Joe and I are currently working on a site for the youth.
We have decided to go with a wordpress driven site since it’s main purpose will be to host our podcast.
Check it out here…
It’s just kind of a skeleton right now. We are both tired and we are going to bed.
Well yesterday was awesome. It felt really cool to walk into church and go straight upstairs to the youth and not have to come back down for the rest of the day. (except to grab some of Peggy’s De-licious Sausage Biscuits) 
I got to play 3 songs in the band and do the announcements as well as a game with JR. The game was called “The Finish Line” Basically Jr and I act out a movie scene but we say one quote of the movie wrong. They have to make it right. Example: Go ahead punk make my Taco.
After church we came home and Grandma got all three kids so Alisha and I could go out. Here are my twitters about it.
Today we are going to work on the house like crazy.
For those of you that don’t know, I am back involved in youth ministry on Sundays. Whooo Hoooo!
I am pumped up. I will be playing in the band and helping out with games, as well as giving the message when Brent and Deborah go out of town. Tonight is my first rehearsal. I can’t wait.
I also get to preach on September the 16th and the 23rd!
I posted this video a long time ago on myspace page. Someone pointed out that it had been removed. I thought I would put it on my blog. Enjoy!
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Highlands Youth has a podcast again. You can find it here!
Please don’t send me a txt message! (you’ll have to listen to get it)
Someone came up to me and asked how the message went because I never finished this post about.
So this is for you “Culligan Man”. I have since preached again, but first things first.
God was definitely all over that message just like I felt He was. I think numbers wise there were 5 recommitments to Christ and somewhere around 12-15 said they were tired of being “hypocrites” and wanted to stop being that way.
It was a great time and it felt great to be back involved in youth ministry. I also got the opportunity to play guitar and sing a song.
This past Sunday I got to preach again. I finished up the “Edges” series called destinations. Deborah had been preaching about different countries and how slavery still exist today. They learned about a 15 year old boy who is making a huge difference in the world and in slavery. They also talked about Islam and persecution.
The message I did was Destination “YOU”. It was basically about God created you to be you. It’s ok to be you. Be who he created you to be. Also challenged them to make a difference in the world. Either by doing something on a huge global scale or by just locally being someone’s bible. Stand up for what they believe in.
I think the 1st service was a little rough, but the second I did a little better. I heard on Monday from some parents that their kids really enjoyed me being up there. AGAIN… it was great to be involved in youth ministry!
I’m totally excited because I get to preach tomorrow for the 122, which is the High School service. There are two services so I will be preaching twice.
I am excited about how God has created this message.
Brent who normally preaches was in california for the PDYM Student Leadership Conference He asked me about a month ago if I would preach for him! I was excited because I haven’t had the opportunity to preach in almost two years.
Instantly I felt like I should share an analogy I learned while at school about a rock. (more to come later about that) Anyways, when it came time for the outline to be due I still hadn’t finalized what I was going to say. I spent about 3 or 4 hours searching through scripture and coming up with 3 points and verses. I had thought I would do it one way.
Well, Thursday my wife and son got sick and I had to stay home from work and then Friday I was sick and today I have been still recovering. So here it is late in the game and I am doing this message.
I started out and sat down in front of the computer and started typing away. I didn’t feel good about it though. I realized I didn’t even pray before I started. So I stopped.
I prayed (out loud, very cool and I am learning that I need to do more of this) and quoted some scripture to God about that I am calling out for help and that he will answer me. I knew he had a message for these students and I didn’t want to stand in the way of that
As soon as I was done praying I started typing and the message went in a whole other direction that perfectly fit the three points and verses that I had picked out previously in the week. Way better than what I had the first time around!
So I had to pause to write this out because I am so excited. Back to it now!
BTW, part two will be some of my message and results from the day!
Maybe I’ll do the classic Perry Noble Sunday reflections.
