H2O Center

So we had a good time at the H2O center tonight, except for the lifeguard who figured it was appropriate to scream at us at the top of her lungs. Anyway it was fun trying to make the water slide rain on her. The flowrider was cool although Nik was the only one I saw on there. We will have to rent that thing sometime. Back at the church next week, hopefully you will all be there.

The picture I posted is a sketch that Simon drew. I saw him drawing one day and thought maybe he could design a shirt for us for next year, and this was an idea he came up with. Thanks Simon, I love it! Anyway if you have any ideas about this design or ideas for some other kind of a design, talk to Simon about it. Maybe he can do up a couple different ones and then we can vote on them or something.

November 24

Just a reminder that next week we are heading to the H2O centre. Same time 7:00 to 8:30, if you come to the church you will be sorely disappointed. This should be a fun time.

MAKE SURE YOUR PARENTS COME IN AND SIGN A WAIVER IF YOU WANT TO GO ON THE FLOWRIDER!!!!

Switchfoot

So I did two things yesterday afternoon. 1. I had lunch with a friend of mine, and 2. I went to look around at the christian bookstore. At lunch my friend and talked a lot about church, and youth group and stuff. One of the things that came up was how churches deal with conflict and how sometimes little things cause big problems in churches. This seems strange to me because as christians we have a lot of scripture telling us to avoid those types of things and when we can't to deal with them in love.

Then I went to Bell Tower and was looking through the music section. There are a number of new CD's out right now. Kutless has a great new worship album out, KJ-52 has a new album out, The Almost has a new disc out with a new full band, this is probably my favorite from the listening I did. Flyleaf also has a new disc out, and Switchfoot's new disc Hello Hurricane is also out.

Anyway by now you are probably asking yourself why I am telling you all this. Here is why. I know that most of you are Switchfoot fans, and because of my recent thinking about the importance of love in the church I decided to make a little challenge for you. So, the first person to memorize 1 Corinthians 13 is going to get the new Switchfoot CD. We also handed out the memory work sheet last week so you will also get the points for it, 26 if I remember correctly. If you are reading this then you have a head start, I will make sure everyone knows on Tuesday. See you then.

Memory Work & Captain

If you were at Battalion last week you were given the Battalion 3445 Memory Verse Challenge meaning that if you memorize enough points you get to go on a trip.... Thats right, an unforgettable trip which truly worth memorizing for.... Start memorizing!!

As a tribute to our Captain and Leader of Battalion 3445 we want to wish him a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Sunday November 8th

Hey guys just a reminder that we are going to be having a bit of a special event at church this Sunday. If you can make it please come out. Church is at 11:00am, DON'T FORGET TO WEAR YOUR SHIRT!!!!

Pines Report / November Birthdays

So I had a great time at the Pines last weekend. I hope you all did to. For those of you who weren't there you can check out the pics HERE. As usual we arrived Friday night, pretty much just got the hot tub started a bit and that was it for Friday, oh yeah and a Mars bar war. Saturday we did some shooting. Check out the picture of all the targets!! It was insane, and we had to set up more a couple times. Charlie came out with us and brought his rifle. We had some good fun shooting Phil's steel plate target with the big gun. We also did a bit of skeet shooting again which apparently isn't as much fun as the target shooting. Saturday night we lit the camp's big brush pile on fire. Most of the guys headed to the hot tub after a couple hours. Phil and Charlie and I watched the fire a bit more until it was under control. Then we headed to the hot tub as well. Sunday we went to church in Grand Forks, and then had lunch at DQ before heading home.

I decided that the guys at Battalion 3739 had a pretty good idea to share who had birthdays each month. This way we can pray especially for these guys in the month. So here are the birthdays for November. Happy Birthday guys, God Bless you.

Dan - November 9
Braden - November 21
Matt - November 28
Stephen - November 28

See you tonight!!!

Pines!

So I managed to keep my eyes open long enough to get one pictured posted tonight before I get to bed. I will try to get the rest up ASAP! Fun weekend, again!