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week at a glance : glance of photos too

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it was a strange kind of week. so much was happening in short periods of time. it is hard to believe that last week happened and was only a few days. some photos if you like

  • after mission experience we had a few days in the office which were.. interesting. i then drove through the late night to lake junaluska to meet with fellow design team members for "convo" the legislative body for youth ministries at the jurisdictional level.
  • i started my first day at the lake meeting up with friends at the foundation for evangelism. they’ve been good to me over the years and i’m big fan of their efforts. they bought my breakfast, which was excellent, and we talked technology and the church. i’m excited to get involved in that conversation
  • met up with our design team group. holston conference friend dan & i were put on the worship design group to round out the particulars to worship.
  • we planned, processed, prayed, and sat in silence.. then took a break. in the end we had some worship experiences that we felt challenged the norm and gave some new looks for leadership. unfortunately we had all kinds of issues from speakers backing out, tech issues all over the place, & people who just didn’t get where we were trying to go. in the end though, God was there, somewhere, even if it was hard for me to see… cause you know, God is suppose to make things go the way i intend for them to go.
  • we alloted a bunch of ysf (youth service fund) monies to some great places. i’ve never really sat in on a process like that with that much money, so it was really neat to know we were making some significant changes spending money.
  • hung out with jay and met up with some of the riffraff that was hanging out for soul feast. might have a new book project on youth ministry & social networks. who knows…
  • got elected chair of the adult network for the southeast jurisdiction.. not sure what that means but hopefully we can accomplish one or two things in the next two years of my tenure.
  • my youth camp to the lake. i ditched all things ‘convo’ to hang with them on saturday and we went to sliding rock. it was way cool & super cold. i then treated them to pizza, which was fun, till they started scaring the natives.
  • i went to the ’emergent’ service the duke div school interns were putting on sunday mornings. i had my worship snob mode in full effect, plus i knew that i wanted to get home and see wife & family, so when we started and they said we were going to watch the nooma on silence. i promptly got on the road.
  • after arriving home and taking a short nap.. too short.. erin & i headed to smyrna to catch up with little bro and family for madalyn’s baby dedication. the church they have settled into doesn’t do infant baptism. though my mom called it a baptism. they do dedications.. this is also where i took on role as godfather.
  • after the dedication we went to my mother-in-laws house to participate in an odd anniversary. it was her bff’s first anniversary of her liver transplant. she had deteriorating health from obtaining hepatitis c back during a child birth blood transfusion. it finally had her down to some poor health and probable death. but now she’s back. so we sang happy b’day liver.. talked about the liver’s sex change and some other oddities. we are happy for mom’s bff, she’s a saint and is more than deserving of feeling better after all these years.

quite a week

for the youth road trip : the scan game

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while on our missions experience i was reminded of a game we developed last year. it’s a great way to do the radio for the proverbial road trip. "the scan game" here are the details

  • the premise: everyone gets their shot to listen to the radio they want too via scan. fun begins messing with folks and their music choices.
  • the rules are simple. press scan on the radio. as it picks up the various signals the car trip members can choose their song by indicating "this is mine" or "i want this one!" you can only get one pick per round. once a song ends, no matter how long or short, it goes back to scan. at the end of the round winners and losers are decided, jokingly of course, with song choice & length as judging points. it is generally obviously who got the shaft on their song choice.
  • odd rulings: you can choose a sports event, but the scan starts back up when there is a commercial. same goes for a talk radio. npr can be a little iffy in this rule.
  • people can trade or ask others to pick a song for them if they have used up theirs already. but it is generally discouraged.

this can go on for hours. it is fun to pick up the different sounds coming through the radio in various parts of the states. if you are in a very rural part of the land it could be tough playing. especially if you only have two channels that come through. then you can do a manual shuffle on an ipod or other mp3 player.

and that is the scan game.

senior high mission experience twittered : asp in real time

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today i am heading out into eastern kentucky with 44 youth and young adults to work with asp (appalachia service project) as part of our senior high mission experience. i don’t expect to have wi-fi access at camp, so i’m putting in this twitter feed. i am confident in verizon to give me enough service to give updates via twitter. stop in regularly or subscribe to my twitter updates for your cell phone.

 

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    things on tab : linkage for the week

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    since i’ll be heading out on our senior high mission experience tomorrow i’m guessing this post will stick around for a bit. unless i can find some wi-fi in the area. here are some links that i’m perusing.