Pioneer Bootcamp 2010

It's Never Over

2010-09-16T11:47:00.001-07:00

PBC may be over, but the effect is still there! Conference is here and we will all be seeing the people we spent a week with. I know that we're all excited. I think I'm more excited to see what God is going to do this week. There is so much God wants to do in the youth, but it starts in us. We can't just hand it all over to God and tell Him to move- we have to be willing to move too. That's what Tyler touched on at youth on Saturday. We get from God what we're willing to give to Him. I hope that this week, as we're having fun catching up with everyone from other churches, we remember what God has done. Don't forget what He did during PBC and don't forget what He is STILL doing! Be open to what God has and give Him your all. Show God that you're willing to do what it takes for Him to move and that you're not lazy. Be praying and reading this week! Let's make it a fun week and a week to remember. Open your hearts to God and He will move. He's an on-time God. I can't wait to see everyone from everywhere and hear about what God has done in your churches since PBC!!!! Don't let your fire die out!

-#7 (Gabby)

Thats the End!

2010-07-25T21:41:00.001-07:00

Well, PBC 2010 is officially over. We had our big testimony service tonight at church recapping it all. Looking back at it all (not just the last thirteen days, but the last six months in reality) I write, and say out loud as I write, "Thank you Jesus!". What a privilege and an honor to be able to do something like this for the Kingdom of God. I am so proud of all of our teens for doing what they did, giving what they gave, and did it all with the hearts of true servants; knowing it wasn't to get something in return, but making themselves willing and committed to do something for God. God was faithful to what what He did and we saw the results we believed for: lives impacted and many changed no doubt forever by the Gospel of Jesus Christ, our Pastors strengthened and encouraged, fruit within the churches, and renewed vision even within ourselves.

I call out to all our teens to hold steadfast to what God is doing in our churches and in yourself. He saved us not just to get us into heaven, but to work in us and through us. Encourage and drive one another to pursue and expect greater things. Live your life to where it can match the testimony of Enoch in the Bible, he 'walked with God'. It's not some far off mystical thing, its simply loving God and doing what He wants you to do. God's call to His people has always been obedience. We have great things before us, lets seek them out, take them as our own, and hold onto them.

All the work that went into it was worth it. All the preparations and planning and re-planning that happened behind doors and late at night; the fundraising, the meetings, the practices, the prayer, the organization of it all, and everything else that went on. I want to thank all our group leaders for accepting the invitation to come, and stepping up to the plate and making it something awesome for each group (a shout-out to all the baby sitters for the leaders kids too; thanks for 'staying by the stuff!'). Thank you to Pastor Jones and Pastor Paul for allowing and entrusting us to do this. Thanks to all the Pastors and their families and church for welcoming us in, taking care of us, and letting us work side by side with you. Thank you parents for investing in and allowing and your teens to be a part of it all. I want to especially thank my wonderful wife Shaunna and Mrs. Emily Jones for all the many, many, many hours they poured into this behind the scenes in making it happen.

Not sure if anyone will post anything else here on the blog, or how many people will be looking except those who didn't get a chance to look while it was going on, those who couldn't keep up with all the posts, and those who simply want to return from time to time to visit some memories. But from our end, we are done. We love you all.
For His Kingdom and Glory!
Love God, hate sin.

Tyler & Shaunna

2010-07-21T10:50:00.001-07:00

FUN IN THE SUN!!!

"DION" the first one to jump in.

Nic: I'm not flexing, I'm cold.

SPLISH SPLASH

Jumping in the pool for the last time, in church clothes! Nothing suprises me anymore with this group.

2010-07-20T09:16:00.001-07:00

2010-07-20T08:59:00.001-07:00

Say Chesse!

The Ladies: Gail, Monica, Mekayla, Maxine, Daniella and Rachel HOLLA!!

ROADRUNNERS....MOUNT 'EM

Oscar with a BIG cookie in his mouth!!

Battlegrounds

2010-07-19T22:53:00.000-07:00

You never know how rough war is until you experience war as a christian. We weren't forced to join this battle, we choose to join this battle. God laid a hand in each of our lives, and we decided to answer the call. "Many are called, but few are chosen."

Each one of us has some sort of story as to how we came to Christ. Some simple, with rough trials, others through bad times. We all have our story, and are practically form different lands, but we share the same goal...to see souls get saved and people to come to Jesus Christ.

For months we have spent our time preparing for this siege. Sharpening our swords through the word, hardening our armor through the test and trials of everyday life. Through every trial we have faced, our swords have strengthened and our armor shines brighter. No longer are we maggots in this army, but now we are soldiers serving under the one true God. Our companies name? None other than 180 degrees. Taking siege of Portland Oregon, turning this city upside down for God.

Our armor is battle scarred. Dents covering every inch of them. The helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the belt of truth, the sandals of readiness, and the shield of faith. Each piece worn out and damaged, but every time we get on our knees and humble ourselves before the Lord, our armor is restored and we're ready for another wave of enemies from hell. Demons stand no chance against the Lord, for even they knew there was a God, and even they feared that one God.
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Pastor Marshall (0) is the company commander. He has a bite far worse than his bark. Height don't matter to him, he can take anything down, even a rhino if he felt like it. A true man of God. There is never an ounce of fear in his voice when he is witnessing to someone, or passing out tracks. In his heart he knows for a fact God is moving and his sword will pierce his adversaries armor. "Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you." Deuteronomy 31:6

Ms Cherise (00)(Kiki)is the platoon leader. She is the pastor's wife and is sweet and kind to us. Almost like a mother, we call her momma Cherise at times. A godly woman who confronts the sins of others and reveals them. She plans out the events and makes sure we are ready and have the schedule prepared. She makes the tactics clear, and God points us in the direction to go. "To shine upon and give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct and guide our feet in a straight line into the way of peace. Luke 1: 79"

Abby (1) a soldier rough around the edges. She is also a specialist who works in video production and encouragement. Upon battle she goes straight for the kill and doesn't bother with the details. But upon witnessing she takes her time and really explains to who she's talking to in order for them to have a better understanding. She going forth for the Lord full force, and is always willing to do God's will. When one of us is down, she'll always be one of the first ones there to try and cheer us up and just push us along. She has also been busy posting slide shows of our moments here in Oregon. "Therefore encourage (admonish, exhort) one another and edify (strengthen and build up) one another, just as you are doing."
1 Thessalonians 5:11

Robert (2) Platoon sergeant, directly under (00). Hes the team leader, charging into hordes of enemies with his platoon behind his back and God protecting him. One of the best leaders you'll see, naturally born, but he still humbles himself. His mouth isn't everyone's favorite thing, but when he when hes serving God, the gospel floods out his mouth and speaks to our hearts. He has a vision in serving God, and is determined to live his life for him. "Where there is no vision [no redemptive revelation of God], the people perish; but he who keeps the law [of God, which includes that of man]--blessed (happy, fortunate, and enviable) is he." Proverbs 29:18

Shanity (3)obviously not a medic, but of the infantry. Her specialty is photography. She's a tough cookie who doesn't show her soft side too often. When it comes to battle, she breaks through the ranks, not just by force, but by intimidation. A child of the Lord who is willing to do what she has to do to serve the Lord. "I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ's sufficiency]." Philippians 4: 13

Shelby (4)(Penny Proud) Shelby's fields are photography and treasurer, a corporal. Her smile is always ear to ear due to her never being able to stop laughing. She really makes the other soldiers feel encouraged and refreshed. Every time we had prayer she was one of the first to be down there, and didn't pass up any opportunity to pass out tracks or serve God. A great woman of faith who has a real heart of God. "Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God." Philippians 4: 6

GO (5) King Kong, Goliath but on the side of God. His job is the daily organizer, right by (2). Foes fear the sight of him, a mere glance can leave a man terrorized. On the field hes terrifying, on private, hes one of the funniest people you'll meet. He cracked so many jokes during PBC, and really brightened our day. He got the opportunity to preach during youth service, and really has a heart for God and wants to go somewhere for him. "The way of the Lord is strength and a stronghold to the upright, but it is destruction to the workers of iniquity." Proverbs 10: 29

David (6) (little baby fetus) David is GO's assistant and really has a heart for God. When witnessing, he tries to connect to people in order for them to be more interested in talking. His heart is just all for the Lord. Excitement always ran through his body before, during, and after church service. "If anyone serves Me, he must continue to follow Me [to cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying] and wherever I am, there will My servant be also. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him." John 12: 26

Gabby (7) another soldier in rank. Specialist like (8) and works in the field of Journalist and faith. Her voice sounds like an angel, when enemies from a far off camp hear it, they flee in terror for it sounds of a mighty army marching forth for battle. She's always believe in God and everywhere she goes there's a smile on her face. You hardly don't see her smiling, she seems to always just have this joy in her and that must be from the Lord. "And He has put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many shall see and fear (revere and worship) and put their trust and confident reliance in the Lord." Psalm 40: 3

Isaiah (8) is one of the soldiers in ranks. A specialist who works in the field of Journalism and evangelism. It don't matter if whoever he is talking to is a higher up, or a lower up, he shows respect and listens. Soft hearted, he shows compassion for his enemies. Once he starts witnessing and passing out tracks, fear seems to leave his body and strength floods him. If his actions will bring glory to God, he'll do it in a heartbeat. "To open their eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may thus receive forgiveness and release from their sins and a place and portion among those who are consecrated and purified by faith in Me." Acts 26: 18
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They hear it...they hear it...they hear him. The three things most people hear before getting saved. They hear a testimony, they hear the gospel, they hear God's voice. Vistory has been obtained. The siege is yet to be complete, but my company's cycle is over. New recruits have been trained and God is on their side. Thank you Jesus, for answering our prayers and working in every city.

"But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up [close to God] as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired. Isaiah 40: 31"

the announcement

2010-07-19T22:50:00.000-07:00

Alright so if you guys haven't guessed...we..well I wrote "Gail has an announcement" just to see people's response and who would blow up her phone!! pretty funny uhh?! hahah. If you didn't catch that...there's no announcement!!! We arrived back in the springs around 9:40 pm and boy was ABQ a blast! Spending time with Pastor,the family and the church was not in vain! God moved!! We took on the name "ROADRUNNERS" and became ROADRUNNERS for Jesus! Last night we went to dions(yummy pizza) and laughed our hearts out! From isaac doing the "stroke" to oscar stuffing his face with a huge cookie. I wasn't too sure about this group but I can honestly say, we've grown to be a family!! We said our "see you laters" today (pretty sad) but we'll be seeing them soon. Kenny and Monica are great leaders, and have become great friends! Love you all. God is good...right!!!

ITS BEEN REAL, & ITS BEEN FUN!!
goodnight

-rachel

Our last Official night...

2010-07-19T22:48:00.000-07:00

We are here in Utah in our hotel room. It's 11:50 and we are awake...kind of. Today we left around 7 and hit the road. We didn't want to leave, well, us teens didn't. We made strong connections with those teens and we didn't want to leave so fast. The trip was good though.

We've had a good safe ride so far and we will tomorrow as well. We're leaving the hotel at 6am and eating at IHOP then heading home :( For you parents reading, we will be getting home tomorrow, so I hope you're ready for your ears to be talked off. I know I have a lot to tell my parents. I cannot wait for conference and to see them all again. We all exchanged emails to keep in touch though, so that's a plus. We've had lots of laughs this past week and I will never forget it. God moved so much and I'm excited to see what's going to happen now.

I have nothing else to say...we will see you all on Wednesday. Until next time,
-gabby

p.s. I will be posting more than just from this week. When I get updates on the church in Oregon, I will post those as well, no matter when they take place. I want to remember everything, so what better way than to blog all the progress after PBC? So don't forget to visit the blog every now and then

2010-07-19T19:19:00.000-07:00

We are back home in Colorado! This trip was quite an experience for all of us. When I found out I was going to Texas for PBC, I screamed because I was so excited. But in the last couple of weeks before the trip, I started to feel less and less excited. I didn't really want to go. I didn't think that I would get anything out of it and I honestly thought it would be a waste of time. But it wasn't! I had a great time and I learned a lot. All of the people in our group learned that a great amount of patience is needed to deal with baby Christians. Teenagers don't just show up to church and know how to act - they need to be discipled. That doesn't mean that we have to beat them down and point out all of their flaws. Pastor Blake and the youth leader Paul lead by example in the church and show SO much patience with the teens and new converts. It made me realize that I need to reach out to new teens in youth and help them out, because not everyone is raised in church and knows how to represent Christ with respect. I'm so proud of the Denton church! In only 2 years they've grown so much! Their youth group is growing quickly, too! Praise God!

~Natalie ♥

P.S. - PBC was awesome :-)

its been real,its been fun,

2010-07-19T05:54:00.000-07:00

the guys getting close!!!

kenny& dion

trent

maxine

gangsta david

pastor j smoooooth

daniella

rachel

I'm leaving on a gray van!!! Don't know when I'll be back again!

2010-07-19T02:22:00.000-07:00

wow my first post and it's on the last day after it's all over!?! What could I possibly say to be able to describe this trip?... WOW it was great Farmington has been such a great place to be and visit we really don't want to leave somebody (who will remain nameless!) even started crying cause they wanted to stay but as soon as I dried me eyes I began to think about the past week and all the wonderful things that I've seen God do! On Thursday night after our youth service here we went to pass out some remaining flyers for the outreach at the park so as we pull up to the park that night as soon as I got out of the van I headed to the basketball courts and I saw a guy sitting down so I decided to go give him a flyer but when I got there I realized that this guy was going through something in his life so we started talking which is where God opened a door for me to witness. I realized he was drunk and started getting discouraged but the longer we talked the more he opened up and started hearing me and after everybody had had their flyers passed out except me Aaron and Pastor Maloney came and we continued talking for about an hour longer finally God clicked something in his mind and the guy threw his beer and let me lead him in a sinners prayer and I praise God for that but on Saturday I was sitting there at our outreach and I see the very same man I prayed with but this time sober and changing! I WAS PUMPED!!! and then after that I was sitting in prayer tonight and guess who walked in? that's right! He went to the alter and prayed again! this got me fired up along with seeing the many other visitor from the outreach! haha all in all I passed out one flyer on Thursday night! our group has grown from this experience! Tony and Tanya are awesome leaders and my requested travel buddies for next year lol jk jk THEY'RE GREAT!!!... But not in a frosted flakes kind of way! we really wanted to post alot of videos this year but sorry to say I wasnt happening with a 5am wake up call every morning!

Quotes of the Day

2010-07-19T00:56:00.000-07:00

Abby- "you're my favorite!" Gabby- "LIAR!!"
-She said this to everyone!!! So everytime she said it, I called her a liar. Pretty funny

Shelby- "You'll never get married"

Houston- "Did you know that when it's raining, it's actually cow poop?...." (He then went on to explain how this is possible...hahahaha)

Austin- "Ow, my leg!" Houston- "I live with this"

Chantell- to Shanity- "aw, look at that dimple" *puts finger up to push on it* Shanity- looks at Chantell- *death stare*

ENJOY!!

No, Not Yet!!!

2010-07-19T00:16:00.000-07:00

Today is our last day...it was our last day. We are all very very sad. We made some amazing friends: Chantell- one of the twins who plays piano and a mad game of b-ball, Chantee- the other twin who plays drums and also plays some mean b-ball, Keith- the one who wears the skinnys and plays guitar like a beast, Austin- the bass player who always complains about his hamstring, but no really, he's cool, Houston- Austin's younger brother who is SO funny and plays the bongos, Matt- their singing, guitar playing, pianist, Stephanie- Matt and Zach's sister who is just fun, and then of course Zach and Whitney- 2 of the coolest youth leaders I've ever met. Zach has so much energy and has a heart for the lost, as well as a great sense of humor, you gotta have that and Whitney is just sweet and quiet, with a but of quorky-ness. Oh, and we can't forget the pastor and his wife as well as the assistant pastor and his wife.

We've just had a blast this past week. I'm so honored that out of the huge group of people who chose Oregon as their first choice, I got to go, and I think my whole group feels that way too. It has been a blessing to be a blessing to these people and I know God is going to make them grow. We bragged on and on about conference, and some have already said they'll be there. I can't wait now, even more than before!

Well, today was our church service and God was there. In the morning, we had a song service that I got pulled into, and tried to adjust to the way they do things. Their assistant pastor reminds me so much of Henry T. because he is so energetic and full of life and joy. I love it. Every church needs a Henry, and they have theirs. Then Pastor Marshall preached a wonderful sermon, then during alter call, he prayed for the sick. We had legs grow out, eye sight get healed, and broken hearts were mended. This one family was there, and have been going for a while. Their son, who was 24, was stabbed over 20 times and murdered a few months ago. So we prayed for restoration. We then prayed for the dad of the family because his neck had been stiff since 1987. The wife said that she hadn't seen him move it in 5 years and he said that he hadn't have full range in it since 1987. We prayed for him, and he moved his neck! There had also been pain in his shoulder and that disappeared. God is so good! They were estatic, and so were we. They then came again tonight and got baptised, along with their dad. We also prayed for a man with liver problems, people with diabetes, and a man that had broken his neck. I know that God will heal them. They all had so much faith; it amazed me.

For lunch, after trying to figure it out for a while, we went to Wendy's. We then went to the hotel to rest, then got back to the church for practice. We were planning on doing the Cardboard skit, but we didn't have enough people, and some people had requested the "Everything Skit", so without any prep, we did it. We also baptised people, as I said before. Pastor preached, then for alter call, he called down people who wanted to committ themselves to doing God's will, no matter what. Everyone went down and we prayed. After church we headed to Taco Bell to fellowship and eat. We all said our goodbyes :( but we exchanged e-mails to keep in touch.

All in all, this week has been life changing. I'm so honored to have been here. I don't want to leave. I know that God will do so much more in that church. Continue to pray that their hope won't die out, that they'll grow, and for Pastor Tim and Paula in Singapore. I can't wait for conference to see them all again and to hear what's been happening. I know you all feel the same, or I hope so.

We are working on uploading slideshows on youtube from the past few days, so be patient. There are many pics. I hope you all have a good and safe trip home tomorrow. We leave tomorrow, get into Utah, sleep, then leave for CO. We will see you all Wednesday. Until next time,
-Gabby

End of the road, start of the highway

2010-07-19T00:09:00.000-07:00

hey there little lady

her rachel on the road

this is Houston, he's awesome...yes thats a wig.

Whitney fitting in with everyone.

the star on top of the Christmas tree!!

aw, it's Christmas!

just like a Mexican too....

Chantell

run puppy, run!!!

basically, you've got 2 options....

So many things have happened today, its just mind-blowing what God has done down here. The youth from this church have been excited throughout the whole week. They have been learning more about evangelism, and just the fire you have when serving God. We have all learned from each other. We pulled an alter-call tonight and almost everyone in the church came up to the alter saying they want to be used in any ministry God puts them in, and are willing to go forth for him. Each and every youth went up, and you can just see the joy they have in their hearts when serving the Lord.

Pastor Marshall preached in both morning and night service. He asked everyone to bring someone in who was hurting in their body so they could be prayed for, and many people came down to the alter to be prayed for. A man injured his neck and couldn't turn it, but was healed and is now able to move it around. Multiple women hurt their back and when Pastor Marshall did the foot test, their feet were up to an inch apart in length, but we saw those legs grow out. Chantell's knees were injured, and they were healed. Just many blessing and miracles left and right.There was a family whose son was stabbed to death 28 times, they came in and that family got saved and that night 3 of the 5 family members got baptized. We may not have like 100 people in this church, but God is really moving and working and each person who is here.

If the youth could, we would stay down here, we love it down here. Portland, Oregon is in need of God, and maybe one day we'll get to come back. And i know none of us wanted to say our goodbyes, but we had to. We all grew so attached so fast. We made so many friends here, and I know they will walk with God together. I missed quite a bit of details, but Gabby mentioned them on her post.

Chantell #9
Chauteu #10
Austin #11
Houstin #12
Staphanie #13
Keith #14
Mathew #15
Zack and Whitney, the pastor and pastor's wife, and assistant pastor and pastor's wife.

Quick testimony: I only had 5 dollars left, and it was offering time and the thought of using it for snacks kept running in my mind. I was going to hold onto it, but I felt this tugging in my heart to put it in the basket, and I put it in with a smile. Later on, Pastor Frank put 10 dollars in my hand as a blessing and said he felt like he should bless somebody, and I was it. By the grace of God i was blessed, my money doubled.

More pictures will be uploaded, check out our youtube videos for a slideshow of our pictures.

2010-07-18T23:09:00.000-07:00

This Morning Our Sunday service rocked! For song service Gail played Keyboard, Nick on Drums, Brad on base and Pastor and Rachel sang. The were four visitors as a product of Yesterday, so there was about thirty people in service. Praise God! -Daniella-

Winding down! :(

2010-07-18T23:01:00.000-07:00

Today was the last full day of PBC and it's going to be sad going home. Today we woke up and went to church. We did the everything skit, performed in the "VWO Mass Choir" and Pastor Paul preached about living for a cause and keeping our commitments. It was great and we all made some commitments in our heart, I know I did. For lunch we went to the Genghis Grill were we got way more food then we could eat. I think I left some in Pastor Gregory's church fridge, Ooops! Then we walked around an outdoor mall and got yogurt and just had a good time together. We headed back to the hotel where most people slept from exhaustion. It must be the heat because I was never this tired in Farmington. Tonight we had service and we did the cardboard skit and the kid's choir did a performance. I don't count the tambourine as a true instrument, but when Chase and Chastity get a hold of one, I change my mind, they get down. I love that Pastor Gregory puts different things in each sermon and their worship services are awesome. After that we had a special speaker... ME! I can't tell you how nervous I was. Especially since we were passing out fliers with Pastor Paul's picture on it for Sunday night, lol. It was nerve racking preaching in front of a whole congregation including 3 pastors. I got good compliments from it though and I know that God used me as a vessel. Afterwards we had a potluck with ALOT of food. I think we are set for the whole trip back. We even got beef jerky from Miss Marie's sister Carol, and I made a good impression so I get my own bag. HOLLA! This was a great week and I thank God that he can use us as vessels.

Did it, Done it, Got it Good!
Brian

The Big Outreach

2010-07-18T22:54:00.000-07:00

Saturday evening we had our big park outreach. You could feel God moving the entire time. It was amazing! Here are some pics! -Daniella-

One man waters.....

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Desirae and Alainna already talked about yesterday's outreaches and how God moved so I won't go into that. I just want to tell a testimony about how God works and allude to something Alainna talked about. Alainna wrote about one girl that she talked to and didn't get a response but broke down when Sam talked to her.
My testimony starts on the way to the outreach. While Mr. Webb was bringing chairs to the park, so me fell out in the middle of a busy street. One son and mom came to help us out and Mr. Webb invited them to the park later that night. The son came on his bike about an hour later and Richard went up to him and he wanted none of it. About ten minutes later I went up to talk to him and he opened up. He ended up praying with me and I got to witness to his friends too. It just shows you how faithful God can be.
Never give up on someone even if they don't accept Christ right away. My testimony is that the night I went down to the altar, I said I didn't want to go to two people and the third I finally said yes and I don't even know why, but it changed my life. Pastor Gregory was talking about how someone talked to him about Christ on the street and he gave them an attitude but it stuck with him and he credits them for helping him find Christ.
Never stop believing God can change people and that our witness doesn't work. It does and God proves it everyday. Thank you God for faithful teens. I love you all.

Brian

that was only a week long???

2010-07-18T22:35:00.001-07:00

That's what we are all saying tonight. It seems like forever ago when we arrived here on tuesday! I got to know these ppl way toooooooooooooo well ;) jk. I had such a blast this week, it was one of the funnest times of my life! What an honor and privilege it has been to be here and help pastor Maloney and Sandra. I am so thankful to God for all the ppl that got saved and I'm happy to say we have new friends, Jerry, Robbie, Jennifer, DJ and their cute kiddies and I can't wait to see them at conference! Farmington is a great church and we are praying they retain all of the fruit. Thank you Pastor Josh, Sandra, DJ, the Cortez church, and the Farmington church for everything!!! Thank you Tyler and Shaunna and P.Paul and Emily for all of your hard work! And THANK you Tony & Tanya (aka Tonex and Tawnya) for putting up with us and being such great, and fun leaders. I'm gonna miss these crazy monkeys :)

Chantel

The last night :(

2010-07-18T20:33:00.002-07:00

so tonight we said our last see ya's and the emotions ran high I know i can speak for my team when i say we will miss Denton and we are not quite ready to go yet. God has been moving powerfully. I love you Denton I love all you teens from denton and God Bless you guys. See you soon at confrence.

p.s. Paul your amazing man keep these teens excited i appreciate you

-Stephen-

"The Hopey Popey"

2010-07-18T20:33:00.001-07:00

How Can Heat Be This Much Fun!

2010-07-18T16:13:00.000-07:00

Well...the heat really isn't that fun. Actually it is more MISERABLE than anything. We're talking 125 degree weather, running through parking lots passing out flyers and setting up instruments in a park! The crazy thing is...people in Arizona actually go to a park in this heat!

Well...the heat really isn't that fun. Actually it is more MISERABLE than anything. We're talking 125 degree weather, running through parking lots passing out flyers and setting up instruments in a park! The crazy thing is...people in Arizona actually go to a park in this heat!
Yesterday was an AMAZING day! We started out with the Pancake breakfast and I was kinda thinkin who wakes up at 7:30 on Saturday to come eat breakfast? But God surely stopped me in my tracks because people came, and came, and came some more! There were about 15 people saved just at the pancake breakfast! This was all before 9:30.

Then we practiced for choir and our skits. Headed over to FUDDRUCKERS for some grub (very good grub) and then took a break in the mall. Then it was GO time again. From the mall we went on an hour outreach around the park we were having our "concert" and told everyone to come on out...now! God did it again, bringing people out by the families!

Our outreach wasn't perfect in any way - but you would have never noticed by the altar calls! People got saved, about 30 people all together between the 3 altar calls and our faithful youth workin the park.

We played basketball, grilled hot dogs, and entertained eventually winning souls for Christ!

I started talking to one girl hoping to get to talking about salvation. She was so hard and really rude that i just gave up and walked away. I walked over about 15 minutes later to see Sam leading her in the sinners prayer. Now I really understand how some people really do have the ability to reach people others can't.

Right before we showed the movie we performed the Everything Skit. The concrete was so hot it burned my knees. It was the most painful skit I have ever done! Half the group then went to the church to show a movie while the rest suffered through the heat watching M 10-28 but also seeing many people saved!

This morning we saw people come from the outreach to church!

Our PBC group was able to be involved in almost every aspect of the church. We did nursery, sunday school, helped in the song service, ushered, did a skit, sang in the choir, and helped with sound.

We have had fun...and still have the service tonight! God is good!

Dentonators Strike Again!!

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We started this morning with Praise and Worship! These Denton people can really
sing!!!

Natalie, Taylor L, Taylor T, and Richard got to play for offering.....we played quite good if i do say so myself! It was a blast up there and playing for them! We had an amazing singer up there with us....Kristen Andrews! Then we had are very own Youth leader preaching, Tyler preached about "Walking in the Spirit" it was a great message and quite a few teenagers came down at the end for the alter call.

At the end we got with are whole PBC group and took a picture with Dj Paul! Dj Paul was to awesome and very fun to hang out with. We also went around and talked to all the teenagers.

We settled down and ate a FANTASTIC place called "Dickeys" we had awesome ribs with barbecue sauce.......it is'nt Texas without ribs..haha! Anyways had fun and got very full!

Then we went to Vista Ridge mall.......it was nice and big! We all had fun running around and getting stuff......me and Tay found are favorite Super Heroes and took pictures...it was a Blast at the Mall. I would have to say that every single one of us bought something from that mall!

-Taylor Trujillo

aaron this one should work

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Aaron Vid - Funny bloopers are a click away

Park Outreach

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so yesterday was our park outreach. IT WAS HOT!! I dont think i have sweated that much in my entire life the humidity is killin. so we preformed a few skits and Dj Paul had his turn tables set up and me and aaron were hittin it on the ones and twos haha. after that we preformed our three songs followed by a preformance by major prophets and redi. They had a really good message to bring to all of us. and Aaron pulled an alter call at the end. we were able to talk to many people out in the park and share the gospel and God is really moving in Denton Texas.

-Stephen-

haha

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had a great time to day my new favort word is broght 2 me by maxein withcich is alliah she says it like crazy.we had some good times it feels like this week just flew by i know that i am going 2 miss every one here.but the funniest thing on mymind right now is the bigggg fart. me and danella where walking throught the halls of are hotel and a really big man came walking are way.and then rightin front of us he lets out a big fart and then sighs with realse.we all most died laughing.another funny thing that happend 2 day is i found out that i can fit in a duffal bag.all and all we had a blessed day we saw so many people saved and we had a great time. a lot of people got touched.and i also wanted to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARON!!!!!
-MEKAYLA

TESTIFY!

2010-07-17T23:38:00.000-07:00

Today is what we've been building up for this whole week and we had an awesome turn out! Of course the devil tried to come against us but he was defeated in JESUS name! We passed out 2500 flyers and over a 100 people came out and more then 30 people recived Jesus Christ! Some of us prayed with people individually too! We had music, drama, testimonies, and the movie Breaking the chains! In all 3 alter calls people came up. God really moved and Im sure he moved in each and every one of the cities. We're tired, and have been sweating like a fat girl writing her first love letter!! haah We've gotten to know the people in Pastor J.B's church and are wonderful. Maxine(one of their youth) has been having so much fun with us as we have her! We cannot wait for Sunday! This city is ready for a change and that we are doing!

FUN FACTS:

kenny ripped david's undies by giving him a wedgie

rachel got got by the taco lady...me "we have 30tacos to order"... her "ohhh were closed!!"

isaac asked rachel "you have to boo boo too" hahah

We are really enjoying ourselves!

It's been real,

-Rachel

When the devil is a messin, God is a blessin!!!

2010-07-17T23:16:00.000-07:00

Greetings to all!!

Today's outreach was amazing!!!! And when I say amazing, I mean amazing. It was probably like 115 degrees in Phoenix, but we were so pumped for our big outreach. The first outreach was our pancake breakfast at 8am, and we thought we could save some electricity and cook the pancakes on the hot concrete since it was so hot (just kidding, we used griddles although someone said you could cook an egg on the sidewalk:) We were able to pray with some of the people and love on them.

After that we practiced really hard for our outreach at 6pm at the park and went to Fuddruckers for lunch...yummy!! Everyone was a wee bit grumpy before lunch because everyone was hot n hungry. We then went for a stroll in the mall since we finished so early. We came back to the church and loaded everything for the outreach. We did a quick outreach at the apartment complex next to the park, which was promising because most of the people at the outreach said they came because they got a flyer.

At first it seemed as if nobody was going to show up, but God was there and we had hope. Shortly after we started, a lady showed up with her dog and said that she was going to just sit at home all night until she saw the flyer on her door...Praise the Lord, we were too happy!!

Alainna got second degree burns from doing the Everything skit when she had to get down on concrete that was 120 degrees!!! It was all for Jesus and it turned out great. No one knew why her painful reactions looked so real...we thought it was just part of the skit, but she was really hurtin!!! She was a great sport about it, and the fruit that came out of the outreach made her quickly forget about her 2nd degree burns:)

Well, back to how I chose the title for this blog...there was this guy that Alainna gave a flyer to for the outreach at the compartment complex. He showed up and was trying to play our drums. Mr. Quincy asked him that he couldn't play them and he caught an attitude...and that wasn't the end of him. He then said he was thirsty but we didn't have any more water. Mr. Rick found some water bottles and was handing them out and asked him if he wanted one and threw one at him, but he didn't catch it. He started cussing at Mr. Rick but he drove off in his car to get something so he came over and started cussing at me, Chris, and Quincy. I told the guy I didn't know what happened but that he needed to stop cursing...he didn't listen and got angrier. Mr. Quincy attempted to calm the guy down, but he wasn't backin' off. He threatened to go get a gun and his uncles to beat us up. We quickly realized that this was just a tactic of the devil because he was mad we were praying with people and they were giving their lives to Christ...so he tried to shut the outreach down, but God has all the power!! Amen!! We prayed for the man and that God would protect us and that more people would get saved. We did 3 altar calls and around 45 people gave their lives to Christ!!! How exciting!!!

Back to this guy...After pastor Kirk, pastor Gregory, and Quincy talked to the guy he was still furious but calmed down a bit. The devil can't stop what God is doing...when the devil is a messin...God is a blessin!! We found that to be so true today.

Lastly, Mrs. Chris stepped in some poopie water at the park...well...dirty water they use to irrigate the grass, but it was hilarious:) And she was wondering why her feet were so sticky and stinky...just kiddin...I love you Christine:) Then Mr. Chris somehow got the lady at the front desk of the hotel to open up the juice machine from the continental breakfast for all the teens. Of course the boys were the first ones down to get the juice, but Evan and Turray came back with a plateful of cups overflowing with juice for everyone else...at least they thought about the rest of the group.

It's gettin late and I definitely need to get some sleep so I can meet all the beautiful souls that came to the outreach...I'm believin by faith they're going to show up and we'll definitely have to post some pics of us with our newfound sisters and brothers in Christ.

Be blessed,

Desarae

Hallelujah!!

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So this morning we started out with a pancake breakfast. It was still chilly outside, so we had it inside, downstairs. We had people going in and out. The guys dressed up in costumes and went outside to draw in people. I'd post pictures, but we can't find the usb for Shanity's camera...so, for now, you're out of luck. But it was hilarious to see and it drew in some people! Then we set up for the concert outside in their "yard". They have a group, which we named "180". They did really good! Robert and G.O. rapped 2 songs which I sang back up in. We did lots of testimonies and dramas. We did "On the Ledge", "It's Missing", "The Everything Skit", and the one where the guy wrestled with his conscience(spelling? lol) Zach and G.O. did that one, and it was awesome. They had lots of fun. People from their church, including the youth, gave their testimony. I'm so happy to know that they are being encouraged again. All in all, we had between 11 and 15 people saved throughout the day. We were so phyched, and still are. After the outreach, us girls helped Matt(the lead singer in the youth band and the church pianist) change the sign for their church. We had fun, and he got a laugh out of it. We then went to Micky Dee's for icecream then headed back to church for the youth rally. We had a short song service, then G.O. and Robert preached an excellent message on Evangelism. Then we watched M 10-28. For the alter call, people got prayed for and God moved tremendously. His Spirit was so thick and it was everywhere. Afterwards, we cleaned the church and headed home. Tomorrow we are doing the cardboard skit and using people from their church. We are also doing baptism! I can't wait. God is doing so much here and we can all tell that they are excited. Their youth is getting excited about outreaching. They are getting encouraged again after being attacked by the devil (because of the split). But Got is restoring what has been lost, as He always does. I'm so happy to hear about all of the rest of your outreaches! PRAISE GOD!!!! Keep praying. See you all soon, and until next time,
-Gabby
Im going to go eat some fried chicken now...we've got a lot of left overs, h-a-h-a-h-a-h-a

yesterdays quote of the day: "Did you forget your helmet today?"
Todays: "Has that picture always been there?" -compliments of Abby not noticing stuff in our room.

Aaron

2010-07-17T23:00:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!! no, it's not belated because it'e only 11:00 here. Hope you had a great day...which I already know you did because youre in Texas!

-Portland Pioneers

2010-07-17T22:42:00.001-07:00

HAPPY LATE BDAY AARON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) from the Farmington group

fun in the van watch for the growl

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The Movement

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God really moved today. We had an all day outreach today and started off with the pancake breakfast. The girls whipped out the skillet and starting making us pancakes. There was a little debate for whether the guys or girls would be served first. The pancake breakfast wasn't all that fast. Stephanie (one of the ladies from the church) opened up this closet full of costumes for drama, and some of us suited up and headed outside to dance around and attract a crowd. GO and Robert dressed up as cowboys and David as a Mexican prisoner. I started out as a Christmas tree and then switched to a bunny with a royal robe...yes i had a bunny tail. A little kid who went to the breakfast wanted a picture with me, gotta love kids. Anyway, about a total of 8 people came to the pancake breakfast, but over half of them came back and brought friends which was a blessing.

To follow up, we had our BBQ a while afterward. We didn't do the mascot dancing again, but we passed out more fliers before the BBQ. On the way to the church we saw 2 Mormons and they agreed to come and ended up bring 2 more of their friends. Pastor Frank spoke to them and convinced them to stay for more than just the food, so they ended up leaving right after alter-call. The hip-hop group and rock group did excellent during their performances. Pastor Marshall gave the rock group the hip-hop group's name, so im'a just call them both 180. Every song sung hit everyone hard. I know it pierced the visitor's hearts because they could keep their eyes off the performers. 10 people gave their lives to Jesus (a family), and a man from both the breakfast and lunch came to the movie also, but brought his daughter with him.

The last event was the youth service and movie which was M 10:28. GO and Robert preached on evangelizing, and did a great job. It was a message we all needed to hear. We need to have a desire to serve God more and More and not be satisfied with where we are at, but push to do more for him. The movie was amazing. It really spoke to our hearts and when the lights turned on, we were all bugged eye from amazement. 3 teenagers, one was a christian, another lukewarm (back and forth), and the last a backslider. Two girls die, but the lukewarm one is seen in hell, in like this holding pin because she wasn't fully dead yet. If hell looked that bad in man's image, then the real hell is unimaginably terrifying. At the alter-call we all went down, and God seriously moved. 2 people got saved, and the teens and leaders were filled.

God is moving in Oregon, and I know hes moving in the other churches too. Thanks for all the support and prayers, we miss ya'll. Well one day left until our 2 day drive. CHURCH TOMORROW!
And i didn't upload pictured due to not having the camera's memory card with me tonight.

Quote of the day: Was that picture always there?
-Isaiah #8

do you see what I have to put up with!

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this is the degrees...not the number of hot dogs I ate today!

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and by the way...this was at 8:30PM!

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Awesome Park Outreach!!

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Tim and Tony doing a skit!

All the testimonies.

Yep that pretty much somes up the week:)

So after passing out 2000 flyers in the New Mexico heat we finally had our "big" outreach! It was at a park that had a skate park, playground, pool and lots of souls that needed to be saved. The Cortez church came down to Farmington and brought lots of people with them including their band. They sang lots of great songs! Us teens had 2 skits and then we included both Farmington and Cortez in our finally skit which was the cardboard testimony skit, Connor played piano and I sang Amazing Grace as we did it. It was awesome. Tim and a couple of the Farmington people gave their testimonies. Of course in true VWO style we reeled sinners in with food!! We had delicious ice cream and nice cold ice water! Over all we had about 175 people there!!! And lots saved :) We are really believing God to bring people into church tomorrow morning and night!!

-Brianna

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AARON!

2010-07-17T16:01:00.000-07:00

Happy, Happy Birthday from all the Phoenix crew, we wish it was our birthday, so we could party too. HEY!

(yes, that is the chilis song)

Flapjacks Ala Revival!

2010-07-17T15:56:00.000-07:00

This morning we had our pancake breakfast. Alot of passerbys came in and people from the neighborhood. We took Pastor Gregory's direction and were very hospitable. All in all we prayed with at least 7 people, Praise God. After we practiced for tonight's concert and we have a choir made up of people from CO and AZ, I'm looking forward to it. During our free time I have been getting to know the younger guys more and it's awesome. And because of Turray and Landon, I can finally do the jerk, Lol. Maybe we'll post a video. I am excited to see what God is going to do tonight. We'll have church no matter what. Good luck and have fun tonight everyone.

Brian (Panda)

WUZZUP!?!?!?!?!?!?

2010-07-17T12:31:00.000-07:00

Ok, I'm sorry that I have not been putting my say of things on here (It's Richard Whiting), now let me start...

I've been having fun here in the hot n' humid Texas! I was yelled "Wait, wait, wait, wait!! I told you to wait!" I played chicken and had Blake(and Stephen) on my shoulders. I met a really cool guy named Paul (the youth directer here). I played DJ Hero, kinda owned at it. I stayed up all night (last night). The door was opened to me starting to like rap, we heard a guy sing named Dillon Chase (AMAZING).

Their have been a bump or two on the road to today, but still standing strong with even stronger relationships!

As of right now we are at the church cleaning it up a lil bit from last. The youth lock-in we had was an extrodinary time! Their were a few kinks thiugh, we worked through them slendidly!

Love you all at the home church, love you ma and pa, can't wait to back to the cold springs lolz

2010-07-17T12:02:00.001-07:00

This is it!

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Today is the day of our big park outreach! We have been preparing for this day for weeks! Now it's finally here and we are psyched! This week I have passed out more flyers than I have in my entire life. We passed out almost 2300 to 2500 Hundred so far and at this very moment half of our group is on outreach passing the remaining flyers. The rest of of us studs behind to help with the church yard sale. Sitting out here on the hot sun is excruciating! Rachel said we are sweating like fat girls writing their first love letter! Trent is standing in the median doing some beastly footwork with a yard sale sign! Their making me go replace Trent so he can take a break, so until next time...
-Daniella aka lil' bit-

Just waiting to leave

2010-07-17T09:00:00.002-07:00

Well i'm here in the hotel and today we finally got to sleep in!! Until nine, we have been waking up at 5am everyday and going to sleep at like midnight. We are all runninn adrenaline. We are heading to the church in a few min to continue practicing our skits for our outreach tonight. Then we have to buy all the food and supplies. We are so excited for our outreach, we are praying that ppl will come out. Our outreaches have been sucssesful and most ppl are responsive. There's a huge skate park at the park where our outreach is and we have been passing out flyers there. Thursday night Tim started talking to a guy on the basketball court and then Pastor Josh went over to talk to him too. He was super drunk and we ended up staying there for an hour while they talked to him and then he finally got saved :) There's a lot of young ppl here, we are excited to witness to them tonight...Well gotta go eat breakfast now, this late morning is amazing!!!

Chantel

lots o pancakes

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were all slowin down and gettin tired so many people saved...quite a few already drunk :) but god is workin!

Uploaded - 7\17\10-1

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they just walked up!!! pancake revival!

pancake breakfast

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chris witnessing at the pancake breakfast! already 5 saved!!!

A Few Pics...

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Here are a few pictures from the past few days from team Moto Funk! We're havin fun, barely surviving the heat :)

Almost There!

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Aaron, bottom right. others alive and well

Boys and video games

"I'm strugglin' son" - Stephen

Gone

Out

Only fifteen minutes left. In our group, only Stephen and I have not gone to sleep at some point; but some of these kids act like they just woke up from a ten hour nap, but they haven't slept in two days! Everyone is getting up now, and we are getting ready for breakfast. Then back to the hotel for some rest before our outreach this afternoon. Enjoy waking up everyone while we head off to bed.

Tyler

It's 5am and I haven't slept

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and it is signed!

this is Paul (not at lock-in) he has been a blessing.
Helping us on outreachs, where to eat, and the lock-in.
I think he has had about as much sleep as us.

Nice!

Kristin and Natalie at the lock-in

Denton youth!

Ok.....Great night and into the morning. I did take a small 30 minute nap. What a night.... What a week so far. We have been outreach, witnessing, working hard and tonight was a success. About 70 of us here and half of the youth here they did not know. Many recieved Christ. It has been awesome. So we will go home sleep til oneish and get ready for todays outreach!! By the way I beat both the Taylors down, they forgot to mention that! I also want to metion the people here are so nice.

-Shaunna

MY BAD!!!

2010-07-17T01:25:00.000-07:00

I forgot IM TIRED

Praise God!

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It was an amazing experience opening up for dillon chase and it humbled us so much(Stephen,Blake, And myself). It was amazing to just be placed in an opportunity where we could learn humility. I just thank God for the talents he has bestowed on our group, I'm so amazed that God can use us. So to the VWO fam and the person who randomly found this site God is moving in Denton!

OMG!!!

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We Met Dillon Chase!

My final post of the night

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This is my final post. Here is another slide show. This is of Wednesday which included outreach and church. Here ya go!

-gabby

Lock-In update #3

2010-07-17T00:09:00.000-07:00

hey guys, we're back again with more on our lock-in. This has been so much fun so far, we did the everything skit after only 1 day of practice and rocked it out!! Kudos to Blake for being Jesus. then me and Blake gave our testimonies, the guys from Rize sand (Aaron, Stephen, and Blake) then Dillon Chase came and rapped for us as you all know. Then we hung out for a while, and the Tays destroyed Shaunna, Tay L. tackled her and Tyler just laughed, what a great husband haha just kidding :) afterwards we played scoot your buns and then we separated into guys and girls groups and had a little study group for about 20 minutes. we wrote down our burdens and taped them to the cross that they use for Breakaway. Now it's onto more hanging out and hopefully some more groups to perform soon, we'll keep you updated!! :D
*Taylor L.*

More photos

2010-07-17T00:05:00.000-07:00

Another Late Night For...You

2010-07-16T23:59:00.000-07:00

So it's 12:17am right now. I am up making slide shows of pics from the past few days. I am also uploading several videos to our youtube page of different things. Mainly our day at the beach, but the Everything Skit is up there too. So PLEASE make sure you look at our pics and go watch the videos. Post comments, etc. I will probably be up for a while longer...oh yeah, here's the link for the youtube page:
youtube.com/portlandpioneers

-gabby
I am trying to stay awake by eating cherries and drinking chocolate milk while watching a show about people who have a cupcake shop and all of them bicker a lot...I really wish these things would upload faster.

I think we need more pictures of Richard...

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So here he is. I think he is playing DJ Hero here at the lock-in heehee

Fun Day pics

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Here are pics from our fun day at Seaside Beach. We had fun. It wasn't California weather, but I dont care. I wouldn't have traded it for anything. That day was awesome.

-gabby

Finally Pictures

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this is our first day in Oregon

Create Your Own

-Gabby

Can You Shout: FUN!

2010-07-16T23:08:00.000-07:00

Last night we had the AWESOME YOuTH RALLY! Robert (from Phoenix) preached about being vocal with our faith and who we are. He also preached about how to withstand the devil and all that he tempts us with. We matched that up with a few skits and a great song service which made for a really good night!

After we headed back to the hotel for a BBQ! My mother dearest (emily jones) cooked up some DElicious pork brisket, moms be ready for your kids to ask for the recipe because we were all drooling over its goodness! Our pool area is simply the best hotel pool I've ever seen in the U.S! We are blessed!

Michael voiced this morning how good of a mood he was in because "He slept on such a comfortable bed!" He really was happy go lucky and kicked it into high gear on outreach!

We have just had some super duper fun filled packed days! Today we woke up at a decent hour and headed to the church for prayer. We hit it hard after on outreach and got out all but a few flyers to save for tomorrow. Then we practiced, practiced, and practiced some more drama...It is so fun to watch Collins be Jesus in the "Everything Skit" honestly it is priceless! For all of us that know the Howard boys we know when they reach their limit. Collins has way surpassed his but still has a smile on his face! Really all of our guys have stepped it up incredibly!

Question and answer time with Pastor Chris and Calandra was very valuable for our group! I learned a lot and appreciated it so much!

We are all having a blast! I am tired...really tired. Boot camp has really stretched me but is making a better woman that is for sure! I am learning and sweating a whole lot!

TruuuuuuuuuLY REPRESENT!!!!!!!!!! HEYHEYHEY!!! Update #2

2010-07-16T23:00:00.000-07:00

"Why would you go back to the exact thing Jesus died for - sin?"

-Dillon Chase

All of us Colorado teens were right in the front gettin' down!

... And when he started rapping reallllly fast, we were all in awe haha.

Alter call!

Some Denton teens did a couple of dances

"Get these shackles off my feet so I can dance, I just wanna praise Him!"

Rize performing again. They did SOOOOOO GOOD!!!! They were bouncing all around the stage and really had the crowd going!!!

Thanks Gabby for letting us use your voice in the Airplanes remix!!!

Dillon Chase!!!!!!

Paul rapped with them!!!

I tried to zoom in on Richard but it didn't work to well cuz he moved lol.

Alter call

Okay so Dillon Chase is AWESOME! I've heard OF him but I've never listened to him until tonight. He's really good at rapping and he's a really good preacher too! He has great songs and he really praises God with his music. It shows that he does what he does for God, which is how it should be. And he's just a regular guy who works in a bank! I also thought it was cool that his wife came to the concert :) They already left because they live in Oklahoma, and although I was too shy to talk to them, I still think they're both really cool lol. All of us were jumping and dancing like crazy while Dillon Chase rapped, and I don't think we're slowing down any time soon! Our lock-in is still going, and it's after 1:30 in the morning. I'm not sure what's planned next, but I'm sure more posts are on the way!

~Natalie

P.S. - Richard and I, having seen and heard Dillon Chase, now like rap! hahaha

"people think i don'y know a butt load of stuff about the gospel, but I DO!!"-nacho libre

2010-07-16T22:41:00.000-07:00

That quote has no relevance to what I'm going to write about but i thought it was funny lol The days keep getting better as were out here, we woke up early again, which is fine with us, cause it makes for a prosperous day. We made to prayer and soon after, went on outreach for a few hours. We got kicked out of walmart in the nicest way possible lol by a elderly women security guard who is actually considering coming to our outreach. Like on joke, everyone is New Mexico is extra nice, like even if they reject our flyer's their still super nice about it, like "oh my goodness, thank you so much for the invite, but won't be able to make it." Pastor's phone has been being blown up, by people who want to come, so NM is extra chill! After outreach we practiced some more for Saturday and have things set in stone on how things will be going to run, it's real exciting on how everything has been running. Busy, but awesome!! As you know it's pretty hot here, so i found that a few of us had nice little eye brow sweats going on. So, Rachelle and i got into demonstrating to another how a person would react to us if they absolutely didn't want a flyer lol so we got-got in the face with a cute lil toss of water, which felt good but that eye brow sweat form earlier burnt our eyes lol random? yes, but it was funny haha We also had a garage sale today at the church, where there was signs that required shaking to attract drivers, well we all know i have no experience in that field so i stayed clear from that lol SIKE!! i rotated with someone and shook that sign lol As the night came to a close, we had dinner at church where we surrounded Pastor and Mrs.Gail and were given the opportunity to ask questions. They shared their wisdom and knowledge and I can't emphasize enough on how much I LOVE those guys SOOOO much. I have the upper most respect for those two, not just them but for all of our headship and authority at Victory . Were truly blessed for the vision our church has and that discipleship is valued at our church. Mrs.Gail shared some great guidance about not losing out on opportunities in life to serve God more and to never ever look back at life and say, "well, i wish i would have or i could of done more for God." True wisdom. We had a little dance off before we closed up the church lol to the goofy movie sound track, that was funny!! When we got back to the hotel, we swam for a little and you haven't lived life until you've been thrown into a pool by Kenny Holcomb!! Beast!! Askeedabadadedo!! lol catch ya lataz!!
"sometimes i wear stretchy pants, just for fun"
-"Read some Books!!"

GOD IS MOVING!!

2010-07-16T22:12:00.000-07:00

Friday-
Today, we had an awesome outreaching day. God is moving so much, it's crazy. We stayed away from the parking lots to avoid being arrested though. So you heard about the lady picking up all of the flyers and handing them out, but we have another 2 stories for you! Zach, the youth leader, was trying to hand out flyers at an apartment building, but couldn't get to the top floor. A random lady came up to him asking what he was doing and he told her. She then told him that she would take the flyers and hand them out because she had access to the top floor! She handed them out the kids she had, and they all went across the top floor knocking on, and putting them in the doors of the apartments. We were so excited when he told us that story. And another story is that there is a couple in their church who just broke up(they weren't married, just dating). After they broke up, she left the church and he was very depressed. Today on outreach, we handed her a flyer, but we had no idea that it was her! The guy called Zach and told him that we gave her one and that she is coming to the outreach tomorrow. He was so thankful and excited. We were so happy to hear that God was already working in people's hearts and giving us people for the outreach. Is God good or what?
But on another note, we are making the devil mad. There's no excitement without the devil getting mad right? Well, here's the story: We were handing out flyers at an apartment building and we were about to leave when a guy came up after us. Shelby told us to get in the van because he was mad. He started to take down the license plate number when Mrs. Cherise asked what he was doing. (We were all in the van at this point) He told us that we couldn't hand out stuff like that and Mrs. Cherise told him that we weren't selling anything and that it was all free. He got very upset and flipped us off, then started to walk away. Pastor Marshall was furious at this and yelled at the guy to come over to the van. Pastor Marshall got out of the van and the guy took this as a threat and charged over as if ready to fight! All of our hearts were pounding. We didn't know what was going to happen. Pastor Marshall told the guy that he couldn't do that, so to make it worse, the guy flipped off Pastor Marshall and put his finger up in his face. Pastor Marshall pushed his hand away, and the guy shoved Pastor Marshall into the van!! At this point, we all gasped. I had never seen the guys in our group move so fast. They all jumped up to get out. Robert tried to jump out of the drivers seat, but Mrs. Cherise-out of fear of what the guys would do to the guy-tried to stop Robert. He didn't listen, and neither did the others. They all jumped out of the van, and within seconds, Pastor Marshall had 5 guys behind him ready to fight! The guy backed off and his eyes widened. Pastor told the guys to hold on while he called the cops. At this point, the guy got extra scared and apologized. After P Marshall was off the phone, they all got back into the van. They guy continued to say sorry, well, kind of. Pastor Marshall told the guy that he would call the cops back and tell them nevermind if they guy promised to come to the outreach tomorrow! He did, but in the process, he said things like, "Make sure you tell the cops the truth, I didn't push you. You put your hand in my face so i pushed it away. I didn't push you. Make sure you tell the truth." WHATEVER! He so did push him, but that's ok. The guy said he'd be there tomorrow and when he walked away, Pastor Marshall said that he never called the cops in the first place! We all laughed our heads off and talked about how dead that guy would've been if he'd done anything else to Pastor. It just shows that we are doing something right!
After passing out more flyers, it was the end of the day and time to go to the store to get our things for tomorrow then dinner. We passed out 2, 300 flyers in 2 days! We are very proud of ourselves and the people from the church that came along.
For dinner, we went to Zach and Whitney's house. The pastor and his family were there too. We had a wonderful home-made mexican meal with different kinds of pies for dessert. It was so good. Then while the guys went outside to play basketball, us girls stayed inside to talk and play with one of the cutest puppies ever. After a few hours there, we headed "home". Now I'm here blogging! All in all, it has been a wonderful day and we are already seeing God move mightily.

One more thing I will mention is a note on their church. After Pastor Tim left for Sinapore, they had a major split in their church. They lost a lot of people and they are a little discouraged. We all feel that this was perfect timing for them. While you all are working on the churches and making them look good and helping the pastors with that, which is great, I feel that we are working on the inside of the people, not the church. We are here to re-ignite that fire inside of them, to give them hope. They have told us over and over again about how thankful they are that we came and that we are doing this outreach and everything. I feel so honored, we all do. We get to help rekindle that hope inside of them and help raise up their faith again. I already see their zeal and hunger, and I see it more and more every time I see them. I feel that our group has a different purpose than the rest of the groups. Not to say that ours is better than yours, but it's just different, and I'm glad. I can't wait to see how God is going to move tomorrow and on Sunday. I don't want this week to be over, but we still have 2 days! I know that God is going to use us, and not just us, but all of our groups out there. Keep the fire going you guys! Make sure that you're prayed up. I can't wait to hear what God does in each of these cities. We're praying for you! Until next time,
-Gabby

2010-07-16T22:06:00.000-07:00

Hear no evil, See no evil, Speak no evil.
Too many words to describe!

The girls made us dinner. There was chicken, but me and GO gobbled it down.

We were passing out fliers and we saw a garage sell which had a lot of people around it. We went up to the lady who was in charge of the garage sell, and she offered to pass out the fliers to the people looking around. God is really moving down here in Oregon. Seems God has been using the women as blessings, and the devil has used a man to come against us.

We went to the youth leaders house, Zack and Whitney's for dinner and ate enchiladas which were amazing. They were spicey though and i'm allergic to spices, so it didnt go too well for me, but nonetheless, i ate it and loved it. Robert was grubbing it down, especially when it came to the pie. Well after dinner the guys went out to play basketball. The hoop was low, so three of us were able to dunk, me, Austin, and Zack (who is really tall and big). GO tried taking a charge from him and almost got laid out like in the everything skit. Zack and Whitney also had these two adorable little dogs. The small dog's eyes were just like mesmerizing, you can't describe how cute the dog was. That wasn't a manly things to say at all, but it was the best way to describe them.

Our musicians have been working hard on their songs, and i know God is going to move tomorrow. 2,300 fliers passed out, and i believe God is going to speak to so many of them. I've been noticing more and more than something just seems different down here. Kinda like what Gabby was saying about our group having a different purpose. Not sure how to explain it, but I know God has something great planned for this church. "Let it rain...Let it rain~ Open the flood gates of heaven, Let it rain..." We're still praying for all of you, and God is going to move in each one of these cities. Keep praying for a nation wide revival to help spark out of PBC. The rapture is coming soon, and we need to get as many solved saved as possible. We aren't just kids, but we're soldiers in Christ who are on a mission for God. Age don't matter, God can use it for his glory.

Men's Quote of the day: Don't forget you helmet! (Based off GO taking off his helmet and falling off the short bus)
-Isaiah #8

too many pics, too little time

2010-07-16T21:45:00.001-07:00

K here's a recap of the past few days in so few words (tanya is updating in more detail if she doesn't fall asleep!) here we go.......Alejandra is HILARIOUS! Tim will do anything you dare him to and he caused a bush to divorce itself, Joel isn't happy unless he's tormenting someone or throwing them in water, little Aaron is everyones play toy and he's gonna GET IT for throwing ice water all over me! Connor is the secret keeper and if you listen closely you can hear his crazy comments, Vikki screams like a girl and might give us a little surprise (she wore her hair in a ponytail last night!!!! hence the pic above) Brianna almost died in the water and wouldn't stop talking long enough to be saved and she blamed it all on the guy lol, Tony is not what you think (in a good way:)) and when he's serious, he's serious, don't mess with TONEX, and Tanya is silly. Me and her have more in common than i thought, she keeps trying to bite me, crazy...and me i'm the same :) except everyone is still in shock that my hair is curly. Weirdos....did they not grow up with me??? All in all it's a BLAST! And we will post more soon of our fun day and outreach. Pastor Josh and his wife and church blessed us today with making us Navo tacos and we are very thankful. We rocked the outreaches everyday FINALLLLLLYYYY getting all of our flyers out and i know its hot in phoenix, but its hot here too!!! We sweat like pigs. OH YEAH, tim got chased by a dog today and i got bit on the finger by the same stupid dog and little aaron chucked an apple into a ladies house lol... funny story. Ok i'm tired now, have a great night everyone, will be posting again!!!

Chantelly

Phoenix Moto Funk

2010-07-16T21:34:00.000-07:00

EL-O!!

We had a great day in HOT FEE-Nix. We went on an amazing outreach door-to-door giving out fliers for our BIG outreach tomorrow. We are so excited. We found out that the fliers we put up in the bus stop were gone...we're hoping someone took them down so that they remember to come. Please keep us in prayer for the outreach. We pray that God's Spirit will draw all hearts to repentance.

The teens have been working extraordinarily hard furthering God's kingdom on this earth. Evan and Collins went shopping for outreach supplies at Sam's. Collins is a genius and lifted a whole lot of Gatorade cases to get the cardboard we needed for our skit and signs for the pancake breakfast.

We had a bit of time to rest after the outreach. Some of the teens went swimming, or to Wally World, or got some much needed Z's for tomorrow. Everyone was knocked out in the van (except the driver, thank God:)

Tonight we had dinner with Pastor Gregory and family. It was a great time of fellowship and fun. Pastor and his wife gave great words of wisdom and Godly advice. Afterward, we practiced and practiced and practiced and practiced. We even got a new tambourine player for our band--the one, the only, Chastity Gregory. She's a musician in the making.

Well I guess we will stop for now, or at least until tomorrow. We're getting hot, sweaty, and sunburned for Jesus. Please keep us in your prayers. The Denton team made it to the front page of YouTube...by the way. Until next time...

Night to all and God bless.

-Phoenix Moto Funk

Somewhere between here and there

2010-07-16T21:20:00.000-07:00

It's day four here in PHX. We started our day with the best breakfast. Any hotel that gives me biscuits and gravy gets and A in my book. We then went to the church to, you guessed it, outreach. We got all but about 30 of our fliers out and we are expecting a great crowd for all of tomorrow's festivities. We then got down to practicing our skits and even though it has been hard fought, we have five skits ready to go. We then went to Wendy's for lunch and then went back to the hotel for some R & R. Some took a nap, some swam and some went to wal-mart. We got stocked up and ready for our outreaches tomorrow. I can't wait for the watermelon. We all came back to the church around 5:30 to eat and to have our Q & A session. It was really a good time. Many of these teens had good questions and even questions you wouldn't expect. Pastor Chris and Collandra are definitely real people, we even got to hear brief versions of both of their testimonies and it's amazing how God can step into people's lives. We all finished knowing that God has a plan orchestrated for us all. Now we are practicing both of our bands and the rest of our skits, but most of us are dragging through. We all need some sleep, or need to get away from this heat, or both. We are excited to see what God is going to do in our outreach and every other group's outreaches. I expect alot of pics the next few days and I can't wait to see the fruit on Sunday. God is good all the time. Tomorrow will be a day of work, but we will never forget it.

Goodnight,
Brian

P.S. I can never show my dancing skills if I never get challenged (cough, cough, Denton)

PBC from our point of VIEW

2010-07-16T21:17:00.000-07:00

What a week...Today we finished all of our fliers 2000 of them HOORAY. We celebrated by a jump into the pool with all of our clothes on, yes Tony and I also;) Let me say I have never laughed so hard as I have this week. Most of the video I have been doing has to be deleted because I am laughing so hard that i miss the action that doesn't make Timmy very happy, as most of you probably know:) So I no longer get to video the BIG stuff. Our fun day started at 5:45 with the van leaving for morning prayer and a very important lesson was learned that when Tony says the van leaves at 5:45 it leaves. After prayer we headed to Durango Colorado for our fun day. Which was going to be go-karts except the go-kart place no longer exists and only has miniature golf. After a great lunch of bar-b-que, and a spur of the moment decision we went white water rafting. We definitely didnt have the clothes to go but...our thought lets just do it. What fun...we had to go into two different boats. But our guides stayed together. At one point we had a stow away who jumped from their boat to ours as he flopped into our boat we scattered and all were flung into the Animas River. All except me (camera) in hand. After a two hour ride down the river and some serious antics, we arrived on dry land and drove back to Farmington. To get ready for an amazing youth service, Joel did song service, Brianna, Chantel on back-up, Pastor Josh on bass, Connor on keyboards, Aaron on drums, Vicki on overhead, Tim ushering and Alajandra gave her testimony. Tony preaching. They all did a great job.
We are beliving God for a big turn out for our outreach tomorrow. Praying for all of you also...Goodnight T and T

Rockin' Lock-in Update #1

2010-07-16T21:05:00.001-07:00

Hopey, the DJ!!!!

The guy from S.U.K. telling our very own Rize and Kristen that thay did a good job

The guys posing with Dillon Chase!!!!!

Alright! Sooo... we're at our youth lock-in right now. A lock-in means we are locked inside the church ALL NIGHT with about 70 Denton youth!!! Praise God!!! We have some VERY special guests here tonight, including S.U.K. (which stands for Soldiers Under Konviction) and DILLON CHASE!!! Not to mention a SURPRISE GUEST who is about to show up!!! I won't tell you who that is until he gets here! Aaron's birthday is tomorrow and we have a feeling that this will be his best birthday, getting to open up with his rap group(Rize - Stephen, Blake, Aaron) for Dillon Chase and the SURPRISE GUEST tonight!!!! I'm soooooo excited!!!! I'll be completely delirious in a couple of hours, so expect posts at like 3am!!!!!

Lovelovelove,

Natalie

Denton Breakaway

2010-07-16T20:24:00.000-07:00

After a long day of outreach and shopping, we were all told to take naps before Breakaway. Taylor and Taylor didn't want to go to sleep, which caused them to fall and get hurt haha.

The guys practicing their songs with the lovely Kristen Andrews

Breakaway begins!

Taylor giving her testimony

Blake giving his testimony before the guys rap group sang. I'll post a video of that soon!!!

S.U.K. rapping

After the rappers, Tyler preached an awesome sermon about being free from sin instead of being a slave to sin.

~Natalie, who is quite sleep deprived.

Alahhh!!!!

2010-07-16T15:59:00.000-07:00

Yesterday we had a blast! We passed out tons of tracks and the people here are so open to the gospel. We then went to a family fun center and maxine from pastors church came with us! After that we had our youth service and boy did god move!! Pastor shows up looking extra fresh, so i gave him the nickname pastor j smooooth! Then he pulled put his taylor swift cammer so i called him j swift! Hah Dinner was at his house....yummy! We kicked back and mr.Kenny was too happy that he ran into a closed screen door... And yes you guessed it... I was right there dying of laughter! Hahahahahh. Your probably wondering about the title.....Maxine taught us some new slang alahhhhh! You say it when u think something is cool. So next time instead of saying cool say alahhhhhh? Dig? This morning we passed out some more tickets and now were having a yard sale for the church! Drink plenty of water guys. I'm back to outreaching! Peace, Rachel

worktime

2010-07-16T14:07:00.000-07:00

so a lot has happened from the last post from me. the dentonators had a blast yesterday at adventure landing playing lazer tag mini golf and bumper boats. then it was back to the hotel to get ready for dinner and questions for pastor blake and his wife. this morning we started early by handing out the rest of our flyers and doin some shoppin. it does not sound tireing but it was no doubt now we are preparing to head to the church once more to do breakaway and the LOCK IN!!!!! i will surley be sleep deprived after all this especially because it is impossible to take a nap with tay and tay in the room! thats all for now hopefully i will be able to post later!!!! ~ kristin

2010-07-16T13:53:00.000-07:00

we are constinly moving. we are never at our hotel. but its ok cause we are working for god. its just a constinly outreaching seeing souls saved and changing lives in our youth and in my life its been a blast.
-kenny

2010-07-16T13:41:00.000-07:00

you know after all the road runners have seen. we have found out that pioneering is nothing easy but its all for God. we woke up at around 6 and went to the church for prayer. once we got a hold of God we went and outreached for about four hours. and passed out a whole lot of flyers for our big outreach. we came back to the church and practiced for a while till we had a yard sale in front of the church. its been amazing god is moving in albuquerque new mexico.
-jacob

2010-07-16T13:28:00.000-07:00

just look at aaron!

so yet another exciting day for the Dentonators. we started our day with a bible study by me followed by some prayer and reading. after that we all got into the van for another outreach. we handed out the rest of our flyers and then headed to wal-mart where we were given the task to witness to two people. me, stephen, and blake got some swimming goggles and it was over from there as you can see from the pics. we then at some church's chicken and i have to say im inspired to plant a church..... well churchs chicken lol. we headed to sam's to get our supplys for the outreach tomorrow where many adventures happend to say the least. so got to chatch a little sleep then off to the LOCKIN!! so PEACE GANGSTAS!!

-Aaron-

Question Time!!!

2010-07-16T13:12:00.000-07:00

We were verrrrrry tired!

Yeaaaahhh...

Gansta!!!

Kristin, why you hidin from the camera???

Pastor Blake and Karla Andrews. We had a very nice question and answer session and learned a lot about the Andrews family. They're very nice people and do a great job with their church.

~Natalie

Our Fun Day :-)

2010-07-16T13:06:00.000-07:00

For our fun day yesterday, we travelled to Dallas to a place called Adventure Landing. Here's a picture of the whole group :)

Demand for pictures

2010-07-16T08:34:00.001-07:00

Twin number 2

Twin number 1

Kiki
Look at them crusty thangs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a Day!

2010-07-15T23:57:00.000-07:00

Knock! Knock! Knock! Is the first noise i heard around 6:00 Thursday morning and judging on how Kenny imitated me, i answered the door looking like Gollom and didn't retain anything he said to me? lol We headed to church for prayer, soon following we went on a outreach all over the city. It.was.AWESOME! passed out TONS of flyers for our outreach saturday, 4 of us evangalized the university of New mexicos campus, which was sick, a lot different from what i've seen but a site to see. Downtown Albuquerque was urban and artistic but pretty all together, people are right, everyone is nice in New Mexico. Everyone seems very excited to come out, so were believing God for a great turnout! For lunch we had Subway "Oh Yeah" (in voice of Kool aid guy) finished that up, than headed for our Fun Day @ Hinkle's Family Fun Park. We all smashed in go-carts; where there was a lot of cutting each other off and causing each other to fish tail into the walls >:/ we also smashed in bumper boats lol DRENCHED! Rachelle and Mrs. Monica were soaking everybody before we could even pull out to get away. A youth from the church, by the name of Maxine got to come along with us, she got to enjoy herself and it was fun for her to be able to hang out with us for the remainder of the day. Following this, we cleaned up and headed back to the church for our youth rally where Mr.Kenny preached the fire down! A tremendous sermon about being "pulled out of the fire" we all received a fresh anointing and were encouraged to continue striving for God's best! We closed the day with, TO MUCH laughter at Pastor Jb's house for din-din, where Gail and Mrs. Sanchez made the Extra delicioso meal for the team lol Kenny "some how?" was unaware the the sliding glass door was "open?" still leading into Pastor Jb's back yard and knocked that right off the hinges, .....soooo sorta had to be there to laugh, but hilarious!! Little Baby Ezra... well isn't a baby anymore but is extra cute and funny to be around, full of energy and more..energy :) We played mariocart on the wii and i realized that i'm..not..not good at all on that game? However, Pastor is a beast and I.WANT.TO.SEE!! Tyler and Pastor Jb in a video game face off!! *dunt-duh-duh!* what game? idk? but that, well that would be cute Agagagagagagaga!! Well, super good day today, so
laterz!
-Daybid (say it with a chinese accent) ;]

Keeping You Up to Date

2010-07-15T23:24:00.001-07:00

WOWZA! So, I haven't blogged yet about things recently so here we go, I hope you're in the mood to read.
Wednesday-
We had an awesome outreach yesterday as you know. We got out 15oo flyers total in about 6 hours. We are going to do outreach again tomorrow. Do you remember the story about the security guard? Well, if you read Isaiah's post, he told you that a lady came by and picked up the flyers that the guard was taking off. She called the church and told Zach that the security guard was taking all of the flyers, so she ran ahead and took them before he got to them. She then passed them all out in her neighborhood! And to make it more of a miracle, she isn't apart of their church! That was completely and totally God intervening. We were so amazed. Keith told us that the people in their church don't live close. They all live far away because of the environment around the church. What an opportunity right? We get to outreach to people that some are afraid to!
The service was powerful. They had an awesome service lead by an assistant pastor and the pastor's wife. Their youth plays the instruments. It was very anointed. But that's not all. Before, during prayer, there weren't more than 15 people in the prayer room and it was louder than I've ever heard our whole youth group pray before! It was awesome. There was a true hunger and zeal in that room. After a while, we all started singing the same song, "Let it Rain". The Spirit of God was pouring out that whole night. We told did the "Everything Skit" and it was good. G.O. got knocked out cold by Robert in one part. I even got a bruise on my arm thanks to Shelby! As some of you know, I don't bruise easily and complain about it sometimes, but I got one! It's not huge, but it's there. I'm proud of it. Pastor Marshall preached that night. He mainly told his testimony, which shocked people. When the alter call came, not only did some of us go down to pray, but some from their church. God is only getting started. Afterwards, we went to Elmer's to eat. The church paid for our meal, and we were thrilled and very thankful. The food was great, and the fellowship was better. We got to know the pastor and his wife as well as their 2 sons, Dallas and Houston (not Austin). After we left, we went "home" and crashed.

Thursday- FUN DAY
So today, we woke up at 6, or we were supposed to. The alarm went off, but we all fell back asleep. When we woke up, it was 6:34 and I jumped out of bed to wake the rest of the girls. We were supposed to meet Mama Cherise down at breakfast at 6:45. We brushed our hair and teeth, grabbed our Bibles and went out. We even beat the guys down there! We felt accomplished. After reading individually, we talked about what we read. Mrs. Cherise pointed out a verse 1 Timothy 4:12-14. Then after talking about it, we talked about what each of us read, and each story seemed to point back to the same thing: preparing our youth for what is to come. We talked about how if we weren't taught to witness, we couldn't teach others, and we wouldn't be prepared. It was a good word. We then rushed back to the hotel room to get ready for the beach!!
We all got in the van, except for David, so P.Marshall drove off, and David came running after (as we found out by some lady who told us when we came back around the block). After getting David, we met some of the church at the church and we were off to Seaside Beach! When we arrived, we immediatly hit up a store where everything was $12.99 (no tax!) and we all got a hoodie, and some of us got sweat pants. Me and Shelby got matching ones!...and so did Isaiah...don't ask. Some of us then rode on the carousel and laughed and waved the whole time. Then we hit up the coast! David and Isaiah ran ahead of the group and jumped in the water, which was cold. After us girls were done drooling, we ran ahead to put our feet in. Isaiah went all the way under then came out freezing. (But during this, G.O. kept screaming "ISAIAH!!!") We all walked along the shore-line and put our feet/legs in. It was cold at first, but it was warm when we got used to it. We collected sand dollars...lots of them. G.O. was chased by a crab, or someone holding a crab; this was hilarious. We took LOTS of pictures too. We were all in awe of the beauty. After spending some time there, we went to the bumper cars and the Tilt-a-Whirl. We had so much fun doing that. We were screaming, laughing, and bumping into people hard on the bumper cars. Then we checked out some more stores. While the guys went into the huge arcade, us 4 girls went on a search for empty bottles. Why, you ask? Because we wanted to take the beach home with us. We finally were informed that we could buy some at the Aquarium. After buying some, we went back down the beach. We put sand in the bottle first, then filled it up with the ocean water. We then ran back to the van, because it was time to go...we almost cried.
We couldn't figure out what to eat, so us girls made the decision after getting back into the van, without the guys. We went to target and the dollar store and got some side dishes for, yes, you guessed it, FRIED CHICKEN!!! We came back to the hotel and cooked the sides and then we all ate in Pastor Marshall and Mrs. Cherise's room. The guys were very thankful and we were all stuffed and have a lot of food left over, which is fine with me. We played card games like Go Fish and Spoons. During Go Fish, I had a laugh attack and I couldn't breath for a few seconds. It felt good to laugh so hard. Shelby then laughed that hard later when finding out that a huge pile of sand on the floor was caused by Abby bringing back some of the beach sand in her socks. It was awesome.

Well, that concludes the past 2 days! We can't wait for tomorrow. It's outreaching time!! Before I go though, I have to say, the weather here is amazing! It's not too hot, and that helps big time with the outreaching. I'm sorry to all of you who are sweating through your clothes, yuck. But have fun everyone! Thanks for all the great posts. You're giving us a reason to stay up late. I can't wait to see what God does in each one of these cities!!! Until next time,
-gabby (pics to come)

Day of Dreams

2010-07-15T23:23:00.000-07:00

DREAMS DO COME TRUE!

Fish out of water.

Sporting the 12.99 hoodies we all bought at the beach.

We went to the ocean for our fun day. The attendent at the hotel told us it was going to be over 70 degrees today, she lied... It took two hours to get down to the ocean. When we got there, we looked around the boardwalk, and found a store that sold 12.99 hoodies. We couldnt keep from buying them, it was a great deal. It can in handy when we went down to the ocean. The water was freezing cold, but there was a gentle warm breeze.

Pastor Marshall dared me to dive into the ocean, which was something i couldn't keep from doing. Stupidity is my game! I sprinted towards the water, but as it touched my feet, i forced myself to stop. People weren't kidding when they said the water was cold! Took me a while to suck it up, but i jumped in and got blasted by the waves and salt water in my face, but it was fun. David joined in and played in the water a bit. Before we headed back to shore, I saw a crab a little more than a foot long, but didn't pick it up because i was scared i would get pinched. The girls spent their time walking around the beach picking up sea shells; some of them were pretty huge. I know they want to come back to the ocean whenever they can, if the ocean was that fun, i wonder how the beach will be like.

Before I head to bed, i'd like to add I bought a new friend. Hes a cow named Mr. Moo Moo.

Quote of the day {Pastor Marshall}: Go play in the middle of the freeway.

-Isaiah #8

Here to bring the streets back to Revival,

2010-07-15T22:42:00.000-07:00

1 Day ONLY 3 events, Pancake Breakfast, Park Outreach and a Movie. Five apartment complex's a 7-11 and a Fry's grogery store parking lot. As you can see from the photos we paid NO attention to the no flyer sign. We even got kicked out of the Fry's parking lot by a security guard in a golf cart, yes, a golf cart, (only in Phoenix)we still placed flyers on cars and gave them to people at the gas station. We are not ashame of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!Romans 1:16

- Ms Chris -

fun fun fun

2010-07-15T22:19:00.000-07:00

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Finally... the promised pictures!

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All of us outside the church with the new banner!

Looking through the song book for service.

The flyers for the outreach.

Us and Stuff

2010-07-15T21:16:00.000-07:00

Applebees for dinner.

Isaac at one of the bus stops for outreach.

Go-cart racing for our funday.

Hanging up the new banner.

The church sign.

Work, Work and More Work!

2010-07-15T21:04:00.000-07:00

Pastor, David and Jacob finishing the big banner for the church.

Alexis sweeping the insulation off the carpet.

Jacob, Daniel, and Nick in the van.

Michael changing one of the ceiling tiles.

Kenny laying out floor tiles.

2010-07-15T20:40:00.000-07:00

Yo VWO Fam! Just wanted to update you guys on Denton, Texas.Today we got down with the get-down tonite. We all are finishing our video about dancing and we played an epic game of boys vs girls volleyball( the girls got spanked 21-7 and 11-o) they played a good game but with Blake and Tyler in the front we couldn't be stopped. Then we all decided to take down Tyler( that man is beast) aaaaannnnnddddd wwwweeeeee lost! So to all the parents we all miss you and love you.

Hate Sin Eat Chicken

-Aaron

Always OUT REACH REACH REACH!

2010-07-15T11:05:00.000-07:00

We just booked it around Phoenix. We literally ran around giant apartment complexes and many parking lots. We got out 1500 flyers in about 1 hour! We had a good response and are sure there is going to be a great turn out on Saturday!

The phoenix teens said we are like LITTLE ANTS! (as we jumped out of the van into the apartments)

It was super fun! Now we are headed to LASER TAG!!!

A Day in Pictures...

2010-07-15T06:51:00.001-07:00

Hey All! We were lacking pictures from our first day so yesterday we broke out the cameras and shot away! It left us way toooo many GREAT pics so here they are...

To explain a few

- We got free burger king meals for dinner because we weren't able to practice in the morning. We started practicing and the accountants in the office above the church came down and silenced us. But later they gave us 21 free BK meals (any sandwhich, fries and a drink) this saved us $157.50 - We call it the best fundraiser we did!

- In the middle of the day with the sun beating down and in 113 degree weather we cleaned the church windows. Now we know the meaning of BOOT CAMP! But we were proud to do it!

- After service Pastor Gregory and a few youth started singing some songs...everyone ended up gathering around. It was the most beautiful thing ever!

- When we walked into BK with our 21 free meal passes. They served us with a smile. Many thanks to Nick, Angela, and OLGA (olga was the small cute manager :0)

- We did practice the Everything skit and few others.

- Landon's big mouth is the talk of the group, because we can't keep it closed. :0)

- And appreciate any picture of J.J because its a true fight!

-Alainna

It wasn't me!!!!

2010-07-14T23:31:00.002-07:00

The heat is on in Phoenix. Great Hotel, great breakfast, great service, in a great new location, and cool new restaurants to eat at. Today we went to El Taco Tote, and we loved it, thanks Pastor Kirk. Although the food was great we had a little mix up with the ordering. Evan never got his food, so of course we would handle it. We go up to the counter and advised them that they made a mistake, we were missing a SUPER chicken Quesadilla. Well, come to find out we weren't, someone else was eating Evan's Quesadilla: Turray! He ordered the small Quesadilla in this picture:

but he ate this

Which was Evan's food, the whole time we were looking for the food, Turray was looking out the window like, It wasn't me. We all laughed and tried to buy Evan another one but we all had way to much food and they shared with him, Thanks Evan for being such a good sport.

Mrs.Chris

Day 3: Work, meet, and eat

2010-07-14T23:31:00.001-07:00

The devil really tried to come against our group today. At the start of the morning, we had breakfast together and prayed, then we went out for outreach. We passed out over 300 flyers before we noticed the fliers had the wrong date for our pancake breakfast. Tension could have flared, but we quickly solved the problem by crossing out the date and putting the correct one and making more fliers, in the end we were able to keep cool.

Back to what Gabby was writing about the officer yelling at us, when we booked it out of there, the officer went around taking the fliers off the cars, but a lady who we didn't know saw him doing it, and ran ahead, taking every flier she could. When she collected all the ones she could, she passed them out around her neighborhood. We didn't find out about it until she called the church. A true blessing and miracle, God moved in that situation.

During service tonight we met new people, and went out to dinner with the pastor and some of the youth from the church. Austin and Houston (two of the youth) were cracking us up the whole time. We even learned some amazing facts, The first Twilight movie was filmed at Austin's school, The Goonies was filmed here, and even Rambo. This place makes Colorado look boring. the Pastor Kirk was very generous and we are thankful for him treating us out to food.

The Everything skit went great tonight. Everyone was real interested in it and seemed to love it. I think the best part about it was when GO got blasted by Robert. (Video coming soon)

Quote of the day: Excuse me...Girl the back of your head look Ridiculous.

-Isaiah #8

Our Perilous, Perilous, PERILOUS real first day!

2010-07-14T23:05:00.000-07:00

DRiNK MORE WATER!

The Window Cleaning Ninja's...dun dun dun

As you can imagine, we all woke up pretty early for prayer. As the group was praying, you could tell we all needed a little coffee! Then began the practices of skits and bands. [we managed to fit a small breakfast and relaxing break in between the two!] Both bands and both skits were insanely amazing. You would think we practiced for weeks because we are so good, but actually that was our like fourth practice.....In that time this lady upstairs came down and asked us to quit down, you're probably thinking LAME!! But it payed off in the end because she gave us all coupons to certain Burger King places for a free meal! Before we used our special reward, our group attended the Wednesday night service at Pastor Gregory's church [it is so big and fancy! The sinks are AUTOMATED!!!! We did clean the windows and such to make it fancier, though.] Mr. Chris Williams preached tonight and he did amazing. Afterwards, we partied like wild animals at Burger King! We all felt bad though for the people making it since we didn't really pay for it and we randomly kind of rushed in without warning! Richard, Sam, Mellisa, John, Brooke, and all of Pastor Gregory's children played inside the kids play place. In the end we had an insane time here. We don't so much appreciate the temperatures outside, but we love the memories and differences we make. Oh, and for lunch we all went to some Mexican food place and ate insanely good food while enjoying hot [but called "medium"] salsa and guacamole bar! WE ARE THE PHOENIX MOTO FUNK!! AND WE ARE HAVING FUN!:]

-Brooke

Laughter,Heat, and Fuddy's

2010-07-14T22:29:00.000-07:00

We were all dripping sweat

yep heat got to him

taco bueno

Yes,Yes Y'all and we don't stop.....yo what's up VWO family? Aaron here reporting for Day 2 update. For the Dentonators, our 6am morning begin with hahahaha....laughter(as weird as that sounds) while enjoying some Froot Loops me and mi amigo Blake ran into a very interesting man named Jose. Jose was a expert waffle maker/evangelist who was employed at the Super 8. Now Richard was enjoying making waffles until... wait, Wait, WAIT!... I TOLD YOU TO WAIT!!! (in hispanic arabic accent). Jose was also a master in preaching the "gospel" He warned us that he would stop talking to us before he was killed by Tyler our spiritual leader lol. after that we headed out to the church to meet DJ Paul for prayer, and after prayer we pulled out the brooms and mops (but not to sing and dance) they put us to work. after what seemed like forever we finally headed out to outreach!

After finishing our first apartment we thought we were on to the next one but the office officials made us pick up all the flyers from the first apartments. after two grouling hours of sweaty pits heat we headed to taco bueno (which was not bueno at all more like Taco Eh whack!) Followed by a couple more hours of outreach. After our group cried we headed back to the hotel, where we are in the progress of making one of the best PBC movies ever and we also figured out the number 1 tip to avoid wedgies. "when your underwear is being pulled SQUEEZ TIGHT!!"

Then it was off to the church for a Powerful wed. night service where Stephen and I did the conscience skit followed by Pastor Blakes message on seizing your youth. we were all very inspired by his word teens and adults alike. and off we went to Fuddruckers! where everything from a cricket in the hair to Shaunna's gangsta days it was an entertaining night. So all in all it was a great day and night, and God is defiantly present in Denton, Texas

Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease

-Aaron-

A mighty good da-a-A-ay

2010-07-14T22:25:00.000-07:00

The ladies at church

Altar Call

Don't wrestle with your conscience

Blake forgot to pack his dress socks

The ladies watching whats happening in Oregon

Its crazy to look back at a day like today and try to gather all that we did; a lot was done! We woke up at 5:30ish, got ready and ate breakfast. We were wondering if the girls had already eaten while we were getting ready since we hadn't ran into them yet, so Shaunna went to their room and woke them up while knocking. It was about 6:40 and their clock said 12:59. So they were up and out fast. We went to the church @ 7 and prayed and read for a hour, then cleaned up the church. Hung out for a bit, left for the outreach about 9:40. About ten of their teens met up with us to get the job done. The first complex we went to called up Paul (if you've never met Paul, he is the youth and outreach director for the church and is an awesome guy to be working with here) and they asked us to come back and take all the flyers off the doors. So we back tracked a bit, but still ended up getting out about 1100 flyers out by the end of the day.

After some other events I won't bother mentioning for time sake, we got ready for church and were there about 5:20. We practiced for our skit and prepped for the service, which was awesome! Glory to God! Pastor Blake preached a message mainly for teens, which made up at least a third of the congregation tonight! They had no teens but two for a loooooooong time, but have been praying and believing God will send them in, and they have been coming in; hallelujah! Afterwards, we went to the now famous pbc hotspot, Fuddruckers, for our late dinner. Taylor T has obviously shown us all on the trip that she is not a fan of bugs, so after we left, I caught a gigantic cricket and threw it on her, and we watched her almost qualify for the 2012 US 100 meter dash competition. We then drove through Denton trying to find a Conoco or Phillips 66 to get ready for tomorrow. On the ride, sweet gentle quiet Shaunna revealed how gangsta she used to be back in 'Cali' in her unregenerate days. Aaron and Blake even talked her into throwing down a little ghetto dance (good luck getting her to show it to you). Tomorrow is our fun day, so we are all excited for that. Signing of for the night from Denton (unless Aaron decides to post in the next room over).

Tyler

2010-07-14T22:23:00.000-07:00

Hmmm...? Well, let's catch up. The Drive here was crazy! I never realized how flexible 3 guys could be when struggling to take a nap in one van seat lol Daniel, brad and I figured that out quick. NUMEROUS pics were taking to verify that. Putting 15 people in 1 van for 5 hours is asking for insanity, but we managed to keep our composure :/ 11 dudes and 4 girls? Were all getting along just fine lol the van rides are always fun though, Kenny and Monica definitely are gifted with patience!! Between the 13 of us, we've had a fare share of our, "guys...guys? HEY GUYS!" lol so were doing our best to all stay diligent and focused. If your not on time to the van on a "pvd" (packed van day) lol it's like "back of the bus!" which happens to be the hottest, most compact, sweaty area of the bus or your sitting one butt cheek on a side of the seat. Which, isn't gonna kill you, but is mad uncomfortable. lol When we arrived to Pastor Jb's it was a nice little reunion with our former youth Pastor ;) it was great to see Gail and him doing great. We went straight to work, in whatever needed to be done, already have done 2 outreaches since we arrived, already shown to be fruitful on our Wednesday night service, so amen GOD IS GOOD! People were saved on a door to door outreach, where all of us got a opportuinity to share the gospel and our BIG Saturaday outreach, so those who've been told seemed excited to hear :) I'm not gonna lie, Albuquerque can get extra HOT, it's not by any means as Green as Beautiful Colorado, and the mountains aren't so popular here but nonetheless NM is extra nice. Today we practiced and worked some more and Jacob and I somehow developed a dance involving a vacuum and Trip lee :] WOW! this one did it to me LOL Alexis was cleaning Pastor's office when we stumbled upon a dead bird, which claims he MISTAKENLY assumed it to be a fake "dead Bird" that Pastor simply keeps around as a part of a awkward collection? lol He bumped it by accident and simply said, "oops" picked the real dead bird and set it on a shelf. lol So, when i came around to install a ceiling tile and came upon it myself, i was super grossed out, cause this wasn't tweetie bird, this was like a BIG.GREY.DEAD bird lol i informed Pastor and he was like ":l? why would i keep a fake dead bird around in my office?" lol so we got it thrown away and continued on with work and evangelism. Well, were having a AWESOME time guys in NM, we've checked the blogs out and it seems that you guys are all seeing fruit and having a blast! As a team we're keeping you guys in prayer and are excited to hear all the reports, God is Good... ALL THE TIME! All the time? ..... Exactly!! Well , we'll catch up with you cool cats on the flip flop lol Lates ;) 1 Choricles 16:8
-David

BIRDS, SWEAT AND LAUGHTER!!

2010-07-14T22:18:00.000-07:00

Tonight we had a wonderful church service! A lady from our bus stop outreach arrived at church and is coming back tomorrow....PRAISE GOD! We also met one of their teens and she is bringing a friend to our fun day!! After service we went to Applebee's! We shared lots of laughter, jokes, and really became a big family! We found out that Daniella is funny, Issac likes cheese...A LOT!!! Michael has brotherly love and to NEVER let guys hang curtains!

We also found a surprising gift. Here's the scoop... yesterday while Alexis was changing the ceiling tile he noticed something on the ground, picked it up and put it on top of Pastor Sanchez's shelf. Today while David was cleaning he finds a BIG DEAD bird on top of his shelf. After discovering it was a real bird that Pastor didn't know about, Alexis confessed to picking it up and thinking it was a stuffed bird! Mr. Kenny safely removed the bird but thought it would be funny to chase me (Rachel) around with it so of course....I ran my little heart out (:

*PICTURES COMING SOON!!!

MRS. GAIL HAS A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!

-Rachel aka Trigger happy aka Raichizzle OUT (;

YEY-YEY!!!

2010-07-14T16:38:00.000-07:00

Yes we did arrive safely and we are having so much fun. Due to problems with wifi we haven't been able to blog or post many pictures, so right now I'm using the hotels computer to post this. Our ride up there was... well, interesting. After telling Kenny he would stay awake the whole way there with Kenny, Isaac ended up falling asleep and sleeping the WHOLE WAY THERE! I learned that David hates to lick his hands, and some of the guys don't mind being cuddle buddies. Hehe... We arrived around eleven as Jacob said, and immediately got to work... We replaced floor tiles and ceiling tiles, we disinfected Every. Single. Toy. In the nursery. We also found some cockroaches!!! EEP!!! So far we have been on two outreaches, last night at a trailer park and this afternoon we seperated into groups of four and hit up the bus stops to pass out fliers to people getting on and off the bus. Alot of sweat has been shed these past two days, but I shouldn't complain because I know there are other groups in much hotter places. We are about to leave for church, so I better get going... hopefully we can get some pictures on asap. Pray for us and all of the other groups. Shout outs to Mrs. Rachel Chaves for making our delicious lunches. Also Rachizzle wants to give a shout out to her sista from anotha mista!!! Until next time, Roadrunners lets roll out!

-Daniella aka Lil' Bit-

2010-07-14T15:55:00.000-07:00

we made it at around eleven on tusday morning and right from the get go pastor Jb had stuff for us to do. we cleaned me and Pastor finished his new banner i got to talk to pastor and Gail and i think just with a talk they really blessed my life then. and today we pretty did the same thing cleaned and got everything ready for church we went on outreach for our concert/bbq/movie i think god is really going to move not just in the people from the outreach lives but in a big way in ours
-Jacob

some pics of us

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Our new friend Kalie

cheese!

Can you see me?

Hi mom!