weekly wrapup 03.29.09

Lesson Topic: Live Love: the way of Love
Attendance: Average.
'Fun' Factor: Above Average: its amazing what tweaking the old school game of tic-tac-toe can look like...when you give it a human touch. much fun and no mess.

Volunteer Involvement: Above Average- we're stepping up the small group and tonite our leaders did some great work. heard many good words from the students.
Music: veneration did a great job. the sound is improving literally because of the new drum cage. (all the adults smile.) Playlist: Mighty to Save-The Stand, Hosanna, and You Said.
Lesson Quality: a great study about the word love and how its misused in daily conversation. spent time in small groups understanding the Biblical truth that - true love only exists in a trusting relationship with God.

We seek in many different forms and the reality is true love must be given. It must come to you. The great news is that it has come. God gave Himself completely in Jesus Christ. We talked about how our relationships require listening and responding. Loving God means living for God. We walked away with an understanding there is no such thing as real love apart from complete trust in God...and we challenge each other to live love by looking at our own lives to reveal trust in God and where disobedience to His Word shows a lack of love.

parker shared about our experiences at the orange county juvenile shelter during the immersion event at the pdym student leadership conference this past summer. here's a picture of (ltr) adam, parker and emmah with the case manager.

parker told about the team blessing a young boy with a new pair of shoes...which wasn't why they thought they were there. but that's the way God works...surprising us with new opportunities every day to LIVE LOVE.

generation change '09

our first class of Dave Ramsey's Generation Change finished yesterday.we're grateful to todd ardrey for leading this group of students over the past month. our students said the class was fun and they learned some great stewardardship principles. congratulations to these seven students for learning how to manage their earthly treasures wisely.

weekly wrapup 03.15.09

Lesson Topic: Headin' out for some drama - literally!
we changed up our weekend schedule to accommodate our adult leaders on the emmaus weekend and to support our sr. high students who were in the cast and crew of the LHS drama club production of "Grease". we connected during our second service in ltown and then metup in the youth room for some pizza. we took advantage of a great sunny afternoon and walked down to the ohio theater (a great venue).
Attendance: the numbers kept growing. we left the church with 31, but by the time we got to the theater and into our seats we added another 13 students to our mix.
'Fun' Factor: it was different this week as we had fun enjoying many of our student friends at LHS and the drama club and the good work they accomplished. so much fun!

oreo wink and wrinkle competition

some fun this week

weekly wrapup 3.01.09

leave it to our kidz guy, jeff selph to take it up a notch while i was out at the #nymc in columubus last weekend. fun stuff. we had chatted about this game a while back so when the technology failled last weekend, jeff reached for his resourceful "selph" and made it happen. love it when things get taken up a notch or two. great memories! (pastor selph may want to see if he can use this game when he preaches at the end of the month on dirty jobs: poop cleaner)

need to give a big shout out to our big campus worship leader, jeremy gestner as he had to step in with a few moments notice to lead worship as the flu bug took our youth team out literally moments before game time.

kevin haggerty and karen brown walked the students through their personal stories of using the "habits" we've been talking about to grow in their spiritual journey.

this was the last weekend in the habits series and it was all about hearing how God has worked in the lives of our adult leaders. great encouragement.

for both hagg and karen, journaling is a huge part of marking off the journey. karen shared how the ACTS model of prayer is really useful. all the students got a journal to take home and try it on their own.

Faisst Pastor PJ and Deegan gospel part1

a great testimony to a life well lived. x-gamer jeremy lusk died from injuries this past week. many questions were asked after his funeral about eternal life. love this testimony from his friends.