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Started November 14, 2018 by Deleted user

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Hi all Christians!

Hello, I'm technically forced into it but still, hello

yoyoyo

#GodIsGroovy

Hello! Whats up yall?

Hi!
I’m doing good (though stressed for exams coming up oooof)
I recently went to a Youth Conference called “Who Do You Say I Am” which was pretty fun :D

That sounds super cool! Where was it?

Cool, I'm at my youth group rn

That sounds super cool! Where was it?

At Lansing, Michigan, I had tons of fun :)

My diocese does an AWESOME mission trip that focuses on Mother Theresa's "Small things, great love" mantra. It's 2/3/4 days (depending on age group) of work and it's really fun!! The only thing I dislike is that absolutely no electronics are allowed so I'm off of this site for a week in the summer :(

I also recently went to a Mormon Youth Conference where we renovated a YMCA. It was super cold but really worth the work.

*Was really worth the work

Oooh, sounds cool no pun intended
I have had to:
Year One: Help an older woman with landscaping and help a women's care center with organizing and a fundraiser car wash
Year Two: Play games with senior citizens and WEED A PRAIRIE!
Year Three: Weeding a nursing home/playing games with the citizens, helping an older woman who's had 11 out of body experiences with her garden, and helping another woman with her land (she had a big house by a lake and also a patch of land)

Also Year One was super hot.
Year Two was FREEZING!
And Year Three wasn't hot until the final day and I didn't have work then, since the final day is church, brunch, and goodbyes.

wow

we just have all nighters and CRC (best weekend of my LIFE)

the church that I go to for Wednesday Night youth group has a large congregation, and has the best events. We always help with the craft show and Trunk or Treat. I love kids (they dont return the feeling) and yay

That’s super cool! Lol, I feel like kids don’t really like me either.

The only time is when we helped with VBS

gosh those kids were so cute.

They refused to eat their snack, but they were suddenly hungry when we went over to the missionary tent for tea and cookies.

Ooooh I helped with VBS one year….I lasted 3 days before being let go for 'inappropriate conduct', i.e. blowing a whistle at a kid for not shutting up while I was giving instructions

are you serious…

people.

I was in charge of the 4-7 year olds, all girls.
On the first day, there was a 10 year old boy. He was fairly mature, and such a good help!
The girls were wonderful. They were all tired and wanted to sit out until Wet Time. I was like, "If you participate, I'll come too." They got fairly excited.

Yes I'm serious. What's wrong with shutting up someone disrespectful?

My girls (I call them that) all had to go to the bathroom, and they didn't know how to properly hold their spac ein line, so older kids kept getting in front of them, and I was worried that one of them was going to pee herself.

Oof.

My favorite part of VBS is the food it's always so gooooooooooood!!!

I have actually never been to a VBS where they serve anything besides snacks. At my church, on the last VBS day, we always have ice cream sundaes, and I'm too old to go to VBS!

I haven't gone/taught in like 4 years but we had 'frozen hot chocolate' ie chocolate ice cream with marshmallows once and that was amazing!!!

so I realise this chat is dead but I realllllly need advice.
im going to a Christian university and im taking a Christian Life Faith and MInistry class (yes the name is long, its called CLFM for short) and I love the professor, she is really kind.
the thing is, in the class we will be writing and presenting an essay on ourselves, one aspect that we are required to discuss is our sexuality. You can probably tell where this is going by now…. i'm not straight, im Asexual. I don't feel sexual attraction towards anyone of any gender ever. Also I haven't come out to any of the friends that I have in that class.

I don't know what to do. I don't know how my classmates would respond to me coming out. I don't know how my friends in the class would respond to me coming out. I don't know if I should tell the truth in the essay but lie in class. but lying is wrong and I hate to think of it as an option but i'm honestly really nervous about the idea of coming out. I've only ever come out to friends at my public high school who were also LGBT+ because I knew their views and opinions of me wouldn't change. I never worked up the courage to talk about it with my friends from church because they are not very accepting of LGBT+ things in general and it was just not something that ever came up. I'm scared to come out to the people at college because I have friends in that class that are rather conservative and I don't want to lose friendship with them and start awkward conversations and stuff. I'm just really conflicted. Do you guys have any advice? Im feeling really lost and anxious about this.

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Well, since this is a class, keep in mind if coming out could affect your grade. Since it requires you to talk about your sexuality, I assume it would be accepting, but just something to keep in mind.
And, as a Christian, I know that God love’s everyone- no matter your sexuality or gender or whatever. And if your friends don’t accept you for who you are, then so what? Besides, they are your friends, I would hope to think that they would still be your friends if you came out. I was actually once in your friends position- I was kinda a homophobe just because it was foreign to me. But then, I later found out my friend -I had them known for a very long time- was gay. And I’ll admit, it took me some getting used to. But now, we’re actually super close, and we’ve been close for a long time now :)
Also, just because a person is very conservative doesn’t mean they won’t like you just because you’re asexual/part of the LGBT+ community. I’m rather conservative, and most of my friends are part of the LGBT+ community.
However, if you don’t want to come out (sorta kinda I don’t know where I’m going) but not outright lie, maybe you could just say something along the lines of you aren’t really interested in sex, shrug
I hope I helped in some way, and I hope your class goes well

(Not really religious, but I know my Christian texts.)
RVAN OH MY GOD I'M SO FUCKING RELIEVED TO SEE YOU!!!

Thank you Rvan. It's really comforting to hear that from you. I do realise that a lot of people are conservative and not against LGBT+ people it's just hard for me as ive only come out to a handful of people and have never come out to a group before. I really appreciate your help.
ive had some time to breathe and I realise I was panicking and overthinking everything which is a habit im trying to break. your response helped me to slow my brain down enough to get a handle on my thoughts and think more rationally about the whole situation.
I think what im going to do is come out to my friends before we give the presentation in class so none of them get upset over me not telling them and because I think it will be easier to approach the whole thing when I know there are people in the class who support me.
thanks again for the help, I am now much more hopeful that everything will end up okay.

Good luck @thehobbit :)

(Not really religious, but I know my Christian texts.)
RVAN OH MY GOD I'M SO FUCKING RELIEVED TO SEE YOU!!!

Hey Shuri waves I’m kinda surprised anyone cared that much
My depression has just kinda sucked recently, and it’s been getting worse notebook most days so I’ve been staying off for the most part and only really coming on to chat with irl friends in PM. Hopefully, I’ll be getting in to therapy/counseling/whatever soon, but yeah. I’m happy to see you too