Recent Youth
Highlights
2004 N.C.M.B.
Conference at The Hope Center
“God has a plan for you!”
The theme of this years conference
challenged us all. It was great to have the U.S. Mennonite Brethren
Conference Executive Director here to give us encouragement and share
wisdom. A big highlight was the 9 youth involved in the “Back to the
Mennonite Brethren Future” drama. We attempted to portray the past,
present, and future of the North Carolina Mennonite Brethren Churches set
to the theme of the Back To The Future movies from the 1980’s. Michael
and Bryan took on the biggest roles playing Marty and the Professor and
had to work on 20 lines each. The youth had a lot of fun shopping for
costumes at the Goodwill store and making the time machine car (which the
adults seemed to enjoy during the play). Everyone was pretty nervous for
the performance but they pulled it off with success.
I also did a presentation to cast the
vision for the youth and children’s programs and tell people about some
of the changes coming up (see upcoming events for the details). The
conference showed us that God does have a plan and a bright future ahead
for our churches.
F.R.O.G.
We worked through a Veggie Tales theme
in September and learned about Forgiveness, Sharing, and Loving your
neighbor. We learned new songs like “God is Good” and an active
version of “This little light of mine”. I tried to leave the song “Father
Abraham” out of the line up one night but the kids wouldn’t hear of
it. This song continues to be a dizzying highlight.
5th Quarter
Septembers 5th quarter was held after the Hibriten
victory over Ashe County. Our churches took 15 youth to the 1st United
Methodist Church. Our youth were so excited about the basketball court
that they didn’t get around to the pizza until everybody else had
already had some. Sports before pizza is a good sign of a healthy
lifestyle. Youth not playing B.ball relaxed downstairs and watched Chelsie
and Taylor on the pool table
Eidse Family
Discoveries
A monthly look into what this Canadian
family has discovered about North Carolina and the USA.
A few things we noticed that y’all do a little
differently down here.
