STEM Trip '07 - Monday

STEM ’07

Monday, July 2nd
Hopkins International

Well, your highly mature STEMers got out of the church parking lot EARLY! After arriving at the airport in waves from 10:00-10:15, we were all through security by 10:35. Not bad for 33 passengers.

Our extreme itinerary change was revealed by Dave Leitch at the church. The 5 tickets for the Dan and Sue Friesner, Jon and Terrie Rader, and Jen Burman purchased through ORBITZ were accidently purchased (by a now very humble youth pastor) for returning ONE DAY LATER!!! Same flight numbers, same flight times, different days.Those five leaders will be staying one more day, and will be returning on Monday, July 16th!

Oh well, they will probably love the quiet after the storm, and enjoy an extra day in Alaska with out the other 26 teens and two leaders.

All the teens say ‘HI”!

Thank you to all those who helped with the transportation to the airport.

The plan for the return trip from the airport on Sunday, July 15th is as follows. We ENCOURAGE the parents to get their teens from the airport. We will be contacting the church with flight information and get them to the info desk.

If/When we are on time, we will be arriving @ 12:15pm on Sunday, so a nice little convoy from the church after the AM service will be taking place. Jerry Bilow will be driving the green van with the trailer. That will cover 15 plus luggage.

Time for me to fellowship with the teens for our 1½hr wait to board!

Your humble youth leader,
Pastor Dave

Monday, July 2nd
Dallas

We received a bit of a scare while in route to Dallas. A delay, and the possibility of a reroute stirred us up a bit, but we finally arrived only 45 minutes late. After getting to our next gate and grabbing some food, we had to wait for the plane ahead of ours at our gate to leave. All told, we left Dallas a little over an hour late.

Monday, July 2nd
In the air on the way to Alaska.

We are half way through our 6+ hour flight. Many of the young people enjoyed the in flight movie, “Meet the Robinsons” a pretty crazy, all-over-the-board Disney movie. Now the natives are restless. Many members of the team are wandering about the plane (as much as possible in a 757) and chatting with each other. The scenery out the windows has been spectacular! God’s hand in the beauty of His creation is always evident, especially when viewing the grandeur of the Rockies!

We flew over Colorado, Vail to be precise, and are continuing north and west. Our first-time flyers have received their fill of bumps and are a bit more adjusted.

The team will be going through a two-week devotional put together by Dr. Joy from BMM. Each night we will be getting together to discuss, pray, encourage, laugh, and prepare for the next.

I LOVE traveling with these teens and leaders. They are a sharp group, and so much fun.

Hopefully we can get this published soon, and maybe even some photos!

Th.A.D.

It is the start of the end of the year!

Well...

As a youth group we are going to attempt to go through the entire New Testament by the end of the year.

This will work if we do Three chapters A Day.

Thus the term Th.A.D.

This week started in Matthew chapters 1-21. Three a day.

Monday and Tuesday were Matthew 1-6. It felt a little Christmas like on Monday. And on Tuesday we had a fine trip through the Beatitudes.

KEEP UP Young People!!

Pastor Dave

-if you do your ThAD, feel free to post a comment about how much you enjoyed God's Word!

Graduation 2007

Last week (June 3rd) We were privileged to have our church hold a Sunday Morning service wrapped around our graduating class of 2007. We wanted to praise God for what he has been doing in the lives of our graduates and their families.

It was a very good service that included a slide show of the graduates. Here are the "youth group" pictures from that slide show. They have and will certainly bring back some great memories!






God has truly blessed this church and youth ministry with some outstanding young people! They have brought life and leadership to our youth ministry. They will be missed, and are always welcome to 'drop in' the youth room any time.

As these 17 graduates continue through this time of transition in their lives, we are praying they will put the Lord first place in their lives. We also hope that the love and commitment to the scriptures that this church body has will continue to flow through them as the next generation of church leaders.

Luke 24:32

My shot at Google Calendar

Here is the new First Baptist Youth Ministries Calendar.
It is a work in progress, but I will keep working on updating it. So it can be viewed and uploaded.





I have enjoyed making the transition to Google for my calendars. I still use Outlook fro PDA syncing purposes, but I export to Google, as I can add any calendars in layers to my work calendar. Including sports schedules, home schedules, and our church calendar I can even import.

I just hope that Google isn't another way we are being set up for the Tribulation. (does 'google' have some language connection to the number '666'?)

Well, enjoy!