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

PJ had us all read through the book of Ephesians a couple times during the weekend.  We had a great time and great discussions about who we are and how valuable we are to our Creator.

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