A Super Superstart!

Wow what a weekend! My ears are still ringing, still tired, and still hearing "My Best Friend is the Creator of the Universe" I will still be humming tunes from The Lads for about the next month for sure! We had an event called Superstart here at the church this last weekend (over 1300 preteens in attendance and www.ciy.com/superstart if you want to check it out for yourself) and man what a time we had! The fun/food/music/program, it was just such a blast! Those guys from down under ( not Midnight Oil or AC/DC or even Men At Work and especially not Wolfmother......but The Lads! http://www.theladsband.com/ ) They were awesome, not only in the music but in the message they gave to the preteens to be all that God has called them to uniquely be! Yancy was fantastic (as usual) and the whole team from Superstart was just a joy to be around and work with!

We had the Lads hang out and minister to both of our morning services yesterday and they did such a great job in working with a younger group of kids than they typically would work with! It was a great week and I cannot wait to see what God has in store for us this week as we get back to some sense of what we normally do in the Zone! We will be talking about this week/or continuing to talk about I should say...God's Wall of Protection and we will be looking yet again at another person from the Bible in whom God's Wall of Protection saved!

The Wall!

This last week was a good on in the Zone as we kicked off a new quarter study on "God's Wall of Protection"! In Bible times a wall was so important to the safety and security of the people, while they may have ventured outside the walls to do business or farm or even live when times of trouble came everyone headed inside the walls!

We all have them don't we? Walls I mean? Things that we go to, hide behind and look to for comfort and security? God wanted His protection to be His peoples first option and not the walls made of stone and brick to be their savior. And how funny it is when we do see, as in the case of Jericho, a people secure in their walls "they" built and trusted in how mighty our God is to bring them down...and with only a trumpet blast and shouts!

We can build a wall of protection in God and we are going to take about 13 weeks to talk about that and we kicked it off by talking about the first stone in our wall of protection we have in the Lord this last week...the stone of God's sovereignty! We talked about how God is in charge and what a comfort that is, should be, to all of us! This week we will be in our large group a bit longer than normal as I have a meeting scheduled with our mentors to talk about how we can better serve the kids God is continuing to bless us with! While we meet the kids will be lead from the front in large group and sing and praise our great God and talk about the subject of faith! We need to recognize our God is in control then next be willing to trust in that and know that "in all things, God works for the good to those who love Him." It will be an awesome week, we will (of course) have a blast and I look forward to seeing you all there!