this morning [saturday] we sent out a team of high school students to gleaners food bank. it’s cool to see teens desiring to help others…even if it means sacrificing half of a 85 degree day to be inside packaging food!
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i love these guys
I spent my friday evening with some pretty amazing friends. they are the adult leaders of velocity…high school ministry of northridge church.
this is bill. he’s our fearless leader.
this is some of the gang hanging out after the “meeting” part. all in all, i absolutely love serving with these guys. they make my job so much fun!
weekend in pics/vids 3
on saturday morning me and some staff from northridge visited saline high school. why? you ask.
on september 13 I will be part of northridge church launching their very first satellite campus. the location? saline high school. now, doesn’t that all come together and make a whole bunch of sense? enjoy the short video…
the haircut
during our 9 Easter services at NorthRidge, these High School students took a break from helping out in the parking lot to give Jarrod a haircut.
(another) weekend update
has it been a week since i last posted? wow.
well. this last weekend was quite busy. it started friday. velocity decided to do the 30 Hour Famine that world vision hosts. me and 35 other velocity staff and students started fasting around 7:00a on friday. we got together, had some worship, played some games, slept at the church, served in detroit, then ended the fast at 1:00p saturday afternoon. thanks to anne gardner we had a kickin’ “traditional” african meal. overall we raised over $4,000 for world vision to help feed kids in africa.
then came velocity.
i gave the talk on “who do you say jesus is?” it was based off of peter’s confession in matthew 16:15 – “You are the Christ, son of the living God.”
for a creative element, we had two students spray paint both positive and negative views of jesus on to a large piece of muslin fabric (see pic) … after the talk, the band did three worship songs from behind the fabric…it was a powerful night of confession and worship of who jesus is.
weekend update
saturday was one of those rare days where i had absolutely nothing to do. and that’s exactly what i did. nothing. now, i had gone into the day wanting to get some reading done…i ended up catching up on some shows (namely 24, The Office, and Chuck).
in velocity we had our second week of “red letters.” bill holbrook spoke…and he rocked it out. we made a major announcement as well…bill is our new high school director. i’ve been waiting for this transition to happen for a while, and now that it’s here, i can see momentum already starting to build.
we showed an announcement video. we got the idea from josh griffin’s blog…until i post it (on tuesday) all i can say is that it involved a paintball gun.
velocity update – march 1, 2009
this past weekend in velocity we our opening talk for “red letters.” i have the talk, and i was pretty excited about it. i talked out of matthew 9:9-13. jesus walks up to matthew, an outcast in that society, and asks him to follow. so crazy. i took it from two angles
the disciples: no doubt the ones already following jesus were a little confused as to why a “tax collector” was joining their bunch. i asked, “who in your life are you denying the life-changing love of jesus?” we mainly do that because of decisions those people have made…we think jesus wouldn’t want them following him.
matthew: we’ve all been here, i’m sure. i know i’ve felt sometimes that i’m not good enough to follow jesus. oh boy does jesus shatter that thinking. anyone can change. this is jesus we’re talking about…the same dude who rose from the dead! wow, the power in believing that is immense. who do you know that is “too far gone?” even when everyone thinks a person is “lost” … he is still worth being found in God’s eyes.
next week bill is tackling some red letters. stay tuned for a recap
Adam Mashni 