K.C. Wahe - Follower of Jesus, Husband, Father, Pastor, Student, Blogger

Did a little self care today and took the family to Manhattan Beach. What a great beach. I haven’t been to this beach for almost seven or eight years. Back in my youth group days as a youth pastor guy we’d take kids to Manhatten Beach every week for a whole summer for what seemed like years. It was also the first time we’d been back to a So. Cal beach for longer than an hour since we’d been back from Princeton in 2003 and east Coast beaches, better known as the shore weren’t much to write home about and we hated paying to enter “the shore.” No. Cal beaches weren’t that great themselves. Being in Manhattan Beach today though brought back a whole lot of memories serving in youth ministry and the relationships we’d had built on the behalf of Christ. Now as for the family, got to go booooooogie boarding with da boys and played in the water for a very long time. Deb and I got to witness some happy kiddoes sitting in the midst of the grace of the ocean, some huge sand crabs, and the grace of God.

Crusing some blogs. Came upon this. Can’t be good for the church.

What makes a jr. high kid on his birthday happy especially when he loves classic rock? Our boy has a new toy today which we picked out together. I don’t know what the deal is with jr. highers and classic rock these days…I’m happy with the classic rock…but how come I feel like I’m having a flashback to when I was in jr. high?

My son is away this weekend on his first mission trip with these guys. I’m jazzed for him because I know what happens when a bunch of jr. high kids get together, outside of their comfort zones, and what the holy spirit does in laying some groundwork for calling kids to serve those who don’t have much. I remember doing several weekend work projects and mission trips with my jr. high youth leaders and kids from my youth group here. Weekends that I still remember like it was yesterday on how God moved me and changed my heart about the world around me. I also remember doing stuff with these guys that if itweren’t for hearing the need for me to go out into all the world, I don’t know if I’d being doing what I’m doing as a follower of Jesus today. Please pray for his youth group as they spend a couple of days passing out hot chocalate and hosting a block party for some kids just to have some fun and to be loved no matter what.

I’ve recently been helping out at a cool little church near by helping them run their youth ministry. We broke up into two small groups. I had a couple of questions for them to ponder and chat about based off of Acts 2:42. One of the questions was, “why is church so boring?” We talked and they shared honestly. They actually had some great things to say about their Senior Pastor which was awesome. One student said, “If we had more youthful people like you running church, it would be better.” Youthful? Me! Heck yeah!!! I’ve still got it baby!!!! 

I was watching the news tonight at the gym. Watched a glimpse of Bono at the National Prayer Breakfast. This was what caught my eye reading the caption at the bottom of the screen as I was dying a slow death on the ecliptic machine…

"If you’re wondering what I’m doing here, at a prayer breakfast, well, so am I. I’m certainly not here as a man of the cloth, unless that cloth is leather." Good one Bono!

Read the transcript here…

I mean, God may well be with us in our mansions on the hill… I hope so. He may well be with us as in all manner of controversial stuff… maybe, maybe not… But the one thing we can all agree, all faiths and ideologies, is that God is with the vulnerable and poor.

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house… God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives… God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war… God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them. "If you remove the yolk from your midst, the pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness, and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then your light will rise in darkness and your gloom with become like midday and the Lord will continually guide you and satisfy your desire in scorched places"

Way to go Bono man!