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Christmas Party (a little late)

I realize this update is about a month late. But better late then never. These pictures are from our Christmas party. We had a white elephant gift exchange, a mystery dinner and played Bunco.

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"