YoungLife!

   YoungLife is an amazing cross cultural organization that thrives to help teenagers learn about God and also have fun. It has forever changed thousands of teenagers lives. It was started in 1941 by Jim Rayburn, of Texas. Rayburn, along with four other men, collaborated to invent the "club" idea for teenagers. Their goal was to show kids that faith in God can not only be fun, but exhilarating and life changing. YoungLife is now all across the U.S. and even in other countires, with almost 150 groups just in Georgia! There are also 20 different YoungLife camps in the U.S. kids can visit for weekend or week long trips all year long. Each week YoungLife leaders in each area have "club", where high school students sing songs, play games, and have a bible lesson. It's fun for the teenager and they get to hang out with their friends.

   Albany has had a YoungLife group since 1993. They meet every Monday at The Fish Camp on Gillonville Road.The Albany group will be having the anual"muckfest" in two weeks. This is when the leaders make a giant food fight in a big field and all the teenagers play in it. The Albany fire station volunteers to come in their fire truck to hose every down after. It is always the highlight of the year. During the winter, the Albany group travels to Sharptop Cove, located in Jasper, Georgia for a weekend trip. "Club" started this week and more than 50 kids showed up!

 All the seniors were assigned to bring as many freshman as they could, and it was a success. All the teenagers enjoyed it, and hopefully will all be back next week.