Youth Blog

So we're starting a new curriculum on Sunday evenings-Gospel Journey Maui!!  It takes 7 young people from all different religious backgrounds and sticks them on an island with a Christian, Greg Stier (founder of dare 2 share ministries) as their dialogue leader.  It's reality, it's all about Jesus!  He asks some big, hard questions and uses God's Word to inform and inspire.  It is also going

So that's my attempt at being funny since we weren't supposed to have a Super Bowl Party this past Sunday-I think I'm the only one that chuckled.:) So in the grand tradition of Super Bowl Sunday we all gathered around the flat screen, brought appetizers, chips, pop, hot dogs, and I actually bought a crock-pot and made mac n' cheese, and we watched what really was an awesome football game.  Lanie

Another fun week with the Riverside students-we made it to several games this week which was a ton of fun!  Miranda had a half-time dance show at Benton Central so we drove, and drove, and drove and finally got out there-it was awesome.  I did get some funny looks from some farm kids with my purple hair though!!  We also went ice skating on Saturday and learned that the Fisher's mom is AMAZING

So I got the chance to introduce the Riverside students to one of the best 80's movies ever made, The Karate Kid.  After several eye rolls and references made about my lack of taste we started the film-after 5 minutes they were hooked!! Hah!

So the ski retreat was amazing-we took nearly 30 students to UP Michigan to Covenant Point Bible Camp for 2 days of fun in the snow and 2 days of lots of driving and bathroom stops!! So...we got a big van stuck in the snow on the way there, we were 3 hours late, and the next morning we were told that skiing was going to be twice as expensive.  BUT!!!

We had an awesome weekend of fellowship with the students!  We started with a Friday night JH guys movie night-we played a little ping-pong, I totally lost which was a huge hit to my ego, but still alot of fun-then  we watched Goonies, rather we made fun of the special effects in Goonies (I still think it's a pretty cool movie, but I can see how it doesn't stand up to movies made 2 whole decade

What a wild and crazy Sunday we had this week!  Junior High got to munch on Jimmy Johns while Mark beat me at ping-pong, then after an attempt at Bible Apples to Apples we ended up running around the church playing tag-of course with the disclaimer that the first person to knock over a candy cane would have to sit and read Leviticus!  As parents were arriving to pick them up, they were promptly