Thursday, October 30, 2008
Post Secret
Borrowing from the famous books, our students have sent in some post secrets in conjunction with the Grace series at High Impact.
Monday, October 27, 2008
A Night at the Oscars
Last week for High Point we showcased the students "scary" movies that they had been working on for the last couple of weeks. The eleventh graders pulled together a bunch of the kids' ministry puppets and made a Twilight zone episode where each of the puppets slowly disappear while at fall retreat. Stefan did such a fantastic job of putting it together.
Our small group made one where we were hanging out at church, talking about going to fall retreat. The only gal, Susie, who wasn't planning to go did not disappear (yes, disappearing is the less gory way for a scary movie to work). But if she wanted to see her friends again, then she better go to FR.
The final video (although we had pleasant commercial breaks in between, as well as the Stookes being the hosts) was the twelfth grade guy's. Hilarious. They spoofed the Hey Ben video, as well as had Matt Shelander mimick the Joker. He was right on!
Hopefully, I will be getting these videos online, so you can enjoy them too.
Oh, and how could I forget the winners?
Best Actor: Barry Gager
Best Actress: Susie Oury
Best Scream: Kelsey Crawford
Cheesiest Line: Bethany Gager
Scariest Moment: Kayanne disappearing
Funniest Moment: Eric Pellish's pants (um.. I choose not to explain)
Best Picture: 12th grade guys
Our small group made one where we were hanging out at church, talking about going to fall retreat. The only gal, Susie, who wasn't planning to go did not disappear (yes, disappearing is the less gory way for a scary movie to work). But if she wanted to see her friends again, then she better go to FR.
The final video (although we had pleasant commercial breaks in between, as well as the Stookes being the hosts) was the twelfth grade guy's. Hilarious. They spoofed the Hey Ben video, as well as had Matt Shelander mimick the Joker. He was right on!
Hopefully, I will be getting these videos online, so you can enjoy them too.
Oh, and how could I forget the winners?
Best Actor: Barry Gager
Best Actress: Susie Oury
Best Scream: Kelsey Crawford
Cheesiest Line: Bethany Gager
Scariest Moment: Kayanne disappearing
Funniest Moment: Eric Pellish's pants (um.. I choose not to explain)
Best Picture: 12th grade guys
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Baseball
Devil Rays v. Phillies.
I mean, it helps there's a Longoria playing, but otherwise? Who cares?
I mean, it helps there's a Longoria playing, but otherwise? Who cares?
Saturday, October 18, 2008
a Full Day
It took me a little longer than normal to wake up. The night before a couple Senior gals had come over to watch the Office and SNL (great initials). Afterward, we watched this dance video that I got with Christmas money last year. Trust me, I realize how white I am, but I thought it would be fun for all of us to try. Aaaand, I might've videotaped them. hehe.
After they left, Kendra had stayed for a bit to talk. Quite refreshing, and I can't believe that it's already less than forty days until our road trip to Texas! This was also pleasantly interrupted by a conference-type call with John, Rojas and Emily.
All that to say was it was a late night, and waking up was hard to do. Got to work about 10, so I could make some important phone calls to prepare for November. But an hour and a half later I was out the door to see Susie's softball game. That ended a lot sooner than expected, and she didn't get to play :(. So, we tried to make up for it by grabbing lunch at Chipotle.
By the time we dropped her off it was just enough time for me to check my email and then go to Rachel's place. We went for a walk around a nearby lake, and then stopped to read Daniel. We had some great discussion about that, and even I was encouraged to read it again. But I had to get going to the next place.
That is, soccer. Literally got there just in time to put on my jersey, the shin guards I'm borrowing from Mr. Banich, and the socks I borrow from Kendra. We stepped on the field with plenty of players, while the other team had only three. Eventually their team did show up, all seven or eight of them. All of which, had way more energy than us. Oh I definitely felt out of shape!
Nevertheless, I actually had shining moments, believe it or not. I had a shot on goal, and I even negged (vocabularly explained to me via Janna) a guy. The guy then called me a bad name in Spanish. I just laughed, because I knew he was more frustrated with himself, than me. I headed the ball, I passed... and made just as many mistakes! After all, this soccer playing is not my cup of tea. But, dare I say it, it has it's fun moments.
And that point at which I can barely breathe, and my heart is pounding inside, feels so good. I love to be active!
But of course, after the game (which we lost), I had to book it to Jordan's volleyball game. They won that one with flying colors, and we only saw forty minutes of the game, because the JV team had also creamed Bear Creek, meaning the Varsity team started earlier than normal.
So we celebrated at Cold Stone (although I grabbed a toasted tuna sandwich at Subway. mmm!), which was full of laughter. Eleven of us, cheering everyone on who entered and exited the store. All things were funny.
And as if all this wasn't enough, Jordan and I watched The Little Mermaid before bedtime.
Youth ministry is a verb.
After they left, Kendra had stayed for a bit to talk. Quite refreshing, and I can't believe that it's already less than forty days until our road trip to Texas! This was also pleasantly interrupted by a conference-type call with John, Rojas and Emily.
All that to say was it was a late night, and waking up was hard to do. Got to work about 10, so I could make some important phone calls to prepare for November. But an hour and a half later I was out the door to see Susie's softball game. That ended a lot sooner than expected, and she didn't get to play :(. So, we tried to make up for it by grabbing lunch at Chipotle.
By the time we dropped her off it was just enough time for me to check my email and then go to Rachel's place. We went for a walk around a nearby lake, and then stopped to read Daniel. We had some great discussion about that, and even I was encouraged to read it again. But I had to get going to the next place.
That is, soccer. Literally got there just in time to put on my jersey, the shin guards I'm borrowing from Mr. Banich, and the socks I borrow from Kendra. We stepped on the field with plenty of players, while the other team had only three. Eventually their team did show up, all seven or eight of them. All of which, had way more energy than us. Oh I definitely felt out of shape!
Nevertheless, I actually had shining moments, believe it or not. I had a shot on goal, and I even negged (vocabularly explained to me via Janna) a guy. The guy then called me a bad name in Spanish. I just laughed, because I knew he was more frustrated with himself, than me. I headed the ball, I passed... and made just as many mistakes! After all, this soccer playing is not my cup of tea. But, dare I say it, it has it's fun moments.
And that point at which I can barely breathe, and my heart is pounding inside, feels so good. I love to be active!
But of course, after the game (which we lost), I had to book it to Jordan's volleyball game. They won that one with flying colors, and we only saw forty minutes of the game, because the JV team had also creamed Bear Creek, meaning the Varsity team started earlier than normal.
So we celebrated at Cold Stone (although I grabbed a toasted tuna sandwich at Subway. mmm!), which was full of laughter. Eleven of us, cheering everyone on who entered and exited the store. All things were funny.
And as if all this wasn't enough, Jordan and I watched The Little Mermaid before bedtime.
Youth ministry is a verb.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Hodge Podge
It's not quite blog vomit. It's just... a plethora of things going on.
One. A lunch with Lebo. She is an inspiration if you'll just listen. For starters, her voice has that African rhythm, which makes sense, as she's from there. And here is what else I will say. I finished the book Red Moon Rising a couple weeks ago. It's about the movement that renewed in Europe to have 24-7 prayer. To me, she is the personification of that book.
Two. I spoke in front of High Impact the other day. I was shaking, but it was so much fun. The podcast should be up tomorrow evening-ish. I will have small group first.
Three. I read Peter Pan, since I picked it up from the library last week (along with some short stories by Langston Hughes, and another book by my favorite childhood author, Avi). I was very impressed with the writing style, as well as the characters. I liked Wendy, despite a lot of her stupidity. I liked her because she is persistent with Peter, always hoping that he'll want to grow up. So I suppose, maybe she's not so stupid after all. She's gracious. hmm
And so on and so on.. This week's High Point will be focusing on prayer, so um.. could you be praying the students enjoy that? Our small group made a movie for next week's HP, where we will be watching all of the Senior High small group movies promoting fall retreat. FALL RETREAT!! I can't believe it's next week!!
Seriously. I've been here for approximately 77 days.
One. A lunch with Lebo. She is an inspiration if you'll just listen. For starters, her voice has that African rhythm, which makes sense, as she's from there. And here is what else I will say. I finished the book Red Moon Rising a couple weeks ago. It's about the movement that renewed in Europe to have 24-7 prayer. To me, she is the personification of that book.
Two. I spoke in front of High Impact the other day. I was shaking, but it was so much fun. The podcast should be up tomorrow evening-ish. I will have small group first.
Three. I read Peter Pan, since I picked it up from the library last week (along with some short stories by Langston Hughes, and another book by my favorite childhood author, Avi). I was very impressed with the writing style, as well as the characters. I liked Wendy, despite a lot of her stupidity. I liked her because she is persistent with Peter, always hoping that he'll want to grow up. So I suppose, maybe she's not so stupid after all. She's gracious. hmm
And so on and so on.. This week's High Point will be focusing on prayer, so um.. could you be praying the students enjoy that? Our small group made a movie for next week's HP, where we will be watching all of the Senior High small group movies promoting fall retreat. FALL RETREAT!! I can't believe it's next week!!
Seriously. I've been here for approximately 77 days.
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