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		<title>Sign me up for the padded room</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>It seems many people have different definitions for "lock-in." In fact my definition has changed quite a bit over the years.  As a student a lock-in was a great event where I got to stay up all night having as much fun as I could get away with, and trust me I know how to get away with a lot. In college a lock-in was a great event where I could help students have more fun than they could possibly get away with. This was great because it added to my fun and they got busted for it, bonus. Having been through all of that I currently define a lock-in as that which must be avoided at all cost.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://nickgeek.com/2010/01/08/sign-me-up-for-the-padded-room/assylum/" rel="attachment wp-att-1473"><img data-recalc-dims="1" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="1473" data-permalink="https://nickgeek.com/sign-me-up-for-the-padded-room/assylum/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/nickgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/assylum.jpg?fit=1024%2C573&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="1024,573" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="assylum" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/nickgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/assylum.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/nickgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/assylum.jpg?fit=974%2C545&amp;ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/nickgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/assylum-300x167.jpg?resize=300%2C167" alt="" title="assylum" width="300" height="167" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1473" /></a>It seems many people have different definitions for &#8220;lock-in.&#8221; In fact my definition has changed quite a bit over the years.  As a student a lock-in was a great event where I got to stay up all night having as much fun as I could get away with, and trust me I know how to get away with a lot. In college a lock-in was a great event where I could help students have more fun than they could possibly get away with. This was great because it added to my fun and they got busted for it, bonus. Having been through all of that I currently define a lock-in as that which must be avoided at all cost.</p>
<p>Now I have been very cautious to not use this phrase or anything to describe it.  All of the youth pastors I work with are on the same page and we have a &#8220;no lock-in&#8221; pact.  Despite all of that my students somehow came up with the idea.  I don&#8217;t know if it was on their own or maybe a relative form out of the area mentioned it, but back in the fall some of them started asking about doing some kind of all night event at the church. It seemed like they were asking every week and eventually I gave them a mote of hope.  I said we might do something like that for New Year&#8217;s Eve.  Now I was hoping they would stop bugging me till it was too late to plan anything and then I would be able to brush it off till some later tomorrow that would never come.</p>
<p>Then God smiled on me with a New Year&#8217;s event that would meet my desire to avoid a lock-in and the students&#8217; to have one. Some area churches planned a lock-in at a local multi-sport arena. It only cost $5 per person for the night and there was a lot to do so the students would be busy all night which equals less time to get in trouble.  Well I jumped at it and the students got excited.</p>
<p>I expected about a dozen or so students so I didn&#8217;t really plan much for adult chaperons.  It was just myself and one other adult. When I arrived to shuttle the students over I ad about what I was expecting and noticed a few students hadn&#8217;t shown up.  I thought, great we&#8217;ll have 18 or so students, but then more and more came till we ended up with 26 total students. This is more than I could transport so we had a little logistical trouble, but I did some fancy youth pastor math and presto everyone fit in the allotted space for our short trip.</p>
<p><img data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" alt="rock wall" src="https://i0.wp.com/nickgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Rock_wall.jpg?w=974" class="alignright"  />The events were great, we had soccer, basket ball, flag football, skating, dodge ball, volley ball, and a rock wall plus a bunch of other things going on. All together 240 people were there plus some event staff that didn&#8217;t have to sign in.  My favorite was the rock wall.  I climbed it a few times, but made the mistake of trying the hardest surface after I had climbed it a couple of times.  I got to the inverted ledge and almost made it over but my feet slipped.  I hung on with one hand and got my feet back on and my other hand onto the rock I was reaching for, but when I went for the next hand hold my feet slipped again and I completely lost my grip and fell. Still I feel I did good getting to the top on the second hardest run.</p>
<p>My students loved the trip and were all asking when the next one would be.  I feel that it is well worth it so let me just say this, any youth pastors that read this, find something like this to do, your kids will love it and whoever cleans/repairs your church will love you for it.</p>
<p>By the way, I just want to say that at least one of my students was confused about the definition of lock-in.  About 2 in the morning he asked me where everyone was sleeping. I&#8217;m pretty certain that I have never included sleep in with my definition and most people I know don&#8217;t either.</p>
<p>How would you define &#8220;lock-in?&#8221; Is it a good thing or bad and why?</p>
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		<title>SYP and the Love Crazed Teen Zombies: The Aftermath</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This is the conclusion of the story. For previous installments please visit part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5. SYP had never been so happy to see his wife. Just when it seemed all hope was lost she came in and saved the day. He had never been so tired either. [&#8230;]</p>
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<p>This is the conclusion of the story.  For previous installments please visit <a href='http://myexperienceasyouthpastor.blogspot.com/2009/01/super-youth-pastor-and-sickly-student.html'>part 1</a>, <a href='http://myexperienceasyouthpastor.blogspot.com/2009/02/super-youth-pastor-and-naive-intern.html'>part 2</a>, <a href='http://myexperienceasyouthpastor.blogspot.com/2009/02/super-youth-pastor-and-lock-in-of.html'>part 3</a>, <a href='http://myexperienceasyouthpastor.blogspot.com/2009/02/super-youth-pastor-v-love-crazed-teen.html'>part 4</a>, and <a href='http://myexperienceasyouthpastor.blogspot.com/2009/03/super-youth-pastor-v-purple.html'>part 5</a>.  </p>
<p>SYP had never been so happy to see his wife.  Just when it seemed all hope was lost she came in and saved the day.  He had never been so tired either.  All night he had been tracking down the Love Crazed Teen Zombies and battling the evil Purple.  The Cool Kid claimed to be responsible for it all but somehow he slipped off during the clean up.  That was pretty bad too.  The building had been hosed down during the fight against the LCTZs.  It seemed to be the most effective way to convert them back to their senses.  The multipurpose room was the worst.  Griz had activated the sprinkler system when all the remaining teen zombies had been rounded up into that room.  That was also where the fight with purple took place.  A great pillar of purple hued salt stood where Super Wife had destroyed the beast with her glare.  SYP wasn&#8217;t sure how to dispose of it.  Who knew if it might somehow cause another outbreak?  It would be best to seal it up permanently.  </p>
<p>One of the doors was completely destroyed also.  The plot went much deeper than the Cool Kid.  When Griz went for the Pizzas he was knocked out and tied up in his own vehicle.  It took him hours to get loose and when he got back to the church he noticed his building keys had been taken as well.  When no one answered his knocking he had to break in.  SYP was glad they had made so much on the lock-in.  He guessed most of it would go to repairing the damage.</p>
<p>The one highlight seemed to be that everyone had a great time.  They didn&#8217;t remember their time as LCTZs but they do remember all the fun &#8220;games&#8221; and &#8220;staged&#8221; fights with over the top special effects.  Everyone kept asking when the next lock-in would be.  No one had any idea about who the original killer was.  Of course the rest of the drama was interrupted by flesh craving zombie drama so it was unlikely anyone would guess.  In the end SYP did a random drawing and one of the new kids he had never met won the Wii.  </p>
<p>By the time parents started showing up the students were dry and ready to go.  Fortunately the broken door was on the other side of the building from where the teens were leaving.  None of the parents seemed to notice anything out of the ordinary.  The Cool Kid had driven himself and his car was gone.  </p>
<p>SYP called the Janitor so he could get in early.  They had cleaned up most of it by the time he got there.  SYP was especially concerned about the pile of salt and the broken door so they made sure that was finished and at least temporarily secured before anything else got started.</p>
<p>&#8220;What did you do?&#8221; asked the Janitor when he arrived late in the morning.</p>
<p>&#8220;Yeah sorry about all this, but hey look on the bright side, it&#8217;s still cleaner than after VBS.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Still cleaning glitter out of those classrooms.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Need us to stay and help?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;No, you&#8217;ll just get in the way. Get some sleep cuz you know the Board will be talking to you tomorrow.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Thanks&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t thank me just yet; I&#8217;ll be talking to them tonight.&#8221;</p>
<p>SYP just smiled and took his wife by the hand as they walked out to their car followed by Griz and the Naïve Intern.  </p>
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