weekly wrapup 11.23.08

Lesson Topic: Developing Habits: Accountability
Attendance: Average..missing a few. heard some of the guys were in the field hunting.
'Fun' Factor: Gave up the fun time to launch and nuture small groups. prior to breaking up into groups we watched "aim lower"as a spring board to the conversation.
Volunteer Involvement: excellent.
Music: short, the team had a family birthday party for great grandma's 95th...so we let them go first and then duck out.
Lesson Quality: Above Average
Length of Lesson: 25 minutes.
week two of a series focusing on developing spiritual disciplines. some great encouragement about the "30 day quiet time journal" launched last week. three students confirmed that they pushed through all seven days...several others had gotten through five days and a few more hit three of the days. good stuff. the nite also included our first serious attempt at small groups as part of the sunday nite experience. The reports back indicated it was a very good and positive experience. once we reconvenied we rolled through the idea of having accountability partners. this is probably the hardest session in the discipline but also the one with the great rewards. i asked an adult leader, mike to share his story and involvement in the life of another man in the church. it was real and good and provided a excellent model of how it can look.

Generation WE: The Movement Begins... from Generation We on Vimeo. one of my heroes in lanny donoho. he posted this video on his blog and i think this is really interesting...and i think it reflects in a many ways the shift that is occurring in our culture...most notably made clear in the recent election. there is a larger conversation that has begun and it will take all of us. your thots?
HT lanny donoho

weekly wrapup 11.16.08

Lesson Topic: Developing Habits: Hangtime with God
Attendance: Above Average....ran out of table space. really nice problem.
'Fun Factor': lots of fun...shuffle your bum see for yourself.


Volunteer Involvement: was okay...i was worried...lots of our leaders were ill. kara prayed them up. but there were some new faces too...murphys and mikey stake.
Music: adam and veneration kicked it once again. wrapped it up with the jam session from thesticks.tv -very nice.

veneration clip from on Vimeo.

Lesson Quality: Above Average
Length of Lesson: 25 minutes.
finally got into some serious stuff. seems like we've been bouncing around some real teaching and tonite was a great place to start. we kicked off a series on developing habits. over the coming weeks we'll be helping our students develop healthy habits for long-term, independent spiritual growth. tonite we kicked off talking about developing a hang out time with God. students received a quiet time journal to help track their progress. they'll be bringing it back the next couple of weeks to share their journey. we also talked about some service opportunites over the coming Advent season.

weekly wrapup 11.09.08

Lesson Topic: Second Chance
Attendance: Above Average.
'Fun Factor': lots of fun...like a pickle eating contest AND the best was the MONSTER drink off...with one modification...the exchange of the liquid in the can for pickle juice and let's say that ladies rule on this....and linda put cotie to the test. fun!
Volunteer Involvement: Excellent turn out by the adult leaders.
Music: see below...special guest
Play list: Trading my Sorrows, Mighty to Save, Here I am to Worship. Special - Second Chance
Lesson Quality: Above Average
Length of Lesson: 20 minutes.
we hosted a guest worship leader, jeremy sharp. jeremy was the worship leader on the epiphany weekend at mohican juvenile correctional facility this past week end. jeremy has a great heart and an amazing talent. ( check out his myspace) After the worship set Jeremy and I talked about our weekend experience having served on Epiphany. I borrowed the pray vigil chain from the weekend to try and give our students a deeper sense of what a simple act of "agape" can do for someone. on this epiphany weekend, the prayer vigil was some 1, 688 links long. i had the students unroll it and they had to spiral around the room three times with all the students and adults helping to hold and they still didn't get through half of it. we ended our time by circling up around jeremy and praying him up and out.

weekly wrapup 11.02.08

just some of the fun that was had. more later.


LIP SYNC '08
Lesson Topic: Circle of Love
Attendance: Above Average.
'Fun Factor': Tonite was really all about fun. lip sync '08
Volunteer Involvement: Excellent turn out by the adult leaders.
Music: The live music from adam and team veneration was great!
Lesson Quality: Above Average
Length of Lesson: 10 minutes. took a little time walk through john 13:34 about the greatest command of loving one another.
Student Response: today was just about having a great time. great participation from all. students did a great job. much variety in the music style. even the adults took it up a few notches and engaged at level that truly showed their heart and love towards youth. i added my own element with a newly acquired mullet and some tye tribbett. pictured above hangin' with one of my homies. yep...good stuff. tonite stretched us all. we wrapped up the whole thing with a adult-led redention from disney's hsm. yeah...altogether we had fun.