sibs and ribs

on thursday i went to lunch with a couple of middle schoolers
on my new weekly activity: sibs and ribs.
this is where i take a set of siblings to lunch at malibu grill.

this week the students were named tiffany and trevor.
we were sitting there eating
and tiffany was telling me about how
she had brought a friend to church on the night before.

the night before as a crazy night
full of mean boys,
an angry parent, a sobbing middle schooler,
the potential for head injuries
a boy squirting mud,
and a visit from the ice-cream man.

i asked tiffany,“did your friend have fun?”
she said “yeah! she wants to come back next week.”

trevor had been doing a few things at once:
chomping his sandwich,
telling me about his favorite slurpee flavors,
the history of video games and
reviewing the macro-story of
‘a series of unfortunate events.’

but when tiffany said
“yeah! she wants to come back next week.”
he stopped.
he said
“THAT’S OUTREACH!
that is outreach rob!
everything that you do
makes people want to come back to church!
i love wxw!”

after that, he went back to his
ideas of what makes a great video game.

i played it off,
but inside i was beaming.

thanks trevor.
thanks God- for encouraging me!
and thanks staff-
because its not even close to being
just me.