There’s something happening every other week with the Verdun youth group. It’s either on a Friday night for a Bible study or on a Saturday afternoon for anything that’s different. Today we went sledding on mount Royal. I had told the leaders it would not be as easy if we’d have a bunch of six graders with us, but we still went for the idea. It was only in the morning that the leaders realized that we were actually responsible for the kids and we were not that prepared.

We were 10 people, mostly around the age of 12 years old. We took the metro, then the bus, then we walked up the mount - well I would call it a hill, I’m sorry - with our “crazy carpets”, “black snows” and “toboggans”. The wife of the Bible study guy accompanied us, which I thought was really nice of her. She is actually teaching French in a secondary school so we had some good chats (as I want to become an ESL teacher eh). We slid down the hill many times and took lots of pictures. By the end I was pretty damp and cold, I do admit that I wasn’t dressed properly enough. Finally we left, waited for the bus forever (about 7 minutes….), I was so glad to finally be in a warm place. A church, a lady had made supper for us (well, a lady from my church and a lady from the other church) so we had a good time.

No matter how young the kids were, I kept finding myself looking at them and wondering, “Are they going to become strong men and women of God?”, “Are they going to learn to savor and love Jesus Christ so much that this world means little to them?”. So I was praying throughout the day for these kids. I don’t know how to reach out to them - I feel more comfortable with older teens. But I really pray that God will do a great work in their hearts through what’s happening with the youth group.