Youth Group & Youth Pastor Hats

Two kinds of people share one vocabulary here. The first is the youth pastor, the person who runs Wednesday night on pizza, orange cones and a Frisbee. The second is everyone who grew up in that room and still carries it around: the lock-ins, the WWJD bracelets, the hand motions, the church camp week that changed everything until the following Monday. The tone is affectionate, in-group memory rather than a takedown. The culture is well documented. Know Your Meme traces the youth pastor voice meme to a Tumblr post of 25 August 2015 that gathered more than 256,000 notes, and Atlanta Christian Church once staged a youth group throwback night where adults in their thirties and forties turned up in WWJD bracelets. Lock-ins typically run from about 10 PM to 7 AM on pizza, PG movies and messy games, which is exactly why one of these hats admits nobody slept. The collection opens with two badges, YOUTH PASTOR and YOUTH GROUP, then moves to the sentence designs: dodgeball for the kingdom, ten thousand pizzas, skinny jeans and a soul patch, a youth pastor who says bet in sermons, and the hand motions nobody has forgotten. The lock-in and hand motions lines each come in a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Give one to the youth pastor who has earned it, or wear your own.