weekend wrap up 04.13.08

Lesson Topic:
Jr. Hi ~Expelled! Week 2
Sr. Hi ~Walking with God Simulcast
Attendance: Above Average'Fun Factor': Above average: Bologna Toss & Bologna Artists
can't understand what's all that gross about bologna but despite some of the jr highers had fun making snowflakes (it got cold yesterday) using their teeth. i sort of messed up on giving the prize out...gave it to the wrong "B" the first on left in the second row. such creativity. micah (rod's beast got the blessing of consuming the end product.) btw ever read the label on bolonga? interesting...
Volunteer Involvement: Average
Music: EXCELLENT! Our youth worship team is rocking.
Lesson Quality: Above Average
Length of Lesson: Jr. Hi - 30 minutes. We're on this journey using Ben Stein's new movie, Expelled to look at the issue of intelligent design vs. evolution. this nite we saw a clip where "darwinists" accuse those that hold a "religious" view to be dangerous to science. to help and settle in our mind just how big the universe is we watched part of louie giglio talking about God being Indescribable yeah...Big God...little us...but amazing love from our creator to know each one of us by name. amazing God. this image of the sombrero galaxy some 400 light years from earth blows your mind...

Student Response: Above Average

For jr. high -WOW! words sort of pale when you have it all put into perspective...our place in the "known" universe. the discussion was good and the jr. highers said they were encouraged by knowing better how big God is and even more how much bigger his love for them .

For sr. high it was a little different as we joined a international audience via satellite to hear John Eldredge talk about his newest work Walking With God we stayed on for the first hour and then when they went to the Q & A in Brentwood, TN we jumped back to home... munched on pizza and had a great dialogue about what he shared. Excellent questions from students. One student thought i had collaborated with je as the first question john answered (and the last before jumped off) was a preemptive one from je's perspective to his simulcast audience, but was actually a continuation of some questions that had surfaced during our current series all out war~investigating spiritual warfare. a few weeks ago during the third week we wrestled with finding the shoes of peace (Eph 6)which we translated as fiXing our eyes on Jesus and letting him speak to us....so the question 'how do you know if the answer is really from God?' je sent our answer around the diamond again. very good stuff.