The students in BREAKOUT's youth ministry have really started to connect outside of church! Last night, Sarah, one of our Teen360 Leaders, invited everyone out to see Hunger Games at the Lincoln Theater in Belleville, Illinois. There were at least ten of us that showed up, and we all had a blast! Now, only two of us were guys, so we're obviously going to have to step up our game on the manly side.
I ended up sitting behind a girl that blatantly went into flirt mode with me the entire movie. I stayed nice about it and played it safe, not ignoring her comments but not trying to feed the flame either (if you know what I'm saying); nothing about that says one can't be nice to the person. It was rather awkward after the movie, when a high school student walked up to me and says, "so the girl you were talking to in the movie, she wants to talk to you now if you will, because she really likes you." As it turns out, one of my teens knew her and said, "Tim, she's a junior." I politely responded to the girl's friend with, "Tell her I'm 25." It didn't take long for them to leave.
That's sad for me though. In that situation, I'm not really able to get to know this girl to find out if she is unchurched or not, and now if she did find our youth ministry something she might be interested in connecting with, it could be embarrassing for her, seeing me as the "25 year old youth pastor she had a crush on at the movies", at least for a few weeks. Thankfully, I can pray for her and her friends. They were still pretty cool, and they picked a good movie to watch.
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