Sparks from Retreat

A couple weekends ago, our Selah Youth group traveled up to the mountains at Arrowbear lake for a exciting retreat. We stayed in a big house the roomed 26 people, so this was perfect for our little group. The house was located by the creek for beautiful hikes and quiet time.

We started out on friday night by paying ultimate frisbee down the street at the park and then coming in for a home cooked meal of spaghetti (thanks to our wonderful ladies). Afterwards, we gathered in the living room to worship our Big God and have a discussion on what it looks like to trust him. These teens were troopers as we had a discussion until after ten at night.

The next morning, we all arose to the smell of sausage and eggs cooking on the pans. After breakfast we had another session with Adam Everheart and then played a game with Oreos (funny stuff). Our friend Abraham came for a visit from Mosaic in LA and shared about the mind of men and women of faith, which was our eternal home- Heaven!. These sessions was preparing the hearts of all of us for the spark we would finish the day on.

Spark is a time where we all share what we could to better ourselves and help others by doing acts of kindness or other acts of love to others in family, church, or community. The teens responded very well and even followed up on it throughout the week. As some reconciled relationships with family or wanted to help the elderly in their community. The next week at youth study, Abe come back out to hear the stories of each teen for follow up.

We also burned a lot of energy with games of crash and football followed with cranium or risk. We ended the amazing weekend with wonderful delights of In-N-Out burger where some of us witnessed Shannens' first bite of an In-N-Out burger.

I believe this weekend has set new goals and vision for the future for 29 Palms and the whole desert....

Friday Night Games!

We have added a new and fun addition at Selah Youth. For the past few months, we have been getting together over at our home in Yucca every month and having Game Night. This started out to be a time to get out of our comfort zone and get to know each other with food and a movie, so it used to be called Movie NIght, but we found that the simple game we were playing were much more fun, exciting, and uniting.

Here are some pics from the last Friday Night Games. We had a lot of fun and it brought some of the new members to the Selah Youth family together with the older crew members.

More Pics from 2009

The last pics were from retreats, youth nights, concerts, and the Baccalaureate (for we had a lot of seniors for our small group). These next set of pics are from our summer study called '13 Letters' , game nights, and Taylor's Eagle Scout ceremony.

Year in Review 2009

I know I always say it, but I am blown away on how fast time flies. We have made it to the two year mark for Selah Youth 29 Palms. It has been a blast doing ministry on the base and always meeting new people.

This last year has been fun but sad at the same time. We have been up the mountains, heard great music, and just having fun fellowship at the home. It was sad this year to say bye to quite a few of our friends leave to other bases throughout the country. The cool thing about that is we now have friends spread throughout the U.S.A.

I thought I would put up some pics of things we did throughout this year, enjoy!!

FIrst SY29 Movie

Our own Taylor Hale has finished his first Selah Youth film called 'Chancho Libre'. Stephen Delsie, Jake Hawkins, Taylor Hale and Chris Wagner have come together to bring you a film about goals, passion, friendship, God, and WRESTLING!

You can check out this wonderful action packed movie for yourself on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq0eN5j0jyo&feature=related

New Teaching Series

We are in a transitional stage right now with lots of kids who have moved and now it's that time again to get the word out to the new families that have moved on the base about Selah Youth.

We have new graphics to display all over

We are also starting a new teaching series dealing with the basic essentials of Christianity and our understanding of who God is.

Really soon, Chris will be showing up at the 29 palms high school campus to do a study called 'vintage Jesus'

Please pray for all the new that is happening

I AM

I AM...the bread of life, the light of the world, the door, the good shepherd, the resurrection and the life, the way, truth, and the life, and the true vine is what we studied up in Big Bear June 15-17. It was a lot of fun and very personal, our group grew a lot together and with the Lord. It is a must to do again in the Fall as we will focus on the creator God and thank him for his many wonderful works that are hard to keep count.

Now we must do a survey os Paul's letters with a study called 13 Letters.