May 2, 2013
This years Progressive Dinner was a great deal of fun. Thank you to everyone who helped out hosting or driving tonight. You can see all the pictures with the slide show below or look at your own pace by going to our Flickr Page.
Dec 27, 2012
Jeffie Mussman could not get any cooler.
I know I speak for all the girls who went to the museum with her: We were in awe of her! She is a woman who loves God and it radiates out of her!
Jeffie so graciously invited the high school girls to a tour of the Nelson Atkins Museum. She’s a docent (that means she guides and educates people like us!). It’s not too lofty to say she taught us how to look at art. What is art? What makes it beautiful? Can it be beautiful and you still not like it? She asked us very thought-provoking questions and really made us think about what we were looking at!
Going into this, I was just as excited as these girls to hear Jeffie’s wisdom on art! It really was fascinating!
The time flew by. We found ourselves wanting so much more! We could have stopped at every one and listened to Jeffie!!
Then we got to go back to her 100 year old house and eat COOKIES!
Super cute!!
Thank you Jeffie for an incredible day!! (I’m going to try to convince her to do it again in the spring for those of you who couldn’t make it…and for those of you who did make it and just want more!)
Dec 8, 2012
Everyone who came today did a fantastic job celebrating the birth of Christ with the residents of the Good Samaritan Center this morning. It was a great time. Unfortunately I didn’t take many photos this year since I couldn’t get a good angle on the piano, but I’ll post a few to remember this great event. Also a couple of videos as well. Thank to everyone who came out today. The videos look much better if you switch the quality on them to HD found at bottom of the video.
Brookie made a good friendship with Elee. He told us a story about a cat that brought a snake into the GSC and sat on the couch while it ate it. He also gave Beckham a stuffed dinosaur.
Above and below we are caroling around the place led by Shari and Willow.
In this video Teresa & Andria play and sing.
Here we sang carols as a group to end our time.
Above is Panoramic pic
Brookie & Mary did a great job playing guitar and singing.
Here is video of the girls playing
Apr 14, 2012
Here is a slide show of pictures from the 2012 HCA Junior Senior Banquet. You can see all the photos here as well if you don’t like slide show things.
Mar 24, 2012
This past Friday and Saturday was the 2012 In Town Retreat. This year we included Oak Hills, New Hope and Woodland Ridge and had a fantastic time.
Huge thank you to the following families for hosting students in their homes overnight. Prins, Bakers, McGuires, Bashams, Philips, Warners, Mayers and Guerras.
Thank you to our drivers both to homes and during the Progressive Lunch on Saturday. Thank you Christina Lutz, Ruth Tisdales, Travis “Ubuntu” Shanahan, Mindy Casteel, Brett Daane, Amy Boehm, Emily Vesper and Rick Pierce.
Thank you to our amazing Progressive Lunch host homes this year, The Albrights, The Guerras, The Vos’ and Tammy Schumann & Christina Schultte. As you’ll see in the photos they did a fantastic job.
Thank you to Joe Bartu for helping out in various ways, to Andria Merrill, Jon Dunning, Dan “Red” Johnson, Lindsey Mauk, Connor Lutz and Chris Earnshaw for helping lead songs of worship.
Thank you Scott & Carmen Creecy for ministering to Laura and I by watching our kids so we could be undistracted this weekend.
Now, If you wish to look at all the pictures check out the In Town Retreat Flickr set, otherwise I’ve chosen a few bunch below to highlight the weekend. Also I made the photos smaller in this post, any of you who read this have an opinion between the giant photos I usually post and these smaller ones?
Mar 22, 2012
This year we have 56 Students signed up for the In-Town Retreat. Huge thank you to the 8 families who were willing to open their homes to these covenant children and serve the church. Also to the one Redeemer parent who was wiling to drive on Saturday for the Progressive Lunch as well as the four families who will be providing everyone with lunch Saturday.
You should have received an email with details of where you are staying the night, however if for some reason you did not here are the major things.
Major bits of info you need if you are participating.
Schedule
Friday
7:30 PM Show up at New Hope
7:45 Ice Breaker Game – Name on Back with partners.
8:15 Worship through Song
8:40 Teaching from Brett
9:30 Games – Improv
10:00 Head to houses for games, hanging out, prayer
Saturday
8:15 Wake up, eat Breakfast, do morning devotional
9:00 Meet back at New Hope
9:15 Worship Through Song
9:35 Teaching from Brett
10:15 Leave for Progressive Lunch
1:30 Return to New Hope for parents to pick up.
