#977. The youth minister’s secret lair of awesomeness.

“Is that going to become a post?”

This is a question friends at churches have started to ask me. Especially if I get out my iPhone and jot down an idea in Evernote. I promise you that I don’t turn every church experience I have into a post on Stuff Christians Like. But occasionally, you stumble upon something so wondrous you can’t help but share it with all your friends.

This is the experience I had a few weeks ago at Mariner’s Church in Orange County. While following Ken Coleman into a room to watch a podcast he was doing with a guy named Bob Goff, I found myself staring into a scene straight out of the movie The NeverEnding Story, minus one Falkor. I audibly gasped because I had long heard rumors of this room but never found it before. What was it?

The youth minister’s secret lair of awesomeness.

Fabled for centuries and wrapped in church lore, the youth minister’s secret lair is like the bat cave. It’s where everything fun they do at youth group lives when no one is at church. And its location is often tightly guarded. Why? Can you imagine the mischief students could have if they got their hands on youth minister caliber water guns? If all that fun, all that awesomeness that is carefully stored in that room ever got into the wrong hands, chaos would ensue, the very fabric of that church community would be ripped apart. Or you’d have to apologize to the elders. One of those would definitely happen.

Since I am often accused of exaggeration, I took a picture, to document my visit. To prove it exists. I’ve been to Xanadu. It’s real. I promise!

Do you have a youth minister’s secret lair of awesomeness at your church?

What would you put in it?