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Violin for God
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Posted 9/23/2005 2:36 AM (GMT -6)

Hey, I was wondering for all of you involved with youth, or if you have any teenage kids... this is for all of you.

How many kids showed up at your SYATP event at each of your schools and how many kids attend that school?

I wonder because the kids at my church gave their testimonies (which were awesome testimonies), but one thing struck me. One of the leaders (about 23 years old now) said that when he was in high school here in LV, there were over 100 kids that showed up. (I didn't have SYATP in my time... darn). His high school had about 2500-3000 kids attending.

Now the kids that spoke about what went on at their schools: on average only 25 students showed up and each high school here has about 3000 kids per school. From 100 to about 25 average per school is quite a drop.

So if you are parents or youth leaders or know of any youth, could you ask them and report back here (the SYATP website lists nothing). Thanks!

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Violin for God
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Posted 9/28/2005 1:31 PM (GMT -6)

I'm wondering since there have been no replies to this thread: Are there no SYATP events in your cities?

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Posted 9/28/2005 2:05 PM (GMT -6)

Violin for God said...
I'm wondering since there have been no replies to this thread: Are there no SYATP events in your cities?

I asked my son and he said he never heard of it. That doesn’t mean it’s not going on in his High School. I will ask our youth pastor about it.

Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

DNOTS Survivor
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Posted 9/29/2005 8:55 AM (GMT -6)

My daughters school does it every year, but she goes to a private Christian school where we can still pledge allegiance to God and country.

Violin for God
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Posted 10/4/2005 12:53 AM (GMT -6)

Thank you both for your responses. I think the SYATP is a good idea, but I don't know a whole lot about it. We didn't have it at my school back in the day. Woulda been cool.

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Posted 10/4/2005 3:10 PM (GMT -6)

I have good new and bad news. The good news is that our church youth pastor said over a 100 kids showed up at this year SATP event. It is by word of month only that the event has been growing each year. The bad news is other students ridiculed, swore and threw things at the kids that met at the event. The school has an enrollment of over 3000 students. On a side note: Our youth pastor volunteered as a chaperon to the homecoming dance where only 100 kids showed up. The pastor was shocked, the party was a literal Sodom and Gomorrah. You can only imagine the nature of the parties that went down outside the school with the remaining 2900 kids.

Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

ThatDarnCat
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Posted 10/4/2005 8:07 PM (GMT -6)

What's really odd is that 235 Poles showed up at our See the Pole event at school.

Post Edited (ThatDarnCat) : 10/4/2005 8:15:40 PM (GMT-5)

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Posted 10/5/2005 10:28 AM (GMT -6)

ThatDarnCat said...
What's really odd is that 235 Poles showed up at our See the Pole event at school.

LOL biggrin Thanks TDC for a much needed laugh. lol Tonight kicks off my first day as a youth leader for 8^th grade boys at our church. I needed a good laugh after the sobering confused briefings giving by our Youth Pastor in regards to the state of are local youth. It sounds like God has his work cut out for himself. So anyways, once again a big THANKS.

Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

ThatDarnCat
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Posted 10/5/2005 10:40 AM (GMT -6)

sparknheart said...

Tonight kicks off my first day as a youth leader for 8^th grade boys at our church. I needed a good laugh after the sobering confused briefings giving by our Youth Pastor in regards to the state of are local youth. It sounds like God has his work cut out for himself.

Ah, I remember eigth grade. The three best years of my life.

And sober youth leaders is a good thing.

Post Edited (ThatDarnCat) : 10/5/2005 10:43:09 AM (GMT-5)

Violin for God
Luke, I am your father. --Nooooooooo!!!!!

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Posted 10/6/2005 1:28 AM (GMT -6)

Mark, after getting involved with our youth group and the student teaching experience I had, I'm learning that life is quite a bit more complicated for them than it was for me in high school. Good luck with the 8th graders!

TDC, love the picture. Now that's a SYATP event!

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ThatDarnCat
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Posted 10/6/2005 6:39 AM (GMT -6)

Violin for God said...

TDC, love the picture. Now that's a SYATP event!

When my elder daughter was in high school she went to the SYATP event(s) and it was well attended. But like many things, enthusiasm fades after the initial events. Look at Promise Keepers, for example.

The real depressing job has to be teaching. Do those students ever come back after that one year? No

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