A week ago we help our 4th annual Murder Mystery Dinner. What a great event for our ministry. This year was the best year we have ever had...great parent involvement, students brought their unbelieving friends, and the volunteer staff did a great job running the game. I love events like this for the purpose of creating an environment of love for students can ring their friends and they can experience a spiritual community. My favorite part of the night is watching the parents love on students. It makes my heart so excited to watch parents engage students in their world. I give 5 gold stars to Gayle Bucknam and her job on organizing the food and parent help. What a blessing to have a mom and family open up their home, make the food, and organize moms and dads to serve students. The reason why I love this is it gives parents and students a memory that they can have together. As I grow as a minister I want to make parents heroes, I am only with these students for a few years, and I am so thankful, but moms and dads will be with them for the rest of their lives. It is my desire to see parent’s disciple and mentor their students.
As far as the murder mystery we added another twist this year that extended the game. Since our theme was mob style, we had a family put out the hit. So the teams had to figure out...What room did the murder take place in, Who was the murderer, what weapon did they use and which mob family paid for the murder. Each team was a different mob family. It was a great night with lots of laughter, encouragement, students connecting with one another and of course a dance party broke out to finish the night. I was so plesed to see different social groups connect with one another, sit at the same table and be on the same team. I pry that as we grow as a ministry we wil realize that we are one body, who will all be worshipping Jeuss together someday. A great night...thank you to everyone who helped in the event.
A special thanks to the volunteers who helped out in the event. It was great to have a few new adults come and help us out at the last minute. That is one thing we need this year...we need men and women who want to mentor and pour their lives into students. Thomas and I were talking the other day about this issue we are having in the high school ministry at the Boulder campus. We are in need for people to come alongside and help disciple and mentor students. With that being said, we aren't looking for warm bodies, but people who want to be involved in the lives of students, who want to challenge them to conform to the likeness of Jesus Christ, who will love and encourage them. This is our prayer that Jesus would bring people to love on students and be a part of the team.
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