Hey guys, I realize this is probably just students looking at this now…. so I’m letting you know that the last batch of pics from Thursday night is now uploaded. I may add a few more videos later, but we’ll have to see.
I’ll try to post some video footage before we leave in the morning, but it’s after 2am….so we’ll see. Another BNYC Momentum has come to a close….and it will be good to come home. See you tonight!
Hey parents,
Just to let you know again, we’re planning on leaving at 7am tomorrow morning. We’re hoping for minimal stops….(I won’t hold my breath). That means that we should pull into the church between 11-12. We’ll pass cell phones around.
In one hour we head to our last main session. That will be followed by our last youth group time and then our final session at 9pm (10pm Indiana). Please pray for us tonight!
Tim
Hey this is Michael Trier
I have been a part of the Project Manager team for the past week and things are going great.
God has been really encouraging. Everyone is thankful for your prayers, and I hope things are going well at home.
Hey this is joey,
We’ve been doing some cool stuff. We picked up trash on the road in Hattiesburg. It was pretty trashy so we got a lot of work done.
this is jeremy,
we’ve been doing alot this week. we have really been doing alot to serve God. one of the things we did today is pick up trash in hattiesburg for the blitz. we basically went along the highway picked up trash. i have been doing a lot, like going to a power trax today. in it we were able to question two people from india and one person from vietnam. it was really interesting. the thing i have learned alot this week. probaly the most important thing is do you really believe something is going to happen and you’re not praying just because you want to. it’s also been encouraging to see how God is working in gulfport to rebuild people’s houses and then let us be able to talk to them about God. Monday when we went to pearlington we were able to love on some kids that lost their houses. down there as we were coming back to the campus we saw alot of devastation. there were alot of square pieces of concrete in the ground. i found out later all those concrete blocks used to be houses. well we are starting the night sesion so i gotta go.
Hey parents, Nick Deck here, I just wanted to let you know that your kids have been Great! We have been having a wonderful time and it’s so awesome to see God working in their lives and through them. Thank you all so much for giving us the chance to take them to Momentum (previously known as BNYC [previously known as Camp Bethany (previously known as Ed Lewis Week with the Dinosaurs)]). Please continue to pray that our hearts will be open to God for the remainder of our time here.
Hey mom, this is John Hocking, we had a great day. We went out into the community and picked up trash on the side of the road. We didn’t really see many people but one lady was really happy we were there doing something. She seemed to be kind of annoyed that it was so dirty. It was cool to be able to pick up trash there. There were a lot of beer bottles. I started praying for the community as i walked and i felt really good about being there. I know that i didn’t have any effect on anyone personally, but i know i helped the community, and i am very glad i am here. love you mom–john
Uhm…hi mom and dad (who are here with me)…just wanted to give you all a link to our speaker this morning (Josh Finklea)
Not sure who knows, but
YES, our bus is fixed. We’ll be leaving 7am MS time on Friday morning.
YES, we were able to go out on the blitz today (lots of picking up trash…I’ll let other people tell you about it),
and YES, Jason is ok.
We’ll update some more tonight. In the meantime, you can check out a few pics of today on the pics page.
hey everyone this is Emily Tuggle. This week so far has been absolutely amazing in soooo many ways! I have been learning alot but the biggest thing i have been learning is how to be content with who i am and where i am. I realize that God has made me exactly who he wanted me so it really doesn’t matter what anyone else says about me. He loves me for me! Also just realizing that he has giving me many opportunities back at home. I don’t have to travel to another place to find people to share my faith with. Well i hope all of you have wonderful day!! God Bless
Soooooooo
Tuesday. A lot of big things happened. Maybe not as big as Graham calling me cool, but still big. Like massive.
Like super duper big.
I wish I had more time, but apparently Tim was compelled to make us leave right now.
The service was awesome. Morning and Evening, and a lot of seemingly meaningless things all contributed to helping me figure out how to configure my heart to what God wants, and not to earthly things, that even try to affect me here.
God helped all of us, and one of the coolest times ever this week was seeing Krysta talk to Eric, cause we like never see him. (Maryland isn’t as cool as Warsaw…) and it was awesome because it really deeply affected her. And seeing her filled with God is helping me see her differently, and my attitude has definitely changed about so many things.
And do we really have to be 16 to go on the Blitz? It’s my first year and I wanted to help.
It’s only a freakin busy highway. I can play in traffic like the big boys too.
~JP
editor’s note: it’s not necessarily a “freakin busy highway”, and we are all going on the blitz.
Could I ask you to pray for 2 things:
1. Apparently our bus is broken…at least that’s what I’ve been told…I’m trying to check on it. Instead of having lots of kids calling home panicked I chose to tell them last night and ask them to pray for it….and now I’m asking you, too. Also pray for our driver Mike in this whole situation as much stress will be falling on him.
APPARENTLY God came through! Last word is that our bus is fixed and good to go. Thanks God! Thanks for praying!
2. Pray that we can get a spot in the blitz tomorrow afternoon. New opportunities are opening up all the time and I desperately want our group to do some ministry. It looks like we may have some neat opportunities on the campus, even.
Again…God came through…we’ll be in Hattiesburg cleaning up a highway! (so you can pray for that, too!)
Thanks for your prayers. I love serving your kids.
Tim
Monday, July 23 2007
Cori Catron:
Today when my the group went to help out after the confusion of gulf port or pearlington, we had an excellent chance to help an older lady by building her a house, under the guidance of Tom. One of the coolest things that I got to do there was to spend time with some of the neighborhood kids that needed some older people to spend time with them. Probably, the coolest thing for me to do with them was to play football with them while they competed against each other for fun. The joy was just amazing. The kids spirits were both refreshing mentally with the stress, and also physically with the heat. It was just a great day in all.
yesterday I was in the session and Francis Chan said something about being lukewarm for God. I said to myself “hey I think I’ve been lukewarm for God. I want to be on fire for God. I then went down to the stage to rededicate my life to God. And since i have done this I have seen a BIG improvement in my life. I can really understand what God has been talking about now. I can read the Bible and I know what it means. And then today we went out to the buses and our bus was broken. We prayed and we got an empty bus. We were supposed to go to Gulf Port but we went to Pearlington. Then when we got there we had to many people and so we had a lot of standing to do. That was kinda discouraging. But then some of the local kids came up to us so we had something to do. They were really uplifting. –Jordan
Hey it’s Krysta Miller here. Wow. A lot has happened in this amazing day that God has given us. Today was our workday and we had it all planned out to go to Gulfport but they told us that our bus was broken. So we did TAP which is an acronym for Turn and Pray. My group prayed that God would be able to use us no matter if we went to Gulfport or not. As we waited for about fifteen more minutes, we were told that we would be going to Pearlington instead. Which I was so excited about because I knew that we would be able to see the homeowner.When we arrived there we got to meet her. I won’t try to even spell her name but she was the most encouraging lady. She told us later as some of the girls went to talk to her that even though some of her neighbors had drowned in “the storm” (what they like to call it) she knew that God was still with her and with all 9 of her children and her grandkids and great grandkids. It was a very uplifting day and it was truly by God’s grace that we were able to go and help rebuild homes. But not just homes, hearts as well. Hallelujah, our God reigns!
Hey this Simone Kranzman God has done amazing things today through our group. today we were suppose to go to Gulf Port but they told us that our bus broke down. So we prayed in groups about just find a bus and if we didn’t god will find something else something for us to do. So we finally got a bus and ended up going to Pearlington. So the family we were helping was so happy there were 4 children there. They were racing and getting piggy back rides and just listening to what god has done for them. So God was so amazing to take us to Pearlington to help us build homes and our hearts. So yeah god is so amazing…
Hello all! What a lesson in answered prayer and flexibility…but I’ll let students update about that more later tonight at youth group time. We had a great day…are tired and thirsty…and were able to see some work accomplished in…….Pearlington! We were supposed to go to Gulfport, but ended up at Pearlington working on new houses.
We’re getting ready to head to session in 45 minutes. Shawn McBride is our speaker tonight (Francis Chan is done for the week). If any of you use itunes I’d suggest getting Steve Fee’s CD ‘Burn for You’ because we’ve enjoyed him a lot as a worship leader.
We’ll update more later and then dump on a TON of pictures from the day.
Tim
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DON’T FORGET to check out the pics and videos on this page….
ALSO…PLEASE PRAY for us as we go out on our work day TODAY from 11-6pm. (We will update pics and stories tonight)
Hey all its Lauren Byers, and Momentum is pretty amazing! The speakers are good but personally I think its wonderful just to see the different ways of worship. We talked about Loving God not just fallowing God, it’s amazing just to see the different ways of loving God and there’s not rite or wrong way. God just looks down at us and is extremely happy to see us!
Yo it’s Johnnny, God really spoke to me when Francis Chan talked about God being our hopes and our dreams. He used an illustration of a girl who’s boyfriend told her that he was stuck deciding between following his dreams of marrying a hot surfer chic or settling for her. It made me think what kind of an awful, stupid, and insensitive guy! Then he switched it and says we do that with God sometimes telling God I like you but I’d don’t know if I want to be stuck with you because I like alot of things down here too. I know that i have done that A LOT to God, and that has been a big thing that God has convicted me about. see ya…
hey, this is Chris talk’n. Well tonight was another amazing session with Francis Chan as the speaker. It was one of the most amazing days ever. One thing that really caught my attention, was when he compared our relationship with Jesus Christ as a marriage. In a successful marriage, you have to love the person you are married to. He gave an example of someone he knew that was going to ask his girlfriend to get married, but he was in another country and he could not get back. The airline put him in a 5 star hotel, but he said that he still felt like he was being imprisoned because he wanted to see the person he loved. So that made me think, do i really love God that much. And that is what i learned from Francis Chan tonight. Talk to you all soon.
for everyone reading this, it’s connor here. so far this time has exceeded anything that i could have expected. conference has been a really good time to be challenged – in so many different ways! God has been working so much in me this summer, and this week has continued what i was learning at springhill, how pouring my life into God and into others is really what this walk is about. the time that God gives to talk about everything that he has done in my life, is really what i’ve been looking forward to every day. i hope that you all know that the prayers you give for us are at work keeping all of us amazed with God. thanks for all your awesome support, we love you guys!
hey this is megan! conference has been great so far. i think that one of the most awesome things here is when everyone is all together during session and we are just pouring our hearts out to God. in the short time that we have been here i have learned a lot about becoming closer to God and living my life for him. at sponge sessions today our speaker talked about how what you do most in life and what you follow is like what you worship. that was pretty interesting for me to hear because i havent really heard that before. this is just the beginning of a great week of learning and being with tons of other people to worship and learn about God!
Graham called me cool today.
But I think he was lying.
Meanie. ;_;
~JP
Francis Chan has such a way of hitting you right in the gut totally unexpected! Tonight he talked about how much we are should be in love with Jesus! He asked, if we could have heaven, no pain, no suffering, no death or separation, and all the earthly things we love with our friends, but no Jesus, would we be happy? Would I feel fulfilled? Or do I long to be with God, even if it were just me and Him? It really hit home with me when I thought about my dad leaving for Iraq, and how I won’t be able to visit him like when he was in Texas. Tonight I finally cried about it; the tears had kind of been building up since he left. And tonight, I just cried, and I thought about how much I miss him, and how much more so I should miss God because I can’t be with Him in person yet. THAT IS WHAT I WANT SO MUCH! To long for God, and miss Him, and want to just cry because I can’t be with Him. And that is how our relationship should be with him. TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH GOD!! That is my heart’s desire!!
-Lindsay Houvener
