Nuestra Senora Halloween Party!

October 21, 2007

Breakfast Club resumed with Rebecca and Jessica joining the group this week. We're still learning names and we're excited to get to know you all better. We ate food, relaxed and caught up with friends. We also shared the past weeks high's and low's and discussed strengthening our spiritual eyes by looking for "Spirit Sightings" each week as we try and see God at work in the world around us. Mother Teresa made a spiritual practice out of seeing Jesus in every person's eyes, even the most downtrodden. Last week Father Jay quoted a friend of his who said that Jesus comes to us in every person we meet, but sometimes Jesus is disguised pretty well. Maybe if we keep looking, we'll learn to see better--Jesus was always healing the blind and we hope to wake up to the dreams that God has for us. This Sunday Fr. David said that sometimes life hands you a banana and says, "God's on the line." We want to say "No!" to the banana, rather than answering a call that seems ridiculous. He talked about the Rules of Improvisation--really the rules of life--which remind us that to be fully engaged in life we have to learn to say yes to the things that come our way. If life hands us a banana--we have to answer that call. So whether we're seeing "Spirit Sightings" or going bananas, hopefully we can share our strengths and our struggles together in youth group.

At Supper Club we had a super fun time playing Capture the flag (or frisbee) in the church. Jessica snagged an early win for the girls, but the boys won round two after we enjoyed pizza. We closed the night offering up our prayers and hopes, making a sacred space under the stars together. Whether you're an old-timer or you haven't joined us in a while, we'd love to see you again!

What we want to get out of Youth Group

have fun and meet people
get to know people
get more people to come
meet more people and make new friends
have fun
learn more about self
have energy
do new projects
come every Sunday
expand horizons
grow spiritually together
a year to grow together
attendance
expansions
learn soulja boy
people should want to come
grow close enough to always be there for each other
feel included
continue to be inclusive
grow in faith, hope and love
continue momentum

J & R's First Sunday

Wow! What a fun group! We are so excited to get to know all of you more. You all have so much passion and a strong desire to grow--in numbers, in faith, in depth.

We're going to continue to build our community with get-to-know you type games and listen together as we discern where the Spirit is leading us. We have a lot of ideas percolating, but we know you do too and we want to hear from you and create this ministry together.

We set up this blog to keep in touch and post happenings and fun stuff. Feel free to comment or add things!

Supper Club Highlights-October 14 : The non-working markers got trashed, we traced our hands, 3 random facts about yourselves became our first impression, Subway--Spirit got some too--oops! You got to hear a few random facts about us like: Jessica ate raw cat food and Rebecca was on the Bozo Show. We shared our hopes for Youth Group, and there's a lot of hope to expand. We had ice cream Sundays and managed to avoid a whip cream showdown. We closed with predella prayers in the nave.

Next week, same time, same place!