In two weeks, our youth group, the Uprising, is going to be in charge of evening church. During that Sunday night, we will be sharing what we learned at MOVE. It is going to be really cool. WE are going to sing worship songs we learned and talked about the lessons, show a couple videos and maybe do a skit.
This is probably going to be our last thing like this with our seniors, Lincoln and Justine. That means me and Landon need to be ready to step up and be in charge. I am excited, but I'm also nervous. I'm going to have to take Lincoln's place as the pianist...and I'm not as good as him. I play be ear and he can do so better in a way I don't know how to. So as far as music, I don't know how well I can play. And since I'm taking over Lincoln's position, Kaitlyn will be taking over mine and be in charge of the skits and games. I'm excited for it, though. It will be fun.

In other news, I've memorized even more of Ephesians:

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God,
To the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Praise be the the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless, in his sight. In love he has predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance to his pleasure and will- to the praise of his glorious grace, that he has freely given to us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance to the riches of God's grace, that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. And he made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, that he purposed through Christ, to be put into effect when the times have reached their fulfillment- to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.

CIY Challenge

So our youth group just got back from CIY and on the last night, they passed out these little green envelopes to us. They told us inside them were different commitments we could make if we chose to open them. But if we opened them, we HAD TO DO THEM.
Everyone was pretty excited to open theirs, but our youth minister, Stony, told us we had to wait until Sunday morning at church.
We got home and came to church the next day. We began to go around the room opening the envelopes. Some of them said they had to volunteer to tutor elementary school kids for a year. Others said they had to volunteer in a soup kitchen and do whatever they say to do for a year. One girl had to plant a vegetable garden and give all its produce to a local food bank. Two people have to start a bible study at school. This one guy has to do 2 nice things for our youth minister a month for a year.
There were also things on the cards like "Raise $2,000 to send 10 non-Christian friends to CIY next year" and "Sell $500 worth of your stuff and give the money to a charity". One girl has to pay and plan a trip for her parents.
I have to memorize the book of Ephesians. But when it was read to me, I thought Stony said Exodus. Thats a 34 chapter difference. But I feel like I should have something more challenging. How is memorizing a book reaching out? I know I can talk to people about it, but still.
I already have to first 2 verses memorized:

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God,
2 To the saints of Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

And I memorized that this morning.

I'm going to try and blog more often, also.