weekly wrapup 2.22.09

Lesson Topic: Developing Habits That Will Change
Your Life: Studying Scripture
Attendance: Average.
'Fun' Factor: Above Average. It seems like when we're off a week folks just wanted to connect and have fun. a lot of interest around the video gaming stations.
Volunteer Involvement: Average - we were a little sparse tonite. work schedules, busy weekend saying "goodbye" to Pastor Charles and his family sent some of our adult leaders looking for some rest at home.
Excited about next week when we launch our first growth group for youth prior to our sunday evening gathering. we're ramping up generation change had 9 students sign up. looking forward to the impact it can make in the lives of our students.

small groups went well as we talked about the importance and value of know and reading scripture. we realized that our learning it well allows us to offer God's Word to others who may need encouragement.

update: we handed out a useful bible study tool on 1 john as an example of how to study the Scriptures. turns out a friend of ours in ministry,(met up with back in '07) rudy carrasco, from harambee preached this weekend at mars hill in grand rapids. his intro to 1 john is worth the listen here.

snowcamp09

snowcamp 09

taking a moment right in the middle of snowcamp 09 to update. though there isn't much snow...it did flurry a little this morning we decided to bless the campers with some time at the tubing slope at snowtrails. we probably made 29 trips down the hill and the best ones were when we join our fun together into a huge train. in fact we learn the longer the train the faster and farther we would go. the longest train was 24 tubes strong. much fun.

weekly wrapup 2.1.09

it was Super Bowl Sunday. So we decided to step it up and try something different.

five families opened their WARM homes to allow us to invade to share in some fellowship and some great food.

the reports thus far proved that the evening was a smashing success. with an outpost as large as ours it was fun to push out to homes our gathering for fun and festivities.

the past couple of years we had hosted a big game bash and mixed it up at the outpost. lots of sweat equity to make it happen, but not really sure about the larger impact after the event. i've already heard some great stories about new relationships and some real investment in the lives of some of our studnets.

the host homes all hit a home run with some creative muchies and creative ways to make the evening a lot fun. looking forward to hearing more about the fun had.