Wildfire Wrap

Attendance

 Above average.

Talk

 This week we were treated to Dr Bart Rask coming and sharing with our students on Evolutionism and how the science is actually not there to back it up.  The response from students was mixed, which I was expecting. As one of the students remarked via text in Unscripted, it felt like they were in science class.  Overall I’m glad we had him in because it answered a lot of tough questions that I would have had zero response to on my own.  I was very happy we had time for Unscripted as this by far got the most text in questions from the audience…like 50 in all!

Volunteer Involvement

 A great night for our volunteers…as usual they shined and loved on Middle Schoolers like good missionaries to that generation.

Music/Program

 Tyler and his team lead a solid set of worship. We Cry Out continues to be a great new song that I think the students respond well to.  It was awesome to see Tyler filling in with a guitarist from the main service team when our regular student guitarist couldn’t make it due to finals.  I love hearing someone opinion of Wildfire who has never been there before.  The game was the Impossible Shot…which remained Impossible.  Basically its just a half-court shot over the students heads…we have one student from each grade give it as “shot,” if they sink it they get a $25 giftcard to the store of their choice.  No one has made the shot this year.  For the WiFi video I found a video to appeal to our skater kids…we don’t have a ton of them but definitely a few. Check it out HERE.

Final Thought

In the end it was a somewhat crazy night….we lived up to the first half of our name.  I think the combo of attendance being up and having a “scientist” speaker answering questions that a select group of students had made  for a mix of highly interested and completely non-engaged ones with little in-between. I knew this was a risk with answering these sort of questions, but honestly when we get questions almost every week having to do with Dinosaurs we had to go there at least for one week.