2010 Lifeline Highlights

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
 

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.

We celebrated Tyler's birthday as he turns 16 on the 30th!

Chill with Phil

Chill with Phil tonight and it was Amanda's sweet 16!  We celebrated with and ice cream cake.  Fun night.

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.

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