Candlelight

We're spending the night at church, helping to lead a Youth Lock-in that is a 30 hour famine to raise awareness of world hunger among our youth.

Each year, during the famine, late on Friday night, we have a Candlelight service. We place 100 tea lights on the table and the youth take turns blowing them out, over 5 minutes. The 100 candles represent the 100 children of God who die every 5 minutes from hunger related illnesses.

The Youth leaders had been trying to come up with a way to make this more meaningful for the youth; we worried that it had become "old hat."

Before it was time to begin, two of the youth asked if they could set up the table, so I found the candles for them, and they began working. As we started the worship, one of these two youth just began leading, speaking of hunger, and futures lost through these deaths.

It is a reminder to me of how spiritual these youth are, what wonderful leaders they can be, how God can work through their lives, and how important it is to just step back and let them go forth in God's glory.

I'm blessed to be here. (hungry, but blessed).