The Pancake Breakfast!

This morning we had a pancake breakfast, fundraising for youth events and such and such. It is quite eventful thus far, and we expect many more tired and droopy eyed people to drop in to energize themselves with pancakes and coffee. Also new this year are cranberry pancakes, apple...stuff for the pancakes, and Tropicana Orange Juice! Only the best for the people who come to fill themselves silly for the pancakes. Also in youth news...

...Every first Wednesday of the month is game night! If anyone reads this blog, come out and we'll play games! indoor soccer, hockey, shuffleboard, search the cupboard for cookies........Every third Wednesday of the month is now Praise Night! Anyone is invited to come out for this fantastic event...We're running low on cookies and the like in the Youth Pantry, so donations are accepted!....Its raining alot today....But the clouds r' showin their silver linins......


tata for now,
First Crc Youth Blog Team

The Youth Minutes! First meeting sept. o8

MINUTES OF THE YOUTH
EXEC MEETING, September 24, 2008

1. K***y introduces the meeting, J*****a and D**e argue about pens.
2. Fall Retreat, names were stated about who’s going, and who might randomly show up. (A****a, Sh****y, E**n, P**l, P**l?)
3. D**e mentions worship night, W***e pops in and we begin number 3 on the agenda. We talk about what’s going on at the upcoming ED meeting.
4. Panckate Breakfast…W***e will take care of the food,…. Someone has to be here between 7-8 Pm on Friday night…YOUTH NEED TO BE HERE AT 6:30 on Saturday. W****e and K***y discuss raspberries, choclate chips, and blueberry cranberry pancakes. Fried Eggs…..???????
5. Budget is good….K***y did it.
6. Worship team- what’s going on? J******a states number of singers and other assorted items.
7. Serve- dates? We all HAVE TO HAVE PASSPORTS.
8. Study night at Williams. Meet here first then go.
9. Games night- shuffleboard, volleyball, indoor soccer?
10. BIG DINNER… Theme needs to be picked out by mid October.
11. Out of time. Mostly silence. K***y bangs her first. Adjourned? People once fell off of a chair, mentions someone. Or something like that.


MISC.

A) Study material in the future? One suggestion: Lee Strobel “Case for a Creator” student guide.
B) Cookies- do we like double chocolate chip or just chocolate? Pres. Choice “The Decadent”/Chips Ahoy/Chunks Ahoy?. We need to vote on this sometime. Perhaps a “youth pantry” is in order. Mhm. A supply would be a good idea…To be discussed at later times.

Youth Mins.

Trying to post youth mins.

Etc.

New look blog!

Dear faithful readers (i know, all five of you. but that can change!!),

Today the First Crc Youth Blog team voted on a new look template for the blog. After much heated debate, we chose the "Harbor look." Feel free to comment on the new look! And if you think other graphical improvements could be made...let us know!

Pancake B-Fest 2

Hopefully the first post about the breakfast will be about soon, having troubles with the blog.......Thanks for reading!

I LOVE BLOGGING............

(editor's note: This is not the original post. C***'* name and email address was blocked to maintain privacy policies regarding this blog.)
THE FOLLOWING IS THE ORIGIANAL POST:

I WAS JUST WONDERING IF I COULD HAVE EVERYONE FROM YOUTH GROUPS FACEBOOK OR HOTMAIL SO I CAN STAY IN TOUCH WITH MY INNER YOU? HAHA LOVE C***:) I LOVE U ALL

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SNOWTUBING!

even though march break was in full swing, we decided to go snowtubing at chicopee tube park. We had a great time. Battling through irate magic carpet operators and line cutters, and sailing down a hill on a modified inner tube certainly holds its own appeals.
Some time again in the future perhaps?

DONE! at 9:34 inaccurate time

The desert dishes are being washed and the decorations coming down. After some banjo showdowns, line dancing, and shaving heads, things start to close down. Hopefully we're not here until one o'clock, but who knows...theres lots of artificial trees to be taken down.

3:26 (PM) with innacurate time of course

Well, the tire swing isnt up yet, but...the tables are set, the ribs are made, and the plates are waiting for people to come to them.


only 3 more hours!

1:00 (A.M.)

Left with no food and water after a hurricane strikes our settlement....while, we're not quite there yet. The tree is up! After swinging around on a later and putting branches up that would make Tarzan proud, Rob completes the tree. Meanwhile< Jessica and Erin finish the clothesline, while everyone else is sleeping, but awake, so more like zombies.

12:00

As the new day starts on this in-accurate computer, the leafs start to get attached to the tree, and i make juice to ingest sugar into our tired souls.

how do we tie a tree the cieling? (11:11) computer time

after a dilemma with not finding a ladder for the tree, we find one and start wondering how to put cardboard leaves on it. i accidentally spilled too much cream in all the hot chocolate. Jeanette continues to contemplate using Christmas trees for our forest, though with a hillybilly theme, who knows how that will work out.

10:32 (computer time, not accurate)

as the chicken wings dissappear, angela and wayne hae a stratigizing session on how to cook the meat or make wood look real, or who knows what. jessica screams across the kitchen at me for the fourth time in the last ten minutes. rob talks about volkswagens as the rest of the guys talk about pontiacs.


p.

Starting the final set up for the dinner

9:50-things just starting to take off, even though Wayne has been here since five. the potato peeling begins, and rob continues to make the shacks 3-D.

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Is anyone out there?

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Work Day

Today, we set up some scenes for our annual fundrasing dinner, this time entitled "Back in the Country." This wonderful and sensitive title represents our longing to be...back in the country. Set on Feb 23rd, this dinner will evoke remisicent memories of country-style youth, where you can go.....back in the country. We hope to see you there.

P.

It seems that about half of the cookies we baked have dimished in the freezer. In other happenings, we will study more of the PDL tonight and undoubtedly learn something inspirational.

Extended thoughts on cookies and cake last night

last night we had a wonderful and meaningful discussion on life, and how we were planned for God's pleasure (chapter 11 of PDL). It was also Mr. S's birthday-almost, and we celebrated with a delightful cake made by A. (I love the disguising identities part.) We also had a wonderful plate of cookies provided by our supplies from the freezer. Anyways, enough sappy talk about food.

Till next time,
P.
Youth Food Co-ordinator.
just kidding.

our post

mmmmmmm cake happy b-day mr. s that was some good eats....
we had a very intence discussion on God being our friend and now we are munching on our cookies which r very good and we made together it was a group effort... good work team!!!!!
the purpose driven life makes me want to find prupose in my life.... it is a very meaning ful book... and we have learned lotz so far...we still have 4 more weeks tho.... hopefully we fine out wat our purpose is tune in next week to c wat we have learned....!
pce out
shell & terri

I trust everyone is doing well with exams. We had a very small turnout last night. 5 youth and 5 leaders!!! We had a good discussion in our own youth room!

Good luck on exams everyone and we will see you next week. We have decided to go with the questions in the back of the Purpose Driven Life book so please read it each day.

I will not be there for discussion next week as I have a Worship Committee meeting.
J

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we are sitting down to feast of tea with milk in it. it might have sugar, it might not. upon inquiry, we now know that there is most likely sugar within the environment of the tea. we asked the tea drinker,(we will call the tea drinker k.vanderzwaag, no no that's to obvious, we will call her kathy v.)if there was sugar in it, and our answer, "there should be?"
why the question mark. because the drinker was unsure whether they had put sugar in their tea.
i always know what is in my drink. maybe the lesson to learn here would be to always make sure you look both ways before you cross the street.

The cookies WERE good

In regards to _________'s comment about the cookies being good, the youth agree that they were good. Now we have an unlimited supply of cookies, which shall sustain us in the PDL meetings.

purpose vs product

Hi all,
We will be starting the purpose driven life next Wednesday. For those youth who missed youth group today we started our time with a section of a sermon I heard on the radio from the local Kitchener Christian radio station. The pastor was saying that if we lined everyone in the world in order from most righteous, someone who is selfless, kind and compassionate, to the most hideous and cruel (lets look at our own century for now) we may put Mother Theresa on the most righteous end and perhaps Charles Manson on the other end. Everyone else falls in between-including us. Then we may ask ourselves "where is the cut-off point for who goes to heaven?" How many good deeds or how selfless does one need to be to get into heaven. We may figure that as long as our good deeds outweigh our bad acts that may be a pass. After all at most schools 50% is a pass.

The pastor goes on to say, however that we need to think about this like thinking about jumping. Some people can jump really far, some not far at all. There are record holders for the longest jump (28meters I think). However, no one can jump far enough if they are trying to jump across the Grand Canyon. None of us can make it, we all fall short. That is like trying to get into heaven.

It requires perfection and none of us are perfect so rely on Jesus who is perfect and it is through him!

I just wanted to retell that story as we start off on this adventure of "The purpose Driven Life" So that we don't get caught up in the actions we need to do. Yes, God has a purpose for our lives and it is important to figure that out but fulfilling that purpose is not what earns us our way.

BTW- the cookies are great!

Cookies

Right now we're making cookies before we jump into the purpose driven life. This book will help guide us. Apparently we ran out of chocolate chips, so we have a large scale problem on our hands. Sugar is just one of the many things that helps us to continue to have wonderful and pithy conversations about the world around us.

--THE END

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