Sanctum Finale

Sanctum, a place set apart for twice monthly worship and reflection, held its last service yesterday evening before taking a break for the summer.

A shout out to this team for faithfully sharing their time and talents over the course of many months, to not just lead teens in making a joyful noise to the Lord, but a phenomenal-sounding one! Special thanks to Bob Oxley for coordinating Sanctum during this past season.

2010-2011 Sanctum Worship Team

Tim Miller, Jeff Chupp, Christian Valenzuela, Bob Oxley, Nathan Schrock

Ice Cream Sundae Party

Since March 15th, tutoring students have been reading, reading, reading towards the goal of 210 pages each by the end of April. The prize? An ice cream sundae party! At least two students read over 500 pages, and ALL of the students met the goal, so yesterday was party time!

The week prior, I asked several students to write our their "wish lists" for their sundae toppings. That's why we had sprinkls, cheris, kiwis, banans, m-n-i-m-s, pink iceream, strawberys, and venla icecrim, among other ingredients.

We may or may not have sent home some hyper children.

Teen Night 4.29.11

Youth were blessed to hear from Ro again on Friday evening. He spoke on making wise choices and opened with an attention-getting skit. With the bag over his head, he stumbled and fell, reached for a drink from a ketchup bottle instead of a Gatorade bottle, and sat on his plate of snacks. Ro challenged teens to not blindly make choices, but rather to listen to the counsel of God's Word and surround themselves with good friends.

A few photos from the week...and a good blog post

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Perhaps you've considered serving as an intern or volunteer with Aim Right, but you're convinced you're too uncool or too old or completely out of touch with the realities teens face today. Check out this blog post from Leneita Fix, a petite blonde who's spent at least 18 years of her life sharing Jesus with kids in the inner city. She's learned that at the end of the day, it's not really not so much about who you are, but Who you're allowing to work through you!

We celebrated Jesus' resurrection at Kids Klub last night. Special thanks to those who donated eggs and candy for the egg hunt and goodie bags!

Overheard this week

• 5-year-old girl with two paper crosses she had colorfully decorated with markers: "This one is for my dad, and the other one is for Jesus!"


• 2nd grade boy carrying a notebook: "I'm going to write a letter to my mom. She's in jail."

I failed to get photos of the teaching time and discussion groups at Teen Night on Friday evening, but Darrell spoke about "when your friends become your dates" and highlighted aspects of healthy and unhealthy relationships. Then, these lovely ladies served hot dogs, chips, cookies, and lemonade.

And, in other news, two youth groups are making preparations to join us in June for VBS. We're looking forward to welcoming Berea Mennonite youth back for their second missions trip here, and Pleasant View Mennonite for their first. A local congregation, Paradise Valley Mennonite, blessed us with their gently used curriculum, so Studio GO! Game Show will soon be in session!