Downtown Teens

For several months now, Channing and I both have been CORE group leaders for the junior high teens at Downtown. Jeremy, the jr. high youth minister, divided the teens into small groups (called CORE groups) of about 10-12 and has two or three adults working with each group.

Jeremy's wife, Dijana, and I have the biggest group. We have about 14 girls in our group. It has been so much fun! These girls have been such a blessing. After being out of the classroom for about three years now, I've really missed being around kids this age.

Shelby has a ball with these girls. She loves going upstairs after Bible class to see the teenagers and gets soooo excited when they come over to our house.

Pictured here is some of the girls who came over tonight. We ate, hung out, laughed, and played a game. Since not all the girls were able to make it, and we wanted to take a group picture, they decided to use Shelby's dolls and Little People girls to sit in in place of our missing girls!