The Meaning of Life, ELR Style

Hello Again - thought I'd post the other video clip of ELR we used yesterday for our messages to the Senior and Junior High youth groups. In this scene, the adults are gathered in the living room discussing their interpretations of what our purpose is here on earth. Funny stuff...



Enjoy and see you soon.

Welcome to the Planet!

Last night we did our first Junior High "BIG BLOW OUT" event at the REC Center. We had a blast playing dodgeball and gaga ball, eating Nachos and hanging out with each other. Tonya did a fun game called "King, Sword, Dragon" with everybody too! We took about 20 minutes and talked about why we are here on this earth and the mission God has for us while we are here. We opened the night with a short video clip from "Everybody Loves Raymond" where Raymond comes to Ally's room ready to talk to her about the Birds and the Bees, but then gets flustered when he figures out she really wants to know why we are here on the earth. It set the tone really well for our talk.



The next "BIG BLOW OUT" will be October 5th and will take place from 6:00 to 7:45 PM at the Medina Rec Center...Hope to see you there!

Sean is gone...(sniff)

WOW, sorry I'm so behind on the posts here. We took our oldest sone Sean to Bellarmine University a couple of weeks ago and it was a little more difficult to cope with than I anticipated. Two weeks later Sean is doing fairly well at school. I believe he is realizing the beauty of college...no parents around, he keeps his own schedule, eats when he wants to, gets to play lacrosse at a very high level...what more could he ask for?
This past Sunday I was talking to him and he shared that he was doing his homework on Sunday morning so he could stay ahead, "Besides Dad, I don't want to be home after Thanksgiving!" Haha, I laughed at him! Our little private joke this past school year has been the the light hearted threat that he wasn't going to become a H.A.T, or "Home After Thanksgiving", a term coined by one of the Lacrosse coaches recruiting him last year for new freshmen who fail school after just one quarter and come home after Thanksgiving.

Sean started his Fall Lacrosse Schedule last week and practices 5 days a week, including Sunday morning at 8:30 AM (woo hoo - better get to sleep early Sat. night so you can perform son!). They will travel to Ridely, PA to participate in a round robin tournament and then they are done for a while except for lifting. He was pretty geeked last week when he saw the Spring schedule and saw that they were scrimmaging Duke and Maryland in the Feb...(hmmmm, sounds like a road trip is on the horizon...) He told us he signed up for FCA ( Fellowship of Christian Athletes), which he did without any coercion from Mom or Dad. We hope this works out for him...

Anyways - just thought I'd post an update here on my boy. Thanks for the humoring me.

Ron

Phil Wickham Download

Hey Parents...if you like good music, give this website a try...it's about a guy named Phil Wickham, an artist who plays guitar and good music. He has a free album you can download by just submitting your e-mail address to him. Check it out here.

That's My King...

Sorry so many posts this week...we showed this video in church 1-2 years ago and it never gets old...Praise Him!

Piqua Workcamp Pt 3 of 3

Here it is, the long awaited sequel to parts 1 and 2. I just ran into someone today at Chipotle and they told me that one of the attendees mentioned this was the best workcamp ever because of the unity built within the work crews. WOW - big words spoken randomly by an observer! I certainly had a blast at this mission trip - I pray that the momentum we began at the "Love Out Loud" workcamp lasts throughout the year. We have a few things planned for the kids this year in youth group that will help that "serving" attitude last. Thanks a ton parents! Hope you enjoy the memories!

Piqua Workcamp Pt 2 of 3

Hello Again, here is part 2 of the 3 part video we showed on Sunday morning of Workcamp Sunday. One of the surprising things about this camp was the tremendous media coverage we experienced throughout the week. Almost everyday we had local city councilmen, newspaper reporters, city workers, and TV News crews visit our sites to interview work crews and see what we were doing. Amazing! Piqua loved us like no other!

And we loved Piqua! Probably one of the highlights of the week was on Thursday morning when a local Dayton TV reporter did a live feed from Piqua High School on the work we were doing. Many of the kids had a difficult time waking up but this guy must have had 30 cups of coffee before he arrived!