This Sucks

ok, so since recruiting my commissioning team, Grace and Shawna, we've been coming up with quite a few ideas for activities to do with the youth group before i have to leave and go to (ew) Arkansas...so anyway, we have a list of things we could do, but the problem is that our youth pastor doesnt want to do anything!! see, every summer we go on a mission trip to kentucky, but this year, they've decided not to do it because the brains of the trip have "retired" from planning the trip...they're getting a bit old to do it, so the torch has passed along to the youth pastor...of course that would mean changes in just about every part of the trip, but none of us expected to not be able to go altogether!! its not that theres a lack of interest...people come out of the woodwork once we start meetings!! but this man is saying that he wants to "take some time off" from the mission trip so that we can do stuff here in pensacola, which admittedly IS a good idea, but couldnt we do both?? you know, have a few more fundraisers, plan projects around the trip...its pretty obvious that we could do it...we always work harder when it comes time to do something we'll enjoy, so as long as we plan things that we can do without the use of much money, we could be a really active youth group!! and my team and i are more than willing to put things together if the men in charge dont really feel like planning things, which is probably a big part of not going to kentucky...they arent the most reliable people when it comes to getting things done...so yeah, i really think we should start DOING something and not just saying we are, because thats happened way too many times in the past few months...its actually been happening since i moved here in 2006!! i remember very clearly a meeting we had with the youth during my first few months here where we basically just planned whatever we wanted to do in the youth group that year, including multiple theme park visits and a few nursing homes and such...none of which actually happened...im not saying that we should go to amusement parks every few weeks or anything, but im just saying that we need to do SOMETHING fun, as well as something that will help other people...seriously the last thing we did as a group that was fun besides anything that has to do with the mission trip was when we went tubing on the day before school started in 2007...yeah, my FRESHMAN YEAR!! that was so long ago i didnt even have my glasses yet!! i mean sure we DID go bowling sometime around last christmas but we only played like 3 games and about 1/2 the people that went tubing actually participated...something NEEDS to be done, and i think most people in the youth would agree with me...i know of at least 2 people who have just stopped coming to church altogether because of 2 things, one being the "incident" on the way back from the mission trip last summer, and the other being the fact that we DONT DO ANYTHING!!
you know, now that i think about it, could what happened last summer have anything to do with this whole stupid idea of not doing the mission trip?? do they want to stifle any other "revolts" we might be planning against them?? i know last summer was a pretty controversial time, but thats no reason to make not only the youth here, but also the ones in Kentucky, suffer!! what some certain people were thinking back then was totally justified...so justified, in fact, that my father and i actually AGREED on the fact that it was justified!! so why are we not going this year?? are we EVER going?? that trip is what most teens both here and in Kentucky look forward to every summer...so yeah, we really need to think about the kids up in Kentucky...are we REALLY going to deprive them of what may be the only bit of the gospel they hear all year because we dont FEEL like going?? its not like we're UNABLE to!! so yeah, just marinate on that for a bit...peace