Posted in youth group, God thoughts on Aug 17th, 2010
I sat on a boulder
on a rocky hillside,
hummingbirds buzzing by,
orange and brown lichen,
edges digging into my thighs …
praising the Lord for His creation,
Jesus, our foundation,
the solid Rock.
I leaned on a tree,
pine needles in my hair,
my questing fingers
[…]
Posted in youth group, God thoughts on Aug 14th, 2010
We moved softly through the silent house, eager to see the Perseid meteor shower, and stopped, frozen by awe at an expanse of stars unhindered by city lights. “When I consider Your heavens,” I whispered from Psalm 8, “the moon and stars which You have […]
Posted in youth group, God thoughts on Apr 4th, 2010
After the retreat, we moved into Holy Week. Friday evening—Good Friday … I recall a student asking me, decades ago, “You mean they were so glad someone killed Jesus that they have a special holiday and call it good?”
Anyway, at youth group on Good Friday we read from the Bible about different sins: all the […]
Posted in youth group, Just thinking ..., God thoughts on Apr 3rd, 2010
Last Saturday, the day before Palm Sunday, my youth group had a one-day, stay-in-the-church retreat. We started by making team flags: the Hello Kitties, the Biohazard Vikings, the United Cow Pants, and … oh, dear, I forget! [Thank you, Susan: the Super Flamethrowers, of course!]
We made boats and had a contest to see which boat […]
Posted in youth group, Just thinking ... on Feb 16th, 2010
I joined Brownies as young as you could in the ’50s: 2nd grade, 1954. We sold Girl Scout cookies door-to-door; it was safe then. They were 45¢ a box. Mother, our leader, said one of the best things that ever happened to her was when cookies went up to 50¢. She said she could teach […]
Posted in youth group on Feb 5th, 2010
My word! We played Four on the Couch in youth group tonight—there’s no way I could keep track! Some of the kids were baffled too, but many were right on top of it. How do they do that?
Okay, so you divide into even teams; we did boys against girls. You sit in a circle […]
Posted in youth group on Dec 31st, 2009
{If I say so, as shouldn’t—as my grandmother used to say!}
The teens in my youth group, a bunch of regular kids in the Boulder Chinese Baptist Church, watched a YouTube video of “Who Am I” and decided to do their own version of it. It’s what I call a hand mime, with white gloves and […]
Posted in youth group, Just thinking ... on Dec 14th, 2009
At least, that’s what one of the girls in my car said about my Christmas lights! Vicki and I drove the youth group to see the amazing lighted trees on Baseline, and then by my house on the way back to church.
The youth group is doing a “hand mime” of “Who Am I” by […]
Posted in youth group, God thoughts on Dec 1st, 2009
Ah, such busy-ness lately!
Thanksgiving noon I was at 1st Pres, watching the deacons serve a sit-down meal to the homeless. I’m in charge of the Christmas meal for the Lamb’s Lunch—we’ve never done a sit-down meal before, and I’m kind of drowning in details …
And I had Thanksgiving dinner with Tia’s family (I work […]
Posted in youth group, Travels on Aug 20th, 2009
Ah, it’s the little things that cause the trouble sometimes …!
The retreat went extremely well. Ted was sick and went home the middle of Saturday night, and it rained a bit on the hikers Saturday afternoon. Otherwise … the Lord blessed us!
Sunday we drove all the vehicles into the park and had a worship service […]