No JR HIGH youth group this Wednesday

Due to Thanksgiving break this week, we will NOT be having JR HIGH youth group on Wednesday, November 27.

Hope you all have a great week and an awesome Thanksgiving!

We will have JR HIGH youth group again on Wednesday, December 4.

See you then!

-PT

Senior High Youth Group - TONIGHT!

We start youth group in 22 minutes!
Hope to see you there!

-PT

Throwback Thursday - PT edition

So for awhile now I have been posting "Throwback Thursday" pictures of several students.  These pictures have been from our youth group archives and have shown how little some of you once were - or sometimes how different you once were.

Well a few of you have been asking me to post a throwback picture of me.  So I found one where I had hair - and it's blonde!  Yep, that's me on the left.  And then my friends Jake, Ryan and Travis.  This picture was actually taken in Duluth for Jake's wedding back in 2000.  Only 13 years ago!

How do you like my hair?

-PT

Harvest Home Celebration

Tomorrow - Wednesday, November 20th - is our annual Harvest Home Celebration!  All 6th-12th graders are encouraged to join us at 6pm for a program celebrating all that God has done in the last year at Bayside followed by a wonderful home cooked holiday meal and pie!

It is our church's tradition that the youth serve the meal.  So we are asking all students to come help us serve.  Dress up in black pants and a white shirt and join us as we serve our church body and praise God for all that He does.

Be there at 6pm for a program in the sanctuary.  They will dismiss the youth first to get ready to serve and then we will help serve the plates and cut the pies.  It's going to be a fun night.  We hope you will join us!

-PT

More pictures

Here are some more pictures of last week's cell phone scavenger hunt.  I'm still waiting for one group's pictures (Bashia!) so don't get mad if you are not in here:

It was a fun time!

-PT

Cell Phone Scavenger Hunt

Last night we had a blast at senior high youth group.  We started with a large game of 3-team bin ball.  Then we had a cell phone scavenger hunt.  We ended with having some prayer small groups.  Great night!

The cell phone scavenger hunt has become a favorite activity at our youth group.  As you can see above, Chandler and the girls were enjoying themselves.  This was the winning team from last night.  I will be posting more pictures later on.

Thanks for everyone that came last night.  Hope you all had a great time!

-PT

Senior High youth group this Sunday

Senior High youth group is this Sunday night from 6:30pm-8:00pm.  Calling all 9th-12th graders!

We are going to have a great night!  You do not want to miss it!  Something different, something fun, a little crazy for everyone!

See you Sunday night!

-PT

Ukraine Mission Team Report - This Wednesday!

We will be having a report from our 2013 Ukraine missions team this Wednesday, November 6.  TOMORROW!  This trip to Ukraine included 11 students from our youth group (all pictured above).  We hope that you will join us for an exciting report about how God worked in amazing ways during our trip.

Dinner will be served at 6pm.  The presentation will begin at 6:30pm.

Hope to see you there!

-PT

Beard - before and after

Many of you have made comments about my beard lately.  It wasn't planned out but for the last couple weeks I decided to grow a beard out.  Usually I do it once a year.  My tradition is shaving on Thanksgiving and then keeping a beard until after the new year.  I'll probably do that again this year, but for some reason felt like it was a good time to have a beard...until now.  I'm shaving it off this morning.

But since many of you have asked about it I thought I would show some before and after photos of me with a beard.  These pictures were not taken today but give you an idea of the difference between me with a beard and without.

I took this second picture about 30 minutes later.  I shaved my face as well as my head.  What do you think?

All I can say is, "Wow.  I had hair back then."

-PT