"I've only ever had Kix at my Grandma's house!" YL Breakfast Club

Thanks to the Twitter poll, this month's YL Club is YL Breakfast Club. 

We set up a whole smorgasbord of cereal as kids and leaders arrived. Everyone was just mingling with bowls of cereal in hand, debating the merits of honey nut cheerios v fruity pebbles. 

We started off the games with a donut relay, passing them from one popsicle stick to the next down the line.

The final person in the row had to eat their team's donut as fast as possible.

Next up was an Eggo Flipping contest. Partner 1 catapulted an Eggo off a spatula, over the crowd, and into their partner's cereal box on the other side of the room.

I was incredibly impressed by how well all three sets of partners worked together.

Last game of the night was more difficult than it looked. 6 brave souls took off their shoes and socks to play some cereal bingo. They had to find and place all the colors of Fruit Loops and all the marshmallow shapes of Lucky Charms on their bingo sheet using only their feet.

Cereal has never had so much fun. It looks like cereal confetti.

Tonight's Club Talk was one we won't soon forget. Sophomore Sam Kibble shared his testimony tonight and shared his story of how he ended up in-front of this room full of his peers.

"There was something inside of me that kept telling me to go to YL even though I didn’t want to and even though it wasn’t for me.

I finally came and Johnna was sharing about Jesus and Sarah hugged me and JD made feel welcome. They loved me. They made me feel loved. But for awhile I still didn’t go back. My brother Max and his girlfriend Elyse kept telling me to go with them but I would stay home by myself.

My mom signed me up for camp. I went. It wasn’t fun— I just clung to my leader JD and didn’t know what to do. My friends had such a negative impression of me at first because I didn’t want to be there.

But I saw that there was a correlation between all these people who were having fun and reading their bibles— they loved Jesus. They were happy. But I was in a dark place.

I remember one afternoon everyone else went to play Gaga ball and I was left all alone. So I sat in Cam's eno and read the Bible for the first time. And I didn’t get it. But Olivia walked up and asked me if I knew anything about the Holy Spirit, and you know she’s adorable, so I made up a lot of stuff. But it turns out that it was all right. It was crazy.

One night after Club we had 15 minutes. I went to the rocks right between where the creek goes into the lake. I skipped rocks like my grandpa taught me to do. It was fresh in my heart. It didn’t make sense why we lost him. I was so mad. I raged. I kept slapping the water and it was so hot that it hurt my hand. I did it over and over again and it was hotter every time.

In cabin time I told JD about what happened during my 15 minutes and he told me a verse about being hot and cold instead of lukewarm. It was crazy. And I started to believe. I started to hold onto it.

Once we went home, I kept coming back to YL. I loved the Torch guys. I met with JD. I read my Bible. I grew. Everything that led me to God happened for a reason.

And all of you are coming here for a reason. When you have something pushing you to grow, that’s on purpose. I didn’t understand why God wasn’t giving me happiness or a girlfriend or good grades or the stuff that matters. But I kept searching and growing.

And at Love Tanks last semester, I took a step back and realized how much has happened and how much I love these people.

You’re meant to be here— not at YL— here in the grace of God. When you’re ready, God will come and embrace you and love you. I was lost and I have been found."