserve.

After this was all finished up, they went outside to play bocce ball on the soccer field! There were so many puddles everywhere and everyone's feet were soaked by the end of it but it was an amazing time of fellowship and bonding! I love that they played bocce ball because it's a game that truly everyone can play. You don't have to be athletic, but it still gets you out and moving!

Please pray for Dan and Pam in this ministry as it is such a blessing to that community! They have seen lives change already and hearts open towards them. Their hope is to have another couple come alongside them for the long run so that they may extend their Ministry not only to the youth but also to the children on the reserve.

Also pray that they find a 15-passenger van so they may take the youth to camp, out to different places, on field trips, etc... Right now, they use two separate vehicles and sometimes that's not even enough!