Linerider 2

Hey I just found Linerider 2 this morning. It's way better than the link I gave you yesterday. Much easier to edit and do stuff with. If you're going to waste your time playing, mid-as-well use the good stuff. So here it is.

Happy Happy

Hope you're all still doing great and having fun. I really hope Christmas was good for you.

Remember that there is NO YOUTH GROUP this coming Sunday Dec. 31 because it's New Years Eve and I will be at the New Years Revolution Retreat.

For those headed to the reteat........
You need to be to Mission Meadows between 12-1pm on Sat. Dec. 30. We will no be serving lunch so either eat before you leave or grab something on your way. We will be done at noon on Jan. 1 we're asking that you be picked up pretty close to noon from Mission Meadows so the staff can pack all the equipment and clean up and get home before midnight. Quick directions.....Midway Park is on Rt 430 off of 86 near Beamus......the camp is just after Midway on the left. you'll see the sign.....maybe a mile after Midway

Here's a list of what to bring.
Sleeping bag and pillow
Towel and washcloth
Toilettries (soap, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste,
Bible and writing utensil
clothes for Sat, Sun, and Monday =comfortable but appropriate.
sneakers
if snow bring appropriate outdoor clothes
bring a snack to share (give it to registration people when you arrive)

alternative things to bring:
guitar if you choose worshipleading workshop
bowling ball (this is really just a joke)
board games

For everyone.........something to mess around with. it's called LineRider. You draw the route that the little guy will sledride on. Below are two videos from guys messing around with Linerider. the first is our friend David Crowder who you may remember from a past video as a great worship leader and a me look alike. The second is a urban drawing. Don't be put off by how much time these guys messed with it to get theirs this way.....just have fun with the hill.

Hey

Countdown to Christmas 2006. Not too long now and you'll be eating until you're stuffed and getting presents that you'll forget about come February. YIPEE!

I went to the Christmas Concert at WAHS last night. WOW you guys are wicked talented. Seriously. Riane didn't tell me she was singing a solo.....nice job! Lindsey, and Nyssa....when you all came in the back....I was sitting on the side that you were on....and literally I swear I could pick your voices out.....i could just hear the texture of your voices and I said "I think that's Lindsey and that's Nyssa." Burt as always a great job playing string bass. Everyone was just so good!

Remember no youth group this coming Sunday or next Sunday we won't meet again until Jan. 7th. Wow that seems like a long way away!

I'm going to add something soon to "Aaron's thoughts" blog. Check in over there this week.

I'll also be adding things to this blog pretty regularly. Particularly if you're going to New Years Revolution...you need to check in here. I'll put up a list of "to bring" stuff. It's still not too late if you want to go.....but you better let me know like now.

That's God's blogs book that I told you about...I'm finishing it off this morning at FreshCup.....I told you it's in the top 3 books I've read this year......it might have made it's way to the best book read in 2006!!!! It's THAT good. If you get something you don't want for Christmas....exchange it and then go get this book!

Do you know how cool I am? I'm the only youth pastor in the county to update their blog since like September! What would you do without it?

Amateur - Lasse Gjertsen

HE'S BACK!!!!

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The R key on my laptop broke. Depending on how I type will depend if it falls off. It's really annoying. I looked on e-bay.....it's like 5 bucks for a new R. That's crazy. So I think I'm going to check the seats in my car and our couches at home and see if I can find 5 bucks.........because typing is insanely hard!!!!

Sorry for being a little slack lately on this blog.

REC is moving for good to Tuesday nights. 7pm. The goal is to not change that again.

This Sunday is the last Youth Group for this year. We will NOT HAVE YOUTH GROUP Dec. 24 or 31st. This week we will go to the Ward's house afterward to eat what's left of their food for their open house. Please make sure to tell your parents not to pick you up right at 8pm. We'll be over there for a little while.

NEW YEARS REVOLUTION........it's not too late to give me registrations, but you need to get those to me ASAP. I can't tell you how bad I want you to go!

Ultimate frisbee or Dodgeball?

Coming right up

Hey everyone........day off school.......HA!

THIS SUNDAY.........4pm there is a really cool concert at N. Warren. Triumphant is playing. They are a swing/big band style group. Really really good. I'm going, so if you're not doing anything I hope to see you there.......If you need bribed, there's pie and soup afterward!

If you're not coming to Triumphant we're still having youth group right around 6:30......we may not be in the youth lounge because of the soup and pie thing.....so look for us, or for notes telling you where we are.

It's not too late to consider going to the New Years Revolution. What do I need to do to get you to go? A little dance? Jugling? I can't tell you how bad I want you to go to this event. It's going to be really good. If you haven't got me your registration forms.....you need to do that ASAP!

Anyone play typing shooter yet? I'm addicted!

Another thing just for fun

Something else new. I just found this cool thing called DOODLECUBE. Go ahead and mess around with it. it's pretty fun. Hard to control but fun. No one tried my typing game from last week. I'm going to add these two links to the tool bar on the right. Enjoy wasting some time!

Fast Food Freestyle

This is video is pretty funny......

round pretzels

NEW YEARS REVOLUTION is coming quick. I need those registration forms! I can't impress upon you enough that you need to go to this. Don't worry if you don't have the money right now, give me the registration form ASAP. Don't wait a minute longer.

Don't forget that Rec. is back at it's regular time tomorrow night at 7pm

Youth group regular time this Sunday at 6:30pm.

I usually don't do this, but I have to make a plug. If you don't know what you want for Christmas yet.....then ask your grandma for this book. It's called God's Blogs by lanny donoho. You can get it at Amazon, probably Waldenbooks, or I know that we're giving 3 copies away at NEW YEARS REVOLUTION! This book is really cool. The idea is that God is writing a blog (kind of like the one you're reading) to us. The author doesn't want to say that he speaks for God.....it's not blasphamy...it's just a book that makes you think of God from a different perspective. Since it's in blog form it's super easy reading. Again, if you don't know what you want for Christmas, or you really don't need more socks.....get this thing.

I found this cool game on another youth pastors blog. I thought I'd share with you. It's fun, but it's also exercise. You have to type the words under the machines and then your guy shoots them if you get it right. I dare you to play Impossible Mode. I did. I rocked out! Feel free to post your score and what level Mode you played it on.

If you missed this past weeks youth group we talked about writing a boy in Tanzania that our church sponsors. We wrote a letter to get out to him, but we need a picture of us. If at all possible please try to make it to youth group this coming week!!!!

Official information

Hey we're back. Good to be home......man it's cold out though!

Couple things for you to keep in mind.......

1. No Rec. this week because it's Thanksgiving and since we do Rec. on Thursdays.........um yeah.

2. Regular time for youth group this week. 6:30-8. Can't wait to see you guys!

3. You need to get me your completed registration forms for NEW YEARS REVOLUTION. I really really really really really want you to go to this. What can I do to convince you? This is something you need to be at. There's a little something for everyone......fun, food etc............the biggest thing though is learning. The main purpose of this weekend is for you to learn and grow in your relationship with Christ. Also, make sure that you're spreading the word about this event.......don't keep it to yourself.....friends are welcome..........

4. IT'S OFFICIAL. For like the 92nd straight year in a row we're going to have St. Bucks Game Day. Here's teh low-down..............I need some help. I need Tv's and game systems. Steve Lewis always brought a TV or two and he's at college..........so who's bringing TV's? We're going to go from 10am-3pm...........if you're not playing games and just goofing off I'm kicking you out.........we'll eat some pizza.......I'm asking you bring 3 bucks for pizza, pop and snacks.......we need enough game systems and TV's before I tell you, you can invite friends..........questions? ok now how's helping out?

5. Have a great Thanksgiving........if you're going out of town.....be safe and come back soon!

there is talk of another "Lord of the Rings" movie.......possibly the Hobbit..........possibly a prequil...........here's the question.........should they even make one? or leave it like it is.........

Get moving

I'm sitting watching FAMILY FORCE 5 right now. They're rocking in only a way that they can. If you're not familiar with them, they rock out and are just funny. Toby Mac is coming on next so i need to go.

We're headed back home tomorrow. Please pray as we travel. We've had a blast here and learned a ton, but it's time to come home. We miss our son, we miss you guys, we miss our bed.

So away I go.

CHECKIN IN

How are you guys?

I've been thinking about all of you and praying hard for you these couple days. I'm at the Convention and since it's all about youth workers we talk about our youth groups.......so I've had lots of time to think about you.

If I haven't told you this lately........I love you. More importantly than that though God Loves You!

I'm stoked that I still have a day and a half left here.....I'm also bummin that I won't be with you all tomorrow night. Remember don't show up at youth group cause we won't be there!

Hope you're doing well. Talk to you soon.

Pittsburgh

Hey kiddies,

We got as far as my parents house this afternoon. Corban was fussy all day in the car, but he loves being at Grandma and PaPa's house. Good times being here. He was playing hard tonight.

We're off early early tomorrow morning to Cincinnati. Please keep us in your prayers as you're getting ready for school....we'll be on the road. We'll check in, in the next couple days and let you know what's going down.

Peanut Butter and Jelly or Mustard and Ham?

Top of the morning to you!

There's a new "Aaron's Thoughts" post on the other blog. You don't have to check it out.....but it's been awhile so I thought I'd point out that I actually added something over there.

Reminder that there is NO YOUTH GROUP next Sunday.

Also there will be NO REC. this coming week OR Next week. If you're confused, just check the calendar on the side of this blog.

Flyers and registration forms are out for NEW YEARS REVOLUTION. I really think you should go to this event if at all possible. This is an amazing opportunity to grown in your relationship with Christ and have a ton of fun too! If you didn't get one last night, let me know and i'll get you one ASAP. The sooner you get those back to me the better. There are only 150 slots of students and when they're gone, they're gone.

Remember that as a youth group we are giving money to World Vision between now and Christmas. My challenge has been to you to consider and pray about giving your own money.....or even ask your parents to give the money for one of your Christmas presents to it. I told everyone at youth group last night that I asked my mom for the money for my Christmas present from my parents to give. So I'm in. Who's with me?

Another BIG EVENT is done for the year. To both teams I have to say "Good Work". I don't know if you know this or not....but even if you had a horrible time Friday night, you guys made it fun for me! I love the Big Event every year....because I get to watch you guys working hard at a fun event. THANKS!

Chocolate cake or Cheese Cake

IMPORTANT

Sunday night.......Youth Group time is different this week. There is a special dinner at the church. It starts at 6pm. The reason for the dinner is for people to share their memories about our church. You are welcome to attend the dinner, if you have some stories you'd like to share.....HOWEVER.....we're going to do youthgroup from 5-6pm this Sunday.

YOUTH GROUP SUNDAY AT 5!!!!!

As of right now only these people have told me definately they're bringing friends FRIDAY.....
Riane +2
Lindsey +1
Jenna +1
Jessica +1

I have heard from no one else. That means that those are the only friends coming! I hate to be firm about this, but I must be.

The # of days I've worked for NWPC is still on the board for points.

What is O very useful for?

Definately

Hey everyone.

Just a quick note here.

I need to know DEFINATELY by tomorrow (Wed.) if your friend is coming to the BE. Lots of people are telling me "maybe this person and maybe that person." I can't have maybe's. If I need more drivers I have to call and beg people tomorrow or thursday. If you don't tell me tomorrow either on this blog or by phone or by e-mail......you can't just show up with a friend! We have so many seats.....and so many butts will go in those seats......extra butts will go home.

I don't want to be a meany.....but I need to know exact numbers.

LAST WEEK.........

Well we're down to the last week before the BIG EVENT and things are looking good coming down the home stretch. If you weren't at youth group last night you missed some fun times.

I'll get to the points in a minute....but first some reminders.......

1. Big Event this Friday. You need to be at the church no later than 5:45. If you're bringing a friend, please let me know by Wed. in case I need another driver or two. If you don't tell by Wed., don't show up with a friend!

2. When you arrive at the BE, you need to have in your posession, an envelope. In the envelope you need to have a baby picture. On the outside of the envelope you need to have your name. One envelope per person please.

3. From now until Christmas we are working on a project with World Vision. We have agreed to give the penny offering from Nov. and Dec. toward this project, but we talked last night about giving of ourselves.....or at least thinking and praying about that.

4. Dec. 30-Jan. New Years Revolution. I just got off the phone with PJ....looks like I will have registration forms in my hand tomorrow or Wed. Remember there are only 150 spots open for this event. It's basically first come first serve.....so if you want to go, you need to get your form back to me ASAP. REMEMBER.......money should not be a reason not to go to this!!!!!!

ON TO THE POINTS!!!!!

The night began with Team 1 trailing Team 2 by 1000 points.

Team 2 added to that lead a bit during the crazy e-bay challenge. We looked at some really dumb e-bay auctions and everyone wanted me to by a crygenically frozen pet fish.

Team 1 got back into the race with the first bubble from the blow pop.

Then we were witness to a concert! It was amazing. 4 experienced singers showed up to serenade us with some good music and dancing. Great stuff. Last night I did not inform you of the winner of that.......and I will do so now. After the judges confered we decided that Burt won the sing-off. He had a challenging song, but he did really well with it and he put a lot of energy into his "dance routine".

So where does that leave us point wise?

Every year I say it.......and every year I mean it........but the races get closer and closer..........well right now we're dead tied! Both teams have exactly 10,000 points.

Well we can't have that can we? Let's do some questions for you......

How many days have I officially been employed by N. Warren Presbyterian Church (not counting when I was employed as "Grounds Maintenance" as a kid)? Also remember that this answer will change at midnight tonight!

What scripture verse did you look up last night at youth group?

Monday points totals

So last night we got our teams. Team One was missing some people last night and didn't do as well as they might've in some of the competitions, but got some key questions right to keep themselves in the game.

so here are the current totals.

Team One Team Two
3000 4500

how many paintball guns do I have
Remembe that THE BIG EVENT is Nov. 10. If you are bringing a friend, you need to let me know so we have enough drivers and have enough food. We're always looking for drivers so if your parents would be willing to drive some teenagers around for an evening let me know!

Hopefully you can make youth group this coming Sunday. This will be your last chance to gain points before THE BIG EVENT. Well......at least as organized teams.

OH BEFORE I FORGET!!!!!!!!!! Every person coming to THE BIG EVENT must bring one item with them........you must bring a picture of yourself as a baby (or early toddler). This picture must be put in a sealed envelope with your name on it. All pictures will be returned to you. Again, you must bring a baby picture of yourself.....the picture must be in a sealed envelope with your name on it. You will turn this in to Aaron when you arrive to THE BIG EVENT. If you're bringing a friend, the must also bring a picture of themselves!!!!!!!!

Last Saturday was what holiday?

What's Corban's birthday?

Punching bag

Regular youth group time and place this week. Be there or be L7. Remember that we're in the middle of BIG EVENT points and every point counts this year much more than in the past.

BIG EVENT is Nov. 10.....which is only two weeks away. That's a Friday night. As always I'm looking for some adult type figures to drive. They must be 21.

Also, there are secret points this year that you can earn for your team......but you have no way of knowing how to earn them..........aren't you intrigued?

I can't believe it, but no one has even asked me what the teams are yet. Maybe there aren't teams this year..........HA Teams will be announced this Sunday night. Points have already been accumulated. Some you know about, some you don't.

Remember that Dec. 30-Jan. 1 is New Years Revolution. You will have a registration form in your hand sometime next week. The cost is going to be 50 dollars. There are only 150 slots open for this event. Once those are filled, you're basically out of luck. Deadline for registration is Dec. 1st. This is going to be a killer 3 days! Tons of games, good food, and preparing you to tackle a new year head on. Free t-shirt, lots of prizes and one kicking party for New Years Eve. You will be talking about this event for the rest of the year.....don't miss it! Remember money is not a reason not to go.......talk to me and we'll work it out!!!!!!!!!

Who is currently the voice of Thomas the Tank Engine......first person to post a comment with the correct answer gets points. (Steve you are not eligible for entry....sorry)

The original host of Blues Clues, Steve, left the show to play music......what is the title of his first album?

OK see you Sunday.

Pen Twirling Compilation

I know Lindsey does some pen twirling.......but this is just sick. Anyone want to compete with these guys?

A rare Saturday post

What is up my homies?

Regular youth group time tomorrow 6:30-8. Hope you can make it.

Remember, if you've been checking the calendar, there will be NO YOUTH GROUP NEXT WEEK!
Rec will start it's Thursday night escapade this coming Thursday at 7pm. Make sure you spread the word. I talked to a girl last night who heard from someone that rec. was cancelled from now on. Make sure you let everyone know that it's just moved!

I have no one signed up to go to THE CRY yet. Why is that? I need those registrations like now!

Friday post 10/6

Hello cha cha cha's,

How's it going this fine day?

Regular Sunday youth group this week 6:30-8pm. Hope you can make it. Good stuff going down.

A little change from last weeks announcement about Rec. We are going to keep REc. on Wed. night this coming week, and we'll officially move Rec. to Thursday night NEXT week the 19th! So one last Wed. night Rec.

THE CRY convention is coming up quick. I hope you've talked about it with your parents. This will be a cool time. You need to get me registration forms ASAP!

NEW YEARS REVOLUTION. We met yesterday to talk and plan and pray about this AWESOME retreat/convention. WOW I'm more excited now about this now than I was last week, and I was pretty stoked then! This is going to be QUALITY! A great convention. Training, fun, good food, and a T-SHIRT! If you're not going to be at grandma's house I hope you consider coming to this convention. Dec. 30 at noon -Jan 1 at noon.

Donuts or bagels?

STAR

For Jessica, Emily, Josh and Burt......since I didn't have a star last night......here is the star for you forehead I promised.

Please bring your Bibles to youth group if you can. THANKS!

Friday post

Couple quick things.

1. Regular youth group time this Sunday 6:30-8. Hope you can make it! We've been going through a series about being authentic and no wearing a mask.

2. Along with #1.....if you have a Bible, you should start bringing it to youth group on Sunday night. I'm working on getting some new Bibles for the youth room, but until then, it'd be helpful if you had your Bible with you. It's also helpful if we're studying something that you want to remember or want to study further, you can mark it in your Bible and then go back later. So if you could bring your Bible, bring it. If you need a new Bible, if yours is worn out, or you never had one....let me know I'll get you one!

3. Rec. night is going to change. Not this coming week, but next week Rec is going to move to Thursday night at 7. The first Thursday Rec. will be Oct. 12th. We'll see how it goes.

4. THE CRY is coming soon. If you're going, you need to get me registration ASAP. We need to get those in. I got a call from the head guy this week wondering if there was anyone coming......so the sooner you get that to me the better we are!

5. This is from Corban........fvbbrtxygtaxxc.;/

'./'''' b bbgbbbbbb44b x 4b e exbbvbxwbbwxbbbbwbbbwBBBBWABBBBAW

Get your calendar out!

If you don't have a personal calendar mark these dates and times down and give them to your parental figures.

THIS SUNDAY!!!! Sept. 24 6pm Soldiers and Sailors park. See You At The Pole RALLY! Come one and all. This will be cool. There looks like a chance of rain, if that happens, go to the park and someone will tell you were to go. It will still happen!!!!

Nov. 3-4 THE CRY Jamestown. 30 bucks. You should go

Dec. 30-Jan. 1 NEW YEARS REVOLUTION. Retreat at Mission Meadow Camp on Chataqua Lake. Rough cost looks like 45 dollars....but we'll finalize that soon. This will be a fun weekend of games, food, learning, music and a great way to celebrate the NEW YEAR!!

Who wants pizza?

Thanks

I want to start this post by saying "Thank you". To everyone who was at youth group last night Thank you. (this isn't a guilt trip for those of you not at youth group...let me explain)

I left youth group last night in a hurry, but I wanted so badly to stay and continue our discussion. Whether you liked our study last night or night....thank you for participating. I think everyone in the room had something to say at some point. I really appreciated that. Thanks.

Ok moving on.

Regular youth group time this week as far as I know....

September 24th. That's not this Sunday but it's next Sunday, we are meeting at 6pm at Soldiers and Sailors park (that's the little park where they have music in the park in the summer). That night we're having a See You at the Pole Rally. Tons of youth your age packing that little park out. How cool will that be?

Wednesday September 27 SEE YOU AT THE POLE!! This is your chance to stand and pray for you school, for your teachers, for your principle, for your community. If you need a ride, I'm going!

Nov. 3-4 THE CRY Convention in Jamestown. We're going to talk about this Convention this coming week at youth group. If you won't be at youth group let me know and i'll get you the info. It's a Friday night/all day Saturday convention in Jamestown. Really cool stuff going on.

Dec. 30 2006-Jan.1 2007 Winter retreat thingie.....(we don't have an official name yet for it) Lots of details still in the works with this but mark it on your calendars now. The dates are set in stone. A very very cool winter retreat to get you ready before you go back to school. FUN!!! FUN!!! Did I say FUN!!! I can not wait to go myself!

So I posted a funny video with Napoleon Dynamite on it.....most of you have seen the movie right? Well the dancing part comes right out of the movie. (if you haven't seen the movie I would recommend it......either you'll like it, or you'll think it's dumb.....it's clean PG so no worries there) ANYWAY....do you know who David Crowder is? The music that's going on in the video is not original to the movie!!!!!! That's what makes this funny. David Crowder is a really rocking worship guy that looks like me! I had my goatee first and mine's longer! ANYWAY, he totally rocks and this is one of his songs. I'm glad some of you liked it.

Did you know that Veggie Tales is now on Saturday morning cartoons on NBC? Well it's a little bit different....they don't look at the camera and say, "the Bible says that you kids should....." but it's close. The hope is that kids will fall in love with Bob and Larry and then go buy the videos.

Sunday

Wanted to tell you a couple things.

1. Corban is being baptized this coming Sunday morning at 11am. If you go to another church but want to be there for this, I wanted you to know that it's this Sunday. Lots of family in friends will be there and you all are family to us, so you should come.

2. Regular youth group this week at 6:30pm

3. Answer this question....what would it look like if Rec. was moved to Thursday night instead of Wed.?

4. Are you ready for some football?

5. I'm preparing for a retreat thing I'm doing for the Warren County Christian School next week, during the week. I have to speak 5 times...and I'm stressing out. Can you please pray for me as I work on these messages? Thanks

6. I'm an alligator.

Undignified

Napoleon and David Crowder

This week and new info

NO YOUTH GROUP THIS WEEK SEPT. 3rd.

Sept. 24 REVOLUTION RALLY for See you at the Pole at Soldiers and Sailors Park (that's where they do Music in the Park) 6Pm. You will be there!!!!

Nov. 3-4 THE CRY Convention in Jamestown. This is a really cool convention for teens and it's in our backyard. I have flyers I'll be getting you and some stickers and stuff. More info coming.

Dec. 30-Jan1 NEW YEARS REVOLUTION Retreat. This is going to be killer. Lots of planning to do still but mark this on your calendar now. This is going to be pretty cool.

YOU

Here are some pictures of youth group at the Reinard's house.
"Hey guys let's see if we can break their couch!"

Quick posting

I told you that I would post here as soon as you left....and I'm true to my word. I just got back from dropping the last of you off.

Here's what's on the horizon.

Next Sunday night. We're going to do DINNER AND A MOVIE night. We're going to start at 6pm. You need to bring 3 dollars with you. We'll have pizza and watch a cool documentary thing and then talk about it for awhile. That should be about 7:30-745ish. If you want to go home at that point you can....but after that discussion, we're going to watch another movie for fun. Now here's your chance.....I have in my head what movie I'm going to have us watch for the second fun movie.....by posting a comment to this blog entry, you can suggest a movie. If you're convincing enough maybe i'll switch my pick.

Sunday September Sep. 24 (I think) we're working on having a youth event at Soldier and Saliors park (same place as Music in the Park). More info to come on this.

Plans are already in the works for THE BIG EVENT. I guarantee something comepletely different than anything we've ever done before.

Riane asked about the other blog linked on the right of mine. If you read that, you are now able to post a comment or ask a question or whatever. Sorry for the problem. Also there's a new thought up there.

Choo Choo

I don't know why I named the post that.

OK regular youth group this coming week Aug. 13 6:30-8. Hopefully you can make it.

If you missed this past week and our talk about Truth.....my hope is to get some time in the next couple days and post some of those thoughts on the other blog site. You can just click the link on the right side of this column.

AUG. 20th. That's not this Sunday but NEXT sunday. We're going to have a "Bye Bye Summer...Bash" We will have youth group at our house 8B Maple Pl. at 5pm. Don't eat dinner before hand. We're going to grill out (probably hamburger and hotdogs)....we'll have popsicles.....probably some carbonated beverages....games in the State field (assuming the weather is nice). So mark it on the old calendars!

Check back here again, I'm hoping to finalize another event plan real soon.

Chicken or steak?

Back at it

Sorry for my lack of posting last week. My bad. Special appologies to Riane for not posting her VBS info as she asked in her comment post. I'll do better.

Regular Rec. this week. It's suppose to be hot all week. I'll bring water.

Regulart Youth Group this coming Sunday 6:30-8. This past week I asked the question what is True, or what is Truth. We sat around and wrote down what we thought a true statement was or what truth was. We didn't really talk about it, we just wrote....so that means this week we're going to talk about what truth is. Is there such a thing?

If you love painting and didn't get your fill by doing the youth room, Burt needs some help painting Fellowship Hall this Saturday morning. It's a big room and will need some serious help.

If you missed the theatre performance thing that Lindsey, Nyssa and Emily were in, it was AWESOME! I think there's another chance to see it this Thursday, but I don't know the time....maybe someone else does?

I know it's hot summer, but would you rather be hot or cold?

A mess

I'm sitting in my dining room. This room used to have lots of really cute stuff that Marjorie decorated with. Now it is littered with toys. All shapes and varieties and colors of toys are just thrown all about. Know what? I LOVE IT! Thanks so much for praying for us for months and years. You guys have been awesome.

OK back at it though.

Regular REC. tomorrow night 7/19 7-8:30ish.......in the field if it's nice, in the gym if it rains........if you're not sure......come to the gym to find out.

SUNDAY 7/23 Kidstuf until 7:30....youth group until 8:30

MONDAY 7/24 SWIMMING 5:30-7:30 at C.A.R. Pool Good times. Families will be there so no dunking Aaron underwater.....seriously!

Apples or oranges?

We're all good

Just a real quick note. I'm exhausted and it's not even 10 pm yet. We have Corban. WE are all alive and well.

Corban is still really confused as to whats' going on. He's taking a long time adjusting to things. My parents haven't even gotten to hold him yet. Today he actually held each of their hadns which was a big step forward. It's going to be a long slow process for all of us to adjust to each other.

Don't be surprised if he's very shy when he sees you for the first time..,..or the second time or the third time. He'll come around. He's adjusting to everything.

This all being said, he's the most beautiful thing we've ever seen in our lives! He's so dang cute. Ok more later, i gotta go get some sleep

THIS IS IT!

It's 7:15am. We are at the Holiday Inn near Dulles Airport just outside of Washington DC. In 15 minutes we're leaving to go to the airport.

When we get there we have to ask lots of questions to figure out where we actually need to be. In not too long, a little boy who we've all been waiting for will be here! FOR REAL THIS TIME!

Scared, excited, nervous, emotional.

Calendar updates and stuff

I put some more info onto the calendar at the right over there.

This Sunday is the first week of Kidstuf Family Vacation. It's over at 7:30....and there's ice cream. Come for the whole night, eat ice cream and then we'll have a youthy groupy until 8:30.

This coming week Marjorie and I fly to Washington DC to pick up Corban. So you can better pray for us and our travels I put our itinerary on the calendar.

Though I wasn't sure last week.....there IS Rec. next Wednesday. I won't be there, but Brian will do it for me.

Next Sunday there is Kidstuf Family Vacation, but no regular youth group.

JULY24th.......it's a Monday Night. SWIMMING at CAR pool. We've rented the whole place out. Bring your family for good times. Mark it on your home calendar and tell your parents.

Also....check the calendar......if you don't see your birthday on there, it's because for some reason I don't have it.....that means I need to get it from you!

What's up

Here's a whole bunch of times and dates for you.....along with some news.

1. Sunday July 2nd. Regular youth group time, regular youth group place. 6:30-8 at church. Bring a stick of gum (that's optional)

2. Monday July 3rd. This is just if you want to. At 3pm there is a group of people getting together to actually put the REVOLUTION FLOAT together. The design is already taken care of, we just need to put it on the truck etc. This is going to take a bunch of people and you could be one of them!

3. 4th of July. WE WANT YOU to be in the parade with us. It'll be pretty cool. We're meeting at 9am behind the YMCA. Just look for a mass of rowdy teenagers with the coolest float down there.....that'll be us. We have T-shirts printed up and they ROCK!!!! I'm serious. I love these shirts. If you come on the 4th they're only 5 bucks. After that they'll jump to 10....which I still think is a steal. Please bring exactly 5 dollars if possible for your shirt. The idea is that people see this giant wave of adults and teens walking toward them giving out stuff. It'll be cool.

4. BIG NEWS!!!! CORBAN IS FINALLY COMING HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For real this time. Our paperwork made it through Pittsburgh and there's nothing else that stands in our way. Less than two weeks and he'll be home! We're super stoked. Thanks for keeping us in your prayers.

5. I like carrots.

NEW FEATURE

You'll notice that there is now a calendar at the left of the blog. There isn't much in there right now, because it takes some time to input info in there. The idea is that you and your parents will be able to see what's coming up. Hopefully everyone will be on the same page easier. I'll work on getting the info in there ASAP.

PAINTING

Hey we're painting the youth room this Saturday morning 8am!!!!! Please come.

Next Sunday. SOFTBALL GAME 2pm at the State Field. Hot dogs etc to follow. You're playing.....even if you don't know you are. Bring extra gloves if you have them.

4th of July parade. We'd love to have you as part of the REVOLUTION. Walk with us. YEAH

Youth Room Ideas

OK if you don't know yet, we're re-doing the youth room. There are several stages to this project. Cleaning and painting is step one and we're working on that now. What I want to chat about is what happens after that.

I'll start you out with some questions and ideas....I'm looking for your input. ANY IDEA is good. Even if it's really off the wall, I want to hear it. To add to the discussion just click on the COMMENTS at the bottom of this mini article. Then you have to click the OTHER button. That way it'll let you post, but we'll still be able to see who you are.....if you like anonymity, you could post as ANONYMOUS, but that's just silly. Let's have some dialogue right here!

What are we sitting on? If you missed the conversation tonight.....couches might not be the best idea for the future....but you could make your case for couches too!

Other than the new color of the walls, what kind of decorating should we do?

Lounge seems like a silly 60's name. It also infers that all we do is lay around and eat bonbons. Ideas for a name? I titled this Youth Room, but that's not absolute.

Ok there's a starting point. Go to it.

Dates are good for you

Next Sunday June 18th. Youth Group 7-8pm. NOTE: Start time is 7pm not 6:30. It'll be a fun night guaranteed.

Sunday June 25th Softball day. 2 pm. You don't have to be good. Actually there's a good chance that most of us aren't. It's just a fun way to spend an afternoon. I'm not on Alex's team!.....but Marjorie is!!!! Plan on playing and bring your family. Hot dogs etc. will be at the church afterward

July 4th REVOLUTION parade. Times are coming. Plan on being there.

UPDATES

NO YOUTH GROUP THIS SUNDAY 6/4/06. This Sunday is Baccalaureate at our county schools. I'm going to WAHS this Sunday night.....and you should come with me. Start time in Warren is 6:30, so I'd like to leave around 6 if you need a ride. Who's coming?

Do you want a REVOLUTION? Whoop Whoop
If you missed this past Tuesday night, you missed something cool. That's all I"m saying

REVOLUTION T-shirt design is full-on! 30 dollars, a CD and a free shirt to the winner. Let me tell you we already have a bunch of pretty cool designs. You should submit something too....but you better do it soon. We need to order shirts this week.

JUNE 14th. Motorcycle Mania. 6 bucks in advance 10 at the gate. Who wants to see motorcycle tricks, trial riding, etc? This is going to rock! No REC. that night......so you should go to this event. Take your whole family, or we'll find you a ride! Good times!

June 25th Softball day. Mark it down. You're playing. No options.

July 4th. PARADE!!!!! Revolution is having a float and you can be part of the festivities. We really need your help. If you're going to be in town, we'd love for you to be with us. More info coming.

Dates to keep track of

March 30 Big Youth night at the Nazerene church downtown. If you're not doing some other activity that night, you really need to be there. It's going to be big.

June 2 Rated R for Revolution at Praise Fellowship. Several bands playing that night. It was just announced that Clearview will be one of those bands.

June 14 is a cool Motorcycle expo thing in Northwest PA. There will be tricks, stunts, etc. and the riders will talk to everyone. 6 bucks!!!!! Tell your whole family. This is a cool one.

June 25th in the afternoon we're going to do a SOFTBALL game with adults. Fun for the whole family. Hot dogs afterward. Great times. It's just for fun, so even if you stink, you should play.

July 4th........PARADE. Revolution is having a float and we need you to walk with us.

More stuff coming in July and Aug. We're working on dates. Keep checking back here!

TONS of new stuff

OK lots of updates.

1. The youth night that was suppose to be this coming Tuesday has been moved. We realized that we just didn't have enough time to do what we wanted to do, and get the word out to enough people. We have moved it to TUESDAY MAY 30th. Mark it down, plan on being there.

2. FRIDAY JUNE 2nd is a cool event at Praise Fellowship in Russel. This is totally being done by the youth up there. They are bringing in some bands and some other cool stuff. Should be pretty cool. I think they're calling it "Rated R for Revolution". Look for flyers for that soon.

3. Design a T-shirt. I've been telling you that we're having a Revolution T-shirt design contest for awhile now. I still have had no designs submitted. SOOOOOO we've sweetened the pot a little. If you're design gets picked you now win $30.00, a CD, and a T-shirt when they get printed. Who doesn't need 30 bucks?

4. 4th of July Parade. There will be a float. There will be 150-200+ students your age walking with the float. We will be handing out tracts. We will be handing out candy. There will be music, singing, etc. etc. etc. Why sit and watch the parade when you can be part of it?

5. You can respond and add notes to each of these posts if you'd like. Right below each update is a comments button. just click on it and you should be able to add notes to me or to others. It's easy to use.

5/8 and beyond

There WILL BE Rec. this week. I said last week there wouldn't be....because I really believed that I would be holding my son today......but that's not going to happen now......so we will have rec. at the regular time.

BIG NEWS TUESDAY MAY 16th. We're doing a big youth night at the Nazarene Church in Warren 7pm. We're expecting around 200 youth....and you need to be one of them!!!!!! Beg, plead, whatever....you really should be at this event.

Corban update

I know you guys will want to know this.

Corban is not coming home Monday as we were originally told. There are some paperwork problems in the US government now.

We don't know when, but he will come home.......just not this week.

We'll keep you updated.

5/2 - 5/7

Here's the scoop for this week.

Regular rec. times on Wednesday 7-8:30.

Saturday we're cleaning the Hospitality House. 10:30-?? probably noonish. You're welcome to bring friends and family.....just remind them that we're cleaning a house. It's really a pretty good time. We'll meet at the church at 10:30.

Sunday is Kidstuf from 6-7ish.

Youth group this week is 7-7:30 upstairs.

Let me know if you have questions thehype@workswithyouth.com

This week

Regular youth group time this week 6:30-8pm...........Friendship week. You are welcome to bring a friend. We're going to be talking about what real friendship is, what it looks like, etc. There may be guests joining us, so keep that in mind.

Awesome time last night skating. Hope those of you who were there had fun. I did. That sweater was HOT!

MAY 6th we're cleaning the Hospitality House. We need some help to make this happen. Mark your calendars now.

Next week MAY 7th is Kidstuf. Youth group times will be at 7-7:30.

Remember the REVOLUTION T-shirt design is still going on. Come on, I know there are lots of you guys who are creative. You gotta get on that!

For you online gamers........here's a cool game for you.... http://www.gamecable.com/loadgame.php?gameid=hurricane ....my top score is 149950......after playing a handful of times......who's going to beat me?

Corban's coming home!

We just found out. Corban will be arriving in Pittsburgh Monday May 8th in the afternoon!!

God is GOOD! Through all the waiting God has been faithful. What a perfect plan He has for our lives.

YIPEE!!!

NEWSFLASH

Here's some current news for you to chew on......

I had originally told you that we would be cleaning the Hospitality House this Saturday. However the State had a family call and ask to use it this weekend. They felt it would be easier to move us to cleaning another day, than tell this family no. So we were bumped yet again. The new date we're looking at is May6.

April 26th....Roller Skating! We're going roller skating at the Russell Roller Rink. Cost to you is $0.00. 7-8:30 pm. If you need a ride there you need to let me know ASAP. cost is 0 if you use their roller skates. If you would like roller blades/inline skates the cost is 2 bucks. If you want to bring your own roller blades, they check them to make sure they're acceptable for the floor...if you want to do that, I suggest you bring your own and 2 bucks just in case.

April 30th BRING A FRIEND NIGHT.........Regular youth group times 6:30-8PM. We're having bring a friend night. I'm going to be talking about what friendship is, we're going to be doing some regular silliness. Plan now.

THE REVOLUTION is holding a contest. We're working on T-shirts and other such items. The problem is that we don't really have a design. We're looking for YOU to design the T-shirt. It can be a slogan, it could be a picture/design, it could be both.....whatever you want. We need them soon though....so get to work. Winner receives a free shirt and some other stuff we'll throw in.

4th of July.....looking far far into the future....THE REVOLUTION is planning a big float/march for the parade. We're wondering what you think. Our vision is to have around 200 students with us passing out candy and tracks. [for those that are unfamiliar with a track....it's a little pamphlet that tells the reader about Jesus] We want to be visible and bold. So what are you doing July 4th?

START YOUR ENGINES

Ok over the past 6 years I have failed miserably at maintaining a webpage for the NWPC youth group "THE HYPE".

This is my attempt to create something easier for everyone.

This should allow students and parents a place to check in for upcoming news and events. It will be easier for me to maintain. It's a very simple format.

Check in here regularly to see what the THE HYPE is all about.