Sandy's Sayings

Another Cake Issue

OK, so I think we need to find a new cake place. Can you see what is wrong with this cake?

Elevate Day 1

I would say there are about 125 folks here at The Elevate Conference. Most of the folks here are children's pastors trying to figure out what to do with 4th-6th graders. It's kind a weird, I feel like I'm the young one here and I'm almost 40! The two break-out sessions I attended were good. I took a class on pre-teen culture and strategies to reach pre-teens as well as how to use events in pre-teen ministry. Listened to a great guy named Patrick Snow who is on the cutting edge of pre-teen ministry. He was great and had some great reminders when teaching to pre-teens: student interaction, theme repetition, energy injection and small group connection. Patrick is affiliated with SuperStart which is ministry that caters to pre-teens and puts conferences together for this age group. So far, I feel our pre-teen ministry called The Edge is on the right track!

Off 2 Elevate

I'm off to The Elevate Conference in Rocklin. There are not many "tween" conferences out there and there are not many churches doing pre-teen ministry. I'm excited to see how this conference will be. Yes, I will be blogging from the conference.

New Web Site for Student Ministry

I'm in the process of re-designing our whole student ministry website. Here is the banner for Jr. High. Edge and High School are on their way!

Psalms from the Wildside part 2

I've got a few more Psalms that our Jr. High students and our Edgers wrote! Here is one from our Jr. High guys, Brad, Michael, Darren and Ben:

"Walking beside God, the two of us together
alone in the universe with the King.
I'm lost in the shadow, He leads me toward the light
He opens his arms and embraces me
We are together in peace.

And from our Edgers with Darc and the Boys we have a rewrite of Psalm 5 they call it
Psalm 5.5
"Yo what's up Lord, we need you to save us
Listen to our cries oh King because we pray
We pray for our request and hope you answer them
You do not tolerate our badness
bad people won't be able to stand in your presence
because they sin evil like
You will destroy evil
You love me so much you let me come into your house
I will praise you
Tell me which way to or I will die in my enemies hands
Give me a clear message through your angles which way to turn or I might die
All my enemies can speak are lies,
All they want to do is to destroy others
There talk is bad like the stinky garbage
May we all be caught for our guiltiness
Drive our enemies away and turn our sight and eyes to you.