Tips on how to go to the bathroom at youth group

1) run the faucet
2) don't go
3) bathroom fan
4) get everyone into a discussion before hand
5) "kleenex muffler"

I don't know about the rest of you, but sitting in Kevin's living room was tiring! I had just gotten to youth group 15 minutes after getting home from Duluth, so I nearly fell asleep. But we had fun doing the Bible study, singing, and trying to be normal and un-distracted people anyways. After hanging out at Kevin's we walked to Seattle for coffee or hot chocolate...or whatever your preference.
Last week we studied Ephesians 6:16 "Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked." This week, still looking at this verse, we tried to figure out what faith is together. We helped ourselves by getting images of faith out of the Bible. One was a woman who believed that if she just touched Jesus' cloak, she could be healed from her bleeding. She did so, and Jesus said to her, 'Take heart, daughter, for your faith has healed you.' This passage is found in Matthew 9:20-22. There is also the story of the paralytic in Matthew 9:1-8. The paralytic's friends carried him to where Jesus was, cut a hole in the roof, and lowered the paralytic down. Jesus, after seeing their faith, said, 'Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven. Take up your mat and go home', and the man was healed.

-Heatherrr..

Mmmm...

Thank you to Andrew and Nick who actually CAME! To all you people with lame excuses for NOT coming, we had a BLAST with our egg roll-making skills. Unfortunatly, we walked away from this experience feeling like our stomachs were lined with grease. Oh well, it was totally worth eating about 14 egg rolls each.
So welcome to Kevin's sweatshop! I came about 2 hours early to help make the ingredients for the egg rolls...Kevin taught me how to chop "properly", so I feel quite chef-like now! Andrew and Nick came later and helped us do the folding for the egg rolls and wontons...or in Andrew's case, paper airplanes. We made approx. 90 egg rolls last night...and however many wontons. We even brought some to the neighbours who were completely dumbfounded by the fact that we gave egg rolls to them.
Kevin's topic tonight was the shield of faith. 'Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the firey darts of the wicked.' Ephesians 6:16 Firey darts, like skipping school!

-Heather Kimball

P.S. --->Kevin, Nick and I prefer our Judaism to your Christianity. Sorry!

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Remembrance Day

Youth group was held at Neil's house last night, and at last minute he decided he wanted everyone to wear a funky hat! Everything from sombreros and Canada Day hats to pirate hats and paper sailor hats. Crazy.
Our bible study was on the shoes for "Dressing for Warfare"...'the shoes give us the readiness to share the gospel of peace.' (Ephesians 6:15)
To help Kevin illustrate this verse, we watched the movie 'End of the Spear' about a family that moves to the jungle in hopes of reaching out to a tribe there. It is said that no person has made contact with these people and come back alive. They soon find this to be true, but continued to try without giving up hope. (A little confusing at first, but a very good movie)

-Heather Kimball!

P.S. YES we are updating every week! WOO!

Dans la Piscine

Well, we went swimming last night, and much to everyone's surprise, it was fun! We played water polo...of course my team got killed by Kevin's team, but that's to be expected when rivaling Kevin in any game. We sat in the sauna and burned to death, and Neil and Andrew learned to dive!...Sort of. Later on we went back to my house and had our Bible study on "The Shield of Faith". Yes, we're making our way through our topic "Dressing for Warfare". Last night we also had our fill of tomato soup...ugh. 10 cans of the stuff! Thumbs up to Greg who had 3 bowls of the junk, and Andrew who had two.

-Heather Kimball! :)