Hey all!
If you want to see what the team from this year has been up to, you can check out their blog here...
http://eripeavy.blogspot.com/
Peace!
Justin
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
(read Justin's post first) haha you're welcome Justin....i was taking a quiz with French vocab on FreeRice.com - a game that quizzes you, and with each question right, it donates 10 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger! Ginger, Mike, and I together donated about 17,000 grains of rice! Hooray!!
Anyways, our last church, Tuckston UMC was awesome! We absolutely loved the kids and had SO much fun with them!!! They were so willing to play any of the games and do all of the activities we had for them! We played lots of messy and silly games and even played paintball! We had small groups, did the Lifehouse Everything skit for the youth, and blindfolded them during worship, among other things! We are all really excited to continue on these relationships since the church is in Athens! Jack helps out there during the year and 3 of his small group guys were there and is excited to see what the Lord does this year. Several of the girls also joined us at summer Wesley on Wednesday night and really want to join us sometime during the year!
One of the favorite games was a game Crossfire learned at St. James UMC - a friend of ours from UGA actually made it up! :0) You turn of all the lights in the whole church. One person goes and hides, and the 1st person to find them, becomes a Zombie with them. The 2 Zombies then go around the church to try to find everyone and tag them to make them Zombies. The Zombies are not allowed to run and they have to make growling Zombie noises. If you don't get tagged, you win!! It is so much fun and the kids LOVE it, so we have all decided to have Zombie nights throughout the year!! :D
We have one more church in Dublin that starts tomorrow. I am extremely sad that Crossfire is almost over. I love the team sooooo much and am so excited to have such an incredible new group of friends. Each person has taught me soooo much and encouraged me in different but incredible ways in my walk with the Lord. I know that the Lord has used both my teamates and people we've met a long the way to prepare me for what the Lord has for this year!
Pray that we give our everything to the Lord for this last church! It is going to be a retreat to encourage the kids in how to walk with the Lord during all the craziness of school. I think it will be great not only for the youth, but also for us as we prepare for the year! Thank you for all of your prayers this summer! We appreciate your prayers so much and are sooo thankful for all of the incredible ways that the Lord moved!
YAY Crossfire!!! One of the best summers of my life!!! :D
-paynt :0)
Anyways, our last church, Tuckston UMC was awesome! We absolutely loved the kids and had SO much fun with them!!! They were so willing to play any of the games and do all of the activities we had for them! We played lots of messy and silly games and even played paintball! We had small groups, did the Lifehouse Everything skit for the youth, and blindfolded them during worship, among other things! We are all really excited to continue on these relationships since the church is in Athens! Jack helps out there during the year and 3 of his small group guys were there and is excited to see what the Lord does this year. Several of the girls also joined us at summer Wesley on Wednesday night and really want to join us sometime during the year!
One of the favorite games was a game Crossfire learned at St. James UMC - a friend of ours from UGA actually made it up! :0) You turn of all the lights in the whole church. One person goes and hides, and the 1st person to find them, becomes a Zombie with them. The 2 Zombies then go around the church to try to find everyone and tag them to make them Zombies. The Zombies are not allowed to run and they have to make growling Zombie noises. If you don't get tagged, you win!! It is so much fun and the kids LOVE it, so we have all decided to have Zombie nights throughout the year!! :D
We have one more church in Dublin that starts tomorrow. I am extremely sad that Crossfire is almost over. I love the team sooooo much and am so excited to have such an incredible new group of friends. Each person has taught me soooo much and encouraged me in different but incredible ways in my walk with the Lord. I know that the Lord has used both my teamates and people we've met a long the way to prepare me for what the Lord has for this year!
Pray that we give our everything to the Lord for this last church! It is going to be a retreat to encourage the kids in how to walk with the Lord during all the craziness of school. I think it will be great not only for the youth, but also for us as we prepare for the year! Thank you for all of your prayers this summer! We appreciate your prayers so much and are sooo thankful for all of the incredible ways that the Lord moved!
YAY Crossfire!!! One of the best summers of my life!!! :D
-paynt :0)
Bu means Drunk...
Ok so aparently bu/boo or some such word means drunk in French. I was going to post something deep and meaningful about our last stop coming up tomorrow night, but Payton's nonsense made me forget what I was going to write, so thanks, Payton. Anyway, if I remember I'll come back, but if not, then just know that I'm sad, but not depressed or anything. This has been an amazing summer, in a lot more ways than one.
Love ya'll,
Justin
Love ya'll,
Justin
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Prayer Request :D
Be praying that we finish strong as a team! It is really easy, especially since we are in Athens for us to look ahead at what is coming this school year, but we still have a whole week! My desire is that we would be desperate as a team to see the Lord move in ways we haven't seen this summer, and that we would be absolutely BLOWN AWAY by the Lord this week. Pray against apathy and just getting through this week. I want us to live in the moment where the Lord has placed us and be ready and willing with our WHOLE hearts to be used by the Lord!!!! Fill our hearts with your desires, Jesus!!! May we be so overwhelmed by Your love, Jesus, that it overflows and changes lives!! Capture our hearts, Jesus!! :D
South Carolina!!!
So before we get going on our next church tomorrow, I thought I would share a little about South Carolina! We got to work with the Middle School group for their Mission camp. Their job for the week was to work on furniture, art pieces and curtains, etc. for the interior rooms of rooms in 2 habitat houses. In the mornings, we had worship and played games and in the afternoons, we worked on the projects! We had a great time at Advent UMC in South Carolina! The people were so much fun and there were several times were I don't know if I've ever laughed so hard! From Interpretive Dances to wearing scraps of the curtains on our heads, from the dart game every time I turned around to writing letters to our Best Friend, Jesus, we had an incredible time!
Check out our sweet tie dye shirts that we got to make with all the youth!!! (In the middle is the Leigh, the youth director!)
These kids know how to break it down!!! (If the links don't work, they are posted on my facebook wall): http://www.facebook.com/video/?of=4941103#/video/video.php?v=1109240135229&subj=4941103
http://www.facebook.com/video/?of=4941103#/video/video.php?v=1109266135879&subj=4941103
They even loved breaking it down during worship!!! http://www.facebook.com/video/?of=4941103#/video/video.php?v=1109228214931&subj=4941103
We LOVE Advent UMC!!!!!
Check out our sweet tie dye shirts that we got to make with all the youth!!! (In the middle is the Leigh, the youth director!)
These kids know how to break it down!!! (If the links don't work, they are posted on my facebook wall): http://www.facebook.com/video/?of=4941103#/video/video.php?v=1109240135229&subj=4941103
http://www.facebook.com/video/?of=4941103#/video/video.php?v=1109266135879&subj=4941103
They even loved breaking it down during worship!!! http://www.facebook.com/video/?of=4941103#/video/video.php?v=1109228214931&subj=4941103
We LOVE Advent UMC!!!!!Friday, July 24, 2009
Winding Down
The summer is winding down, coming to an end, whathaveyou. Two more stops for Crossfire. Tucston UMC in Athens on Sunday, and then Dublin a few days after that... Then intern training for Mike and myself.
Right now we're just chilling at Liz's place/Wesley in Athens and enjoying one of our last days on break together for the summer. I'm actually making myself kind of sad writing about this. It's been one of the best times of my life, and I'm going to miss it so incredibly much.
Anyway, that's it for now. Hope everyone has had a great summer, and I love you all.
Peace,
Justin
Right now we're just chilling at Liz's place/Wesley in Athens and enjoying one of our last days on break together for the summer. I'm actually making myself kind of sad writing about this. It's been one of the best times of my life, and I'm going to miss it so incredibly much.
Anyway, that's it for now. Hope everyone has had a great summer, and I love you all.
Peace,
Justin
Monday, July 13, 2009
Hey all! I just wanted to give a post about Americus a few weeks back, I haven't had a lot of opportunities to type on here lately, so I actually should have done this a few weeks ago but w/e...
Hi, my name is Mr. Fluffy. I was born only to die. You see, I had a great life, living in the hills of North Georgia until one day I went on a trip down to a little place known as Camp Dooly. I discovered a horrible and dark secret that day... small children have the secret power of ants: useless by themselves, but ridiculously powerful when combined. These small children have the power to bring down and destroy not only fully grown men, but also elephants, buildings and the great redwoods of California, truly fearsome. This is the end of me my friends, perhaps I will resurrect once more again in some bright and beautiful day.
Edit: just to let ya'll know, I'm perfectly fine. Mike made realize that this post sounded kinda weird... so yeah... Love ya'll
Hi, my name is Mr. Fluffy. I was born only to die. You see, I had a great life, living in the hills of North Georgia until one day I went on a trip down to a little place known as Camp Dooly. I discovered a horrible and dark secret that day... small children have the secret power of ants: useless by themselves, but ridiculously powerful when combined. These small children have the power to bring down and destroy not only fully grown men, but also elephants, buildings and the great redwoods of California, truly fearsome. This is the end of me my friends, perhaps I will resurrect once more again in some bright and beautiful day.
Edit: just to let ya'll know, I'm perfectly fine. Mike made realize that this post sounded kinda weird... so yeah... Love ya'll
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