Christmas party

Just wanted to make a quick announcement.

Our Christmas party is coming. It will be at church, December 19th from 4:00 to 8:00pm.

All you need to bring is a present - under $5.00 for our white elephant gift exchange.

We will feed you dinner and provide the fun.

Don't miss it! Here are some pictures from last years party.

I'm Back!!!

I have not updated my blog in forever! I'm sorry to all of you who use to faithfully check for updates. I have made it my goal to update regularly. Since I have not updated in a long time, let me give you a recap of all that happened this summer and so far this fall.

• In July we had our annual youth group camping trip at Honeyman State Campground. We spent the weekend sandboarding, playing in the lake, roasting marshmellows and having a ton of fun! Here is a few pictures.

All summer the youth group met for lunch and a Bible study on Wednesdays. We call it BYOL (Bring your own lunch). Here are some pictures from this summer

The youth group also traveled to Tacoma and went to Wild Waves. For those of you who have never heard of it, it is a theme park with roller coasters and water rides! It was pretty sweet. Even though it was a little cold and rainly, it was still a ton of fun. Here is a few more pictures.

• We also went on an all church retreat this summer.


• We had an Arizona Mission Trip reunion with Salem Heights Church.


• This fall we started by up youth group (Oneighty) on Friday nights.


• We also started back up our weekly high school Bible study (Wo-Man club) on Wednesday nights. In fact, last week our group went to the haunted house in Salem.


• Twice this fall we have also has the "5th Quarter." Together we went to the football game at Crescent Valley High School and then came back to church after the game for pizza, games and worship.
  
• The High schoolers also went on a retreat to Camp Tadmor with Salem Heights Church in October.


• In October the entire youth group went bowling one Friday night.

• As a church we celebrated our 30th anniversary!


• We have also continued to meet on Sunday afternoon for church.


• Charissa and I have been going to EPIC an asian college Bible study on the campus of OSU.

I think that is almost everything we have been up to lately! I probably forgot something, oh well.

Check back soon for more information about what is happening at CKC.

Arizona

We have been back from Arizona for a week now and I haven’t said anything about the trip. So, here it goes…

First, it was exhausting. The whole thing basically consists of late nights and early mornings. We try to get six hours of sleep each night, but for some reason it rarely seemed to work out that way.

Second, it wasn’t as hot as normal. In fact, it rained a lot the last day we were there. The rain made for some interesting moments. Because there really isn’t any paved roads on the reservation (at least in the neighborhoods), the rain just made mud – and lots of it. In fact, we got a couple of our vans stuck in the church parking lot! It wasn’t a pretty picture. Tae-Han, Jae and I were out in the middle of a mud swamp, pushing a van at 10 o’clock at night! Took us a while, but we finally got it free.

Third, I attempted to catch/kill a rat with a plastic fork. Yep, you read it right. We had a few girls get sick during the week, so we had them sleep in a room off of the kitchen at the church. But, they thought they heard a rat moving around in the dark…so I went in and sat and waited with my fork…I’m not sure what would have happened if I had actually seen the rat. I never found the rat…but we moved the girls, so everything worked out.

Fourth, our students did an amazing job working with the Navajo children. We had 11 students travel with us this year, and it was great to see them work so hard. Angela and Daniel both shared their testimonies in the church service on Sunday. Which was pretty incredible! We played games, gave “piggy-back-rides” to the children, shared Christ, played basketball, and sang songs! I’ll try to put some pictures up here soon of the trip…the Internet at my house is super slow…so be patient.

Fifth, there was no hospital trips! After last year’s crazy hospital run at 11pm, we certainly didn’t want to do that again. Thankfully, for the most part, everyone remained healthy.

Sixth, going with Salem Heights was great, again! For the second straight year we teamed up with Salem Heights Church to travel to Arizona.

So there you have it…I could tell stories for hours…but my fingers would get tired. I’ll work on getting pictures up soon!

Ice Blocking

Last night we had a going away party/birthday party for some of our students. It was Jessica's 17th birthday and it was a going away party for Michael, Veronica and Esther.

Michael left this morning for Korea, where he will spend the summer before returning to New York to go to College.

Veronica leaves tomorrow for Korea, she will attend an international school there next year.

Esther leaves tomorrow as well, for Switzerland where she will spend 6 months at a YWAM base.

So, in honor of them we had a party and went ice blocking. If you have never been before, its pretty fun. All you need is a block of ice and a grass hill. Here are some pictures for you to enjoy. It was a fun and sad night. A bunch of students of Salem Heights Church came down to hang out with us which was cool.

As fun as it was, it was sad to say goodbye at the end of the night. I have to be honest and say, it is nights like those that make me hate my job. Well...hate might be a strong word. I love the relationship I have with students, but it makes it really hard when they have to leave.

Anyways, here are some pictures from ice blocking.

Scavenger Hunt

"Time flies when you are having fun!"

We had our last youth group night of the year last Friday night. I feel like we just started the school year, and now its almost summer!

To end the year, we had a huge scavenger hunt all over Corvallis. The students were divided into teams and given a van with a parent driving. The point of the scavenger hunt was to take as many pictures of your team doing the things on the list.
Here are some pictures from the night.

"Take a picture reading a book"

"Take a picture on a fire hydrant"

" Take a picture pretending to be a rock band infront of Gracewinds"

" "Play 'duck, duck, goose' in a parking lot."

" Play football in front of Reser Stadium"

"Take a picture with another Korean who does not go to our church"

" Take a picture with your whole team in a phone booth."

"Take a picture in front of American Dream"

Graduation

It seems like this past year has flown by! This year we have three seniors who will be graduating from high school. It's always exciting to see people graduate and move on with their lives, but its sad to know that these students won't be around on a regular basis. So, here is our graduating seniors: Esther Ha, Michael Kang, and Chanho Park.

This is a picture of Esther from last summer in Arizona. She will begin the next chapter of her life this summer. Esther is planning on attending DTS (Disciple Training School) this summer. She will be traveling to Switzerland at the end of June! She won't return until next winter! I'm excited for her to have the opportunity, but we will miss her while she is away.

This is Michael. I'm not sure what this picture is from, but it pretty much captures the essences of Michael. He will be traveling across the United States to attend Syracuse University next year! Michael has been an incredible part of the ministry here at CKC. He is a hard worker and always willing to serve. We will miss him next year.


This is Chanho at one of our Spring retreats. Next fall he will head north to attend the University of Washington. Chanho is part of the Korean worship team. Chanho arrived in America at the same time I started working for the Korean church. I am excited for him to still be close, hopefully he comes back to visit on occasion.

Top Ten

After negelecting my blog for the past few weeks, I have decided to return. Sorry to all of you who faithfully read this... I promise to update a lot in the next couple of weeks.

So, in less then a month Oneighty will be headed for Arizona to work with the Navajo Native Americans. We leave on Thursday, June 18th and will return on the 28th. Here is a list of the students who will be going with us.

Jae Kwon
Clayton Kwon
Jane Kim
Angela Ahn
Jessica Hong
Veroncia Min
Daniel Ha
Tae-Han Yeo
Michael Kang
San Yoon
Sun Yim

Plus me and Charissa!

So, in an effort to get everyone excited about trip, Angela made a "Top Ten List" of reasons she is wants to go to Arizona this year. Here it is.

Top Ten Reasons to go to Arizona
By: Angela Ahn.


10) D-Teams
9) Van Rides
8) Encouragement Cards
7) Canvassing
6) AZ T-Shirts
5) Picking up kids/walking them home
4) Lake Powell
3) Youth Group Bonding (salem kids)
2) Vaction Bible School
1) Navajo Kids

So there you have it. If you know Angela, tell her happy Birthday...it's Saturday!

Wordle

I came across this cool website today. It's called "wordle." Basically, you can submit a paper and it will take all of your words and make it into a poster. The words that are used the most will appear larger. So, I submitted my blog and this is what came back. It's kind of small, but if you click on it you will see a much larger version.

Easter

This past Weekend was Easter!
At CKC we always have a baptism service on Easter, which is always really cool. This year Stephanie Hong was baptized! Here is some pictures from her baptism. Ask her sometime to tell you her story about how she was saved. It's pretty cool.
Angela and Sun sang a special song for us too...I wish I had that on video, it was pretty awesome. Oh well, enjoy the pictures.

Arizona...Last Year

So, Sun requested that I put up some pictures from last years trip. So, here are a few pictures.
Basically, for those of you who don't know, our church went down to Arizona last summer to work with the Navajo Native Americans. We spent one week running a Vacation Bible School for the children in the two of Kaibeto.

BreakAway!

Despite the rain, lack of sleep, and our first ever broken leg...we survived another year of BreakAway!

We had only been at the camp for like an hour when Do Kuen broke his leg while playing basketball. We didn't think it was broken so he actually stayed the night at camp...and the next morning when he was still in pain, Mr. Ha took him back to Corvallis to see the doctor. Turns out...he had broken his leg in THREE places! In retospect, I would say he was a pretty tough kid.

So, in three years of BreakAway we have only had one causalty...but it broke in three places...one for each year. Luckily he won't need surgery and is in a cast.

As for the rest of the weekend, it was awesome! My dad came and spoke which was really cool. The twins, Daryl and Ryan along with Sun and Angela led worship. Charissa's parents cooked amazing food all weekend.

I'll try to tell some cool stories over the next week...so check back...for now, here is two pictures of our group.