Finding my Marketshare
Posted on Tuesday, February 25th, 2003 at 23:00.
Rather than focus on the rude customer who kept me thirty-minutes after closing, therefore causing me to almost miss Christy taking me to church, I will share the positive of my day.
I bought the best set of portable headphones today during my lunch break. Sony’s h.ear headphones fit around the ear and direct audio down the ear canal with a bud-style speaker, instead of towards the side of your head; comfortable and minimal sound leakage. Bass is reproduced well with the back of the h.ear headphones directing low frequencies to bone of the skull.
Finding my niche in the RBCPC youth ministry is my top priority at the moment. During the leader’s meeting that followed the Tuesday night senior high youth group gathering, the junior high youth ministry entered the conversation. Rick Ouimet at Blue Ridge Community Church always stressed the importance of strong Christian high school students mentoring middle school students. Middle school students examine high school students and fervently desire to be exactly like the teenager image forced upon them by the media. The early teenage years are the most difficult. You do not know who are you, what you are about, where you are going , yet you aspire to be something so much cooler and mature than what you are in that moment. Having a "cool" Christian high school student mentor junior high students produces honest, influential relationships that only lead to positive growth. Ken appointed the three most vocal proponents of integrating the two youth ministries (me, Elaine, Tim) to brainstorm ideas for accomplishing that which we voiced. I think I found my niche.
Caleb, Christy (a.k.a. "Empress"), Denise, Elaine (a.k.a. "Europe trash"), Gilberto, and I (a.k.a. "white trash") once again conversed over flavored coffees and baked goods at one of the elite few local coffee shops after the leader’s meeting; good times.
