Some Highlights from Jazz and Jambalaya

Let the Good Times Roll!

Our Jazz and Jambalaya Dinner was a huge success!!! People of all ages pitched in to help us out in our efforts to raise money to attend the National Youth Gathering this summer in New Orleans. (For more info, check out the link to the right!) Because of the generosity of our friends, family, and church family, over $5,000 was donated to the cause! WOW! What a bunch of hard workers! Brooke acted as our talented and charming MC. Allie, Conner, and Dustin were our Raffle Crew, Savannah and Leslie shared their reasons for wanting to go, Anthony offered an opening prayer, Eric and Brian worked behind the scenes as head waiters, David cooked up a storm, Sean and his dad Mike made an AMAZING video- everyone did a great job! Rich was a great auctioneer, Myron and Cal got our toes tapping to some Nawlins style music! And let's not forget our amazing kitchen crew!!!

I will try to get our video posted online so that you can watch it again too!

Jazz and Jambalaya Dinner this Sunday!

This Sunday from 5-8pm we will be hosting the Jazz and Jambalaya Dinner- with great music, great New Orleans style cooking, and lost of fun! We are raising money for our youth trip this summer to the ELCA National Youth Gathering in New Orleans! We have a ton of great auction/raffle items. We'll have a live auction, a video presentation, live music, and, of course, jambalaya! Dinner is served at 6pm- we hope to see you there!

Mission In Mexico

We've got the information on our Mission In Mexico coming up April 23-26 for high school youth and young adults!!! Check out the following link: http://www.luthersurfboards.org/Mexico.html

Temptation get the best of you???

Check out the link above to a great video on temptation! We watched in both Confirmation and Youth Group when we talked about what temptation is, where it comes from, and how we respond. And check out Mark, Matthew, and Luke's retelling of Jesus' temptations in the wilderness!

CHRISTMAS PARTY MANIA!

Don't forget to come over to our house for the Youth Christmas party on Wednesday! Bring a "White Elephant" (AKA free/cheap silly gift) to share with the group! We will play Wii and hang out! HEY, if you are lucky maybe I will show you the garage-toilet!

See you then and MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Heroes- Middle School Youth Gathering

Over the weekend 8 junior high youth and a bunch of awesome adults went to Anaheim for the Middle School Youth Gathering. The theme of the weekend was "Heroes." On Friday night we listened as Pastor Tim Huff gave his first talk, we went to the Superhero Dance Party and Hall of Heroes game room. Saturday was more general sessions and workshops followed by an evening at Disneyland! Sunday morning we had worship with communion, and I had the honor of being asked to be presiding minister. All in all we had a great time! Phyllis the Motorhome was a trusty chariot and we are so thankful for our great sponsors: Julie, Tom, Theresa, and Kevin!