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“Ultimate” Contact Work
Our ministry doesn’t/shouldn’t stop just because the school year does, so here’s a great idea for summer contact work, Ultimate Frisbee. If you don’t know what Ultimate is, think soccer combined with football combined with basketball and played with a frisbee. Check out the Ultimate Players Association About Ultimate page for more info.
Another leader at [...]
Debate Update
Quick update, according to some online reading I checked out today, the debate between the RRS and the Way Of The Master has been rescheduled to be streamed live Wednesday at 1pm (when I’m at work of course) .
Male Leader Beauty Tips
After returning to my prior club, all of the other leaders decided to volunteer/sacrifice me for the “make-over” game. Lets just say the kids made up for my two year absence in the sheer amount of makeup smashed onto my face, make-up which didn’t really come off with hard scrubbing with soap and water. Not [...]
Uplifting stories
I just want to pass on some uplifting stories I happened upon last night while downloading sermons. There’s a whole section of stories at the Mars Hill Michigan website. I’ll share one of the shorter one’s here.
It was January of 2005, just weeks after the deadliest tsunami in recorded history devastated the South Asian Pacific.
As [...]
Are We Addicted to Fame
20/20 recently ran a segment entitled “Are We Addicted to Fame”, based off the book “Fame Junkie” by Jake Halpern. 20/20 reported on a survey Halpern conducted for the book:
He asked the middle schoolers which careers appealed to them most: President of Harvard or Yale; the CEO of a big company like General Motors; a [...]
Slow Songs
It seems Young Life is pretty good at using new songs, but it seems it stops just short of slow songs. Even the YL Music Newsletter has all sorts of goodies, but they’re all fast or medium. So lets think of some new slow songs we can throw in the mix with Light the Fire. [...]
Real Kids of Genius
in deep procrastination I stumbled upon “Real Kids of Genius”…
Real Kids of Genius #1
Real Kids of Genius #2
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