I am thankful for a wonderful (and crazy) church family. What a blessing it is to serve along side some of the crazy funny, biggest hearts and Godly examples that God has sent my family.
I’m especially grateful for the men that God has placed in Ethan’s life. I can’t think of better people outside of our family to help us guide Ethan through the crazy teen hormones.
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A couple of weeks ago, Ethan and I had the chance to go to CIY Move in Cleveland, Tennessee with our church youth group. 5-days with these cool cats was actually really fun! See the beautiful face right in the middle of this picture? Yeah, she’s almost always in the background of all my pictures somewhere hahaha. She’s like my very own, ‘Where’s Waldo?’
Of course Enzo wasn’t ready to let me go anywhere without him and since sneaking into my luggage wasn’t an option, he decided to send along his trusty old pal, Fuzz.
I have to admit, this has to be one of the coolest openers I’ve seen at a youth camp. It was awesome! They had a facade and the lights threw the shadows of the different band members on it. So as someone winds up each member of the band, they play their instrument till the whole band is playing MJ’s “Billy Jean”
CIY Host, Taylor Brown
CIY guest band, Caleb Rowden
CIY Encounter Speaker, Ben Hardman (He was awesome!)
One of several elements CIY used to bring God’s message and Bible stories to life.
This one is Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the fire (Daniel 1-3)
Towards the end of our trip, we spent the afternoon up in the mountains where they had watering holes/springs. So beautiful out there, but I am definitely not an outdoor adventurer. =)
It was so awesome to spend the week with 22 of the most epic students ever and to build relationships with each and every one of them.
I absolutely LOVED getting to work with 3 of the best youth leaders who have huge hearts for these students and are passionate about pointing these students to Christ. They also confirmed how crazy they really are 
You learn a lot about people when you go to camp! I learned that one of our leaders have awesome ninja-matrix skills! LOL! And I learned something about myself too. Dramamine and I just aren’t meant to be…hahah that stuff should have some kind of warning label.
Best of all was to watch God meet these students where they were, to see God come alive for them, and to celebrate along with them and pray with them for the decisions they were committing to.
This bunch is some of the best youth leaders I know!
They were definitely ready to rock the 80s.
I love these girls! They are just 3 out of the many coolest ladies in Fusion.
Can’t have the 80s without Ghostbuster right??
Even the dance off was awesome!
This DJ has got to be one of the coolest adults ever, he should’ve won the dance off!
This little munchkin was so excited to be part of the 80s dontcha think?
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First, I LOVE my church! Second, its awesome that they had the opportunity to bring in Josh Wilson and Caleb (the Band)! Third, Josh Wilson has the coolest gadget on his iPad, the Square app. It swipes credit cards so you can purchase merchandise. (Oh! and he wasn’t too cool to help set up his own merchandise table! I think that’s pretty cool) Josh Wilson was really awesome but he has competition with his little gadget that I got to play with all night!
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These guys were great! Caleb looks a lot like his dad, Steven Curtis Chapman.
Josh Wilson is such an awesome musician and entertainer! He was basically a one man band (well, him and his loop pedal). I LOVE LOVE LOVE his music and his wife is super nice. Did I mention I love his credit card gadget on his iPad??? Oh that was so much fun! We even had a lady make 2 additional transactions just so she can sign the iPad with her fingers. LOL
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I LOVED his live version of “3 Minute Song” (he was awesome but definitely not as cute as this!) and to hear the story behind his song “Before the Morning” made me love it even more.
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This was our second year attending the Live Nativity at our church. Last year Toots’ helped out with photographing the families that attended while I walked around with Ethan and Enzo. This year, we both got to help out! Which also meant someone had the kids…
Toots’ took photos outside – during the tours and while ppl played with the animals and waited in line. He also had E and Enzo in tote which made it a little difficult for him, haha I think it’s because he’s not use to being out by himself with the kids. I got to drive the golf cart around!
Oh it was so much fun…it was a big golf cart, 6 seater. I’ve never driven a golf cart so before all the festivities started, I put E and Enzo in the cart with me and drove around the tour path and around the parking lot….brrr it was cold too! It was really neat to meet different ppl that were visiting the Live Nativity for different reasons. I met some ppl that were from our church, a few from the other campus, and a handful that came because they had heard about the festivities going on….
Now, why would you give either of these children a full cup of hot cocoa?? hmm Let see, E burnt her tongue, which is probably enough for her to not want to drink hot cocoa for a while. Then Enzo, well yeah you know how that goes. Hahaha Toots, honey, THIS is why you couldn’t keep these 2 under control…thank goodness I didn’t have kid duty that night!
ps…in case you’re wondering why we are missing a child, Ethan decided to hangout with cousins on the first night (coz he’s too cool for his parentals) and Toots’ didn’t take pictures on the second night. So yes, we still have 3 kids…
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Wow, we had such a hectic day yesterday, but definitely full of Worship. Our day started at 5:00am getting ready for church, coz both Joyce and I needed to be there by 7:00am for rehearsals (Joyce in rooftop & band for me). We had “FRIEND DAY” all day at church and both morning services were packed out. Soon after lunch, I headed back out to church for another rehearsal for the evening Praise & Worship. Awesome turn out, awesome music (both Youth & Main praise teams played), awesome desserts, and awesome fellowship!
You are all invited next time we have another event like this.
Thank you Lord for giving Toots all these talents that he can use to serve you. Thank you for using him to help Your truths come alive for these kids!
Only Ormeo’s get this creative! ahah Come on, styrofoam insulation?? Home Depot is Toots’ craft store!
i really really do! it’s awesome that Ethan loves waking up sunday morning to go to church and we don’t have to drag him outta bed. Enzo on the other hand is a little slower on the wake up call but once you tell him we have to get ready for church, he is out of that bed and stripping his jammies off!
Today we were walking around a store and Enzo started singing a song and said they sang that new song at church. He kept singing, “Praise ye the Lord, Hallelujah! Praise ye the Lord, Halleujah!” It was just too sweet! I know it doesn’t seem like such a big deal, but i love that he’s learning old school songs that Toots and I grew up with. I love that I don’t have to wonder or ever worry about Enzo getting a strong Biblical foundation outside our home. Enzo tells me that his teacher reads him stories out of the Bible “too much” (his words not mine hehe). I was reading a book one day, and he asked me if i was reading my Bible. After telling him that I do read my Bible, but the book I was reading was a different book, he said his teacher, Ms. Karen (which he LOVES LOVES LOVES) tell him stories about Jesus from her Bible everyday (meaning every Sunday). How cool is that? I know its stuff that you expect out of a church but what can I say, I’m easy to please!
I love that I know Ethan is not just taught HOW to live a christian life in such a secular world, but he’s taught WHY. He sees that living for God doesn’t have to mean being uncool or being a boring person, because he sees how his youth leaders treat him. he really likes them! esp his small group teacher, Mr. Stan, and one of the youth leaders that plays the guitar in the youth band, Justin. Ethan really likes him! Ethan hangs out a bit after church is over and they play ping pong, pool or Wii. Ethan loves his youth pastor, Tim, because he has crazy stories that go everywhere but in the end always talk about God (Ethan’s explanation not mine). Well that and because Ethan thinks Tim looks like David Blaine! They really go the extra mile for the youth and make them feel included.
Personally, I don’t think Tim the Youth Pastor looks like David Blaine, but Ethan seems to think so, maybe its the hair…or the lack of it….
Tim Gray is the one in the middle with the crazy face
David Blaine, some magician that really creeps me out…eek!
hmm…oh yeah those aren’t my pictures, hopefully they don’t mind, I got Tim’s picture off our church website and David Blaine off the internet.
At church this month, the virtue the kids are learning about is Kindness. Anyway, with my recent excitement this morning, I almost forgot how all this excitement is totally a God thing. Stuff going on right now and news I’ve heard this morning, is absolutely God working.
Anyway, after I posted my previous blog, I checked email and this is an excerpt from an email I got from one of our ministry leaders at church.
“What do you do to earn kindness from God? Sometimes He’s kind to you when you don’t deserve it, isn’t He?”
God is kind…
