Allnighter Recap

I'm a little late on this, but we had our big Jr. high outreach event 2 weekends ago.
We call it an outreach and we try to get has many unchurched students to come as possible but we are well aware that a good majority of the students are from other churches.
This event always makes me nervous. Just ask the other youth pastors that work with me on it. They always have to tell me that I'm an idiot and its going to be awesome. I tried to stay calm this year. I tried to tell myself to just have fun with it and let God take care of everything. I found out that it wasn't that easy.
But it turned out to be a success. God definitely came through and touched the lives of many students and it makes me feel even more stupid for doubting Him over and over.
We started off with a rally service at the church. This was by far the funnest part of the night personally.
It was a late night show theme. Another youth pastor and myself were the hosts. We went all out. We had the desk, a skyline, suits, and the monologues. We had an announcer and a band doing the jingles for every game. We rode in on a moped, played stupid games like, will it float, and stupid human tricks. (one kid had 6 toes.) Not really a trick, but by far the most disgusting. We also did some Conan comedy sketches.
After the fun, it was just a time of worship and then the speaker came up and gave the gospel presentation. 22 students made first time decisions. 22! What an unbelievable night.
After the service, we had some pizza and went to this sweet place called McDermont Field house for the night. By far one of the coolest venues I have seen for students.
(It has rock wall, zip line, surf rider, laser tag, inflatables, indoor soccer fields, and the list goes on and on and on.)
Made it back to the church by 7am on Saturday.

Events like this take a lot of work and I always dread the fact that I have to stay up all night, but it always seems to be worth it. The fact that 22 decisions were made to follow Christ, makes me want to do something like this every weekend. It makes me aware of the fact that there are so many lost people right in our community and I should not wait for a big event once a year to do something about it.