Friday, December 10, 2010

STEM 07 video presentation

I am going to post of few of the old (ok, not TOO old) STEM presentations.

Here is STEM 07!!

Enjoy!

STEM 07 presentation from David Burman on Vimeo.

Guys Night In

16, well actually 18 guys playing video games in one room.

Fellowship? I think so!

Guys Night In - 16 player Halo from David Burman on Vimeo.

Josh Rader's Doom

Winter Retreat '09

New video hosting service

Josh's Doom from David Burman on Vimeo.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

WOL Superbowl

Our big event for the Fall is Word of Life Super-bowl.
This event takes place all night on Friday, November 12th.
It includes: Hockey game, pizza, bowling, flag football, ice skating, dodge ball, basketball, volleyball, soccer, inflatable games, and LOTS of fun with our youth group and lots of other teens from the area.

If you are planning on going, you need to get your money and permission slips in to Pastor Dave.  The slips are available here on the blog, just look around on the left, and you should find it.

Or click here

print it out and fill it in!

If you have more questions, please call or text me (Pastor Dave)

440-864-5192
Be at the church by 5pm

We return to the church by 6am (Saturday)

Pastor Dave

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Friday, July 16, 2010

STEM '10 Week Two Day Seven

Just a quick review.

Good morning of canvassing, a little shopping and napping in the afternoon, great VBS in the evening to closeout the week.
Ice Cream late, and to bed (sort of) early.

Long drive for tomorrow's AM canvassing in Grantsville, UT, then mountain climbing, then youth rally.

AND OF COURSE...start home early Saturday!

Thursday, July 15, 2010

STEM '10 Week Two Day Five and Six

Well, as you will be able to tell, something is missing tonight.  That something is my camera!!
It was left at Grace Baptist (where we do our VBS)

So I will give you a little overview, and hopefully get all caught up with photos tomorrow night.

Yesterday and today had very similar looks to them, with a few twists...

Both days involved canvassing/surveying in the morning and VBS in the afternoon/evening.

Canvassing included survey work, which is a face-to-face question and answer time which is centered around a religious survey, and is designed to ask some questions which might open up the door to a follow-up visit from a local Pastor (in this case, Paul Fulks or Lloyd Larkin).  The door-to-door team also would ask if they could present a tract and centering on our beliefs.  The tract we, and the whole HEBRON used, was the Brdge to Eternal Life tract.

No one home? Leave literature. Someone home? Well, the possibilities are endless. From no, to no thanks, to "Can I convert you?", to lets talk so I can defend my beliefs for half an hour, to (most importantly) interest!

In two days, our team has had 13 interested in followup, and, many opportunities to go through the Bridge tract.  The stories are ENDLESS! There is definitely a stirring in the souls of many hear in the SLC valley.

VBS numbers are slowly creeping up, which is good, considering this church has not had a VBS in three years.  Their people have enjoyed watching us work.  Pray we finish strong tomorrow.

Tomorrow, we lose Mandy (she has to leave early for a wedding) pray for her flights, and pray that we can adjust, our teams canvassing numbers are now all off, and we will miss Mandy's care and smile for all the kids at VBS.

WE MISS YOU MANDY!

Oh yes, we have been up into the mountains once as a group, and once as a smaller AM devo group (apparently getting up @ 5am scared some away).  It was a lot of fun, and we got a lot of great photos.  Both times, we had a great time in the Word and in prayer.

WHEW! Well, that's all for now.

Be back tomorrow night with more, and some photos!!

Pastor Dave

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

STEM '10 Week Two Day Three and Four

It is late, and we have been going hard the last two days.

Sunday: Worshiped with Grace Baptist Church in West Valley City, the largest suburb in the SLC valley.  It is a good church that runs about 100. Their Pastor is Matt Johnson, who has been pastoring here for 3 years, and seen significant growth.  Four years ago it was running down around the 20s, but God used, among other things, the HEBRON canvassing to bring in some new families, and the momentum has continued.  We would be running the VBS for GBC, and wanted to meet the people and run the children's church to promote the VBS.

The remainder of the day was SIX hours of training on the Mormon religion versus biblical Christianity.  There was a little impatience, but everybody made it through.

Monday: Today we had HEBRON worship and devos (special speaker for the week: Paul Fulks!) at 7:30.  Next up was packing to head out to canvass for and set up for VBS.  For those who have experienced VBS set up with our STEM teams, we have a goal to make it fun and special.  Our theme was Science/Space.  This theme posed a bit of a challenge, but it ended up looking great.

We had 15 kids at first, but it bumped up a bit as the VBS progressed.  All went well, and the team really did great.  The church family that was there has commented on our hard work.

Next up was supper, and a long trek into the mountains to watch the sun set and have some group prayer time.  As you can see, we snapped a lot of photos, and the whole group was a bit slap happy on the way home. 

Spirits are up, in the midst of fatigue.

Tomorrow!  We are canvassing/surveying for Paul and Laura Fulks and their church plant.  All are very excited.  Later, more VBS!

Sorry about the missed day...Sunday was brutal!

Thanks all for your prayers!!

Pastor Dave and the team!

Sunday, July 11, 2010

STEM '10 Week Two Day Two

Our temple tour/Latter Day Sense training day is done.  Lots of time outside and lots of seminar has made a tired team.  Today we ate breakfast at the hotel and headed to temple square.  The HEBRON team toured the square in groups of 30, then together we watched an emotional and highly inaccurate movie (we know some people who ave done the research) of an account of the life of Joseph Smith. 

After a good boxed lunch, we visited the conference center, which had a lot of art and the huge 21,000 seat auditorium.  It was very impressive, but we were constantly reminded of the Bible telling of those who thought they had knowledge, but did not.

Our evening included part one of our training for the week, and a great catered in meal.  After a group devo time, and some swimming, everybody is tucked in (or about to be).

Tomorrow has us teaching Sunday School and children's church. We will also be singing a special, and promoting VBS with our first small puppet teaser.  The remainder of the day will have us finishing the training.

Pray for a great day at Grace Baptist in West Valley with our brothers and sisters in Christ.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

STEM '10 Week Two Day One

Should I write this from an Eastern time zone, or Mountain time? (I could even include Pacific, as we were there too)

We loaded and left the church this morning @ 4am MST.  Everybody was early, and we got out a bit early, which allowed us to get to the airport JUST ahead of the other church groups.  That put us first in line to board, and gave us a shorter time through security.  (Speaking of which, there were no security incidents!!) Our first leg had a stop and sit @ St Louis, and dropped us finally in Los Angeles. (My - Pastor Dave's - home town!).  We had just over a two hour(11:55a - 1:55p PST) layover for lunch and lounging. (plus some exploring out past security by some of our rookie guys - meaning a second trip through security and a little scolding from a youth pastor.

Still, we all got on in time and had a short jump to Salt Lake City.  After we pulled all our luggage, Jen and I (PD) went across the street to get the rental vans, leaving Andy to watch the troops. Over an hour later (rental companies are SO great to work with) we were loaded up and off to our hotel. (with the help of some fellow believers and their trucks and trailers)

Once rooms were divided up, and everyone got settled in. My sister and her husband (Traci and Darren Pautz) joined us to pick up Kate (they are doing the babysitting) and we all went out to the Old Spaghetti Factory. (good food, and lots of fun)

It is now about 11MST, so 1EST, and we are all in our rooms, with lights starting to go out. (lights out is midnight or sooner)

Tomorrow is the temple tour and lots of training.  Pray for open eyes!

Thursday, July 08, 2010

STEM '10 parents info

If you need all the phone numbers and flight info, please email a request to
me: dburmanjr@firstbaptistelyria.org
or contact the office, they will have the information as well!

STEM '10 Week One Day Four

Our final day in Cleveland.
21 VBSers
3+ decisions
Great job by the team canvassing, and doing their assignments.
Great tear down, and we will be meeting @ 5:30am to load and leave for SLC!!

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

STEM '10 Week One Day Three

DAY 3.

This is when the newness has worn off a bit.  One thing we had going that WAS new was the lunch and Wednesday service. Our teens helped with kids, served food, fellowshipped, sang a song, and did a lot of setting up, cleaning up, and tearing down.

VBS had 21 kids.  It was a good number, and it included some pretty feisty children.  Overall, however, the quality of the Bible time, craft time, games, and verses is very good.  This team is working very hard and is doing a quality job.

Tomorrow will close out the first phase of our trip.  Pray for decisions and a TON of kids (we think we can handle it!

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

STEM '10 Week One Day Two

Not alot to report on other than another great day of VBS.  About 8 new kids, but we were missing some due to the pool opening up (it's a hot one).  Finished with Steak N Shake and hide and seek. (lots of fun, and only a couple of injuries!

Big day tomorrow with choir, me preaching, lunch serving, and the regular VBS.

Thanks for the prayers!

Monday, July 05, 2010

STEM '10 Week One Day One

Our Youth Missions Trip started off very well today. We took off at 9:15a and arrived at Faith Baptist Community Center just before 10a.  This left us with about two hours to transform the center into a racing themed setting, ready for Bible time, Craft time, games, puppets, and an opening and closing time filled with songs and fun.

The team did a great job (see the pics) and was pretty well prepared by lunch time.  Lunch was provided by our friends at the center, and then it was time to get into the housing complex across the street for some canvassing and rounding up.

Our VBS had 19 young people arrive, which was a pretty good number, considering the holiday turnover.  Everything ran very smooth, and the team did very well.

After some clean up, the we spent time doing our Missions Trip devos and spending a little time reviewing the day.  We covered what we did well, what we needed to improve on, what we learned, and what was cool.  Then we each said what we appreciated about something we saw somebody else do.

After our final cleanup and run-through for Tuesday, we loaded up and did a little split Chik-Fil-a and Chipotle time for supper and arrived home early.

Thanks so much for the prayers, pray for more kids, and more opportunities for our teens to show and share Christ's love.





Friday, July 02, 2010

On the Verge of Mssions Trip 2010

Well, we are on the verge of our 2010 mission trip.

This trip will start with four days of canvassing and Vacation Bible School with Faith Baptist Community Center.  We will be doing our Race Themed VBS with Amazing Aaron!

Friday, we will be off the Salt Lake City for Training, Canvassing, and Vacation Bible School for a week.

Please pray for the team as we minister and reach out in Cleveland and Salt Lake City. Pray for safety, smooth travels, ready hearts, and lots of opportunties to share the gospel and show the love of Christ.

Also, please pray as we are asking God to provide the final just under $3000 to make this trip possible.

We will, as usual, try to keep you up to date with photos and info here on the youth blog.

Feel free to leave comments and messages, we will also be trying to feed the
First Baptist Church of Elyria Youth Ministries
facebook page (it might be easier to comment there...)

Pastor Dave and the 2010 Misisons Team

Friday, April 30, 2010

The Great Golf-floG Open 2010

May 22nd, the Youth Ministries here at First Baptist will be holding our Golf-floG Open.

What is a Golf-floG Open you ask.  Simply put,  it is a competition of golf/anti-golf (floG) proportions.  Each level of competition will allow the participant to compete as a Golfer, or a floGger.

For example:  The long drive competition will also allow floGgers to THROW the golf balls.  Accuracy and distance will both be a factor!

We have rubber band golf, Frisbee golf, and putt-putt/kick-kick/slap-slap golf!

We will also be serving traditional golf foods: Candy Bars, Soda (or pop if you prefer), Hot Dogs, Cheesy Dogs, Chili Dogs, and Onion Dogs.

This event runs from 5:30p-8:15p

Cost is a WHOPPING $2!

So grab some friends, and form a foursome! (you can even bring along someone to caddy, if they would rather be your slave/scorekeeper)

And get out to First Baptist on

MAY 22nd!

for the
Great Golf-floG Open!


questions?
dburmanjr@firstbaptistelyria.org
440-864-5192

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

What to do, what to do.

Well, the holidays are WAY in the rear view mirror, Senior High Winter Retreat has past (which was a blast), and it is still cold and snowy. I believe it will stay that way until June here in northern Ohio.

That MUST mean it is the Burman home Bible Study time if year!

This year, we will be doing a couple of GREAT Bible studies on Tuesday  nights. One for the guys, and one for the girls.

We will be meeting for food and hangin' out at 7pm. The Bible study time begins at 8pm and ends at 9pm.

Plan on getting to the Burman home as many Tuesdays as you can!

PDave

Friday, January 22, 2010

WInter Blah's

Well, I am sure your holidays went well, and you are already a pro at adding '10' at the end of your dates. The skies have been gray since November, and you know it will be that way until March.

I added some tunes to the blog site, and we have added permission slips, so dig around.

You are bored, you say? Blahs fill your heart?

What to do, what to do?

Well, you can plan ahead: SERVE!
Summer STEM applications are in, and you have just a week left to get it all squared away. Salt Lake City anyone?

You can plan for now: REACH!
Rec Center overnighter on Jan 29th. Invite your friends, see if you can match Pastor Dave in all-night energy.

You can get your year ready to go:
Winter Retreat is Feb 14th and 15th. A time to get away, relax, have fun, be challenged, and set the tone for 2010.

You can prepare yourself: GROW!
Wednesday nights, we are learning how to approach skepticism and what the world's biggest obstacles are to trusting Christ.
Sunday School, we are looking at God's plan for the future.

SO...Put down the cell phone, or the video game, or the keyboard, and

DO SOMETHING!!

PDave