Year In Review

As this is my second to last post for 2006 it is fitting that I do a little looking back. The question is how detailed should I get in this Two 14 Student Ministries year in review? I think I’ll go month by month. That way I don’t get too detailed nor do I skip over anything that is noteworthy. Plus there are 12 months in the year, which happens to be my favorite number. Coincidence? I think not. But since I am going to go month by month this will have to be a two part series. 6 months now, 6 more next week.

As for that layout of the review…I will give a summation title to each month and bullet the points of interest. I hope you enjoy this walk back through the year that was 2006.

January: All Is New
* Series in youth: Prayer, What’s the Point? The hope was to get y’all to resolve to pray more this year? How did that turn out?
* Grand Opening Weekend for the church. We passed out cokes on the side of the road. No one died and it was surprisingly fun.
* It was also our first full month in the High Dive. We bought a X-Box 360 and a Big Screen. Fittingly we also began Fun Fridays to give you a chance to come play with the new toys.
* D-Groups moved from people’s houses to The High Dive.

February: Super?
* Series in youth: Disciple: Be One, Make One.
* We hosted a Super Bowl party in the High Dive. Brian shared the gospel and we had a Madden tournament. Josh spent the last quarter banned to a bathroom stall because he was in trouble. Good times.
* I don’t remember anything else about this month.

March: A Month of Losing
* Series in youth: And You Think You Have It Bad (Ultimate Authority)
* We kicked Spring Break off with a Blazer Tag All nighter. Sean shared the gospel before we headed to Blazer Tag. When we got to Blazer Tag I didn’t manage to even win one round. (Contrary to my Blog Posting that week, see my March 6th blog. We ended the night by grabbing breakfast at chic-fil-a. A number of you fell asleep while eating your chicken biscuit.
* Thanks to Brian everyone was given the chance to do a March Madness Bracket. Also thanks to Brian, Krista was given the chance to humiliate me by winning the whole thing. Which she did.

April: A Call to Ownership
* Series in youth: The Reliability of the Gospels
* Brian and I film the Indiana Jones spoofs for the series. Which can still be seen on You Tube. Just check out the link on our links page.
* Captains Camp was at the end of this month. The theme was “The World’s Best Captain” and we used clips from the Office to teach now not to lead. It was awesome. We had 8 students go to Captains Camp, which was about the size of the youth group in April 2005.
* D-Group guys football games really started heating up. The Jr. Highers finally won a game.

May: Volleyball and Roosters
* Series in youth: Reliability of The Gospel (continued)
* D-Groups came to an end.
* We kicked off the summer with the End of School Bash. Students were forced to sing the Aggie War Hymn on the steps of the UT Tower. The race ended at a pool, where you had to do a relay race. (Still the best pictures of our group ever. Check them out on our website) And Jake Franklin came all the way from France to share the gospel.
* Youth Leaders Troy and Stevi said their goodbyes and headed north. They are still badly missed.

June: Pools and Camps
* Series in youth: Titus: Looking Good In the Neighborhood
* Josh Leyden was filmed looking more like a dork than ever for the Looking Good video.
* We had a pool party at the Hills. The girls defeated the guys again in the annual water volleyball game.
* We left for Boot Camp on the 18th right after I finished preaching in big church. Boot Camp was awesome. Roosters were chased, disc golf was played and teams bonded. The worship was awesome and the group had a great afternoon of prayer. We ended Boot Camp by pulling into a Dairy Queen on the way back and chowing down on some good ice cream. Great times.

So that is the first half of the year. I felt like the youth group really bonded through that semester. Boot Camp was the highlight for me, but Josh dressed up for the looking good video was a close second. Feel free to tell me if you think I left something out that needs to be mentioned. Or just let me know what your favorite thing was from the first half of the year.