Wednesday, June 1

What kind of youth leaders do you have!!!???  I am ashamed that April 20th was my last post!  That seems like decades ago!

Since my last post, we've had a lot of great youth times!  Some highlights that stick out in my mind, aside from the great Bible studies, include the "I Spy" game in the sanctuary, the town-wide outdoor game of "Bigger or Better", and Carly's ice cream cones!!!

Last night was a lot of fun - me and the girls spent some time right off the hop going over the chocolat cake object lesson that we'll present at the joint youth service next week!  Who knew you could present a Godly lesson with such model-like sass!!!  (You really had to be there!)  Anyway, after the girls got that out of the way, it was music video time!  Lol....  While the girls had left the room, the boys turned on the radio and were blasting a Sugarland song which made Joseph break out into song followed by all the girls dancing around doing 80's like dance moves....QUITE THE SIGHT.  Shane and I had no idea how to respond to this except for laugh at them.  (I think they all thought we were laughing WITH them.....haha!)  Once Joseph satisfied his inner superstar, Shane taught us all a good lesson about respecting our parents.  Next was my personal favorite - BROWNIES!!!  Thanks Q & Alyia for bringing delicious chocolate brownies, chips, and chocolate milk!  After we were all full of brownies we played Blob Tag - which was quite fun although it turned out to be quite difficult to be the first person tagged and therefore I had to keep up with Joseph the whole game!!!  I'm a runner, but not a sprinter!!!

Anyway, all in all it was a great evening!  Thanks to everyone for coming out!  Remember that next week wednesday is cancelled and being replaced with a joint worship night at PV on Thursday.  Details on the time are still to come after I find out at a meeting on Monday!

P.S.  I'll try to post pictures yet, but I thought I'd get my write up out of the way just in case I wouldn't get around to uploading pics!!!

Wednesday, April 20

Wow!  What a fantastic evening we had yesterday night!  I was in awe of how wonderful our time was at youth yesterday.  We took off from RFC at 6:15 and headed over to Morris Fellowship Chapel to do the Journey to the Cross.  Everyone took the journey really seriously and learned so much from it!  We all took the journey individually and got to pray a lot on our own and touch a crown of thorns, taste bitter vinegar, nail a sin to the cross, think about distractions, rip fabric (representing tearing down of barriers between us and God), light a candle, and write our names on a wall with our prayer requests/praise items.  We had a long discussion time afterward and I think I can safely say we all grew closer to God and to each other through the experience.  I felt this was such an important thing to do this Easter season.  I pray that everyone takes their experience into this weekend and really celebrates Easter for not only the chocolate but for the real reasons.  Remember my challenge to you guys - share your experience from yesterday with someone who was not there.  Let's spread the word and the good news about Easter!

Once we were back from Morris we embarked on a chocolate Easter bunny hunt!  Shane and I hid the bunnies in pretty hard places which ended up taking up the rest of the evening.  We all munched on leftover chips, Oreos, our chocolate bunnies and chocolate milk!  YUM!

See you all next week Wednesday, 27th for a Bible study at the hut!  HAPPY EASTER!

Youth Plans Changed - April 20

Hey everyone!

I'm so sad/sorry I couldn't be at the youth event this last weekend!  From what Shane said it went really well - which is fantastic!  I'm glad most of the youth were able to be there!

On another note, Aaron will be handing out papers to all you guys, but I thought I'd post the info up here as well! 

This Wednesday, April 20th, meet at RFC at 6:10 to go to MFC for Journey to the Cross followed by a Chocolate Bunny Hunt at RFC.  Pick up is as usual at 9:15.  And I'm taking care of snack!

Thanks & see you a little earlier than usual on Wednesday!

NO JR. YOUTH THIS WEDNESDAY!

Hey Everyone,

There will be NO jr. youth this Wednesday!  Instead, please show up to meet the potential new youth pastor couple on Saturday at 7:30 at the hut with the rest of the jr. youth and sr. youth!  I won't be there, but Shane will be!

Love ya,
Trish

Sunday, March 20 - Glow Bowling!

Well I think I can safely say that everyone had a BLAST glow bowling last night!  Thanks so much to Bernie and Cheryl for driving a van full of crazy boys while I got to enjoy a car full of wonderful girls!  Well, we headed out at 6:00 from RFC and bowled at Dakota Bowling Lanes from 7-8.  Afterward we went to McDonalds for snack.  Here's some pictures!

The night was filled with highlighter art!  It glows!

My darling Alyia!

The ladies: Carly, Jayelle, Alyia and Paige!

I think my favorite art piece of the night!  So cute!

Lloydy!

Here you go...my butt as I bowled!  I promised I'd put it on the blog...yikes...

Moi et Alyia

James and Joseph (who always likes to look like he's dead in pictures...) and Paige

Paige, me and Alyia

Me giving some love to James...see the next picture for why!

Awwww...

Lloyd and Aaron!

Group shot!!!

That's all for now!  See you guys after our 2 week break!  Hope you have a great couple of weeks!

Bowling Invite

Let's all be honest here...I haven't been keeping up on the last 2 weeks of youth updates...and I'll be honest I don't see it happening before youth yet, but I wanted to post this little invite up for bowling on sunday.  Regular youth is still happening tomorrow though, so hopefully see you tomorrow night at the youth hut!

February 24, 2011

Last night was so much fun!  I think it was the first week where everyone almost seemed just a little exhausted.  Now, it goes without saying that this does NOT mean that there's not screaming, wrestling, and tons of running - but all just on a smaller scale!  I was quite grateful for this because I was surprised I even made it up the stairs into the youth room at the beginning of the night! 

We all had a great Bible study led by moi on church unity.  It was a very good lesson and everyone had lots of input.  We also had a great time of prayer where we shared many prayer requests.  If any of you parents or grandparents read this, I can assure you that through your travels and medical needs you are being prayed for by us!  It's so wonderful to see and hear the youth care so much for their loved ones!

Afterwards we played lots of "Grog" and "Sardines"!  I told them they weren't allowed to complain about playing the same games over and over again - because they really do BEG to play this ALL THE TIME! 

Finally we enjoyed DELICIOUS vanilla cupcakes, chips, and pop!  Thanks James!!!

I forgot my camera this time around, so in case you forget what the youth look like, scroll down to the previous post!  Haha!

See you next week for another Bible study!