Just a tie
This last week I think I put in over 90 hours at work. In two days I put in 30 hours. I worked eight hours on my day off. It got to the point where I just ate anything around the office; which means, eating cookies for lunch and dinner.
I remember arranging to meet up with some students in my office to shoot a video. I had about an hour to kill so I crashed on the couch. Soon I was woken by Collin, a senior, and I could barely communicate.
All this work for one night of entertainment.
Who are we kidding? Ministry is not entertainment. I don’t know why we do such huge events that take a gross amount of energy and time. I really don’t know why anyone would make me in charge of the whole night - I have a problem with giving away tasks and being a perfectionist about everything.
Thus all my work and I’m just a tie.
Collin hosted and did a monologue for the night. I scripted out his one-liners and helped him think out his talk. I wish I could feel his excitement. All I could feel was the lethargy from being worried all the time.
I ran all the improv and up-front games. I’m finding out that it doesn’t matter how bad the prompt is for your improv, all that matters is your actors. My roommate is amazing on the stage - he really saved my butt.
I got to wear my bright pastel green dress shirt for our night! Pants were in full pinstripe form while my tie followed to match. Still, there was something missing.
I prayed and prayed for this night. I laid out all the scheduling.
I think that even if God did show up for our night, I’d miss him altogether because I was running around between acts so much that I hardly paid attention to what was happening on stage unless I was on stage running it.
Stinking Comedy Night II - I found little to laugh at besides myself. I think I forget that ministry is fun. The most ridiculous thought I have is that I want my youth ministry to be perfect. I think I would honestly hate to be apart of a perfect youth ministry. Yet, that’s what I demand of everything I do.
Comedy Night is an $80 prize for 1st place comedy made by students, $10 prize for Most Valuable Comedian, tons of games and improv, cost $3 but visitors are free, and a boy with a tie. This outreach was located at the downtown mall (where the 700 student college group meets) to make the event more appealing to visitors. It probably cost us about $1400 to run and I still don't know what I'm doing.
Next time I’m going to make less videos. Next time I’m going to listen to Collin’s talk instead of prepping the next act. Next time I’m going to smile more. Next time I’m going to laugh and have fun.
cAg
I remember arranging to meet up with some students in my office to shoot a video. I had about an hour to kill so I crashed on the couch. Soon I was woken by Collin, a senior, and I could barely communicate.
All this work for one night of entertainment.
Who are we kidding? Ministry is not entertainment. I don’t know why we do such huge events that take a gross amount of energy and time. I really don’t know why anyone would make me in charge of the whole night - I have a problem with giving away tasks and being a perfectionist about everything.
Thus all my work and I’m just a tie.
Collin hosted and did a monologue for the night. I scripted out his one-liners and helped him think out his talk. I wish I could feel his excitement. All I could feel was the lethargy from being worried all the time.
I ran all the improv and up-front games. I’m finding out that it doesn’t matter how bad the prompt is for your improv, all that matters is your actors. My roommate is amazing on the stage - he really saved my butt.
I got to wear my bright pastel green dress shirt for our night! Pants were in full pinstripe form while my tie followed to match. Still, there was something missing.
I prayed and prayed for this night. I laid out all the scheduling.
I think that even if God did show up for our night, I’d miss him altogether because I was running around between acts so much that I hardly paid attention to what was happening on stage unless I was on stage running it.
Stinking Comedy Night II - I found little to laugh at besides myself. I think I forget that ministry is fun. The most ridiculous thought I have is that I want my youth ministry to be perfect. I think I would honestly hate to be apart of a perfect youth ministry. Yet, that’s what I demand of everything I do.
Comedy Night is an $80 prize for 1st place comedy made by students, $10 prize for Most Valuable Comedian, tons of games and improv, cost $3 but visitors are free, and a boy with a tie. This outreach was located at the downtown mall (where the 700 student college group meets) to make the event more appealing to visitors. It probably cost us about $1400 to run and I still don't know what I'm doing.
Next time I’m going to make less videos. Next time I’m going to listen to Collin’s talk instead of prepping the next act. Next time I’m going to smile more. Next time I’m going to laugh and have fun.
cAg