teenweek09

Verse of the Day - Monday

Jude 1:21 - "keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life."

Stay tuned for pictures and other updates later today!!

TEEN WEEK IS HERE!

It's finally here! Teen Week 2009!

We will do our best to keep the blog updated every day, but here's a little bit of info just to get things started.

Meet our speaker, Jay Price from Holiday, FL:

Hey guys. My name is Jay Price and if it’s okay with you I’ll introduce myself in the words of Ron Burgundy: “I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal. People know me. I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.”

Right.

Anyway…my wife Amy and our three kids, Jacob, Elizabeth and Andrew, are really glad to call Holiday, Florida and Sunshine Lutheran Brethren Church our home. We moved there from Wisconsin in 2006 when God called me to be the pastor there. And we’re really grateful for all of the great friends and the fun experiences that we’ve discovered. The beach. The palm trees. The sun. We love it. We’ve also been to Disney World about a zillion times. Which is a good thing. Mostly. Because I still have dreams about the creepy little people singing “It’s a Small World After All”. But I’ll be okay. 

I think.

I get pretty excited about a lot of things in life: I love spending time with my family. I’m crazy about good stories—well-crafted movies, powerful books, and hearing about people’s personal experiences really energize me.  I’m pretty passionate about the Green Bay Packers. (What do you expect from a Wisconsin guy?) I love the arts—music, drama, drawing, painting, video, etc.—especially as an expression of worship. I love to teach, especially when I have the privilege of seeing people have an “a-ha!” moment. Those instants where people come to a new, or deeper place in their relationship with Jesus Christ are precious to me. But I guess the thing that I get most excited about are those times when I’m caught off guard by God’s rich and extravagant grace and mercy for a sinner like me. Most days, I’m content just to know that I belong to Jesus. 

And it’s because of this that I’m so excited to be a part of Teen Week. Man, I’m telling you, I can’t wait to see the ways that God uses our time together to help us to go deeper in our relationship with Jesus, or to go further in our love and service for other people, or to go to the extreme as we share our faith with spiritually lost people.

I’m excited. Really excited. Because God’s going to be there. And when God shows up…well, you never know what might happen!