We had a busy year of Youth Ministry. Here is a list of some of the highlights over the past year. You can read more about them in the various blog posts. Looking forward to a great 2011!
BLAZE Conference (March)
Teens Involved (March, April)
Lay 'Em Down video (May)
Turkey Run (May)
Doggin' It! (Summer)
Kickoff - Hair be Thair! video (Aug.)
Summer Camp (July)
Squatter Camp (Sep.)
Fall Retreat at GLM (Oct.)
Gospel Journey MAUI (meeting Greg Stier!) (Oct.)
Chil with Phil Alumni Special (Dec.)
Service Projects:
Work Days
Purdue Track Meet
Mackey Clean Up
RPD/Teacher Breakfasts
Tri-County Bible Church - Youth Ministry
Friday, December 31, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Chill with Phil Alumni Special
We held our Chill with Phil Alumni special tonight where we invite back all the college kids along with the Sr. High kids. We ended up with a total of 26 teens and 3 adults. We had a grab bag gift exchange, a ton a great food and some great games. Catch Phrase was a hit, euchre was fun, and a rowdy game of Monopoly kept us all entertained.
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| We celebrated Tyler's birthday as he turns 16 on the 30th! |
Friday, November 12, 2010
Chill with Phil
Chill with Phil tonight and it was Amanda's sweet 16! We celebrated with and ice cream cake. Fun night.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Work Day
We had a beautiful afternoon to do some yard work for our fall work day. We raked leaves, picked up sticks, and cleaned out gutters.
We have a few more serving opportunities this year including Bell Ringing on December 7 and 9 and Mackey Arena clean-up on Dec. 21 and 28.
We have a few more serving opportunities this year including Bell Ringing on December 7 and 9 and Mackey Arena clean-up on Dec. 21 and 28.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Greg Stier
I went to a youth leaders training meeting up in Chicago today that was put on by Dare 2 Share Ministries. The president of Dare 2 Share, Greg Stier, spoke to a group of leaders from the area. He's the guy who also did the GOSPEL Journey Maui series that Lifeline went through this year. I had a chance to meet him before the meeting. Oh...this also included a free lunch! I am a big fan of free food.
Fall Retreat
We went up to Gull Lake for our Fall Retreat on Oct. 22-24. We took 25 teens and 7 leaders/chaperones. PJ presented three of the sessions and Gull Lake's own Daniel "Ambush" Wallace presented one. We talked about our Identity in Christ. Some of the take-aways were:
- Your value has nothing to do with your productivity
- What you do does not make you who you are, who you are determines what you do.
- Being in Christ changes our spiritual DNA (we are a NEW creation)
- We are God's masterpiece made in His image. - Ephesians 2:10
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Chil(i Dogs) with Phil
We had 16 teens show up for Chili Dogs at our October Chill with Phil last Saturday. We also had one come later. (Must have heard about how good the Chili Dogs were.) Another fun night of games and hanging out and enjoying life. God is so good and has blessed us so richly.
The popular game these days is Kemps. Basically you have a partner and you try to get four of a kind. The idea is to get your partner to say "Kemps" when you get your four or for you to say "Kemps" when your partner has his four. But if you say it and your partner doesn't have four of a kind, you lose points. If you say "Stop Kemps" to your opponent when he has four of a kind then you get points for that as well. But if they don't have four of a kind you lose points.
I think we need to do a better job of teaching them Euchre! :D
The popular game these days is Kemps. Basically you have a partner and you try to get four of a kind. The idea is to get your partner to say "Kemps" when you get your four or for you to say "Kemps" when your partner has his four. But if you say it and your partner doesn't have four of a kind, you lose points. If you say "Stop Kemps" to your opponent when he has four of a kind then you get points for that as well. But if they don't have four of a kind you lose points.
I think we need to do a better job of teaching them Euchre! :D
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Project Squatter Camp
Our church is holding our annual Missions Conference this week. In conjunction with the conference, our Brazil Mission Team participated in a Squatter Camp project from Friday evening through Sunday morning. Below were the instructions we were provided.
Two-thirds of the world lives in the third world on one dollar per day, without running water or electricity. As an activity, build and live in some squatter shacks, which are home to about 2.5 million people living around Johannesburg . When Africans come here for work from the rural areas or from foreign countries, the first and only place they can afford is a squatter shack. Preferably, your squatter shacks will be no more than 5 feet from each other – all huddled together.
You will need a hammer, nails, twine and wire. You cannot use any straight or standard size lumber (like 2x4x8s). You should use mostly poles or even small trees as your main supports. For the sides and roof, you will need either old plywood, old siding or the African favourite – corrugated tin. The floor should be dirt or grass. There can be no proper bedding, foam or air mattresses, etc. – just wadded up and layered clothing and old blankets, no pillows.
Use no electric or batteries. You may build a fire out front of the doorway where you will heat water that you need, and cook any food. You may get the water from the tap at the church building, or the residence on the property on which you are staying, but you should try to be at least 100 yards from a water source. If it starts raining, you can use only black trash bags on top of the house or your body to keep dry.
You may eat one piece of fruit for breakfast, but no lunch. You go about a normal day or work or school. The main food at dinner must be “mealie pap” – boil water for 3 minutes, mix in grits double or triple thick until it becomes almost solid, like white bread kids like to wad up in their hands. You can also heat up a can of tomato sauce or tomato-onion mix. You then dip the mealie pap, which you’ve wadded up in your right hand (no utensils, no no) into the tomato sauce and eat. You may have either water, Coca Cola, or Fanta orange to drink (Africans love Coke, no Pepsi). If you have a little extra money, you can boil cabbage and carrots and have them with the pap (pronounced “pop”).
For the 2-3 days you do this, you won’t shower (Africans don’t like that “hot rain”) or take baths (you might drown). You may sponge bathe, washing your face or upper body outside the shack.
For most of us, it was our first experience eating grits. For those that have had them, they’ve never had them like this! They were ok.
This was a good challenge for our team and a good opportunity for us to pray together and bond closer.
Our missions conference theme is on the topic of compassion. We are learning a lot and it is helping our focus on our mission trip for next summer. We are receiving quality teaching that is invaluable to us as we seek to minister to Brazil…and our neighbours next door!
Two-thirds of the world lives in the third world on one dollar per day, without running water or electricity. As an activity, build and live in some squatter shacks, which are home to about 2.5 million people living around Johannesburg . When Africans come here for work from the rural areas or from foreign countries, the first and only place they can afford is a squatter shack. Preferably, your squatter shacks will be no more than 5 feet from each other – all huddled together.
You will need a hammer, nails, twine and wire. You cannot use any straight or standard size lumber (like 2x4x8s). You should use mostly poles or even small trees as your main supports. For the sides and roof, you will need either old plywood, old siding or the African favourite – corrugated tin. The floor should be dirt or grass. There can be no proper bedding, foam or air mattresses, etc. – just wadded up and layered clothing and old blankets, no pillows.
Use no electric or batteries. You may build a fire out front of the doorway where you will heat water that you need, and cook any food. You may get the water from the tap at the church building, or the residence on the property on which you are staying, but you should try to be at least 100 yards from a water source. If it starts raining, you can use only black trash bags on top of the house or your body to keep dry.
You may eat one piece of fruit for breakfast, but no lunch. You go about a normal day or work or school. The main food at dinner must be “mealie pap” – boil water for 3 minutes, mix in grits double or triple thick until it becomes almost solid, like white bread kids like to wad up in their hands. You can also heat up a can of tomato sauce or tomato-onion mix. You then dip the mealie pap, which you’ve wadded up in your right hand (no utensils, no no) into the tomato sauce and eat. You may have either water, Coca Cola, or Fanta orange to drink (Africans love Coke, no Pepsi). If you have a little extra money, you can boil cabbage and carrots and have them with the pap (pronounced “pop”).
For the 2-3 days you do this, you won’t shower (Africans don’t like that “hot rain”) or take baths (you might drown). You may sponge bathe, washing your face or upper body outside the shack.
For most of us, it was our first experience eating grits. For those that have had them, they’ve never had them like this! They were ok.
This was a good challenge for our team and a good opportunity for us to pray together and bond closer.
Our missions conference theme is on the topic of compassion. We are learning a lot and it is helping our focus on our mission trip for next summer. We are receiving quality teaching that is invaluable to us as we seek to minister to Brazil…and our neighbours next door!
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Brian getting ready to cook our dinner on Friday night. What you may not know is that we found a bug in them when we opened it up. |
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| Cooking over an open fire on Friday night. |
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| The camp...apparently Africans don't set theirs up in nice neat rows. |
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| Ethan's "shack". We called this one the Super 8. |
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| We used pallets, tin and tarps for this one. We referred to it as the Marriott. |
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| An inside look at the Marriott. |
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| We referred to this one as the Hilton, although it was a downgrade from the Marriott as it proved a bit leaky when the rain came. |
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| Camp on Saturday morning. |
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| Setting up another one designed by Ashley. |
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| We called this one 'Motel 6'. |
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| We found some more "scrap" on Saturday and renovated the Marriott! |
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| Dinner on Saturday night. More grits. Though the pasta sauce helped w/ the taste and edibility. |
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Chill with Phil
Had a fun Chill with Phil night on Saturday. Fifteen teens showed up along w/ two of our adult youth leaders. We had fun being able to be outside and play Bocce Ball. Rachel and Amanda baked a wonderful cake for us!
We played mafia, kemps, some other game where you yell numbers, etc. Good times.
We played mafia, kemps, some other game where you yell numbers, etc. Good times.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Lifeline Kickoff
We held our annual youth ministry kickoff on Wednesday night. This is my fifth one and each year it gets more and more difficult to come up with something fun and creative. However, I gave it a shot and put together a video called "Hair Be Thair." It's up on vimeo and I've embedded below for your viewing enjoyment.
We are starting off this year with a trip to Maui! Well, we're not actually going to Maui but we are doing a nine week DVD series called GOSPEL Journey Maui. It's a reality-based series of teens from differing religious backgrounds being presented with the clear message of the gospel. To the non-believer, it will give them an understanding of Jesus and why He came and to the believer, it will prepare them to better share the gospel.
I am looking forward to a great year!
Hair Be Thair from TCBC Youth Leader on Vimeo.
We are starting off this year with a trip to Maui! Well, we're not actually going to Maui but we are doing a nine week DVD series called GOSPEL Journey Maui. It's a reality-based series of teens from differing religious backgrounds being presented with the clear message of the gospel. To the non-believer, it will give them an understanding of Jesus and why He came and to the believer, it will prepare them to better share the gospel.
I am looking forward to a great year!
Hair Be Thair from TCBC Youth Leader on Vimeo.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Back from Summer Camp
We spent the week up at Gull Lake Ministries in Michigan. It was a great week with great Biblical teaching. You learn a lot at a week at camp w/ a bunch of teens. Particularly, I learned to be more thankful that I don't have teenagers, let alone 8 of them in one house!
It was fun though, once you get past the teen stench. A few pics from the week are below...
It was fun though, once you get past the teen stench. A few pics from the week are below...
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