Upcoming Show

Just wanted to take a second to promote the upcoming show at the Flood Cafe!

MCREST

This week at our church, we are hosting "MCREST"

Some people think this is where the hamburgler went for retirement, but it is actually the "Macomb County Rotating Emergency Shelter Team" Since Macomb County does not have a permanet Homless Shelter, this is the "traveling" one. We open up our church (as do many other churches throughout the year) to house up to 30 men. Currently we have about 23 in the program, but it is always an eye-opening experience to serve them meals each night, talk with them, about their lives, and just plain be here with them.

What a way to begin the Thanksgiving season. Helps me to remember to give thanks for what God has provided me with!

PDYM Community Lunch

So I just got done hosting my PDYM Community Lunch
It was great to have so many different circles of Youth Pastors come together, from Full-Timers to Volunteers, Men and Women (I know, Youth Ministry never got into the whole affirmative action thing...) Rookies and Vetrans. We are all in this together to make a difference in Students Lives. I hope to see continued connection through many areas...

• Prayer for and with each other
• Corprate Events (not events hosted by Ford, by doing things together...)
• Learning how each other does ministry
• Having Fun!

We are definitly Better Together!!!

We return from Fall Retreat

Another successful year at Bambi Lake for this year's Student Fall Retreat. After reveiwing previous years and determining the main purpose for this event, I would say we were quite focused and on target.

We(the CORE student leadership team) determined the primary purpose for this event should be Fellowship--after all when do you get to spend more than 50 hours together! A secondary purpose should be Outreach. The students wanted to see this event be a great "front door" for the Flood. After looking at the week, I think this was definitly the case.

• We took 20 students.
• Of those 20, only 6 had been to Bambi Lake in the past (what does that say about our return numbers?!?)
• Of the remining 14, 5 of those students were Freshman who were in need of connecting.
• Out of the 9 left, 5 were students in the Flood who had yet to connect in with the rest of the group
• For the last 4, this was their first time to anything.
  

I had a talk with one of the first-timers while we were up there, and she told me she didn;t believe in the same God I do, that she "picked and choose from different religions." As hard as that is to hear becasue I know the Truth about Christ, it is always AWESOME to know you are speaking with students who may soon come to trust in Jesus as well!