Great CIY Believe weekend!

What a great weekend of CIY Believe!

We took seven students and 4 adults down to Cincinnati for CIY Believe.  While it might not sound like a lot, it's actually twice as many kids as we took last year. 

And it was a treat!
CIY always does an incredible job.  This year was no exception.  And I would say, for the most part, this was the best CIY Believe program that I have seen (worship, speakers, videos, etc) since I have been attending CIY Believe (I first attended in 2000). 

It was awesome to see 4,000+ middle school students come together to worship, learn and be challenged by God's Word.  Jeff Walling did the speaking this year (at Cincinnati) and he did a fabulous job! Our students were definitely challenged!

If you are working with middle school students and you have a chance to go to CIY Believe, don't miss it.  It's phenomenal!

Here's the link for more information about CIY Believe.

Good stuff!

JC



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Pictures taken on a cell phone... unusual New Year's Resolutions

This morning in both Live Wire and High Voltage, we talked about New Year's Resolutions for 2010.

I got a couple of the more random and cool New Year's resolutions that I have heard of in a while. First, one of my students has resolved to only wear shorts in 2010. And he had shorts on this morning. Now... maybe I need to clarify that when I got to church this morning, it was -10. So I guess he's on the right track since it was cold and he stuck to his resolution.

But I had a second student who has resolved to take a picture on her phone and post it to a blog. That's a pretty cool idea. In fact, the picture here on this page is one of her's. (Check it out for yourself HERE.)

Many of the high schoolers didn't have any resolutions but these middle schoolers definitely get the credit for creative New Year's resolutions!!! Way to go guys!!!

Jim

Car Rally 2008

Today's Annual Car Rally turned out to be all middle schoolers. And from all the pictures and reports, everyone had a blast.

We had a perfect fall day... about 60 degrees... bright blue skies... cool temps.

I had to sit back and just laugh afterwards. The teams were pretty even, but even as they arrived at the church they were talking smack to each other... asking questions about the questions and bragging about what they had done or hadn't done.


It's always amazing how competitive church activities can become. But everyone in the end said that they did have some fun roaming around the area, figuring out clues, sitting on rocks and visiting Starbucks and Fermilab.

In the end, there was a clear winner. (They are the last team pictured.) That always makes it easier. If it would have been 1 team winning by 1 point, the whining would have never stopped.

It was a great event.

Thanks to Anne, Kathy and Blaize for driving and making the event work for the students who participated. And congratulations to Will, Ryan, Chris and Ulysses (yes... that is his name... and I think it's pretty sweet) on the big win!!



Jim

Middle School band concert... The Skit Guys

I'm going to a middle school band concert tonight.

I'm totally looking forward to it. A couple of kids made sure to invite me so I'm looking forward to going. And I think it will be great.

But I can never go to a band concert without thinking about this video from the Skit Guys. Check it OUT.

Jim