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Originally Posted by Ohio
I think this is a question the OP might want to consider discussing.
As a parent, I sent my kids to these events, hoping for the best, and often getting little feedback about the experience, other than the official "reports."
Perhaps ISeeCrazyPeople would like to provide some assessment of her time there? Maybe that's why she chose her name? Maybe she thought my kids were crazy?
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As a parent, I sent my kids to these events, hoping for the best, and often getting little feedback about the experience, other than the official "reports."
Perhaps ISeeCrazyPeople would like to provide some assessment of her time there? Maybe that's why she chose her name? Maybe she thought my kids were crazy?
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Ohio,
Were your kids "good" church kids? If so, I wouldn't have thought they were crazy back then. It took me years to realize my true feelings about the LC. Back when I was a kid/teen I thought there was something wrong with me for not being the way the church wanted me to be.
But, I'm sorry, I can't really shed much light on the SSOT (summer school of truth) because I never went. My parents were so strict they never wanted to send us to things like that where we possibly could have had some "fun" away from their direct supervision. That's what I'm guessing. Because anytime there was a sleep-away church event, we had to beg them to go. Occasionally they allowed me to go to a couple summer youth events. Not like the SSOT. Wasn't the SSOT in like NYC? I think they might have let my sister go one year, but that's it. I'm not really sure what the other events I went to were called, but they were more local.
But I remember at any youth events essentially being forced to "pray-read".. or even just normal pray in general. We would often sit in a circle, and I would dread it being my turn.. Each kid would take a turn praying. They all sounded the same to me. "Oh LOOOORD JEEEEESUS. THANK YOU for your life in me. Blah blah something about the blood of the lamb.. some other LC lingo, I never understood" Then, another kid would go. And it would get closer and closer to my turn. I would be panicking inside. Thinking "Oh, NOOO, I don't want to do this. I better start formulating what I'm going to say, so I sound like everyone else." If I could go back in time, and be in that situation again, when it got to my turn I would say "PASS!"
What I did like about the youth group meetings, were the social aspects with some of the few friends I did make, and of course eating food. But, that wasn't why we were there. To be honest, I think some of the speakers were okay.. some people really seemed to know what they were talking about. This might have been when some of the church started to get more "sinful" and some of the TC followers who were a bit more mainstream Christian. But that was all over my head. It was all almost the same to me.