Here are all the goods from last night:
_Winter Camp Video: Matt did a great job putting that together. When it uploads, I’ll post it here. We opened the video reminding everyone of the phrase from the weekend “Yepper Doodle” (Thanks Lacey). Then we followed that with pictures from the entire weekend.
_Teaching: Jeff Squire (the youth call him Chuck) is one of our newer leaders. He taught out of 2 Peter and focused in on “what is Godliness?” Wow! He rocked it! It was a very clear and powerful presentation of what Godliness is, does and how we live in it.
_Awesome moment: During the teaching, Jeff handed $20 to a youth. He said “now you can’t say ‘I don’t have any money on me’.” Then he said “in the same way, when we know Jesus and His Spirit lives in us we can’t say “I can’t be godly”. It was a great example. But it gets better … the youth he gave the money too actually had been praying for, get this, GAS MONEY! Jeff didn’t know this when he gave her the cash. After his point he looked at the youth and said “you can keep that.” Well … she lost it! A whole lot of tears and a whole lot of awesome!
_Worship through song: Singing is great! Singing with a group of people, like we had last night, was powerful.
_Next: We are starting a focus this Sunday on the things that Attract us. Next Tuesday, we will focus 5 different small groups on this topic. Getting ready and excited to bring it next week!
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Why Winter Camp is awesome ...
It gets rough and crazy when the leaders play the youth at the annual Winter Camp football game. Need proof? How about these 3 great pictures:
This is one of the many reasons why Winter Camp is awesome!
This is one of the many reasons why Winter Camp is awesome!
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Winter Camp 2011 review
Well … Winter Camp was, oh, how do I say this … AWESOME!! Here are the quick hits from the weekend:
(our football crew)
_The Theme: The Holy Spirit marks us (our arms were covered in words that displayed how the Holy Spirit marks us … like holiness, salvation, included, etc.), The Holy Spirit transforms us (we wrote on our hands: lead me, guide me, speak to and through me and use me) and the Holy Spirit uses me (we talked about the 10 commandments of discipleship).
_The Worship: It was a blast to sing with the group. Everyone, shouting and singing, was such a great blessing to me. I love watching the group celebrate Jesus as Lord.
_The Break Out Sessions: There were groups about dating, sex, marriage, reading the scriptures, prayer, difficult questions, open conversation … and the response to those groups was awesome.
_The Decisions: So great to see those that “have it in them to lead” actually step up and lead! Many BOLD decisions this weekend about moving forward, making disciples, remaining faithful, studying the Word, discovering our gifts and using them for the kingdom. Love it!
_The Relationships: Our phrase of the weekend was “that’s not how we do things around here”. One of the things we didn’t do is exclude anyone. It was cool to see new friendships develop and old ones grow more intimate.
_The Challenge: We are marked, transformed and used by the Holy Spirit so now it’s time live that out. That’s our prayer for everyone involved. There will be some specific ways that happens laid out for our youth over the next few weeks.
_The Result: Sweet!! Amazing! Let’s do this again next year!
(the campers)
(our football crew)
_The Theme: The Holy Spirit marks us (our arms were covered in words that displayed how the Holy Spirit marks us … like holiness, salvation, included, etc.), The Holy Spirit transforms us (we wrote on our hands: lead me, guide me, speak to and through me and use me) and the Holy Spirit uses me (we talked about the 10 commandments of discipleship).
_The Worship: It was a blast to sing with the group. Everyone, shouting and singing, was such a great blessing to me. I love watching the group celebrate Jesus as Lord.
_The Break Out Sessions: There were groups about dating, sex, marriage, reading the scriptures, prayer, difficult questions, open conversation … and the response to those groups was awesome.
_The Decisions: So great to see those that “have it in them to lead” actually step up and lead! Many BOLD decisions this weekend about moving forward, making disciples, remaining faithful, studying the Word, discovering our gifts and using them for the kingdom. Love it!
_The Relationships: Our phrase of the weekend was “that’s not how we do things around here”. One of the things we didn’t do is exclude anyone. It was cool to see new friendships develop and old ones grow more intimate.
_The Challenge: We are marked, transformed and used by the Holy Spirit so now it’s time live that out. That’s our prayer for everyone involved. There will be some specific ways that happens laid out for our youth over the next few weeks.
_The Result: Sweet!! Amazing! Let’s do this again next year!
(the campers)
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
JCX 1/4/11
It’s been a year since this was updated! (Sorry, cheap joke!). So, allow me to get you caught up:
_Our last JCX of the year was a Night of Praise. We sang, prayed, read scripture, and talked with each other throughout the night. I love those nights.
_Our theme for the night was “Ugly Christmas Sweaters.” Here’s what some of us can up with, including the three best (2nd picture):
That was December14th … fast forward to January 4th … last night:
_Theme: The Best things to know before you graduate
_Focus: The Best Faithfulness
_Scripture: Luke 15
_Best moment of the night: I loved what Rob and Chuck (Jeff) did with the story of the lost son. Rob told the story and Jeff acted it out. I didn’t think that story was very funny until I watched them last night. Wendy played the “woman of scandalous reputation (whore)” by wearing a wig and dancing around the room. So awesome!
_2nd Best moment of the night: Our video “What we did over Christmas break” was a hit. We will, however, need to apologize via video next Tuesday. I’ll post that video here in the next few days.
_Finish: The purpose of the night brought us back to what it means to be HOME. Too often we spend years AWAY. The story of the lost son reminds that that the father is always watching and waiting for us to return HOME.
_Sunday: The Best Heart. We start at 930a.
_Our last JCX of the year was a Night of Praise. We sang, prayed, read scripture, and talked with each other throughout the night. I love those nights.
_Our theme for the night was “Ugly Christmas Sweaters.” Here’s what some of us can up with, including the three best (2nd picture):
That was December14th … fast forward to January 4th … last night:
_Theme: The Best things to know before you graduate
_Focus: The Best Faithfulness
_Scripture: Luke 15
_Best moment of the night: I loved what Rob and Chuck (Jeff) did with the story of the lost son. Rob told the story and Jeff acted it out. I didn’t think that story was very funny until I watched them last night. Wendy played the “woman of scandalous reputation (whore)” by wearing a wig and dancing around the room. So awesome!
_2nd Best moment of the night: Our video “What we did over Christmas break” was a hit. We will, however, need to apologize via video next Tuesday. I’ll post that video here in the next few days.
_Finish: The purpose of the night brought us back to what it means to be HOME. Too often we spend years AWAY. The story of the lost son reminds that that the father is always watching and waiting for us to return HOME.
_Sunday: The Best Heart. We start at 930a.
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