The balloons under the chin! Its mad we thought that was appropriate and with children. And my youth group also did this thing were we would stand in a circle and like sit on the person behind us, very strange.
You captured 2003 so perfectly. You're quickly becoming one of my favorite RU-vid comedians. I wasn't Christian then but my best friend was and Youth Group was really funny so I'd always tag along with her.
As someone who has been in Youth Ministry for 15 years and was also IN a youth group in 2003, I gotta say that I was *listening* to this while I worked, and had NO trouble recognizing which year you were doing.... I kinda miss that '03 stuff.
When I was volunteering in a parish in Southern Louisiana, I met kids named Pascal,Etienne, Boudreaux, Telismar,and Cyprienne. By the time I greeted everyone, it was time to leave 🙂 Cajun names are beautiful, but for the uninitiated they can twist the tongue 🤔
I helped with our youth group during the 2010 til 2020, l went to 7 Catholic Heart Work Camps. I am 78 years old. As loony as it sounds love this kind of ministry. We are still catching up from the mask age thing. Laura Matt Fradd needs you on his podcast. YOU ARE FUNNY!!!!!
I'm starting to get the feeling than youth group was cringe and... bible-less... back in 2003 too. I'm glad the one at my church is more bible study style. I like games, but I don't like games, you know?
It's funny that I am from Finland and Lutheran, so I certainly lost very much context in these videos, but despite of that I laugh out loud! Well done and God's bless! (Only problem is that it's now night in Finland. Luckily my children didn't wake up because my laughing...)
No kappas... täällähän on värikästä porukkata... Oh yeah, the one with the teacher alone in a Zoom meeting with a child... Here across the pond they are very worried about harassment law suits, so there always has to be two adults in the room when there are underage persons present. And one on one is a real no no. So no going naked into sauna with your youth group here, lol. And for non-Finns: a summer camp without a sauna is inconceivable for Finnish youth groups. (Genders separated of course, but adult always present for sure.)
A friend from college led a youth group icebreaker at an evangelical church that had kids snorting blue jello; and some of them vomited it on each other as a result.
@@laurahorn My son's Confirmation preparation is two years here in SoCal. He's two months away from being Confirmed and he dropped out 2 weeks ago because "preparation" has been been such a joke. He's going to do an adult Confirmation prep class next year instead.
Protestant churches can Matthew 18 have the person leave when witnesses show they are unrepentantly pushing sin, but in the same way, the person can Matthew 18 the pastoral leadership according to John 14 and 16 authority they have in Christ that’s above even church leadership if the church leadership rejects the Word of God.
This is how a protestant congregation will remove a pastor accused of sexual sin. The sinners removal can come from the bottom up, not only the top down according to Matthew 18 and Jesus is authority being on those who are believers who stand for christ mindedness according to the authority of Christ at all believers can access as long as they stay completely with and on Christ’s side. Innoway that’s part of why Martin Luther rebuke the Catholic Church when they were trying to sell indulgences to be able to sin in the future. Martin Luther did have authority in Christ to reject what the churches authority said. And Martin Luther never wanted to start a second church, he just wanted to reform the sinful behaviors within the church.
My son got turned off on church by a youth pastor who, rather than talk with the teens, lectured while writing on a whiteboard. Unfortunately, the youth pastor lost about half of the middle school/high school group. The really sad thing was that the youth pastor never contacted kids to learn why they had stopped coming to church.
"That sounds retarded." Call me retarded, but that made me laugh so hard bc it's so TRUE. I understand why it's not okay to say it now, however, the way we used it back then was pretty true to its definition.
“Liam” looks like a burglar who walked in on Laura having a mental break down on how to close technology and is now just confused and slightly terrified for his own safety 😂 Also, maybe find a more flattering dress for Trent to get him on board? Not saying it’s an ugly dress, but the dark floral look isn’t always flattering for some people 😋
Laura, you are hilarious! I came onto RU-vid to get a video for my degree and got distracted by the fact that you had a new video out. You and Trent make such a great team! When are you going to go on tour???
I remember we would do the "pass the lemon game" in high school....one of the most disturbing things I ever witnessed. You better believe I did not partake in such an act.
I got put in charge of leading physical team building and looking them up online I only found a few clean ones where the kids were not to be too physically with each other so after a quarter of the year (when it was winter so water tossing games were out of the question) I just gave up on the physical aspect because the other leader wanted pass the lemon/Cheerio and such and I had to keep explaining how that wasn’t Godly fun for the young teens and she eventually figured out I was right to keep saying no. We eventually landed on more funny speech/creative project based things were better than the physical games. One example being having them make posters and speeches together trying to sell the moon and other ridiculous items to each other. Another being the “nailed it” cake decorating challenge. Much better!
recycled foods skit (not youth leader endorsed) - first person takes a bite of the food, chews, then spits out saying "this is good, but its too filling. passes to the next person who also chews. gets 4 down before finally being consumed. people 2-4 all got the flu courtesy of person 2.
How about doing different types of people in confession? The storyteller. The justifier. The list maker. The ten commandments confession. The wife who confesses for her husband... etc.
omgosh. I think this is probably your second or third best video. So funny and so. True. Youth Group in the early 2000s was so weird...and Pope Francis....no comment
This is going to be so different in a few years. The top names at our church now are some form of Augustine, Mary, Bernadette and Joseph. I literally do not know a Jaden, Kaden or Xaden. I do know a few Xavier's.
I understand some of this being that in my late teen years I went to an Assembly of God church. Before that I grew up in a predominantly African American church. Youth nights seem a bit different from this. Lol Anyway the most shocking thing for me is not realizing MySpace existed in 2003. I was a freshman in college I didn’t find out about MySpace until 2006 and my 15 yr old cousin helped me set up a page. The rest is history….
apparently I've been following the wrong Horn. This was hilarious. I guess I should have guessed it, you have to have a healthy sense of humor to be married to Trent.
I used the last 1% of my phone battery 🪫 to watch this. 😅. Come ON Liam… follow the rules dude. 😂. I’m so very sorry that you had to pass the lemon…. and the cheerio. That’s disturbing even for 2003.
