Sunday night we got together and played a couple awesome games of Laser Tag. Congratulations to Greg and Patrick our big game winners! The rest of us…. we we tried real hard didn’t we? haha
This week we will be meeting at Starbucks for Crossover. You can meet me at the church at 7:00 or just meet us over there at 7:15. We will be starting our summer series on Prayer.
See you soon
Be Brilliant,
Mel
Hey there ladies and gentleman!
This week we are gonna go back to Seeker’s(For those of you who don’t know Seeker’s is this really cool Christian coffee house and music venue) for crossover @ and give it another shot. I think we’ll start over on the music side and then have our lesson on the coffee side after.
You can meet us at the church at 7:00p or at Seeker’s at 7:15p.
Last night we met for our CTCYM mission trip training. All the Junior High and Senior High particpants came together and we talked about communication, “guidelines for behavior” and then we got out some of our power tool anxiety out using the Circular Saw!
I am so looking forward to mission trip!
We had a great night and I don’t know about you guys but it got me way hyped up for mission trip!
See you Wednesday!
Mel
Okay guys for the next three weeks Crossover @ is going to get a little crazy so I thought I would give you a heads up. This is what the next couple of weeks will look like:
Wednesday, April 16- We will meet at the church at normal time, 7:00p - 8:30p, but we wil be practicing for the talent show instead of having a lesson.
Wednesday, April 23- General Conference Opening Worship. We will meet at the church at 4:00 and ride the TRE to downtown Fort Worth. Once there we will attend the opening worship service for General Conference! It’s going to be a really cool thing, you should totally come check it out.
TUESDAY, April 29- General Conference Youth Event. Meadowbrook UMC and the Central Texas Conference is hosting a huge concert/dinner/music/fellowship party for all the youth in the area, and the youth who have traveled from all over the country for General Conference! Meet at the church at 5:00. (We will not meet on Wednesday this week)
Okay consider yourself informed and I will see you Wednesday for practice!
Be Brilliant - Mel
Sunday, April 13th
“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.” - 1 Corinthians 10:26
For Green Sunday we had about ten students here. It was a really cool night! First we had a bible study and talked about how we are keepers of God’s kingdom and we are called to love everything from a slug to a Sequoya as our neighbors. After that we did a “take pride in your outside” and cleaned up all the little pieces of trash that get blown all over our property. Next we went inside and talked about recycling and suggested ways to not only recycle but to reduce the amount of waste we collect. After that we did an energy efficiency talk and then we inspected all the windows and doors of the church and checked their seals and working ability. We actually found that the new fire door upstairs is in need of weather stripping or something, since you can pretty much see outside cracks through three of the the four sides, and we found that one of the window panes in the 3 & 4 year old class is broken. After the energy inspection we went into the kitchen and made our own window cleaner “Flamingo Formula”, it is environmentally safe and biblically inspired. We actually have some bottles left over if any of you guys want some, just let me know.
I definitely think it was a worthwhile night, and I hope all of you that were here got pumped up about thinking about the environment that we live in and preserving it instead of just using and abusing.
Be Brilliant (all of you),
Mel
Come on up to the church tonight for crossover @ the Houy’s. We will meet up here at 7:00 and be back at 8:30. We will be continuing our series on community!
Also, if you have not given me your mission trip form and your $100.00 I need it tonight! If you don’t turn it in tonight, I can still take it as late as May 15, but it will cost you $125.00 instead (the extra fee is a late charge from the conference office)
See you tonight!
Be Brilliant - Mel
The praise music festival on Saturday was a lot of fun. We ate, we listened to awesome music, we got a sun burn, and we even played a game of Croquet! What an awesome day. I wanna give a big shout out to Jonathan and Mel Baggett who filled in at the last minute and had an awesome set, and of course RHUMC’s world famous f.o.G. band! You guys did a great job also.
Overall it was a great way to spend a Saturday and I hope you all enjoyed your free Sunday afternoon, too!
I’ll see you on Wednesday for Crossover @ the Houy House!
Be Brilliant,
Mel
Wed. April 2 – Crossover @ Taco Bell. Be at the church at 7:00, we will be back by 8:30.
Saturday, April 5 – Praise Music Festival! From 1:00 – 7:00, there will be six different bands, lots of good food, and tons of fun company…. Come check it out it is sure to be awesome! (we won’t be meeting on Sunday night this week.)
Wed. April 9 – Crossover @. Be at the church at 7:00, we will be back by 8:30.
Sunday, April 13 – Green Sunday! We will be planting some flowers and doing some clean up around the church. We will also talk about some ways to be green! The CSI class is gonna join us, see you from 4:30 – 6:30.
Woo hoo, Bowling was so much fun on Sunday. We went out to main event and tore it up on the lanes. You guys are pretty good. I think Casey was the high score for the day, but it might have been Aaron “I have my own bowling ball” Jones. Jonathan was hard core with the left handed bowl, and Jesse wins the award for best performance on the back nine, after he started out way slow and still broke a 100! Greg and Lindy battled their way to a tie with Greg taking the first game and Lindy taking the second. Me, I bowled the greatest game of my life a 105…. and I still came in third out of four.
See you on Wednesday for Crossover @ Taco Bell. Meet at the church at 7:00 pm, back by 8:30.
Be Brilliant - Mel
We had a lot of fun last night at Spurlock Park. Sydney, Patrick, Aaron, Chad Houy, Greg, Casey and myself went over and we spent some time talking about community. We used a ball of yarn to depict the web that our community creates. We looked at 1 Corinthians and the verses about all of us being individual parts of one body.. the body of Christ. Each of us has gifts and graces that we have been given to make our community strong. We passed the ball of yarn back and forth to each other caling out similarities and differences that connect us in our community. As we were all holding on to the string we let go of one side and saw that the entire rest of the web was affected by that one person letting go. Overall it was a great night that brough up some questions worth considering.
How strong is our community?
How welcoming is our community?
How can we reach out to others and draw them into our community?
