Party at the Stack House House!!!

Ms. Terry sent out the following email. I don't have my phone so I can't ask if it's okay to post this. But I will anyway. -Daniel

If you're looking for something to do tomorrow night, come by and see us!

If it's not windy, we'll have a bonfire going (bring your lawnchairs!) and games for everyone - bring your favorite. I hope to snag a few Scrabble players!

Bring a snack and drink to share
(heavy hors d'oeuvres are popular!)

Party starts at 9pm - give or take an hour or two!

Come for awhile or come for the night!
RSVP's are appreciated, but not essential.
Invite a friend!

Hope you can make it!

Terry

A Skating We Have Gone!

This week the youth group went ice skating, next week we're buying a goat, or digging a well...

Leslie and Jared were able to join us!

Merry Christmas from your worldwide Alliance family!

It was a trick!

I didn't write that note... I was misquoted... FRAMED I tell you!
Paul told me to bring up a note when he mentioned Simeon during the sermon. The note was just a piece of paper with some scribbles on it.

















(Artist's representation of the note in question)

On the bright side, I did get at least one extra Christmas present out of it.
So it's all worth it.

The Stethoscope

Ug. There's some cheese on this one.

From Southern Hills Church of Christ, Abilene, Texas.
Man finds a stethoscope with unusual powers. He discovers what soundtrack is playing inside him.

We Were Wassailing While We Watched Prince Caspian

Wassail pot

Some wassailers

Sorry, somehow the wassail didn't make it into this picture.

Okay, so we weren't really "wassailing" because wassailing is the practice of people going door-to-door singing Christmas Carols... and we didn't do that. We just had some wassail. Which is almost as fun to write as it is to say.

Here is the end of this wassail writing.

Carolina Beach "Field Trip"

Check out a few photos from our church "Field Trip" to the installation service at Carolina Beach. We had a great time! A group of us traveled over to Carolina Beach by ferry. It was freezing! We didn't get pics of everyone because some of the less adventurous (or wisest) chose to stay in their vehicles. It was also a great opportunity to meet members of our "sister church" in Carolina Beach. Thanks for inviting us, Carolina Beach Alliance! We pray we can return the favor soon. The return trip on the ferry was at night and so beautiful being on the Cape Fear River under the starry night sky. It was definately a fun adventure!

Youth Group 12/02

This week in youth we watched a video containing the testimony of Vince Lichlyter. It was the almost typical "I did drugs" testimony, if you disregard some certain facts about his life. He ran away when he was thirteen, he smoked his first joint at thirteen, he lived with a friend who dealt dope for some pretty high up there people. 

I think, oddly enough, that this dealer was the person who gave Vince the opportunity to be in the type of crisis where you really cry out to God. I'll say he's the first person who "pointed" him towards God. There were people coming after Bobby, Vince's friend, for stealing a bunch of dope. They said they would kill him and whoever lived with him, that included Vince. Bobby handed him a shotgun and told him that if anyone tried to pound down the door he'd better shoot first or suffer the consequences. He also left him enough dope to live off of for two weeks. Which Vince did.

During this period of being high Vince called his parents and asked if he could come home. They told him yes after some deliberation, and Vince went home for Christmas. When he was home Vince went to a lock-in and talked to the pastor, and did all this stuff. They had lunch the next day, and Vince stayed in this man's house until 3:00 AM.

This pastor was the pretty neat part of the testimony. The neat part was that he was prepared before hand to answer Vince's questions, and to plant the seed in his heart. It really challenged me to be prepared and to be on the lookout. Vince was knowledgeable of the Bible, even as a non-christian. He had a lot of things happen to him that he was shooting at that pastor, and that pastor was just surrounded by a shield. He could point, he could recite, he could make it sound reasonable to a person who had recently been high for two weeks. That's pretty cool.

I certainly am nowhere near as ready as he was, and I want to be ready for whoever God sends my way, or sends me to.

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Christmas Decorating...

Some of us are getting together this Friday at 3:15 (after school) to start a little Christmas Decorating at the Church! Everyone welcome. Hope to see you then!