September 2008

September 5th - Guest speak at 4 Square church.

A fellow youth pastor friend of mine was holding a conference at his youth ministry and invited our youth group. He also asked me to give a salvation message. Jacqui and I along with 10 of our youth went over and supported them. Honestly, the my message didn't go very well, but we had fun playing games and building a connection with their youth group. Very cool people.

September 6th - Ministry at West Tulsa UMC

We had a Saturday event there where we took the youth of their ministry to a youth center and hung out with them. We also played a little football.

September 10th - Remedy Drive Concert

A church near us was hosting the fast growing in popularity band Remedy Drive. We went and watched them jam out and had a bunch of fun, including meeting the lead singer who gave us a card, in case we ever have 3 grand to pay them to come play for us.

September 17th - 1st Fantastic Friday on Wed.

After the closing opportinity of continued ministry at West Tulsa UMC, we created a service in the middle of the week that would be a refresher from school. Hopefully a couple of hours of the refreshing feeling of a Friday. It would be an hour and a half of a brief worship, light discussion, and alot of game time.

We also began having our worship time to candlelight which the youth really enjoy, along with fun games such as "murder in the dark," "coffee pot," "sardines," etc. FFonWed has been such a success and created such a fun service for entry level youth that we've continued it every Wed to this day (with very little exception).

September 21st - See You At The Pole BlowOut

To ramp up for See You At The Pole on the coming Wed, we had an event to spark excitement and hopefully some zeal to stand out to go and pray at the flag poles of their schools. We had a guest speaker (Jose) come and minister to us on the power of prayer and handed out a ton of fliers, bracelets, and other stuff. Also, we got together a ton of spray paint and gave each youth a white t-shirt and stencils to create their own SYATP t-shirt. Some of them came out really cool.

September 24th - See You At The Pole

At 8am we went to the IHigh to hang out with the youth that were willing to be open about their faith. Although we started late, quite a few students showed up and a good chunk of them were ours. We actually had prayer around the pole twice. Once with the early group, then as other people got there we did it again. Pretty cool.