Hello Friends

Hey everyone. How are you handling the cold?

-Remember NO CONNECTIONS THIS WEEK!!!! Go watch the Super Bowl. or not. Either way, No Connections.

-Next week Feb. 8th we're back at the YMCA. If you ever have any doubts you can check the calendar on the right there....it should be up to date.

-MARK YOUR CALENDAR (if you didn't already when I told you to...) March 6, 7, 8.....Time 4 Revolution retreat at Mission Meadows Camp. If you've gone in years past you have a rough idea what you're in for. If you've never gone, this is your year!!! This is a great time to hear a word from God, have fun, and get away from home for a weekend! Plan on coming. We'll talk about this when I see you next! I really want YOU to go to this.

This week I leave you with a time wasting game. This is fun if you play around with the functions. I particularly like flames, C4, and napalm.

YMCA

Everyone do the motions with me. YMCA....it's fun to stay at the YMCA.....

We're at the YMCA tonight. Sorry for not posting sooner. It literally slipped my mind until right now. My bad.

NO YOUTH GROUP NEXT WEEK.

CONNECTIONS CANCELED!!!!

I doubt anyone's going to look here....but just in case....

CONNECTIONS IS CANCELED FOR TONIGHT!

We'll be back at the YMCA next week at 6pm

UPDATE FOR THIS WEEK

Hey there rockstars,

Hope you're having a great week.

Reminder that we're NOT at the YMCA this week. We're going to be meeting at Faith Fellowship Church. It is directly across the Market St. from the library. The parking lot is on the side of the building. Same basic format...they have a gym so we'll do some big dumb game before our lesson. Hope you can make it!

Now on to the fun stuff...
This is a cool way to sharpen a pencil....not very portable though....

Someone has WAY WAY WAY too much time on their hands to plan this sort of thing....

Follow up to this past Sunday

Hey guys!

I'm sitting in a coffee shop thinking about this past Sunday night. For those of you who weren't there we talked about how God calls us to love him above all else....and then to just love the heck out of everyone else around us.

I wanted to add something that I think I forgot Sunday night. We started off by doing some charades. We said that you can act like an auto mechanic, but until you grab a wrench and use it on a car, you're not one....you're just going through the motions.

This applies to us too. I read a lot of books about God, church, our spiritual walks, etc. All those books are really only knowledge. It's like reading about how to be a mechanic. Those books won't do me any good unless I put that information into practice and live my faith out. It's like reading car manuals without getting greasy and working on cars.

We can read lots of nice books about God. We can talk to our friends about God and who he is. We can go to church and youth group regularly. Those are all awesome things and I would even say that God would want us to do those things.....but is that wholly putting our faith into action? Is that really want Jesus is saying when he says "feed me, cloth me, visit me in jail, give me something to drink, cloth me etc..."? I think for most of us those are just "manual reading" things.

Ok more later. Take care!

We're back.

We're back at the YMCA this Sunday at 6pm. I hope to see you there and I hope you're bringing a friend, or not a friend too.