April 2011

Lazer Tag - 6th

Tonight we enjoyed some extremely energetic lazer tag games at Lazer Quest. Once we arrived, we knew we were in for a really fun night, once we got all our activators and came up with the most extremely awesome names we could come up with, we headed in the destroy eachother with lazers. As the games began, we quickly headed to the numerous towers and hiding spots throughout the arena, where we engaged in heated battles with our fellow youth and all the other people that were there, including all the little kids running around in packs with guns (Not something you want to run into during a game of lazer tag) after our game we headed out into the main room to get our scorecards and see how many people we managed to blast down in our game. Once we got our battle scars fixed up and the sweat wiped from our faces we departed back to the church with another great night to remember.



Flour Wars - 13th

For our flour wars park night we went out to Hakey Creek to beat each ther into submission with panty hose filled with flour. Everyone was required to bring a cardboard shield which they could customize to their heart's content, it started out with two teams, opposing each other in huge lines, and after we built up our warfaces we charged each other like maniacs and began swinging away at each other. On each team there was a medic that once you were hit with another fighter's floury panty hose flail, would come out to pick you up and bring you back to the line, where you could then regain your strength and charge back into battle. After our battle was finished, we gathered in a circle and initiated a warrior's challenge, where all the JH youth were pitted against each other to see who could come out top dog in an all out fight to the white powdery death. Once all the JH youth were finished we pitted the HS youth against eachother, and afterwards we had a gigantic war, in which every youth was on their own beating their way through the crowd of people with shields and flour flails. Finally nearing the end of our destructive war we piled back into the bus and headed to the church to let our flour wounds heal and get some much deserved rest.



Paintball - 16th

Another extremely fun paintball adventure took place tonight, we bulleted eachother until we could take no more, and ran around the paintball arena like we were on fire. Dom was shot and scarred, who doesn't like being pelted by a paintball moving 100 psi over regulation (and still carries the scar to this day)? After our intense paintball gaming experience, and after many of us were shot repeatedly until we ached with bulletwounds, we headed out, and returned back to the church to call it a night and head home.



Movie Night - 20th

Tonight we went out to see Soul Surfer, we got our snack and drinks and headed into the theatre to enjoy the movie, the movie was about a girl that has a dream of being a professional surfer, but tragically lost her arm after being attacked by a shark. In the movie she struggles to pursue her dream of being a surfer with her handicap, and is taken through a long and hard journey, with her youth pastor at her side guiding her through and helping her keep faith though she was in a life-changing accident. This movie was a great and inspirational movie based on a true story, and the strong message sank into the hearts of many of the youth attending.



Bowling Night - 27th

Tonight we headed to the Bowling Alley, on our way Dom and Carlos put together a challenge for the youth, and the challenge was, to split up into groups and come up with a riveting story about one of the characters going on a scavenger in which they had to find 5 items, one of these items being a princess, and battle all the other characters to reach their final objective of rescuing the princess. The characters that the extremely creative minds of Dom and Carlos came up with were: Fransisco the Pixie, an Ice breathing Ice dragon with an Afro, Betty the Cyclops, Thor Thumb the thumb viking, and Timmy the everyday normal 5th grade boy. Upon arriving at the bowling alley we settled in and enjoyed friendly bowling competition, laughs, and snacks. The night was filled with our extreme bowling pro youth showing off their awesome bowling skills, of course Dave and Adam with their fancy bowling balls had to face off in an epic bowling ball battle to the death. The games were intense as we destroyed the lanes and congratulated eachother for a great game. On the way back to the church we shared some extremely funny and amazing scavenger hunt adventure stories, which had us rolling over laughing, and riveted by the creativity of the youth. (insert by Dom - the most note-worthy stories were by Jon Lutherbeck and also Jordyn Winett who had brilliance all over their stories.) Once we were finished with our stories we flooded out of the bus and returned home to call it a night.