today i learned of "hide and go poop" and that mount juliet high school has a pretty cool ongoing game. i laughed hysterically hearing about it. this is the official rules video for those interested in getting a game going themselves. the next youth ministries game? maybe..
Youth Ministry
why eikon?
tonight we started "eikon" an arts initiative within & outside our youth community. eikon, we hope, will become small communities of artisans that help us to practice a medium as well as frame our art as spiritual practice. tonight we started our photography community with around 20 youth & adults. i was pretty stoked for the number, but mostly i was stoked for the people that showed interest. i thought i’d share some of the why behind "eikon" since it was apparently asked about around the gbod.
To be an Eikon means, first of all, to be in union with God as Eikons; second, it means to be in communion with other Eikons; and third, it means to participate with God in his creating, his ruling, his speaking, his naming, his ordering, his variety and beauty, his location, his partnering, and his resting, and to oblige God in his obligating of us. Thus, an Eikon is God-oriented, self-oriented, other-oriented, and cosmos-oriented. To be an Eikon is to be a missional being – one designed to love God, self, and others and to represent God by participating in God’s rule in this world.
–a Community Called Atonement, by Scot McKnight
i thought this did a pretty good job of defining some group identity
i am pretty stoked to see what God does with this grouping
can i be the biggest all american youth worker loser
i have heard God speak to me.. "loose weight chubby!" well, maybe not God, but in a funny turn of events erin & the folks at the family biz and marko and folks at youth specialties are putting together a biggest looser contest.
i’ve been wanting to loose weight for a year or two now, just wasn’t too willing to do the work to loose weight. i am the heaviest i have ever been which is not a wonderful stat to claim. i haven’t been too concerned as i have never been a uber thin person. for years i never weighed myself or had a scale to find out. but i have started to grow a little too round for my climbing harness, which can get dangerous for climbing.
so i am going to shop some detox methods & diets for the next week. give one of them a shot. i’ll take advantage of that gym membership. all this to see if i can be the biggest all american youth worker looser. &:~)
oh, the image is the screen capture from the ys update highlighting the biggest loser campaign. ironic that is blonde brownie day to go along with loosing weight.
a public worship fast
buddy dixon asks what would happen if we fasted from public worship.. would we give up on our obsession with numbers?
“You mean you go to church every Sunday?” The assumption being that
commitment to Christianity involves first, foremost and (this is my
thesis) simply the attendance of a new meeting – “church” on Sunday
morning.Here, “Christianity” is reduced to yet another
extra-curricular activity. It is like community league soccer,
gymnastics or guitar lessons.
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Think about the discipline of fasting. Classically, it involves giving
up something, good, healthy and indispensable for life – food – for a
certain amount of time in order to connect to God in a new way. A fast
is about abstaining from the necessary to reconnect to the eternal. A
fast shakes up the fast-er , often providing vital re-orientation and
spiritual clarity.
a green day
the youth and i spent the day green. playing in front of a green screen. this wasn’t my normal youth community. this was my communications committee for our upcoming event "warmth in winter." we do the videos throughout the event. this year’s theme is "eye of the storm" so our charge was to do a bunch of weather related & news room stuff. luckily one of our kids has an unusual amount of filming equipment, green screen, lights, boom mic, all that.
now we will have to get to work on the finished product.
i’ve added this pic to my project 365 which i have now updated as far as monday. more pictures of this day on our youth flickr site.