Tonight was a Wyld Life Club we won't soon forget. We arrived an hour before hand to get ready for the Paint War of the century. These brave leaders and HS helpers showed up to fill paint bombs and figure out a semi-organized plan for the madness that was about to happen.
The kids arrived in droves. Their last weekend of the school year, everyone was excited for tonight and full of excess energy.
These are most of the 8th grade girls that came tonight. It's been the biggest blessing to get to work with them this year and get to know them better. I'm so excited for them to become part of YL group next year but will definitely miss them at Wyld Life Club and seeing them every day in the Junior High.
These are some of our 7th grade girls. It's sweet that these will be the first group of kids that will get to experience Young Life in Fishers all the way through from 7th grade to graduation in HS. They've got five more years of awesome ahead of them.
These boys have prided themselves all year in going all out in their costumes for every Club. Even though tonight only required clothes that could get messy, they still crafted these matching tank tops for the "HSE Wyld Life Wyld BYFE'S"
In a game of trivia about summer and our school, the guesser buzzed in by popping a paint filled balloon over their partners head.
We played Pictionary by drawing on people's backs, just your every day kind of canvas, and the audience shouted out the answers.
Everyone was corralled for KCraig's last Club Talk of the year. She talked to the kids about friendship and what it means to have Christ as your best friend. I love that she acknowledged that some of these kids are two feet in--they're following Christ and pumped about it, some are one foot in and one foot out--not quite sure about how to live this out but interested in growing in their faith, and some kids are two feet out--they just showed up for the paint.
Wherever they are, Christ loves them and cares about. He's given them free will to choose how invested they are in all of this. KCraig challenged them to think this summer about taking the next step to grow closer to Christ.
We spread out the paint all over the field, plastic lunch bags filled with paint and the empty paint bottles refilled with water to get out the rest of the paint. The army of kids sprinted into the field to grab as much ammunition as they could and the rest was history. In seconds there was paint flying and no one was safe.
I asked Michelle and Janelle, two moms of YL kids, to come be our photographers for the night. I knew that if I was going to be running around getting covered with paint with the kids I wouldn't be able to take pictures too. They did a phenomenal job capturing all of the action.
I have loved hanging out with these girls for the past two years. I'm so excited to go to Wyld Life camp with them in just a few weeks. They're going to love it.
No one wanted to miss the Paint War tonight and we had quite the turn out. I was so excited to see at least twenty brand-new kids show up. I love getting to see kids from all different friend groups interact like this. Everyone belongs.
Brooklyn had the great idea to bring a canvas to the paint war. She had everyone sign the back and then ran through the field asking people to throw paint on it.
I had a blast tonight. I love anytime I get to hang out with kids like Haleigh and Milly but this will be pretty hard to beat.
I love Wyld Life. I love getting to hang out with these kids. I love that they get to hear the good news and cover their friends in paint. I love that so many different types of kids show up. I love that their are five different teachers in our school involved with Young Life. I love that nearly 70 of these kids are coming with us to Michindoh in a couple weeks. I love that we get to do awesome things like this together. I love that we're bringing color and joy to the world.
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