Never Expected to Start Like This

I have a very odd demographic for my youth group. It adds quite an interesting flare to my first year of full time ministry here in Lethbridge. Let me break it down for you:
My youth group is whack. Ok, no, not my youth exactly (although I’m sure even they would admit to certain moments of ‘whackness’), but more so what I have to work with in terms of the nature of the youth group and my leaders. Let’s start with the boy/girl split. A normal group of kids in a youth group would be slightly male dominated. Where I am, we are heavily female dominated. 80-90% of the group is made up of females on any given night. WOW. That’s all I can really say about that. I’m sure you can only imagine what that must be like for me on a Friday night. But, oh, it gets much better. Not only is the group made up of mostly females, but the large majority of the group is Jr. High, super hyper –active females. Pure energy all the time. I do admit, for the most part, this is awesome. I love the energy these girls bring to youth. It’s contagious for everyone. But, too much of anything is never a good thing... that’s where my youth leaders come into play to help.
Thankfully, yet oddly enough, I have a female dominated youth team. In fact, I only have one guy leader and the rest are girls. This is a much needed balance to the nature of the youth group we have at the moment. I think the best part of this is that my leaders are all so quality. It is so wonderful for the youth to have someone that’s been through their own same stuff to look up to. Having these quality female leaders to be there for all the girls that show up to youth is such a blessing, both for the girls and for me.
There is one more odd component of youth this year. I am particular in using the word “odd” as not to elude to some negative nature in this component, because honestly and truly it is a blessing. I have a huge youth leadership team for the size of youth I have. In fact, I have more youth leaders than I have youth on some nights. I’ve had to start turning leaders away, which I absolutely hate to do. I have to admit, I am quite confused why God would provide more leaders than youth. Maybe he is helping me prepare for growth. Maybe he is giving me a unique opportunity to bring depth. Maybe I will never fully know why.
One thing I am sure of is this: when God wants to accomplish something, he will always provide the means to do so. If you only get one thing from this post, get that.