Christmas Party Ideas

12.17.2009 — 1 Comment

Untitled-1Last night was our youth group’s annual Christmas Party. We had a great time of fellowship, food, and a unique gift-exchange that I’ve held as a tradition for almost 10-years with three youth ministries! As I went to sleep last night I was thinking of all the ways I could have made the event different and/or better. I started scribbling down some of the ideas that I had heard others do for their (youth and non-youth related) Christmas parties and thought it would be a good blog post to share with the world!

CHRISTMAS PARTY IDEAS:

  • Ugliest Christmas Sweater – everyone wears the most horrific Christmas sweater they have and a prize is given to the one with the best (worst?). (there’s a website out there selling only ugly Christmas sweaters for parties just like this!)
  • Christmas Mugs – everyone is encouraged to bring their most over-the-top Christmas mug to the party and use that mug as their beverage vessel for the evening.
  • Christmas Morning – attendees are invited to attend the party dressed in their “Christmas Pajamas” and bring along a box of cereal as the snack for the party. (saw this idea done by @babymase)

    • It’s your turn now! What Christmas party ideas have you heard and/or tried yourself? Comment below!

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    The Art Commandments by Rob Lacey

    12.11.2009 — 1 Comment

    My artistic friends will get these:

    THE ART COMMANDMENTS by Rob Lacey.

    1 I’m God – the source of your oozing talent
    2 No idols – Heroes, yes; mentors, yes; but no idols
    3 Blasphemy – ”mediocrity is blasphemous” – Steve Stickley
    4 Rest day – call it ‘incubation’, ‘gestation’, ‘creative idleness’ whatever, re-creation comes after/before creation
    5 Respect your parents – honour your heritage. new doesn’t always=better
    6 Adultery – don’t use your celebrity for your own ends.
    7 Murder – Art inspires life, cynicism kills
    8 Theft – quote your sources (see 3)
    9 Lies – audiences want truth not tricks. be.
    10 Jealousy – How do you react to greatness?

    from here.

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    Church Online in Real Life

    12.11.2009 — Leave a comment

    Love this from lifechurch.tv –


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    One BILLION Minutes

    12.10.2009 — Leave a comment

    youversion-mobile-billionWow. YouVersion, the popular online Bible version that I use daily has just achieved an incredible milestone. Over 1 Billion minutes of mobile Bible browsing has happened since YouVersion launched its numerous mobile applications for today’s popular phones (still none for the Palm Pre, but http://m.youversion.com works for now)

    1 Billion Minutes… That’s 19-centuries, 16.7 million hours of people reading the Bible on their mobile device like an iPhone, iPod touch, Blackberry, etc.

    And it hasn’t cost those reading the Word even a single penny.

    Lifechurch.tv, the church behind the YouVersion programming and brand continues to blow-my-mind with their generosity in giving back again and again to not just their local community and local church but to the Church (big “C”) and WHOLE world with their innovative and resourceful selves.

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    Fearless Faith

    12.8.2009 — Leave a comment

    Wanna be rocked in your gut? Watch this video message from Pastor Mark Chandler on The Village Church website.

    Pastor Mark had a seizure on Thanksgiving morning and was quickly taken to the hospital where they discovered a tumor on his brain.

    He is currently recovering in the ICU at the hospital and reportedly doing well following the surgery that happened just a couple days after he shot this powerful video.

    The video shows a real-life faith that comes from knowing that our Lord is in complete control. The video rocked me this afternoon.

    Particularly, this phrase:

    “…but none of those things is better than Him [Jesus].”

    If you haven’t already, watch the video.

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