Water Wars

Well, like it or not the summer is almost over (except for Hannah who has already started school) so we had better enjoy our last glorious moments of summer fun. There is no better way to do that than some good old fashioned water wars. The battles will begin promptly at 6:30 if some youth show up at 5:30 to fill up balloons and prepare. Otherwise battles will begin, uh, whenever we are ready. Please wear swimsuits (keep them modest ladies) and be ready to party like its the last day of summer (even though that isn't till the next day).

When: Wednesday, Aug 2 @6:30
Where: In the field behind church

Lakehouse

We will be going up to the Smith's lakehouse this saturday. It should be a lot of fun swimming, skiing/tubing or just hanging out at the lake. Lunch will be provided. Please bring $5 to help cover the cost of food/gas.

When: This Saturday, Jul 29. 10:00 @ church.
Where: Meet at church- will be going to the Smiths Lakehouse
How Much: $5

The Update

Ok, so a bits gone on and I thought I'd let yall who couldn't make it in on it all.

Movie Night- This was a bit of a shocker. So far we have watched Glory Road, and End of the Spear. Last week was a bit of a surprize since many were expecting the light hearted teen angst-filled geekfest of a comedy, Napoleon Dynamite only to find the serious story about Missionaries (and even babies) getting killed. Granted, it probably also was happier in the sense that it show the bleak reality of human nature but how love, compassion and forgiveness could transcend violence and pointed to a type of life that has a meaning that Napoleon Dyn. himself is so desparately lacking. Anyway, the idea last night was a comedy and several folks brought movies in. Two of the big comedies I thought would have a good chance of being voted on were Pink Panther and School of Rock. However, in a shocking twist of events the dark horse romatic comedy Dave somehow emerged teh victor after a couple of rounds of elimination voting. I'll admit I was surprized as were the perplexed proponents of Shool of Rock and they were vocal about their dissent. However, an hour later I observed that they were glued to the TV, laughing at all the jokes, holding back tears at the sad parts and yes, staring with that hard to describe look girls have during chickflicks during the romantic parts.

Guild Wars- This has been the week that Guild Wars has exploded. We are continuing to work on the youth blog and have begun to establish a bit of a schedule getting online and... fellowshiping. A couple highlights include the addition of Woody as our newest member and the continued progress of Kevin as he has marched his way into Tyria. Our next scheduled game where we all try to get on is this sunday afternoon, possibly around 2:00.

Youth Interning- Thanks for your help guys, we are moving into a great year thanks to your effort. Youth are the backbone of any youth group (that shouldn't be hard to figure out with the name and all but sometimes us guys in our twenties aren't as smart as we could be) and you guys are continuing to make the FBC Youth group great. I was in a staff meeting with Darrell and Glen and I proclaimed- "This is going to be a great year for our youth and children's ministry." I wasn't just saying that, usually I am not one to predict too great of results because I don't want to raise expectations higher than I can meet. Here at FBC I have seen yall in action and I am convinced that I can make that big promise because yall have big hearts and are going to make this a fantastic year full of wonderfulness (yeah, I think thats a Taylor Expression). In other words, its going to be so dang much fun.

Frisbee Golf

A lot of people have been asking me, "what the heck is Frisbee Golf?" Well, thats a dang good question and I finally can give a good answer. The player (such as the super hot Korean holding the blue disc to the left) attempts to throw the disc from the starting location to the basket in the fewest throws, just like golf. The basket, hole three in the pic, has chains so that when you throw the disc into the chains it (hopefully) drops and falls into the basket. Like golf it involves the use of specialized equipment such as discs designed for driving, flying strait, curving a certain dirrection or for putting. My brothers and I like sports and enjoy competing with one another. We find Frisbee golf to be a pleasant challenge. My mother, on the other hand, enjoys going for strolls and hanging out with friends and thus loves Frisbee Golf for different reasons than us. All in all, you must try it to really understand and I bet you a dollar (or less) that you'll love it.

Ps. This was posted by Josh so yall wouldn't think Kasey and Hannah are the only one doing any work around here.

This Week's Plan (July 16-22)

Wednesday~2:00-6:30~youth interning*
Wednesday~6:30-8:30~movie night (feel free to bring a comedy to choose from)
Saturday~8:30am-?pm~frisbee golf and secret place in Atlanta(lunch provided)

You guys should definitely come! It will be so dang much fun! We need ideas on what movie to watch on Wednesday.

Youth Interning is a super cool way to kill the summer boredom. Rather than sitting on the couch at home twiddling your thumbs, you can show up at the church and hang out with other youth and even make a positive contribution to the world. Last week at youth interning we created a graffitti wall, made a trip to walmart, made various signs, updated the blog and maybe some other stuff I forgot. Also there may have been a lot of time spent in talking with eachother and using the internet and in general goofing around. I have a children's event today (July 19) so I wont be back to the office till closer to 2:00, so that is a better time to come by if you want.



written by Hannah and Kasey & Josh

End of the Spear

On Wednesday, July 12 we watched the "End of the Spear." It was good and all but it was very violent and a lot of people died. It was about missionaries that went to the jungle to tell the word but the Indians ended up spearing them and they died. Instead of hoping for revenge, the families of the missionaries went and lived with the Indians and the Indians were able to break the cycle of revenge.

Kasey & Hannah G.

This Week

Well, its not a huge week, but we have a couple things going on. Let me remind you to read your newsletters closely, there is tons of fun info in there that you might not see with a quick skim.

So, Wed. we have movie night from 6:30-8:30 in the youth house. I'm leaning towards Napoleon Dynamite (and have even prepared a bit of a hand-out) but could always have my mind changed. I think its a pretty fun group movie and if you aren't too into the movie show up anyway just to hang out (yeah, a couple girls who I won't mention snuck off and started painting the bathroom).

Thursday moring if your bored swing by the church. I'll open up my office and put y'all to work. We have quite a few things to work on. A couple things off the top of my head are working ont he blog (yeah, how bout some cool graphics or something right) or pulling a scrapbook together. It might not be too early to start working ont he next newsletter either. Finally, you could make some phone calls or whatever too.

Saturday we are finnishing up (I hope) work ont the youth house. Hopefuly Darrell and Glen will show up and do all the hard work after their vacations. We will try to hit the rest of the spots that really need paint, do another once over on cleaning and maybe move furniture or whatever. Not food this time, just work- It won't be nearly as fun I know but thats why we are trying to recruit Darrell and Glen.

Glory Road- The Road to Success

The title says it all: "Glory Road." It is the road to glory and success, and it is not an easy one, the helpful coach reminds us, but one that requires determination and singleminded effort. To all you non-basketball players out there, what parallels can we see between the pursuit of basketball glory and Christian glory? In what way can we take lessons from how the coach led his team and apply it to our lives.

Glory Road- Bigotry

“Glory Road” told the story of a basketball coach in Texas who made the controversial step of recruiting black players. One of the main themes in the movie was the negative effect of racial prejudice. What scenes in the movie stood out to you about racism or overcoming it? Who do we find it easy to look down on based on based on our preconceived notion of what “people like them” are like? How can we overcome our own prejudices?

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Game Night

MONOPOLY WINNER
1st Place: Matthew, uh, you know the one who's brother's name is Brian- I'm not really sure about the spelling of his last name (Czarnowsky?).

2nd Place: Kevin Slaughter

2nd Place continued: Me

Honorable Mention: Billy Stephens. Also, thanks for bringing the game.

I hope everyone else had fun but don't really know how the games turned out. Feel free to add a comment about other games.