Students Own the Weekend!

This weekend our students ran adult services. Once or twice a year our students get the opportunity to pull together the weekend services from music, greeting, announcements & testimonies. We basically take care of everything minus the message & it is awesome. Our students take such ownership & show the adults what SSM is all about. The adults love it...especially the music! I always walk away so proud of how hard our kids work to make this all come together. I love student ministries!!

We have an extremely talented student Rachel who is ubber creative. She loves to read, draw, write along with many other things. She wrote & read this beautiful poem at services...be prepared to be WOWed!!

There once was a girl

who found herself

in a good home

with some good friends

and some good memories.

On the outside,

the girl liked her life

and was having fun.

But some nights,

she would lie alone in the dark,

and feel the emptiness

that was eating her heart away.

She would ask God

to fill this emptiness

with something to help her

feel better.

But that's all she ever did:

Ask God.

She never thanked Him

for all of her blessings.

She never praised Him

for his never-ending love.

She never really thought about

Him at all;

she was just going though

the motions

of what everyone thought

Christians did.

But God has his timing.

There came a moment

when the girl

was to make a leap of faith,

and she was scared.

Scared that her wings

would not work

and all she would do

is anger the others around her.

Have them see what

she had done

and scowl.

"She's a fake,"

they'd say.
"She can do no good.

Hear her hypocritical words!

Who does she think she is?

Calling herself a Christian!

She is not one of us.

She is not worthy

of the good Lord's love."

She was afraid that

she would think them right

and fall.

Something inside her stirred.

Whispered,

"It's alright,

you're safe in My arms,"

and finally, she believed.

"The Lord is always with me,"

she cried,

"He will be my guide."

and now she flies

with God by her side.

If you were to ask the girl

about that day,

she'd smile at you

and say,

"Becoming a Christian doesn't mean

life will get easier.

God will test your faith

like gold in a fire,

and you have to trust Him

to lead you to safety.

Becoming a Christian means

understanding that

we are always forgiven,

we are always loved,

and we are always with Him.

It means accepting His amazing grace

and the fact that You

are God's child,

and nothing else matters

Rachel Brownell