October 2008

October 18th - Whispers In The Dark Video

Beginning in October and stretching through January of 09' we made a noteable effort to try and create a music video based on the Skillet song "Whispers in the Dark". The video captured a youth's dark night of the soul and showed the spiritual battle that was going on around him.
For this video, we had auditions, pulled together camera men, special effects artists, and a director all out of the youth ministry. Scheduling conflicts and putting off the actual shooting eventually got the best of us. :(

October 4th and 25th - West Tulsa UMC

Jacqui, Jesse, several of the core youth and myself went and played football with some of the remaining urban youth of the West Tulsa UMC minstry.


October 31st - Wacky Watermelon Night

Instead of carving pumpkins, we carved watermelons. :) We had multiple games surrounding watermelons such as water melon stacking (where youth stack watermelons with bubble gum - gross), watermelon pinata (way fun!), rubbing them in lard and having relay races with them, carving, and throwing waterballoons at them trying to put out candles that were inside.
In the midst of the chaos, Tyler decided to make armor out of the broken pieces (see pic above). Basically the event was alot of mess, not many youth, and hours of clean up, but still fun, and nice to remember.