Every Student Pastor Must Be Good At It

My Pastor Fred Richard once said, “How can you be a youth pastor if you aren’t any good at ping pong?” That’s coming from a true legend of ministry and ping pong (he’s beaten us all). And so a great tradition at Northwood Church has been carried on. I laugh when I think of how serious we take ping pong sometimes. I love it that we don’t stick to the formal rules of table tennis choosing instead to play by “street rules” or as Matt Gilbert would call it “Prison Rules”. As if there are gangs out there partaking in borderline criminal ping pong. But maybe there is some truth to the theory that you can lose “street cred” from a teenager if he kicks your butt in ping pong.