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Wednesday Videos

I set up the Sony handycam in the back of the room on Wednesday night to record the youth worship service. So, there’s nothing elaborate about the video, but it will give you an idea of what takes place on Wednesday Nights.

The talk part 1:

The talk part 2:

Doxology:

You Alone:

You Never Let Go:

Your Grace is Enough:

All Because of Jesus:

 

Tonight

• I ate dinner w/ some old & new friends at Cool Al’s. I highly recommend you doing the same.
• I ate w/ my friend & old youth minister Brian Lowe. Brian served as a youth intern at Parkway in the early 90s with Rich Malone & then he was the youth minister for a while after Rich left for LFR.
• The pastor from The Journey was there as well along w/ Andy from this church, this guy, & a couple of others.
• The main topic was church planting. Brian is about to make a big step of faith and start a new church. We asked him lots of questions & debated lots of religious stuff.
• I scarred one of our sr. high girls to death by throwing a pen at her car. We were side by side at a traffic light & she was preoccupied w/ something, so I rolled down the window & chunked a pen at her. It nailed her driver side window & made her freak out. I thought it was funny.
• I just finished building a website for Super Summer. I’ll post a link once it gets approval from the suits at MBCB.

 

Wednesday Night Pictures

A few pictures from tonight.  My photographer had the camera on some weird setting which made for some kinda cool, but weird pictures.  Enjoy.

 

Wednesday Reflections

Tonight, it was fun having the entire group together. There was an excitement w/ having the jr. & sr. high combined.

We mixed up the format tonight & it worked. It went like this:

• Video - highlights from this school year
• Talk - I stayed within my goal of 12 minutes. I’m learning that it is much more difficult to do a really good message in 10-15 minutes than it is in 25-30 minutes.
• Music

Tonight’s grades:

• Crowd: Average - several 1st time visitors, it was very average in amount (55ish), but much higher than this time last year (from the beginning of April until the end of the school year last year we were struggling to break 50 & had several nights in the 30s
• Game: No game tonight
• Music: Above Average - doing the music last tonight really worked; we also started off w/ slow songs & steadily moved to fast songs; it was cool ending the night/school year singing It’s All Because of Jesus
• Talk: Above Average; it was short & sweet, but I think also effective perhaps due to its shortness & simplicity. I posted the notes here.

Ken worshiped w/ us tonight.

The band came over to our house to eat Chimneyville & celebrate a great year of youth worship services.

Its now time to start working on the youth worship series for the Fall. I’ve got 3 ideas in my head & will hopefully have the outlines & artwork done in a by the end of June.

I’ll post pictures in a few minutes & perhaps video tomorrow sometime.

 

Tonight

Don’t forget that there is just ONE youth worship service tonight: 6:15-7:30 p.m.

I just finished w/ the message & its really, really simple. If you don’t believe me click here.

We be using a different format tonight:

• Year in Review Video
• My talk (can’t use the word “sermon” in doing a youth sermon because sermon doesn’t = cool)
• Commitment time - should be really cool
• Music - will end the night celebrating what God has done during this school year.

Parents & other local blog readers: if you’ve ever wanted to attend one of our youth worship services tonight would be the night I would attend. My talk will be short & not too boring & the music should be incredible.

 

Wednesday Night Preview in Pictures

This is what we (individually & as a group) look like now:

This is what we’ll look like in the future:

I hope I can communicate this message to the group as effectively as God used these flowers to speak to me today.

 

Might better check the temperature

A comment this guy made earlier today in my office had me thinking about hell freezing over. It may be time to get the weatherman (I can’t believe I can’t find a link to Woodie Asaf) to check the temperature because the unthinkable happened today.

Amanda picked me up from the office today in order to force me to finally purchase my birthday present (it was on April 4) that she & others gave me $ for (a new pair of running shoes & some clothes). So, I made my purchases & then some, but she left the mall & several other places empty handed. This was a 1st for us & very likely the last time that will occur.

The above picture is a plastic bag that found a home on Amanda’s side mirror today on 220 (isn’t it sad that there is a wikipedia entry for 220, but not for Woodie Asaf) this afternoon.

 

Passing it along

Tommy has asked me to remind the youth choir about their practice tomorrow night at 5:30 p.m.  They will be singing in the 11:00 a.m. service this Sunday.

So, parents please pass the word along to your teens.

 

Back to the future

Yesterday, I spent an hour or so at Trace Pointe.  Gayle invited me to lead the sermon/devotional for the worship service.  It was a good time.

We sang a lot of hymns that I know from childhood, but seldom sing anymore.  My text for the message was James 1:2-4 & I also referenced Philippians 3:12-14.

Being a part of a senior adult group reminded me of my days as a sr. adult minister while I was in school at M.C. It was a veerrrry interesting time doing sr. adult ministry as a college kid.