Time to Salute our Presidents!!!

It’s Friday once again!!!! Yeah. We still have a lot going on. I’ll get to that in a minute, but first let me update you on what’s been happening. First of all, for once this summer those of you who are reading this, if any of you are, have more snow then we do!!! It’s actually starting to warm up here, were supposed to reach the 50’s this weekend.
As you may have read, we had a lock-in last Friday. It was an awesome event! We had 17 teens, and throughout the night 3 other adults come and hangout with the teens. We played games as a crowd breaker, Uno, SET, Spoons and Nerts. These are all fun games that my kids have come to enjoy. After that we had snacks and then went and had a worship time and a short lesson of how we are not called to be PEZ dispensers.
Then we played DDR, that’s Dance Dance Revolution. We had 2 Xboxes and 4 Mats going at once. The kids loved this and it is a lot of fun to watch also. Then we had pizza and pop. We actually had 2 pizzas left over.
We then went into the sanctuary and had story time. I read an interactive book, with different voices, a blast!!! Then we played games and had food-eating contest. Can you believe that a sponsor, Judy, in her 50’s could eat almost 4 Twinkies in less than 90 seconds? We also did things like pudding eating contest, without using your hands. Feed your partner Cheetos, with your feet. This one was nasty because their feet were gross, sweaty, and stinky after play DDR. We took pictures, I will try to post some this coming week.
All I can say is…IT WAS FUN!!!!!
There are 2 girls in our youth group that have been hounding me about going on a mission trip this summer. They both went last year to the boys ranch and want to go somewhere else this summer. I talked to one of our friends who is a Youth Pastor and we decided that we would partner with their church on their trip. So it is decided that we arte going to Mexico this summer. I am little bummed because where we are going is right across the border from El Paso, Texas. My friend and college roommate, Joel was there until he got sent to Korea. It would have been fun to get to see him, but that’s ok.
So we are getting ready to start doing fundraiser, if you have ideas I wouldn’t mind them…
Here is our schedule of big events coming up.

Feb 19-21, Trip to Salina for Ministerial Retreat
March 5th Becky’s Birthday
March 15-17 Trip to Colorado Springs to celebrate Bday and shopping!?!?!?!?!?!
March 20-23 Spring Break Spiritual Retreat (Trip to mountains, weather permitting)
March 29-31 SOAR, Oklahoma Wesleyan’s Youth Conference
April 27-28 Acquire the Fire, In Denver, we have 60 tickets, hopefully we will have that many go with us…Praying for God to do a miracle.
May 20 CHS Graduation, 2 leaders are graduating
May21st Meeting with DBMD in Topeka, they tell me if I am getting Ordained or not.
July 9-13 Youth Camp in Nebraska
July 13-20 Mission Trip to Mexico
July 27-29 Praise Gathering in Hutchinson, Ks……Ordination Weekend!!!!
I think that’s all of the big ones, I’ll let you know more later…Love Ya…