NO YOUTH--re: mission trip 2006

Everyone, there will be NO YOUTH on Friday July 28th, because of the mission trip team is away.

Youth will be back and in full effect the following Friday (August 4th) ...which is the Tallent Show, so get practicing your tallents!

Peace

Tonight-YOUTH-Karaoke lounge!

Hey all,

Alrighty, so tonight our youth is going karaoke. It's gonna be like a straight up Karaoke lounge. So you can come on out, lounge about and if the spirit of song takes a hold of you, then by all means feel free to torture...er, entertain the rest of us! You don't have to sing, but one you get a couple hot chocolates into you, I'm sure you will!

Here we are!

So, here we are... we've learned how to be tool safe thanks to Mr. Kasper, and we'll be on our way to Cherokee Cove this Saturday. For those of you who aren't coming on the trip, please pray for us while we're away.

Here's who's going...

Heidi, Kelly, Alina, Nathan, Paul, Robert, Josh, Phil, Jordan, James, Tom, Vic, Kevin, Sabrina, and Charity

Things You MUST Remember for "The Trip"

Here is a list of some of the things we mentioned at the meeting tonite that you need to remember....

• bring ID to cross the border. either a passport, or your birth certificate and a piece of photo ID (drivers license, student card etc.)
• bring one set of chruch clothes. boys - no jeans, no shorts, collered shirt. girls - skirt (knee length or longer), no tank tops
• bring american spending money, enough for 6 or 7 meals, snacks, and other things ($100 should do the trick)
• pack no more than a mid sized duffle bag, and a carry along bag. bring it to the church friday nite, so we can pack it into the vans
• be at the church at 6am sharp saturday morning

this is not an exhaustive list, but is a list of some of the important things that you may be inclined to forget

World Marble Championships

Phil " Grumpy" Klassen as he shoots for the win in the World Marble Championships held last friday night at Lincoln Centennial
Public School. It was a tight match but, "Grumpy" as his fans call him, just squeezed into the leadership positions with this amazing ten yard shot. When asked how he did it, he modestly replied " It was nothing, I just put the marble in the hole." Mark Durksen finished a close second.

Retreat Weekend

Alright everyone, so this weekend is our retreat. If you think that you're coming and haven't got your form and money in you had better think again and talk to Pastor Tom! Don't just show up on Friday because you'll be sadly surprised...

Alright now that we have that ugliness out of the way, for all of you who are coming...we're meeting at the church at 5pm. If you have a tent that we can use, bring it and let Pastor Tom know. Bring cutlery for yourself...if you're not sure what else to bring...it's on the retreat form...if you're still not sure, just ask Pastor Tom or even comment on this blog and I'll respond here.

See you all on Friday...pray that I (Tom) am feeling better by the weekend (I'm still battling quite the cold) and pray that we have an awesome weekend!



We should be back on Sunday between 4 and 5pm.

Tonight: Schoolyard Games!

Alright, so tonight is Schoolyard Games...so bring your Skip-It's, your Pogo-Balls, your hopscotch taw's, your skipping ropes (double dutch anyone?)...pogs (do the kids still play pogs?)...most of all bring your marbles, cuz I wanna win some people's marbles! We'll be playing all the good old schoolyard games...4 square, hopscotch, marbles, equipment tag, red light green light, etc. I can't wait!

Be prepared to loose dem marbles!

Retreat Forms Due Tonight!

The title says it all...get in your forms and money TONIGHT!

Need Your Help!

Hey Everyone, this Saturday (July 8th) we're having a car wash and we need ALL OF YOU to help! Come to the church for 8am so that we can hopefully be going full steam by 9am. The proceeds go to support our mission team, so this is a good chance for you to in a way be a part of the ministry that we'll be doing in North Carolina/Tennessee. We really need your help to make this a success and are depending on it for the trip.

Thanks, Pastor Tom out...

Mike Moments

Well some time ago I put up a post called "Tom Moments"* under the auspices of the thought that it'd be nice to hear stories about us as youth leaders. I said I'd put up a different leader each month (but I missed last month) so, this month's leader is Micheal Klassen.

Now then you [yes you!] are to write a story about him the comment section. Feel free to tell any sort of memories or comments you would like about Mike. Well, get cracking!

*Tom Moments are archived May4 if you'd still like to put in a punch there.

More eyes

Seeing as most of you, actually all of you have guessed correctly, I'll try and stump you with another set of eyes.