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Jul 17 2007
You know you are becoming an old youth worker when…
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- A student fills out an info card and their date of birth is the day you graduated high school.
- You can now have a 90’s and even 00’s night for youth group.
- You open up a hymnal and now find that Lord I Lift Your Name on High has been added.
- You can’t, “Capture the Flag” due to fatigue and lack of speed.
- You thought the Disciple concert was a little loud.
- You find yourself saying, “I DON’T do lock-ins any more.”
- You go to a NYWC and Marko says - really you can just go back to your hotel room and sleep for awhile if you’d like - and you did!
- The senior pastor’s messages start making sense to you.
- The day your son or daughter enters into jr. high youth group.
Please add to my list by commenting below!
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Brian said:
When the songs teens listened to at the start of your days in youth ministry are now referred to as “oldies” by the youth you currently serve!
July 30th, 2007 at 1:18 pm -
randy kuss said:
then i guess i have become an ancient youth minister since the children of “kids” you had in youth group are about to graduate from high school - but, yes, i am still a youth minister
August 6th, 2007 at 8:19 am -
Dan Meyer said:
Hey:
you know you are an old youth worker when volunteers for the youth group are born after you graduated from high school. And I’m still goingAugust 15th, 2007 at 8:47 pm -
kathy said:
Hey, You know you are a old youth worker when the students you had in youth group , are now youth volunteers with children, they call me Grandma Kathy- but I am still serving the LORD
September 29th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
