SERIES: Happy – Week 3 Another incredible week.  Had nine new faces…well actually faces we knew but hadn’t see in awhile.  The energy was of the chart.  Even Parker was around to offer his many creative talents.

BIG IDEA: Happy are the clean in heart. We talked about our responsibility to love God and to love others.  But to do that you have to start out with a clear heart yourself…and to get there we have to take on the righteousness of Jesus because of the messiness of our lives.  I used a large window pane to demonstrate what happens as we live our lives…rubbing dirt and then paint as we talked to show that there’s just a bunch of stuff that gets in the way…brokenness in our families and other relationships, sinful choices all keep us far from God.  Then when we decide to open up to God and his ways we can offer our strength and even our wounding and scars to help others.  I washed the glass off…although not perfectly clean we can see things better and can offer our strength to a world that needs it.

FUN:  Again our good friends at www.youthleaderstash.com had a great game called “apples and mallows” that just added the right amount of excitement and energy release for our crowd tonite.  finally we had an impromptu costume contest and you’ll have to watch the video to see who won.  lots of fun.

We also showed a video from  Up to Faith from a church in Hungary that has a crazy idea of impacting the world with a huge flash mob on Easter morning 2011.  We talked about our organizing to take part in Resurrection Dance.