As Young Life tradition would have it, club follows an incredibly tasty meal. (And meals are especially good after you’ve been on the slopes all day!)

As club begins singing is loud, despite the tired skiers! Laughter rolls across the room as the skit characters enter.  Two characters from Plano West kick off things with a game. PHS’ very own Amy White was called on stage to participate.

While YL skit characters are typically funny, Jace Thompson has a gift for making people laugh, especially with the character Mohamad Gomama. “I’ve come to tell you about life. Not life like you know it, but life I know it.”

After a few songs that slowed the tempo, Todd took the stage to share the gospel. While many of these kids have heard the gospel, some haven’t. And like one of the Ft. Worth leaders shared in leader meeting, “We never out grow the gospel.”

He started with a story about a trip with his dad, uncle and brother to the Boundary Waters. After days of camping and canoeing, the trip was coming to an end. As the first canoe went down the river to scope out the waters ahead, the canoe flipped and Todd’s dad was caught underneath. Todd heard his brother yelling for help and ran to lift the canoe off of his trapped dad. After much work, he and his brother finally freed his dad. Todd used the story to illustrate that no matter how hard we try, we can’t save ourselves. Sin, our choice of self over God, has created a gap between God that we can’t repair. It took someone else to do what we weren’t able to do for ourselves. Todd shared about the sacrifice of the cross and what the sinless son of God endured on our behalf. He beautifully emphasized grace, a word that in such a performance based society is hard to fully grasp.

As the talk came to an end, he shared one last illustration, that of a seed. You see a seed is dead. It lacks life. And no matter how hard a seed tries, it can’t grow on it’s own. We are just like a seed, without Christ, we have no life. Todd prayed, closing the talk, and invited kids to come to the stage to pick up a seed as a reminder of their state without Christ.

Afterwards the kids went to cabin time with their leaders to talk about what they heard.
-Erin