My official 12 Challenges in 2012

Tonight at youth group I revealed my 12 in 2012 list. This is all part of our theme of God-honoring goals. We are challenging every Bayside youth group student to come up with at least 1 God-honoring goal in 2012. Feel free to comment on this post if you want to share your God-honoring goal with everyone. Here is my list:

1.Read through the entire Bible in 90 Days

2.Serve Dinner at a homeless shelter

3.Memorize Philippians 4

4.Switch places with Sarah for a day

5.Write a letter to Garrison and Josiah

6.Run a half mile in under 2:15

7.Stay clean shaven for a month

8.Perform a song for youth group

9.Participate in “Night Without a Home”

10.Participate in a food challenge

11.Eat a raw egg “Rocky Style”

12.Speak in Donald Duck voice for one whole youth group

I will post updates throughout the year, as well as have updates during youth group. And as you can see from the list above, many of these events or challenges will take place during youth group. And if not, I will certainly report them during youth group.

Here goes...

-PT

Campus Missionary Breakfast

We are having a special breakfast for Campus Missionaries on Saturday, January 28, at 10:00am, at Barker's Island Inn.

This meeting is for all students who have committed to being a Campus Missionary this school year. We will hang out and have a time of fellowship and we will pray for you guys.

The only cost is to pay for your own breakfast. The restaurant there has pretty good prices and you probably won't have to spend more than $5-$7 for a good sized breakfast. Also, if you don't want to eat breakfast or can't afford it - you can still come! Just come and hang out with us.

SATURDAY
January 28
10:00am
Barker's Island Inn

See all you Campus Missionaries there!

-PT

New Carpet Ball Champion

We have yet to announce the completion of our 2011 Bayside youth group carpet ball tournament. Although the tournament didn't finish until 2012 - we have a new champion:

Nathan Tunell is Bayside youth group's 2011 Carpet Ball Champion. Nathan continues a line of champions from the Tunell family. In fact, this is the 5th straight year we have had a Tunell win the championship. Nathan is pictured here with his brother, Erick, who was the 2010 champion. Another interesting fact is the last 4 champions have come from the same household! And if you include last year's Bayside Bowl MVP from that household - that's a lot of hardware!

Nathan easily defeated Cody Casper in a two-week championship match by a score of 5-1. It was his fifth straight victory in the tournament - the most ever in the history of our prestigious carpet ball tournament. His closest match came in an exciting 5-4 victory during the quarterfinals against Michael Johnson.

Congrats Nathan! You're the champion! Get ready to defend the title because in a few months the winter will subside and we will start up the 2012 tournament!

-PT

12 in 2012

For 2012 I decided that I am going to attempt to accomplish 12 goals or challenges from our youth group. On Sunday night at Senior High youth group I will be speaking about God-honoring goals. Our encouragement to all the students will be to find and accomplish God-honoring goals in 2012.

With that I will also give a challenge to the students of Bayside youth group to help me come up with my 12 goals or challenges for 2012. Some will be God-honoring goals, some will just be for fun - but no matter what they will be a challenge. I will take all the suggestions from this Sunday and create a full list of 12 goals that I will attempt to accomplish this year.

One God-honoring goal that I am already attempting is to read the entire Bible in 90 days. Another fun challenge that a former youth group student gave me was to grow out a mustache and keep it for a week. Just a couple ideas to get your minds thinking...

If you have any suggestions, make a comment on this post and I will put it up for consideration.

-PT

How Great is our God?

Share a comment regarding something that impresses you about God.

The Star of Bethlehem

Tonight at youth group we watched an amazing video called "The Star of Bethlehem." It is a really spectacular documentary about God's amazing plan for us, Earth, Jesus, salvation, heaven, etc.

In the video it talks about the stars and how the Bible and science work together to show some amazing truths in the sky regarding the birth and death of Jesus Christ. I would highly recommend this video. If you were there or have seen it, please make a comment about your thoughts on this film.

For more information about the film and topic visit the website, bethlehemstar.net

Our God is an AWESOME God!

-PT

Senior High Youth Group is back tonight - finally!

After a two week hiatus because of Christmas and New Year's Day, we are back to regular youth group for Senior High students in 9th-12th grade on Sunday nights from 6:30pm-8:00pm.

I hope that you all come out for a great night. I look forward to seeing you all there!

-PT

Indescribable

Tonight at youth group we watched a video called "Indescribable." It is a message given by a guy named Louie Giglio. He is an author, speaker and musician. He has written many worship songs that you probably know. In the video he talks about how awesome and amazing God is, which we all know and believe to be true.

He begins talking about the stars, galaxies and the universe. And how BIG they are. And how SMALL that makes us - meaning us here on Earth. He shows a lot of really cool pictures of stars, galaxies and space that just blow your mind. The neat thing was how he ended his talk.

It all led to the picture above. This is a picture from the Hubble Telescope of "X structure" at the core of Whirlpool Galaxy. This picture is of the center of the Whirlpool Galaxy some 23 + 4 million light years away from Earth.

Our God is pretty big. Our God is pretty cool.

"Indescribable"

-PT

Youth Group is back on this week!

That's right. We are back on this week! After Christmas and New Year's holidays, it's time to get back to youth group.

AMP and JR HIGH will start back up on Wednesday, January 4th.

SR HIGH will start back up on Sunday, January 8th.

Hope to see you there this week!

-PT

Here comes 2012

Happy New Year!!!

Just a quick reminder that we will NOT have Senior High youth group tonight due to the New Year Holiday. We will be back to the normal schedule next Sunday night, January 8th. Come and see some cool surprises for the new year!!!

Hope you all have a great day and I look forward to seeing what God does through Bayside youth group in 2012!

-PT