my sister

wrote this and i thought it was pretty cool so yea maybe you can read it


my mom has this vase
of flowers
on our dining room table.
so today we all sit down
to dig into some
delicious and healthy mcdonalds
so hannah says
"mom, y are ur flowers dying
i just watered them today?"
so my mom says
"hannah, water won't keep
those flowers alove
they were taken away from the soil were
they were rooted
into, and given to me
they will stay pretty for a while,
but then they die."
when she said
that
it was just basically a slap
in my face.
god has been really speaking
to my heart these past few weeks
about keeping my heart rooted into
him, so that i can "grow" through him.
it was like, there
are so many things in this life
that you may think can sustain you.
that guy or that job or those
friends or something.
you may want to give yourself to them
because they think that you are beautiful.
but once you are uprooted from God...
you begin to die... and when
flowers die, they lose their beauty,
and are thrown away...
god was bascially telling me
to keep myself rooted into him
that way and can grow and flourish
and have the beauty
that he created me to have.
after this revelation
i proceeded to eat
my fries
because they were getting
cold.- by becca schafer

posted by jessica

woop woop!

So I was listening to Hillsong today and came across these lyrics from the song "My Future Decided" :

"Unafraid, unashamed, Lord we know who we are:
We are your people and we won't be silent!

Unified, hear us cry at the top of our lungs:
You are our God and we will not be shaken!"

I had heard them before, but they seemed to really catch this time.

Anyways, they made me think about a few things, so maybe they'll have the same effect on you...

-Victoria K

so summer camp

was great the first night when tyler went up and started talking about let it go and stuff and forgive someone it was so cool! i was mad at some one there about some things they had said to me and i was thinking about going and talking to them about it and stuff but then tyler started talking about that and it felt like some one went and told him jessica is oing throuh this and she needs to hear these words! it was so cool!!!!!!!!! then me and laci stayed up for EVER that night talking about stuff like camp and what we were expecting and i told her i was confused about like the some stuff then rev.spikes went and talked about it and that was pretty cool!!!!!! then i got baptized ! and the message tyler gave wed. morning was so relevant to me!!!! but camp was cool how like everything i needed to hear just happened and i was so amazed!!!!!!!!! at camp i met some new people... they already went to pathfinders i just never talked to them and i am so glad i met them!!!! regan katy and sabrina were who i met and they are SO fun to be around!!!! they crack me up i was like dying on the bus because when i laugh it makes me cough so i think thats funny so i laugh harder then i cough harder then it hurts to cough and its REALLY funny!!! but anyways camp was great!!! and I cant wait to see all the amazing things i can do for God!!! I really want navigate to start back!!! I dont know what i am gonna do over the school year because i won't have navigate:[ well my brain hurts because i just typed a super lot!!!!!- jessica schafer

Update

Just wanted to let everyone know that I got the new team totals posted...Year 1 Team 1 is majorly in the lead! Team 2 I think after the break is your time to shine!

Anyways, it's been a great 3 weeks & I am so proud of you all! The last 3 weeks are going to rock!

Also, I posted all your grades, and stuff you're missing on ccb...

Remember, you can use my username: crystal.tullos@healingplacechurch.org and password: Password1 to log in to hpc.ccbchurch.org. Click on groups, then Navigate Summer 2007, then look under documents and articles!

Love you all & I will see you Sunday!

oh my gosh!!!!

we are leaving for camp TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SO VERY EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well anyways navigate yesterday was SO fun!!! thank you so much for letting us go to jump n jive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had a blast!!! Crystal I just wanted to tell you that you did a GREAT job teaching our class!!! It was DEFINATELY my favorite class!!! I have three pages of notes on flow and sermon and stuff!!! I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT CAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Jessica

Pathfinder the other night!

The other night at pathfinders was awesome. Victoria you did just a fantastic job! God is going to use you in BIG way! Celebrity night was cool. But the real reason i am posting is because pastor Tyler shaved his head! I have before and after pictures and during the process video. Check it out!
Chase

Before












During






After

church last night

was sooooo good!!!!!!! worship was my favorite andflo was just amazing!!! Victoria Kelly you were amazing!!! I know it took alot of courage to go up there and speak!!! you did a GREAT job!!!! I cant wait till tomorrow! JUMP N JIVE!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited and this is like the best summer ever man!!!!!!!!!! well i have to go babysit!!!!!!!! - jessica schafer

a cat

dear tyler,
today on the outreach me and eva saw a dead cat that melted into the cement.









love,
d m$ney

this dude is crazy.










My little brother Lincoln asked Jesus to come into his heart a year ago today.






the CarePoints in Africa are doing so much to help aids orphans






















these are some kids from Zimbabwe.


well, gotta go do my homework.

later

JD

happy fathers day

to my dad. i don't know how but it seems like he is always right but i guess that's a good thing.

we went to my grandparents house for lunch on Sunday and he played ping pong, my dad smoked the ball right at my head and who knew that a ping pong ball would hurt so bad. at least he didn't mean to, all i saw was a white wall coming straight at me and then the next thing i knew i was on the floor laughing at myself but i can see why everyone was making fun of me.

yup, that's how my family rolls, you do one thing that's funny and then the next thing you know you are 150 years old and they are still making fun of you.

JD

i miss everyone

so much!!! i havent been to summer session since sunday
:[
first i went to a farm with guests from out of town then i got sick and my mom wouldnt let me come... so yea well so i want to know what all you guys did
:]
so yall need to start posting some stuff about what yall did
:]
well yea i cant wait to come back!!!! good night guysssssss -
:]
JESSICA
:]

Year 2 & 3-Team 2 & Year 1-Team 1 In the Lead!

TEAM POINT TOTALS


I just updated this weeks bonus points & deductions...
Don't forget every blog is worth 5 bonus points...blog away! When you add pictures it's worth an extra 10 points!

Year 1-Team 2 had a total of 66 minutes in deductions due to tardies & no t-shirts & 1600 points in deductions due to leaving 16 peices of trash on the shuttle bus! They earned almost 1200 more points at their outreach at DVILLE by sorting library books than Team 1!

Year 1-Team 1 had a total of 33 minutes in deductions due to tardies & no t-shirts.

Both teams were awarded 450 points because Pastor Crystal was 45 mintues late to class on Sunday!

Year 2-Team 1 got a 50 point bonus because Travin LeBlanc was caught picking up someone else's area in the sanctuary on Friday morning! That's away to be excellent! Jessica Schafer is definitely keeping you guys in the running by all of her blogging! I don't know if she can keep up with JD though :)

Year 2-Team 2 had a few too many tardies this week! Get out of bed you sleepy heads!

Yall are doing a great job keeping up! I am proud of you all! Keep up the great work! It's worth every second!

Pastor Crystal

Don't Forget

Just wanted to remind all the 1st year students that Genesis through Micah is due this Sunday during class...good luck studying!

By the way..

the below post is from Victoria Kelly.

amazing things

Tonighit's service is very hard to describe, not i a bad way, in a completely life-changing, world-rocking way. So much stuff went down during worship and altar call! Someone thats been having a hard time compltely broke free of what was binding her; to witness that and be a part of it was just awsome. I realized tonight that when you feel someones pain, relief, joy, etc. is when you really know your heart's in the right place, and that you're doing what you're doing for the right reasons. Does that makes sense? Anyways, i'm not saying any of this to make myself look cool or "expierienced" or whatever, i'm saying it just because i can't keep it to myself. We should all have that feeling, because what's inside of us and what goes on around us in church and navigate is so amazing, and changings so many lives that we need to share the great feelings! One more thing: during altar call i was praying for somebody and the Holy Spirit was able to work through me and minister to that person. They started crying, and i couldnt believe i(or really God) could have an impact on someone my own age! We really do have so much power in us , we just have to let ourselves go and let the Holy Spirit work through us and do what it needs to do! It's not about us or our feelings, it's about the person that we're ministering to's feelings, and their needs!
Okay, i'm not trying to preach to you or anything, and i hope this wasn't too cheesy for anyone who happens to read this...

Seriously now, you have the power, ability, and call to change the world...USE IT!

church tonight

was amazing!!! ms.sarah did an amazing job!!! I feel so much better!!!!!!! tongiht was probably my favorite pathfinders ever!!!!! it was just SO good!!!!!!!!! oh my goodness it was so amazing!!!!!! and tonight i felt so old!!!! it was my little sister hannahs first time:) i am so happy she was there
- Jessica Schafer

inside that matters

Paris in Jail!!

Paris' mug shot(or modeling picture??)

Hey, today was a really weird day. And I say this mainly referring to Paris Hilton. When I found out she wasn't going to jail, I was furious! Like who does this chick think she is?(oh wait, she's Paris Hilton. The heiress to the Hilton hotels who is SO rich, it's just not healthy!) Well, I was pretty ticked and then she came back up on the news. This time, she was going back to Jail. As they showed her screaming and crying for her mom, my first thought was "Ha ha, poor little rich girl!," "How pathetic!", "It serves her right!", etc... Well, then I remembered something I learned at summer session. They also talked about it at church. It was how my thoughts should be God's thought. Well, I was feeling kinda bad because I don't think God would say those things about Paris. Yes, she is spoiled, but she really could be scared. She was raised knowing that nothing would happen to her because of who she was, and now, this. She's actually being punished, and it really might be overwhelming her. I guess it's cool that God taught me something by using Paris Hilton. And now, instead of talking about her and making fun of her, I will be thinking of her and praying for her. And who knows, maybe Paris will really get something out of this. Until then, I'll be praying for her!

Luvs! Zoe

Enjoying the Summer ........... Session

Bailey,Lauren, McCall, Haleigh
Dylan
Regi
Malanie

I have not regretted doing navigate at all. I was talking to one of the friends. She is not doing navigate. She was talking of how it is all about quizzes, test , and homework. I thought........ and said "NO" it is about growing in Christ. AND. Standing UP. Standing out. Changing the World!i thought y'all would also enjoy some pictures from the first week of navigate. Talene And Melanie
Nicole
Mrs. Samantha

Amanda


A wise youth harvests in the summer,
but one who sleeps during harvest is a disgrace.
Proverbs 10.5


Chase

today

was really fun!!! i loved going to the outreach i really realized how much we take for granted because we have so much at pathfinders and we are all so used to how nice everything is and they have pretty much nothing! its really sad how much we take it all for granted! the only bad thing about helping was the cockroaches they were so gross!!!!! I really hope I can go back there and help there and stuff!!! It was so fun going there!!!! the classes were really good today!!!! Lance Leblanc was a great teacher it was a fun class I laughed like the whole time!!!!!- Jessica

Everytime time I...

see a homeless man and/or woman, I FREAK! I always try to reach out to them but they are so stubborn. I mean I try to help them! I try my best but, I don't know if I should even bother giving money. I don't know if they are homeless or just simply faking to get some money. Everytime I give and give and they go spend it on Beer and etc. I think we should go to a needy center and do an outreach this summer. Anyone else?


Cade Donaldson

Wednesday summer session

Yesterday at Summer Session was awesome, we went to the thrift store to look for white rapper stuff but there wasn't anything there but thanks anyway T, we had the best classes i learned a lot from Tyler and mark. anyway I'm glad that summer session has finally started.

oh, i almost forgot i got this picture of travin in the duck suit and Zack fox givin' him a little love.










By the way Zack i heard you playing break free yesterday on the guitar, that was awesome.


JD

summer session today was so fun!!! I cant wait to see what God is going to do in my life this summer!!!
in ministry today i learned so much!!!
Ms.Elizabeth was a Great teacher!!! we spent alot of time just talking and I LOVED it!!!!
i especially loved service today tweez did so good!!!
Im gonna go now...
yea so im on my way to shut down my myspace because i spend too much time on it!! i have been thinking that if I spent as much time with God as I did on myspace how much better it would be!! well c yall later
love- Jessica

hi god loves you so much

By the way,

the below is Zoe Graeser!

Adding on to what Kayla said....

Hey, We were just talking about Criss Angel, also known as "Mind Freak". We brought Dylan to his mom, but ont the way there, we somehow got into a conversation about him. There is something going around that he is the anti christ and that got me thinking. He is impersonating christ in somethings, like, walking on water, making miracles(like dropping food from the sky, and even turning water into wine). There's even a rumor that says he is going to try to bring himself back to life. It's kind of weird. What do you think about it Crystal?

dear pastor crystal,
today i was flipping through the channels and isaw a show called "mind freak" the man is a magician and he was like 100ft in the air with nothing under him. i was wondering if you think he is deceived by the devil

thanks
kayla tims

Prayer meeting this morning

first of all a big shout out to my dad for dropping me of at the annex at like 6 in the morning. This morning at the prayer meeting with my sister, tori, I was reading 2 timothy. God spoke to me and said that i need to listen to Paul's instructions to timothy and the church in Ephesus. Paul said to timothy "stay away from wicked conversation and actions."

My friends away from church are a bad influence. I'm trying to get them to come to pathfinder tomorrow, but they don't like church. But ill change that for sure.

JD

Summer Session

Summer session has been great so far. I fell that that I'm having a great experience with the Lord. I think that every one else is to. So here are some funny pics.

Bonus Blogs Added to Team Totals

Can't wait to see everyone in class tomorrow! Just wanted to let you know that I just posted the bonus points for all of you who posted blogs yesterday & today! I will start keeping track again tomorrow!

See you bright & early at chapel!

Love, Mama C

Great summer

This summer is going to be great at summer session.Yesterday was our first class and it was realy fun.Im on team 1.We learned about the gospils in the bible wich are mathew,mark,luke,And Jhon.we have class tomarrow and its going to be fun.
Emma P.

that last one was from zack ive never done this stuff before my mom wont let me have a blog
zack

yesterday at summer session was so awesome it helped me understand the purpose of the gospels alot betterer, and Pastor Dino's lesson was so "relavant" to me. I mean the whole thing about making God's compassion our compassion. It really got to me because it showed me that I need to have more compassion towards other people in everything I do. Thanks Crystal, for every thing you toght us about.

1st Day of Class

Yesterday was the first day of class for Navigate. It was really life changing for me. We were learning how to really read the Bible, instead of just opening it and being like "So whats next." In class we talked about the four Gospels, Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John. After that we went to service and Pastor Rizzo talked about Jonah and the whale. He was talking about how stupid it is to run from God.He said its so stipid to get into a boat when you know the dangers of the sea. Another thing to remeber when running from God dont skydive.


B.Lusk

The Dead Sea Scrolls

I read some more about The Dead Sea Scrolls and they are the best way to prove that the bible is not just made up. They were found in cave right by the Dead Sea in 1947 by a Bedouin shepherd boy. Here are some cool pictures I found.






















So that's a little bit of what I learned.


- JD

this is going to be a greeeaaaatt summer!!!

1. 
   
   today was a greAT day i had so much fun being in the place god wants me to be!!! today was cool because we talked about the 4 gospels, matthew,mark,luke,and john the first three are called synoptic gospels because they were very much the same unlike john he wasn't 1 of the 12 desciples.anyway i did not know any of this information till today so i think it's a blessing tobe in navgate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! also church was so cool . pastor dino talked about jonah it makes me want to read the bible alot alot alot more!!!

--------k@yl@ t!m$

First Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

man, the first day was totally awesome. i believe it is truly a
blessing to be here. I think its truly a blessing, because I can meet new people ,but not only that - to go deeper in my spiritual nature. So far so good. But this is just the beginning.




love,
Dylon M.

1st session of summer

today's lesson was about the gospels. I learned alot i didn't know for instance that the 4 gospels were matthew mark luke and john and that john was not 1 of the disciples. and we did alot of fun things today! today's church lesson was on jonah and the "whale" i put it in qotes because some say it was a big fish. but i also learned alot more. I think I'm going to have a great summer!!!

My First Navigate Class

Today was my first class ever for navigate. I had such a great time. I loved the lesson Crystal taught today. Learning about how the Bible was written was a great eyeopener. After knowing that the Bible is the inspired word from God.It makes me want to just read His word and not STOP!!! I now realize that I just put the Bible aside and turn on the TV or get another book. But after this morning I just want to throw the TV in the garbage and throw all my other books away and have the Bible. The Bible is such a great gift from out heavenly Father, who created the world and us, and sent his son to die on the cross. He did so much for us and I think me and everybody can spend 15 minutes reading his word.


PEACE
Chase

We Made It!

So we made it through the day & pretty well may I add...all of you did an incredible job participating in class & service! We're very proud of you all! WE can't wait to see you Tuesday & Wednesday!

Here are some pics of your first day...can't wait to read your stuff this week! All you 1st year students remember...salvation costs you nothing...discipleship costs you everything! Sell out this week...you won't regret one minute of it!


Pastor C

The 2nd &3rd students didn't know what was coming at them with Mrs. Connie Firmin was teaching them about the Dead Sea Scrolls and all the other amazing facts that give evidence for the truth and accuracy of God's Word! Let's just say we all became a little smarter today!

1st Year Students, Chase Cole, Christine Babin & Emma Pursifull all posing for a pic as they participate in their group activity in Developing Your Mind!

The 1st years book Open Thoughts...

Victoria Kelly and Taylor Smith, both 2nd year students take notes about how to defend the Bible is true!

It's All About the Start

The calm before the storm...it's 8:21am and I'm sitting in my office putting the finishing touches on the outline for the 1st year's students first class of the summer! Mrs. Connie is at her house studying one last time to teach the 2nd year students about how to defend the fact that the Bible is the true, inspired Word of God to an unbeliever!

I am so overwhelmed by the number of students who have made the committment this summer to go to the next level in their relationship with God! I can not wait to see all that God does in your lives...I challenge you to stay the course and run the race with perserverance and excellence! Anytime you offer anything to God, He will always give you more than you could ever hope for or imagine!

You're about to begin a journey that will change your life! Come expecting...leave stronger than you could ever imagine! Pastor Tyler and I love each of you so much and are so excited for you!

Mama C