Randomness by David Crowder
Idol+Christians=MTV Blasted…?
Just an interesting read…
Here is the link- MTV.com
Top 10 Reasons
DISCLAIMER: I took this from Group Magazine and this is for my student director friends as a joke…I am taken care of and have no complaints at all.
Top 10 Reasons I Deserve A Raise by Toby Rowe
10. Don’t worry…I’ll still be at or below poverty level.
9. My picture was featured on a poster about people who live on $1 a day.
8. The IRS audited me last year due to “flagrant UNDER-REPORTING:
7. “Other duties as assigned” is now eating into my 5 hours of sleep each night.
6. If I got a raise, I could quit one of my other 3 jobs.
5. Le me switch jobs with the senior pastor, and he’ll explain it to you within a week.
4. I would make more if I just charged child care rates fro all the “baby-sitting” I do.
3. Retreats, mission trips, and lock-ins bring my hourly wage down to $2.35.
2. Despite my annual youth pastor’s greeting card shower, a more tangible reward would be really nice.
1. The custodians blamed all the mess on me. You made me clean it up, then gave them a raise. What’s up with that?
MAJOR CAMP ANNOUNCEMENT
ATTENTION ALL PARENTS AND STUDENTS:
We have decided to merge our middle school and high school camps together this year and will be attending LIFT summer camp on July 27th-31st.
This is for all incoming 6th to outgoing 12th graders. This is a trusted camp that has been great to me over the years and us last year. Our students benefited tremendously from being together last year. For our leaders it is great because six months of relationships can be built in literally one week.
New packets for all middle school students will be available this weekend at: Guest Services, Kid Venture Live and at life groups at the loft on Sunday night.
The dates for discounts are still as follows:
$275 if registered by May 3rd
$300 if registered by June 7th
$350 if registered after June 7th
*July 12th is the FINAL day that registrations will be accepted.
MANDATORY CAMP PLANNING MEETING: Sunday July 19th at 7:30pm at the 209 Bethel Road Campus. All forms and payments must be completed at this time or prior.
Camp will be at Philadelphia Biblical University which is one hour away and our camp speaker is Aaron Cavin who was a speaker last year.
Any questions see either myself or Joyce Winters.
ryan@fellowshiptoday.com or joyceannwinters@gmail.com
Week In Review
- In no particular order…
- Matthew started baseball yesterday. Crushes the ball but still learning to catch. He is so quick. Love to watch him try. Likes baseball better than soccer because he doesn’t have to run as much.
- Kevin Short may be the smartest preacher I have ever met. Dude can pull more out of one passage than I can out of the entire Bible.
- Worship was awesome this weekend. Jeff and his team did a great job.
- Went to Shore Fellowship this week with Ben and learned so much. Walked out with a cool perspective on ministry. Thanks Shore for invite.
- Had a chance to speak at Delaware Women’s Prison and saw God bring 62 women into a relationship with Him.
- We had the privilege to baptize 13 people today and 5 of them were students.
- We have baptized 19 students this year. How cool is that? I know of churches that don’t do that many in a year.
- We had 63 students at life groups last week which is what we were averaging pre-renovations of the loft.
- We are averaging 122 students at UNITED since our renovations.
- We have over 40 students who serve on Sunday morning each week.
- I am getting my butt kicked in March Madness…but have almost every team in the Sweet Sixteen, how is that possible?
- Wawa toasted flat bread is good.
- Had Famous Daves three times last week…convinced there will be one in heaven.
- Got to give a shout out to one of my faithful blog followers who is down…Betty Malar, get better Betty we miss you.
- More and more students are twittering and we are leveraging technology to connect them with God.
- We are starting our series called SEXED on April 4th at UNITED.
- We have a ton of Urban Promise stuff coming up thanks to Mary Davis planning.
- God continues to blow me away at how he is stretching our staff.
- Watching the apprentice and I don’t like Clint Black, I may never listen to his songs again.
- Our volunteers did a great job today.
- New volunteers are awesome and I was so thankful for them today.
- Had a blast with Matthew this weekend.
- I’m exhausted…peace out blog world
Prison
Tonight I got a chance to speak at the women’s prison in Delaware. My first thought was this is really not my thing, I am more of a student guy. I was blown away tonight of the relationships that Ron and Pam Clarke had developed with the prison and with these ladies. To even have the opportunity to speak there was humbling. I was praying that God would set free 40 woman tonight and to be honest I thought that was an unrealistic expectation. By the end of the night God brought 62 women to Himself. To be a part of something so big is so humbling. For God to do what he did and honor His word was incredible. So thankful for the opportunity to share God’s word.
Weekend Wrap-Up
- Buddy Cremeans brought it today talking about honor
- Donny and the praise ninjas did a phenomenal job, very proud of them
- My son came in to worship with us this morning because he loves music and when I raised my hands to sing so did he. So cute, he had no idea why he was but so cute how he followed what daddy did.
- Baptism next Sunday, love to see life change happen
- We had over 50 new volunteers sign up to serve in setup and take down
- We had over 50 new people sign up for life groups
- We had 63 at life groups tonight, we continue to grow. 2 months ago that is what we had at UNITED.
- We are averaging 122 since renovating our youth room…environments matter
- Jessica had a birthday today. She is a phenomenal woman whom I don’t deserve
New Series_SEXED
SEXED from Ryan Geiger on Vimeo.
Alright everybody I am giving the warning now. I know that some of you feel uncomfortable when somebody mentions the word sex but that is exactly what you will hear at our next UNITED on April 4 at 6:00pm. I will launch our series talking about God’s view on sex and in case your wondering He is pro sex. In our life groups we will be covering the topics of what a girl wants/who a guy is uncovering the stereotypes and differences and do those impact our relationships. We will be talking about sex is bigger than I thought, dealing with the small picture now and big picture later of the consequences as it relates to the spiritual, mental, physical and social aspects of sex. Finally we will be talking about I’ve messed up, now what? How to start over, and dealing with the truth of Jesus and your mistakes.
I know this is a sensitive subject and so we are asking that only students and youth staff attend. One just so it is not uncomfortable for students/parents to be in there and two because of space. This is usually our most highly attended series all year although I don’t know why. I know that some of you have younger students but I would strongly encourage to allow your students to attend and use this as a tool to talk about sex with your teenager. The reality is whether they are 11 or 17 they have questions and it is the role of the parents to teach their kids about sex and it is the role of the church to come along side and affirm what you are teaching from God’s Word. There will be notes provided from the talk that your students use and we will be putting the talk up on my blog in its entirety after the weekend.
Free Conference_Online
Perry Noble and New Spring Church are running their conference UNLEASH online live today. Click on the logo to check out the site.
March UNITED
March UNITED from Ryan Geiger on Vimeo.
