Oh the Memories... (Inglewood 2008)

ROCKSTARS!

We had a great time at the Rockstar Middle School Youth Gathering last weekend. On Friday afternoon the 10 of us loaded up into 2 cars and headed south. We got there right in time to catch the first Mass Gathering with Agape (Lutheran Christian Hip-Hop artist David Scherer). The theme encouraged us to look to God as our rock and salvation. On Saturday we had workshops, another session with Agape, time for swimming and then 7 hours at Universal Studios! Saturday night Agape gave a great concert- everyone was singing and dancing, while at the same time learning more about God's amazing grace. Sunday morning we worshiped together with holy communion and heard the story of how Jesus comes to us in the poor, hungry, homeless, sick, and imprisoned. Agape challenged us to find an issue that we care about and to try to make a difference in that area of the world's need. All in all God was really good to us this weekend!

Rockstar: Middle School Youth Gathering!

We are having a great time this weekend in Woodland Hills. Unfortunately I can't hook up the camera to show any pictures yet, but they are on their way. We had a blast at Universal Studios, Agape is amazing, and now we are getting ready to close the weekend with worship together.

Welcome 7th Graders and Congrats Confirmands!

We want to especially give a shout out to all our 7th graders who we kidnapped for breakfast a few weeks back!

And congrats to all of our confirmands for doing a great job on their speeches! We made them get up for breakfast too the day before confirmation- but we did not make them skip down the pier! More pictures to come!

Dustin showing off his prize he won at the rockband tournement.






Ally and Conner lifting the tire they won.

Everyone had a great time showing their rockband skills. More pictures to come!

Guitar Hero/Rock Band Night Rocked!

Conner has some amazing vocal stylings!

The High School Youth get to have a game night every once in awhile when we finish up a more serious set of youth nights. Tonight we played Rock Band and Guitar Hero BEATLES Edition. Thanks to Eric and David for bringing their games. Randy was also our Awards Master and he found some pretty creative stuff. Here is the breakdown of who won:

Blue plastic bowling pin: Dustin
Custom painted rock for rocking hard: Kasi
You Rolled Over the Competition Spare Tire: Allie and Conner
"Did Well" Orange Traffic Cone: Tyler
You Obviously didn't see the TV Glasses and Case: Anthony
Pink Rusty Electric Scooter names Opal: Dan

The competition was fierce, but the winners came out victorious. Until next time!

Congrats on the Harvest Festival!

Several of you spent some time at our Harvest Festival Booth last weekend. With your help we raised $150 for Habitat For Humanity through selling quilt tickets and $100 through running the basketball game. Here is how you voted to distribute the $100 we raised for us:

$25 to Habitat for Humanity
$25 to Pennies for Peace (check out the link to learn more!)
$25 for Middle School
$25 for High School

Congrats on this great way to give something back and support some great organizations!

And if you are over 16 years old you can come and work at the Habitat for Humanity site in Grover Beach in a few weeks (Oct. 16-17)!