Phil at Schools

To those of you who don't know, Phil is trying to come visit several different middles schools for lunch. He has already been to Elkridge, Fort Herriman, and South Jordan this month. He tried to go to Oquirrih Hills but ended up spending the lunch hour in the Principal's office. Hopefully, he will be hitting up the following schools: Juan Diego, Timpview, South Hills, and Crescent View. Due to the sensitivity of having a non parent adult visiting the schools, these will be the only schools Phil will be visiting for a while. If you have an interest of Phil coming to your school, sign up for ENGAGE student leadership next time there is an opportunity.

The Infamous Gummi Bear

This is my experiment to see if I can put videos on here.

Our new name and logo for our Praise Teams

Making Movies for BLUR

We encourage our students create their own movies that we will show at youth. Once they are created, we review them and then typically show them at BLUR AM.
What a movie should be like:
1) 1-3 minutes long
2) contain content that would say "it is time for announcements," "Welcome to BLUR AM," "It's time for Questions and Story," or any of the other things we see happen at youth.
3) Something cool that we might use for our talks
We love videos!

BLUR has begun! SMALL GROUPS

First week of BLUR
Our midweek meeting that we call BLUR (Believing Life's Ultimate Reality) had its yearly kick-off last night. It was a lot of fun as talked about small groups and some of the events we will be having this year. We also were able to play some games, and had a worship time led by Con Fuoco (our praise team). It was a great night!
SMALL GROUPS
I would like to take a moment and inform you of something new at BLUR. That is our Bible Study curriculum. We are using the One-minute Bible curriculum from Doug Fields at Simply Youth Ministry in which it takes our students through a large portion of the Bible in the three years that they will attend BLUR.
What it does is it gives students a simple oppertunity to be in Bible each day. It is a minute worth of scripture a day. It may not seem like much but it is a start. It gets them involved in the WORD. Books Cost $10 (can be picked up at BLUR)
The second aspect of our Bible Study is the leader curriculum. This is what connects what the students are reading at home and puts into context of the whole Bible. The leaders will take what the students have been reading and show them where it is in their Bibles.
We believe that after three years in BLUR our students will have a pretty well established foundation in navigating through their own Bibles with the use of this form of Bible Study.
(To obtain your own material visit: www.simplyyouthministry.com)