August 2008

Presently we were in the middle of a series entitles "Living Life Stoked" where we were studying the Holy Spirit and how He fires us up for powerful personal lives, and annointed evangelism.



Flamingoing
Pink Flamingoing continued all the way through August, on every Friday evening.

Living Life Stoked T-Shirts
Several weeks after camp, Brian Dugdale was able to take the design of our Living Life Stoked T-Shirts and turn them into print. We began selling them on Sunday Aug. 3rd and they went like crazy. We sold them in grey, white, and blue. Pastor wore one on a Sunday morning to help advertise and soon youth and adults were all wearing the AHYEAH t-shirt.

August 10 - 11 - Back To School BattleCry

This was the event to continue building on the foundation that Extreme Camp had laid. It was a launching pad for the youth to take on the school year. It was a 24 hour fast where the purpose was to immerse ourselves spiritually into Christ. It consisted of 3 teaching, 3 worships, 3 quiet times, 3 fellowships, and 3 hours of scripture reading. Terri set up the entire childrens area as multiple prayer stations, the library was a reading room, we had a teacher from ORU come and teach, the youth played tons of team building games.
The last service was taught by Mrs. Terri where she challenged the youth to take the school year for Christ. Then, all the youth paired up with someone that they had agreed to be an accountability partner with: to keep in touch throughout the week and encourage to stand strong in the exhausting atmosphere of school. Each pair of youth were given a piece of thick climbing string to make a bracelet or ankelet with (burn-ons). Basically you melt the ends so that the only way it comes off is to cut it off. Some of the youth wore there accountabiblity burn-ons for long over a year.
Finally, the parents of the involved youth got together and made a pot luck for them to break their fast with. We ate a ton of food, and the youth really grew from the experience.

August 16th - Church Work Day

I expected more youth to show up than did, but we really worked hard and I developed quite a respect for the ones that did. We filled and stacked sand bags.
Later that night, we met for a pool party and had a blast playing pool volleyball.

Ministry at West Tulsa UMC

Through August, Jesse, Jacqui, and I continued to work at West Tulsa UMC with the youth there every Wednesday evening.