So… It’s summer now. And I’m at home after Word of Life and everything.
Do you know what’s really getting annoying?
The lack of ‘excitement’ we have at Word of Life. What I mean by ‘excitement’ is how fire our youth group truly is on for God. Honestly, I love my youth group, the youth leaders, and everyone in it… but I would really like to see some more energy in our praise and worship and the way we feel about our awesome Savior. Yes, I do understand that it’s a Baptist Church, and as you probably know that Baptists are supposedly ‘not supposed to have fun’. But, from the way our camp is in Florida and how pumped we all get, I know we can get more excited about our praise and worship. No, I’m not saying that I’m always the most energetic myself… but I would like to see more from our youth group. I really really want so badly to grow in my relationship with God, and I’m going to try my best to do that. It would be awesome for just once for everyone (or most people) in our youth group to be singing our lungs out (no matter how bad we sound) to praise our God. I mean, He does deserve all of our praise, correct? I just thought I’d put that out there.
Sorry for that. I just thought that I needed to get it out to someone.
I need something productive to do this summer. I really want to learn how to play the guitar (which is hard…), and [possibly] get a job, like babysitting or something. I’m trying my best to do that. This Saturday I’m leaving for New Jersey and my aunt’s house there.. I’m pretty pumped for that. 
Most of my youth group is going on a missions trip to St. Martin’s (which I’m sadly not going on…for certain reasons) which hopefully will bring back awesome results! Anyway… anyone have any ideas that I can do this summer until NJ and Word of Life Camp in July?! thanks for your suggestions.
I will be updating a lot more this summer, by the way..
Comments on: "Summer… what’s next?" (4)
I agree.
I mean i know I am not always super excited.. but it IS a baptist church.. which is a lame excuse. But I personally think its kind of wrong, I mean to say I feel like some people (who get excited at camp) don’t get excited at WOL on Sunday nights because it just feels like people will judge you. And maybe thats not the case but sometimes thats the vibe I get, and if that is at all true that is NOT good at all. 
it’s not really enough to just say it…
you can say all you want here, but it doesn’t translate until you actually get up and act like it.
seriously.
our youth group is just a bunch of prideful and complacent people.
full of fear of what other people will think.
it’s disheartening to see how 30ppl don’t really praise like they should. especially coming from my chapel service where over 700ppl just don’t care and praise how they want.
I agree, Lydia. Sometimes I do feel that people think that other will judge them or look at them strange. I just wish our youth group could get out of their “comfort zone” and give all of our praise to God. That would be awesome. I think the missions trip/people working at STC will help out a lot, though
thanks for your thoughts, darling. 
Yeah, Rachel I agree. I just feel that if I throw up my hand, people will start looking at me funny. But it’s not like I really care.. like that much because you see how crazy I act and the things that come out of my mouth (:P) that I really don’t care. But I just really hope that people will stop being prideful(like you said) and get out of their shell and just praise the One who created them.