NUMA

This Wednesday youth group is at the church from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM.
We will talk about something called Numa. I don't know what it is. The only thing I know is that it is not an acronym, so come to find out what numa means! See you there!

GREAT YOUTH EVENT AT BETHESDA CHURCH ON JULY 11!

Next Friday (July 11) we are going to Bethesda Church. There will be preaching as well as lots of fun and games! This is from 6:30 PM to 11:00 PM. This is free and make sure that you are at the church at 6:30PM. Come on time!!!

P.S. The Assistant Editor sends you greetings!!!

P.P.S. There is no assistant editor. That was my brother and he just thinks he is!

P.P.P.S. Wow! It is actually finally summer! I am sweltering today. Watermelon would taste really good right about now. :D

P.P.P.P.S. Speaking about watermelons... they have square and pyramid shaped watermelons in Japan! They made square watermelons so they would be easier to stack but I don't know why they would make pyramid ones!
Something even cooler is Japanese watermelon art!

My Broken Hero

Come out on Friday to hear this cool Christian rock band from Port Alberni, B.C.! And the really cool thing about this band is that two of the members (Cody and Dustin Dame) are cousins of Carly and Hailey! Cody does bass and Dustin does the lead vocals. There are also four other band members in this rock group right now although one of them is only a temporary member.
My Broken Hero will be opening for Secret and Whisper which is another great rock band from Kelowna, B.C.
This will be at Hawrelak Park and we will leave the church at 6:30 PM and arrive back at the church at 10:30 PM.
It costs $10 altogether. This includes $5 for the ticket and $5 for the transportation cost.
Come out for an awesome evening of Christian rock music at Hawrelak Park!!!

YOUTH SERVICE!

We are having a youth service this Friday from 7:00 to 10:00 PM.
Come to find out what Pastor Brad will be talking about!
By the way, has anyone seen the movie Prince Caspian? I thought it was pretty awesome! :D

ARE YOU READY FOR A WILD NIGHT?

Where: Be at the church and we will take you to West Edmonton Mall and back.
When: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
What: We will be doing some awesome and fun activities at the mall
Be prepared to have fun and do some crazy things!

By the way, did you know that West Edmonton Mall cost 1.2 billion dollars to build, and is the size of 104 Canadian football fields or 5.3 million square feet? It is the largest mall in North America and in the world it ranks the sixth largest. Up until 2004 it was the largest in the world. It is also larger than Vatican City in gross area. Another weird fact is that before 1998 the mall had more submarines than the Canadian Navy had!

YCYCYCYCYCYCYCYCYCYCYCYCYCYC!!!
So everyone that's going to YC should have got a sheet from Pastor Brad with the details about YC. But if you didn't get the sheet then I'll tell you the information here.
We are leaving the church half an hour before each day at YC starts. It will take us about 45 minutes to get back to the church after the end of the day at YC.
However, on Friday be at the church at 6:00 PM.
You have to buy your own lunch or bring a bag lunch. (It might be a better idea to bring a lunch since buying food there is expensive.)
As well, everyone has to attend all of the main sessions. You also can't leave the premises of Northlands during the weekend of YC.
My advice is to bring your own lunch, your YC money ($115 - the $20 deposit - fund-raising money), extra money for C.D.'s and T-Shirts (if you want to buy them) and definitely remember earplugs!)
WE'RE IN THE NINTH ROW!!!!!!

Did you know?
YC started in 1994 with 5oo people in Red Deer. The featured singer was Rebecca St. James.
Compare that to YC 2005 with 16 000 teens!

Did you know?
There is also YC Winnipeg (Manitoba), YC Newfoundland, YC Kiev (Ukraine), YC Belize City (Belize), YC Zambia and YC Malawi (both in Africa).

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Have you ever heard of the book Great Expectations by Charles Dickens? The story is divided into three sections with the expectations that the orphan Philip Pirrip (a.k.a. Pip) has about his life. Pip lives a normal existence with his sister and her husband Joe. He is an apprentice to Joe and strives to be a blacksmith. But this changes when a lawyer comes to him and tells him that he has received some large property from an anonymous person. Now Pip has great expectations for his life that are better than simply being a blacksmith. He is to live in London as a gentleman and his life is dramatically changed.
Do you ever feel that people have too many expectations of you? How can you live up to these expectations? Do you have great expectations of yourself and wonder how you can live up to them?
And finally, what are God's expectations of yourself?
Come to hear about great expectations!

P.S. The picture above is from a movie version of "Great Expectations".