Thursday, November 20, 2008

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like . . .

Every year we have a youth group Christmas party.  Every couple of months we have an outreach night.  Outreach night is focused on sharing that a relationship with Jesus Christ can radically change life both here and now and in eternity.  This year we are combining the party and outreach night.  Our prayer is that we see some students accept the best Christmas gift ever.
In the past the Sunday night right around Christmas break would have really low attendance.  Last year we decided that since there would be a small group of students we would go bowling.  Ended up that we had just as many students as usual and a few guests.  Hmmmm...the experiment worked!  So now this will be an annual event.  Students and their family group leaders will gather for a couple hours of bowling together.  Following the bowling we are going to Taco Bell for some festive holiday tacos.

10 comments:

marcia said...

Does Taco Bell know to have extra staff on for that particular hour that night? You will be like a couple of tour buses descending on them all at once! :):)

Anonymous said...

Sounds like such a great idea!

We are having a youth group disco and christmas party on the sunday before christmas - I'm threatening to make fancy dress essential hehe

Andy Lawrenson said...

Disco? I'm thinking white John Travolta suit

marie said...

I love your creative graphics! Did you do that on your mac?

Andy Lawrenson said...

@Marie Yes, but done with Powerpoint

Rick Lawrenson said...

Andy,
The same guy with the vans owns the Taco Bell.

Bonnie said...

how do you make those cool signs?

Bonnie said...

oh, my bad...I should have read the comments before I asked the question. I have powerpoint, but it doesn't do those cool things.

Andy Lawrenson said...

@bonnie powerpoint will do it. You just have to acquire the skills. I also have Adobe Creative but haven't figure it out yet.

Andy Lawrenson said...

The backgrounds are images I downloaded free last year from simplyyouthministry.com
The fonts are downloaded free from dafont.com
the rest is inserting Word art, text boxes, shapes.
Using "shadow" on the text

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