Canyon Community Church of the Nazarene, part#1

Jen and I came to Canyon Community Church of the Nazarene in March of 2001. Things got busy very quickly. I begin working on lesson plans, outreach ideas, organizing the teen area to make it more friendlly. I taught through a book of the Bible on Sundays and did topical discussions on Wednesday nights. I also played bass with the worship team. Some mornings, I'd play guitar. I even played drums a couple of Sundays. Not very well, but I managed. 

The first year we helped out with Vacation Bible School. First, I took the clipart and made some flyers. I think about 500. Nick, Michelle, and myself put them on doors and handed them out to everyone in  the neighborhood. A few extra people came that year. I did the Bible story time and that went great. The next year or maybe the year after, I asked if I could do a teen geared program. I explained how we had put together a teen VBS program and that it was successful. I got the board's blessing and we had a special program for the teens. We still met at the beginning and ending of the regular VBS program in the main sanctuary, but the rest of the time was ours. We had games, I taught, everybody had fun. We did this for the last three years we were there. 

For one particular object lesson, we met outside.I had the kids sit with their chairs about eight feet away from me and the table I was setting my things on. I was discussing how we are fine with allowing God to be involved with a very, very small part of our lives. We like the way it makes us feel. To demonstrate this, I dropped a couple of Mentos into an open glass of Dr. Pepper. It foamed and fizzed and spilled over the top of the glass. I went on to say that we are keeping God from doing the really powerful things He wants to do. He wants our lives to be so dynamic that people are affected by our lives. I said we can stay like the glass that just foamed up with warm fuzzy kind of feelings or we can allow God to have all of us and unleash what He wants to do in our lives. At this point, I dropped about 12 - 15 Mentos into a two liter bottle of root beer. Of course, the root beer shot way up into the air. 

You know how what goes up,  always comes back down? Well there was a slight breeze. The root beer shot straight up and form two little rain clouds. They drift a few feet and dropped right onto a new students' leg. I think they got the point of the illustration.

Like I said, we had a lot of fun.