Kids These Days!!

We have all heard that expression! Kids These Days! It is almost always used in a negative sense! However, today I wanna tell you that these young people, that I am privileged enough to work with, are pretty amazing!! I wanna relay this e-mail from our district Youth Alive Director Jason Lamer, that has to do with one of our students!! So go ahead... be proud of them, I am!!

This is Courtney's report from last month!!

"This has easily been the most amazing month for me since I have become a campus missionary. My youth group had a post SYATP rally and I invited my whole volleyball team. They are my closest friends and four of them are on my five friend focus. My entire team ended up attending and all four of them were saved!!! I had the amazing opportunity to pray with them and it was an experience like I have never had. Seeing my prayers so clearly answered was amazing. God did some awesome things in their lives. They are so excited to know Jesus and are asking tons of questions that I LOVE answering for them. They are already sharing Christ with other students and their families!! I can't wait to see what October holds for me as a CM and for our team, now all sisters in Christ!! =D"

*Courtney was awarded the DYD Merit Award for 2008-09 school year.

Kid's in School!

It has been a while since my last post, so here comes a new one!

I love this time of the year! Friday night football, Soccer games, school events... the list goes on! As I think about all of the fun things our kids do and experience at school, I also think about the great opportunities that they each have to share Christ through their lives. Our students are really amazing. They are stepping up the place as never before!

This Wed. night is our annual See You At The Pole event. We will have games and prizes and food at our post pole rally! We are anticipating breaking our attendance record but more importantly we are trusting God to save many souls!! I am believing and praying for more students to lay down their lives for God.

Pray for us as we continue on in His service!
Blessings,
PC

The Nines

I am so looking forward to this one day of church leadership! The nines will be an all day marathon for any and all leadership. I am so looking forward to this lineup of cutting edge church leadership! They are always full of ideas, humor, and insight! Below, I posted a short video below for you to check it out if you are interested in this totally free webinar!!!

Blessings,
PC

The Nines from Todd Rhoades on Vimeo.

Our First Day in Orlando!

We had a great trip here, no problems other than a few serious thunderstorms! We had a few bad slowdowns because of the weather, so it took us almost 6 hours to get here when it should have only taken 5 hours. All in all it was a good trip.

We had our first service tonight! Picture the largest room you have ever seen with close to 20 thousand screaming young people! It was great!! Almost all of our students responded to the altar call!

We are looking forward to a great day tomorrow, we will go and listen to James at 9:08am and then we will go to Magic Kingdom in the afternoon. There is no service tomorrow night so we are looking forward to the time off!! Dylan raps on Wednesday @ 9:30 so we will do that then go to another park in the afternoon. There is a lot to do and it seems like we will not have very much down time! Pray for us as we go!!

Blessings,
Pastor Carl

Ready to Ride!!

Well, We are all packed up and ready to hit the road. We will be leaving on Sunday morning at 7am!! We will drive about 10 hours on Sunday and then stay overnight in a hotel. We will then continue the rest of the way on Monday to our home for the week in Orlando. We will have the opportunity to hear Jeff Deyo leading worship and several amazing speakers including Tony Dungy, Herbert Cooper and many others. We are really excited about the fine arts competition that will be taking place all week! Please remember us in prayer as we pack up and hit the road for this amazing opportunity! I will be blogging our events throughout the week!!

blessings,
Pastor Carl

Kid's Camp 2009

I always have a blast at camp and this year was no different. We were able to take 15 great kids from our church, and had a great week with them. Below you will see a video of our kids at camp. There was so much to put on here, but I just did the highlights! Hope you enjoy it!
Blessings,
Pastor Carl

Day of Fire Testimony

I saw this testimony of God's grace and mercy and had to share it with everyone. This is a powerful video, take 5 minutes to check it out!!
Blessings,
Pastor Carl