Youth cheer at a past Junior High Youth Rally. (Photo by Michelle Eisterhold/For the Herald)One of the things I love most about middle schoolers is the natural way their minds pendulum from one topic to the next. No other age group can move so effortlessly from deep, insightful questions to uncontrollable laughter in the span of about three seconds. Middle school youth ministry dwells in that space of change — and that’s exactly where its beauty lies.