The Rock Junior High

12 hours in...

12 hours in and we are having a great time. We played some games, let our creative juices flow with some great shirt designs and posters for the mercy mile tomorrow. Laura will be giving more details on our fund raisining efforts but I am blown away by what students raised. I way under estimated what impact a group of committed teenagers could do for a cause they are passionate about. Amazing!

I think its hard to really imagine what some of the kids in Uganda and other areas of the world have to deal with on a day to day basis. It makes me so thankful that I can raise my family in a safe enviroment. We are very blessed but I am getting the feeling that with great blessing comes great responsibility. What are we going to do to continue to make a difference after this year's famine is just good memories?

PS: The boys are going to totally win the bread bake off...

 

There's No Good Reason for this Post...

...and yet, here it is.

Enjoy...

April 1 - National Athiest's Day?

So, here I'm having another one of those youth ministry moments when I go... hmmm... probably shouldn't have done that.  Yesterday at G for Jesus, you may recall if you were there, I sang you a little ditty about Revelation that I shouldn't have.  It's sarcastic humor, but when you think about it, it's not funny at all.  I'm sorry - I don't want to give you the wrong idea.

I really REALLY hate when Christians do that stuff... like that "They Don't Serve Breakfast in Hell" song...

"When the toast is burned, And all the milk has turned, And Captain Crunch is waving farewell

When the big one finds you, May this song remind you, That they don't serve breakfast in hell"

So, I think my song was even worse, but I still hate this stuff... The same with calling April 1 National Athiest Day...  I mean, I get it.  You feel like somebody's picking on you, so you go on the offensive and say something mean about them before they say something mean about you.  Just doesn't seem like we're relaying Christ's message accurately when we resort to that kind of stuff. 

As far as I'm concerned, you might as well get a "Jesus Loves You and So Do I" bumper sticker and drive around making rude gestures at people.  Or maybe, just grab your favorite Christian t-shirt and beat people up because they're gay. I'll quit now, you get the idea. My point is: sorry - shouldn't have given you the impression that I think taking hell lightly is the right way to go. -sigh-

On a different note - Here's the reading schedule for this week:  Mon: Matthew 6:5-15 | Tue: Psalm 5:1-3 | Wed: 1 Thessalonians 5:17 | Thur: Matthew 26:36-45 | Fri: Matthew 14:22-23 | Sat: James 4:1-8
Look it up here!

Memory Verse - Psalm 5:3
In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.

OK - That's all - I'm going to grab some more dayquil, another tissue, and... maybe some captain crunch for dinner...

Gameworks Pics

So... Gameworks was pretty fun!  Pics and a link to the (rather silly) video below...

My favorite part of the night was when the waiter brought our whole group sippy cups and told us happy birthday...  excellent.  Questions, comments, snide remarks?

Download mortal_combat_g_for_jesus.wmv

 

This Has Nothing to Do with G for Jesus

This has nothing to do with G for Jesus - but I just thought you, whoever you are, should know - I think the vast majority of construction workers should not be allowed to speak (OK - there are some nice ones...).

... OK that's how this post started out - but now that I'm looking at my own words, maybe I should just be a little more merciful.  Sure, no one likes to be cornered in an elevator by random construction worker guy and told about how good they make the elevator smell (freak!)   - but maybe this is one of those times when loving your enemies comes in.  Hmmm...  I'm not sure how to show love to that guy though, maybe by not calling him a freak... 

And now I'm remembering that our reading schedule today (still in Romans 8) was about not being controlled by my sinful nature - I'm feeling good and guilty...  I guess I'd give myself 4 out of 10 on my handling of the situation.  +4 points because I didn't say what I was thinking... -6 points for what I was thinking...

Hmmm... This is new...

Well, here we are.  G for Jesus has their own URL full of bloggy goodness.

We'll add more useful content as we continue to figure out what useful means to you... for now:

Breakfast Club is Saturday, March 3rd at 8:30 am - 10:00 am.  I'm making yummy breakfast, and then we'll figure out what to do about the Super Chick concert (scheduled for March 17th) that we can't (gasp) attend anymore because they made it a part of a $5 MILLION dollar per ticket conference.  I'm thinking... ice caves...  Got something to say about it?  Then show up!

Also - email addresses - you can contact me at keepitG@therockchurch.net or you can contact Chuck Norris at chucknorris@therockchurch.net. 

Also, Also - did you know that now, at this very second, there's a 3-day long festival in Italy that involves the throwing of over 1 million oranges at festival participants and bystanders alike?!  It gives me great satisfaction just knowing that there is a large group of people fiendishly hucking produce at each other in celebration as I type! 

The oranges are meant to represent the severed head of some bad-bad nobleman that got attacked and beheaded by a fiesty peasant girl...  Given the choice over Presidents Day and Orange Throwing Weekend...  I'd rather be in Italy.