We are very excited in the Vicarage. In about 2 weeks time, Dreamer will be joining us as our Families and Community Worker. Our church family are delighted to have appointed her and are looking forward to getting to know her as she comes to live and minister amongst us. In one of those ministry swings and roundabouts, a couple of days after she was appointed, our lovely Ministry Trainee Sweet Tooth decided that he wasn’t quite ready to step into ministry yet and left the Vicarage to start another course of study. So our house is a little emptier just now, although the children and other visitors (including Dreamer and her happy dog last week) seem to fill the place up well enough.
One challenge for Dreamer when she begins here will be leading our small youth group. Since the Vicar had A Very Important Meeting last week, I was helping out along with our new MT Radiohead and Cheery, a laughing lady from our congregation. The group has almost doubled in size since last year and in the meeting I attended the boy:girl ratio was 9:2, so testosterone levels were running pretty high. About a third of the kids have learning difficulties of some sort or another, which mainly means that attention spans can be rather limited. So, all in all, it was a pretty fizzy evening. But despite that, they still read the bible out loud and talked about what the narrow way looks like. And, as Dreamer said afterwards, noone died, noone was bitten and noone set fire to anything. I’m sure that many involved in youth work will recognise the experience of trusting that the Lord is working even when we don’t feel like much is going in!
The Vicar's Wife 
Dont you mean Dreamer of the Kingdom ? Sorry that MT Sweet Tooth has left the Dream Factory perhaps he is better off in the Chocolate Factory. I bet MT Radiohead was pleased with your help, stereo sound is good and Cheery lady sounds a bundle of fun.Im sure you are all doing a great job,just by giving these young people space and time you are doing wonderful work for the kingdom.
Dreamer is a great name for her! So happy that she will be joining you. Do you think I am ready to set up my church worker matchmaking service now?
Absolutely. Will start referring people to you for headhunting 😉
I absolutely LOVE Dreamer’s comments, summing up your group. It sounds very similar to some of our sessions and it’s good to be reminded that an absence of biting, arson and death is a good result. Even more importantly, we trust that faithful sowing of God’s Word will bring Life, even on the fizziest of occasions!
9:2 boys:girls. what happened? I think I can guess who the two girls were. The bish bash and her year 7 friend? loads more boys is good. Numbers wise that is similar to last year. We had about 9/10 most weeks. Glad that it is growing though.
Think you know what’s up kimmiebee! I was a bit hazy on last year’s numbers but the core did feel quite overwhelmed by the fizzies last week. I think partly it’s about finding a good rhythm with the group you have coming and this year the group (including the leaders) has changed a bit so the format needs to change so that everyone can burn off enough energy and find space to concentrate…
Yeah lots of changes to cope with. We are still praying for you and them. Send them all our best
Didn’t his brothers call Joseph the Dreamer? (or was that just in the musical ?! — quick re-reading happening….)