We started the morning with a breakfast for the youth. We did this in place of our regular Sunday-morning classes. It was a special time for just the kids to hang out with the youth minister and his wife. We had lots of yummy food, and 3 of our talented girls sang a song they'd written.
During the service the youth sang 2 songs that they'd worked on during the summer:
There was an entire chorus of sniffling going on during one of the prayers. What a blessing to have had a youth minister worth crying over!
We had a reception later that afternoon for the entire church to attend. The kids showed a video they'd made of the youth minister's time with them. It was very well done and quite sweet. We took a final group picture, and then we said good-bye.
It's been a good year-and-a-half.
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Would any of the songs happen to have been "Friends" by Michael W. Smith? Just wondering, because back in my pre-college days, I remember hearing that song semi-frequently when people would leave congregations in a friendly manner.
Oh, JunkMale, you just made me laugh! I doubt our kids even know "Friends." And seeing as my husband is very anti-Michael W. Smith, I know that he would like to keep it that way!
No, they sang a couple of songs from some youth-choir song collections. I don't think they were anything that anyone would actually know, as in, they don't get any Christian radio play.
I was thinking that them kids probably hadn't even been born when that song was released. Then again, who knows if I was even born when that song was released. I did a quick Google search, but couldn't find the year.
I pulled my ancient MWS album off the shelf and looked it up. "Friends" has a copyright of 1982. I knew it was old, but I didn't realize it was that old!
What a blessing your youth pastor and his wife were!
And I'm cracking up over junkmale's comment! I was in choir in high school, and every year we had to sing at graduation. And every year, we sang "Friends." I can't remember if it was at my own graduation or my brother's a couple years later, but we also did (Steven you're going to LOVE this one...) Place In This World! Those songs probably wouldn't even be allowed in public school anymore.
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