COW

The Comment of the Week this week goes to one of Leadertreks trip team members, Hayley Green. She had some great feedback from the trip and so I thought I would put it up so all could see it. Thanks Hayley! Here it is...

hayley said...

i did a devotion earlier today and it was talking about how simon was out catching fish and jesus came along. jesus said to simon "lower you fishing nets". simon didn't think anything good would come out of it, but he obeyed jesus and did as he was told. the nets got soo full that they started breaking. simon told jesus to back away for he was too great of a sinner to be in jesus' presence. but jesus said " do not be afraid; from now on you will catch men." i was so confused at what that meant until i asked my dad. it means from then on he would be a disciple for jesus and witness him to others to reel them into Him. that's what we did this week. we caught people and reeled them into God. i hope we made an impact, because christians can save people for eternity like ben said in an earlier post. and that to me is amazing.

Mon Aug 04, 12:52:00 PM

Leadertreks Mission Trip

If you were at Edge this morning then you heard all about our trip to Kentucky this past week. It was a great week with so many great things that God did IN and THROUGH students. "IN" meaning that God challenged students through his word and they grew. They learned how to love and how to serve and how to be a team. "THROUGH" meaning that students this past week were used to change the world. They saw the bigger picture of God's kingdom and realized that they don't have to wait until their an adult to make a difference. They were also used to love kids with the love of Christ through VBS.

One of our devotions one morning on the trip was from Luke 14:25-35 and it talks all about the cost of following Christ. I encourage you to read it if you have the chance. Following Christ isn't easy and it isn't safe, but it is the most amazing thing anyone could do. The students on this trip this week got a glimpse of it. I am so proud of our team and so pumped to see their excitement about Jesus and serving him with their lives!

AGoW!!!

Reflex is this week's Addicting Game of the week. It took me a while to figure out how to get by level 6, but then I was finally through. You gotta tell me how far you got. It's a ton of fun once you get the hang of it. Enjoy!

COW

Happy Tuesday everyone. This week's comment of the week belongs to Mr. Aaron Corpora for his response to Todd's post about the Kentucky Missions Trip, even though he won't read it till he gets back this Saturday. This is exactly the right attitude Aaron, great job.

Aaron Corpora said...

Todd, dude im so excited for the trip tommorrow its gonna be a blast and were gonna help people out and it'll be sooooo sweet!!!!!!!

Sat Jul 26, 06:38:00 PM

Oh, and if you guys think of it, please just take 10 seconds RIGHT NOW to pray for the Leadertreks Missions Team. It's so important to pray for each other, and this is an easy chance.

Kentucky Bound...

Tomorrow, there are 25 of us Edge people headed down to the sticks of Kentucky on a one week mission trip. We will be working at a church and another home doing light construction to improve these places. Also, in the afternoons, we will be running a VBS/Sports camp for kids. If you are not going on this trip, would you pray for our team this week? If I have an internet connection where we are at, I will be blogging on occassion about what is going on during the course of our week. I may even have one of the students blog. This is going to be a great week, and if you are around next Sunday for Edge, you will hear all about the trip from those who are going.

Thanks for your prayers!

AGoW!!!

Welcome to this week's Addicting Game of the Week! This week it's 'Plumber 2'. Make a pipe that will get liquid from the main water source to the overflow pipe. Somewhat frustrating, but definitely doable. Here's a Hint, you don't have to use all the pipes. Enjoy!

Summertime is Melting!

I love Summer. Just Love it. And one of my favorite things about summer is Ice Cream. Just fantastic stuff. I don't know who came up with it, but they seriously deserve some sort of award.

The thing about Ice Cream is, you really gotta get on with eating it. If you wait, it's gonna begin melting. And if you're eating in a cone (and if you're not, I really gotta ask, WHY NOT???), it's gonna drip all over you, which means less Ice Cream to eat. Which is Sad. There is a narrow window of opportunity with Ice Cream. If you don't get it to a manageable height before it begins melting, you are going to lose Ice Cream.

Life is like that sometimes. We have a tremendous opportunity in front of us, but we only have a specific window to get it done, and afterwards, it's not as good. All Summer long I've been trying to encourage you to really get out there and enjoy yourselves. Well, we're almost there guys. School starts (gulp) in a month. The Ice Cream that is Summer Vacation is Melting! It hasn't begun running yet, but the signs are all pointing to dirty, sticky hands.

However, it is not too late to get out there and make a difference this summer. Make sure you spend time with your family, with your siblings, with your friends. Read a book you enjoy, go out with a camera and a roll of film and just shoot some pictures. Grab a group of friends and have a sleep over or play a good game of tackle football.

Sure, you can do all these things during the school year, but you know what, it isn't as good. This is the time. So, get on to doing things. Today. Now. Stop Reading And Go!

And don't forget, we have Cedar point in about a month too. Man, that's gonna be so Awesome.

COW

It was a slow week of posting, except for the insatiable Ben Paisley ofcourse. So, I think we're bypassing this week's Comment of the Week Award and awarding NEXT week's winner a two week award. Gotta get a bigger variety of posts (and no Ben, that doesn't mean more posts about the stuff you're doing). Let's Get to Talking!!

Vintage Blogging

Hey, Guys! This Saturday I decided to bring back a post from a year a half ago! The only thing not vintage about this post is that I updated the picture of the baby...he's not a newborn anymore!

Happy Saturday! Do you guys love Saturday mornings? My friend Karrin has a "Happy Saturday" dance that she does because she loves them so much. Maybe it's a little extreme, but I can appreciate that she finds joy in the little things.

Speaking of little things...do you know what else I love? Babies! My parents are foster parents now, so they're taking care of someone else's child until that person can have their child back. So, two weeks ago, a little baby boy came to live at their house. As I like to say, he is extreme cuteness. He's only a month old and so little! I instantly loved him! (That's him in the picture.)

Having this new little guy around really has me thinking. First of all, I can't believe how fast his whole face can turn completely red. Beet red. His whole face. It's amazing. Two, how can one little person be so cute? And three, serving God can be hard. My parents are serving God by taking care of this baby, but it's not easy. My mom never gets any sleep and they don't get to go out and have fun very often. But, you know, it's totally worth it! In the end, a baby will be loved and nurtured and God is pleased. There is real joy in that, even though it didn't come easily. I hope that encourages you the next time God is calling you to serve Him.

AGOW

And here is your Addicting Game of the Week! It's called Worms! Enjoy :)

COW!

It's Comment of the Week Time, and this week's COW winner is Katie Peters! Katie, thanks for your warm welcome to our collective friendly Ben Paisley. And I totally agree, with Ben back, we can expect a lot more spamming of the Edge Blog.
Here is what Katie said:


katie peters said...

now we can have more post cuz with out u ben there is like no post. And cant wait until sunday sounds good.

Sat Jul 12, 05:30:00 PM

The Block

Alright, everyone, get ready! If you haven't heard yet, HCC is creating a brand new building just for middle school and high school students called THE BLOCK. It's located right across the street from the Hudson Cinemas in the old Callahan's Carpet building. We want to make it in to a space that students just like yourself can feel at home in. However, in order to make this happen, we are going to need prayer and money. It's going to cost a lot to renovate this place. THIS SUNDAY, right after the last service, starting at 12:45 PM, we are holding a dedication service at this building. You are all invited to come and check this place out. Bring your parents along! We will be talking about what this place could be, praying, and dedicating the building to the Lord. Just think about the students who have yet to know Christ. This place could be the place where they make the best decision of their life to follow Christ. I am pumped about how God could use this place, and I hope you all jump on board with me! It's gonna be great!

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Romans 12:18

I love Romans 12! It offers so much practical instruction for our lives. When I don't know where to turn in my Bible, Romans 12 is a chapter that I often go to. It brings me back to the basics in many ways and reminds how I'm meant to live. You should read it today.

The verse that I put at the top is an important one that I think we often forget. God says that we are live at peace with everyone as much as we can help it. Is there anyone you need to make peace with? Do you need to call someone up and apologize to them or someone that you need to forgive?

It's not an easy task to put away our pride, apologize, and forgive. But, it is a rewarding thing. I think when you have peace with others, you can find inner peace more readily. God's Word and commands aren't because God likes rules and wants to make life hard. His commands are truly the best thing for us and there is great blessing in following them...and the call to resolve conflict is included in that!

Origins

Have you ever looked around, not just at nature, but at your friends and family, and wondered how everything got started? Have you ever wondered about the first tree, the first animal, the first person? It seems natural to wonder about beginnings. Especially our own. It's easy to look at your parents and see where you came from, then look at your grandparents and see where YOUR parents came from, but most of the time, that's as far back as we can look. Some people have pictures and can go back further, but max, you can go back a couple of hundred years.

Well, this Sunday at Edge, we are going to begin answering these questions in a series we're calling 'Origins'. We'll go through the first chapter of Genesis, and talk about creation. We'll see what came first, what the world was like 'In the Beginning'. You will have the opportunity to look back THOUSANDS of years at your ultimate Grandfather and Grandmother. The parents of everyone. We'll see how they came about, and take a look at the world they lived in (hint, it's pretty different than the one we live in!).

So, enjoy your weekends, I hope you are all living it up on Summer Break, but come on Sunday, and let's dive into God's word and see how this, all of this, got started.

Ordinary People

If you take your Bible, and just open it up to a random page and start reading, you will read about people that God has used. Often times they are put in extraordinary situations and do amazing things to get out of them.

Two very comforting things to remember when we read those stories:

1. These are ordinary people(except for Jesus, he's a special case). Specifically, these people are sinners, just like you and me. There is nothing special about them. They also lived, fought, ate, drank, played, were selfish, were generous, misbehaved, talked back and got in trouble. The cool thing is...

2. The one thing about them that IS special is that they had the power of God moving in their lives. Just like we do. There is nothing that they did, that we cannot do. Or rather, nothing that God did through them that he cannot do through us.

We must always remember that it is God at work, not us. We are just his vessels, his tool to reach the word.

So, if you find yourself looking at the figures in the Bible and thinking that they are great, remember that you are Great too, not because of what you do, but Because you also have the Holy Spirit (God) in you, moving you. And remember that you are capable of doing Great Things for God!!!

AGOW!

Here's your AGOW! for this week:

Enjoy Shock Defense!

COW

This week's Comment of the Week goes to...Miss Emily Young for seeing through last week's post, and reading what I didn't write - that I had cut my hair. Way to snipe what I was getting at Emily, I didn't think anyone was going to figure out what I was writing about, but you were right there! Again, I say, well done!

emily young said...

I was just thinking about it.. and you got your hair cut didn't you!?

Beauty in Colors

You know what's cool about reading Genesis chapters 1 and 2? I like watching God's creativity come out.

I mean, it's easy for you or me to snap a picture of something beautiful, be it a sunset or a rainbow. Or we can paint something. But God's creation wasn't based on something, it all came from his head.

I can totally see God, sitting in the void all of a sudden deciding that His ideas were too beautiful for Him to NOT but them down, and so he begins painting all the colors of a oceanic sunset over a island full of trees. He mixes his Reds and Oranges of light over the Blues of the water, inserting the Greens and Browns of the island, with a little bit Navy Blue, some Yellow, Pink and Black thrown in to create the picture you see above you.

Only it's not just a picture, it's a 3-D image, that lives, moves and breathes. It sustains life, specifically, human life. And all just so we can look at the Sunset and be moved by it's beauty.

I admire artists so much, that they can take what they see infront of them and put down on paper, or copy it's majesty with a camera, but nothing is better than watching the orignial; God's own World that he gave for us to enjoy.

Do me a favor. Tonight, around...9:15 or 9:20, step outside and face west. Go somewhere without too many trees and just watching as the sun sinks down into the horizon. Watch how the colors blend and change. Watch the clouds, the sky, the shadows creeping on the ground. And then pray, and thank God for creating everything he did, from the simple beauty of a Sunset, to the Complex sophistication of You. Because you are the most beautiful creation that God ever made, and everything else He made, He made for you.

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Brave, or Stupid?

I did something last night that I had been wanting to do for the past couple of monthes.

Well, kind of wanting to do. Have you ever wanted to do something in your mind, but you find yourself dragging your heels everytime you step up to do it? Perhaps some big project that you know you have to get done for school, and while you want it to be done, you don't really want to DO it.

Well, that's how it was with me. This is something that I wanted to do. Unfortunately it was a permanent change that I couldn't really undo, and I feared that once done, I wouldn't like it. So it took me like two whole monthes to finally work up the courage to do it. But, it's done. And, to be honest, so far I'm plelased with the changes!

God has stuff for us like that all the time. Stuff that we KNOW we ought to do, for our own good, but the devil gets in there, and makes us lazy or scared, so we end up NOT doing it, even though we know that this is something that, once done, will be great for us.

Today, I encourage you to not be afraid to take a leap of faith if one presents itself. If you have an opportunity today to take a chance, to risk it, but find yourself dragging your heels, even though you KNOW that the end result will be great for you, pull a Nike. Just Do It!