Sunday School

May 24, 2004

Had our last day of Sunday School this past Sunday. Didn’t feel like trying to just sit around and do another boring lesson that my kids wouldn’t be into…so we went to breakfast. I love these kids (even when they flip me off). Definitely going to miss them come a week when I drive home [...]

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“God is a God of order…”

May 9, 2004

Today was Youth Sunday. For those of you who aren’t Presbyterian, you must know that once a year, the youth of the church are “supposed” to be given control over the Worship Service; organizing, leading, etc. It can be an exciting or completely aggravating time. This year, it was looking like our students were not [...]

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Pomo Youth Sunday Sermon

April 30, 2004

One of the joys of having been on staff at Camp Sawtooth for a few years is keeping in touch with students. A girl who is in high school just emailed me, sharing with me how she and others had become members of their PC(USA) church last Sunday and the youth gave the sermon (it [...]

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Soul Caliber…!

April 24, 2004

It’s 5pm and I just woke up. Spent last night at a jr-high all-nighter. We left the church at 7pm, played games all through the night, I napped from 7-8am, and then we drove home. Went to GameWorld (big arcade) in Boise and I spent the first 1.5 hours playing the game Soul Caliber. I [...]

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Prayer Collage

April 14, 2004

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As I mentioned before, this is from the prayer collage we made at THRIVE (high school youth group) last Monday. Pretty sweet deal. Told the kids we were going to pray for 30min solid. They moaned and groaned, but as we made this photo collage of things we were praying for [...]

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A Day in the Life…

March 29, 2004

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A day in the life of Wendell United Presbyterian Church (thanks to some of my students and their work with my CLIE).

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King of the Go-Karts

March 23, 2004

[photo taken just moments before I pushed the Pepsi car out of my way, and zoomed past him...]
There are some people in youth ministry who are way, way overly competitive when it comes to games, etc. with their youth groups. I’m not like that at all…well, not unless the kid deserves to be beaten, and [...]

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**Warning!! Politically-INcorrect Youth Group

March 15, 2004

I picked the lesson topic for tonight at 6.30pm (for a youth group that starts at 7pm). Talking about the Bible, why it’s important, what it is, does it matter how we view it (literal, inerrant, metaphors…), etc. The discussion was going pretty lame until I mentioned something about the two creation narratives and someone [...]

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Dancing Through Life

March 14, 2004

I spent 5 hours today at a dance competition in Burley, ID. I had 4 girls from my youth group who were participating in a few dances, and I wanted to watch them. They got way behind schedule because of a 2hr power outage, so I was there much longer than I had expected. But [...]

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Hyperthermia

February 18, 2004

Fun with an ’80s dance. The kids totally got into it, and loved dancing to the music of the ’80s. I love “Dying In Your Arms Tonight.” Wow. What a song…

A little broom hockey on an ice rink. The kids loved it when I would totally miss the ball and then proceed to land on [...]

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