A Tale of Trespassing

Trespassing:

commit an offense against a set of rules.

I remember 12 kids at club and the 8:15 pivots.

If you haven’t experienced a dead club have you actually been on staff?

I mean, at one point we had cars drive by and just keep driving because no one was in the parking lot..

But my favorite memories are because of nights like that. 

We were forced to stop waiting and start trespassing.

There was tradition with our club, so we werent supposed to have club up stairs at a juniors house..

But we had a ball up there.

There were huge youth rooms that we once filled, so we weren’t supposed to move into a pool house..

But it gave us just enough room to grow. 

And when it got worse, the memories got better.. 

• We're supposed to know the words to the song. 

• Our guitarist isn’t supposed to mess up. 

• The super Christian family is supposed to host the outreach events. Not the casual Christians with a bar themed porch!

So when everything goes completely different than planned, 

When you’re in a strangers home, 

When 37 kids make your club feel huge,

When half way through a butchered song you can it out of embarrassment 

And then start singing & clapping “This Little Light of Mine”

.... you’re trespassing in all the right ways. 

When kids laugh at you just enough to trust you,

When neighbors place their arms around one another 

And sing an old hymn that they forgot they knew,

When we experience a memory together so out of the ordinary

That it will forever go down as a “remember when” story

... you're tresspassing in all the right ways.

We grew out of those days and eventually filled back up a youth room, but not before we had an adventure, cleared a living room, didn’t have a guitarist, played Ultimate instead, and trespassed all over the way we originally drew it up. Those were the good days.

In fact, I could maker a case that the most successful days for me weren’t the 200 kid August clubs, but the 26 kid April club conflicts. It seems it was there that we finally stopped worrying about our trespasses and began modeling His.