Some times all we can do is plant seeds... the harvest will come.
Be not weary in well doing, for in due time, you'll reap the rewards...
Andy.
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Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: [RR] *Get with the New program!
In a message dated 6/30/00 1:51:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> We may get "tired" but I tend to believe that "burnout" is more of an
excuse
> than a reality.
>
We get tired all right. Week after week of the children misbehaving and
the parents being to arrogant to accept that it is their children who are
misbehaving. The parents are of the belief that to have an outpost council
is due to lack of competence of the head baby-sitter. But yet other parents
refuse to get involved when requests for help have been made consistently.
They won't allow their other children to be involved because one bunch has
absolutely no respect for authority. (can't say that I blame them, I
wouldn't let my kids be around that either) But yet if this is boy
leadership
here, then my outpost supports anarchy. I could not trust these kids to do
anything by themselves because they will get hurt and vandalize. The good
kids will get run off and won't come back. The ostracision continues, it
takes them one hour and 15 minutes to settle down. I have been more than
patient. No point there in having a lesson plan that is anything other than
how to behave. It wrecks it for the good kids because it draws too many
resources and the outpost doesn't get much accomplished. I don't want to
kick
kids out of Rangers, but I have tried every single option, I am at the end
of
my rope. I believe that I am honestly called to the ministry here at this
church, but even the Pastor feels that it is time to cut the losses. If
anything, I want to keep the good kids, they actually get something done,
but
the bad kids think they own the place. The Ranger code is a bunch of hot
air
with them it has no meaning. I'm out to draw some battle lines. The good
kids say that they don't invite their friends to Rangers because they don't
want them around the bad kids. The good kids don't want to go to Sectional
activities because of the bad kids and that they are embarrassed to be
around
them. (can't say I blame the good kids)
Praying and listening to God is happening, being in God's will. I am
testing
this and testing this to make sure that it is right, even at Pastor's
encouragement, but these kids who are messing it up for everyone are going
to
have to be removed. I am at the point of where I don't care if the kids
parents get offended, by the action because I am offended that they would
let
them behave that way. Yup, I am drawing some battle lines. Pow-wow was a
disaster. I almost brought the kids home a night early and delivered them
to
their doorsteps. But I didn't. We talk about burn out? God called me here.
I go back every week for yet another round of the same old thing. A year
has
passed and not much has happened. My hands are tied. I pray for change all
of the time. I pray for change while I am at work, or off flying in
airplanes. Yet, I continue to believe in these boys. Their role models are
the WWF and what it represents. They model after that dreaded Pokemon
nonsense. Just once would I like them to say "Jesus, I choose You!" instead
of that Pokemon stuff. Then I would know that something is at least starting
to work. I don't give up on them though. I get to the end of my rope to
the
point of which I don't even have enough to make a square knot with or even
an
overhand knot for that matter, but the principle is that I am still there.
(Does God not do this for us?) We all get God to the end of his rope (if you
would care to use that figure of speech). I'm not God, but I follow after
Him and the example I set is that example that God does for us. I am still
there, though I could just up and leave in total exasperation. I know that
God probably gets this way all of the time, but he forgave us. His mercies
are new every morning. You can't teach stones how to do tricks. It isn't
important to me if the kids learn how to tie the knots or pitch tents. The
most important thing I want these kids to know if they ever learn anything
from me is that Jesus died for their sins as he did for everyone. Pitching
tents and tying knots and competitions are all sidebar to if the kid spends
his after life in Heaven or Hell. It is my prayer that something along the
lines of what is being taught will sink in someday before it is too late.
Please, If anything, just continue to pray.
Iron Mike
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