Friday, March 30, 2007

I hate geese

If you have spent any time at HPC, you know that we have some feathered friends who like to spend time in and around our lake. Well, this group of Canadian geese leave nice little surprises behind them everywhere they go! We are constantly washing geese poop off of the sidewalks around the lake.



As I was leaving the church, yesterday, one of our little friends was in the middle of the driveway. Honestly, my first instinct was to hit the gas! But, as I slowed down to let it waddle out of the way, this crazy goose decided that my truck was a predator, worthy of fighting. It puffs its feathers out and CHARGES at the truck! It starts incessantly pecking at my truck and HISSING! Who knew geese hissed?! I finally had to get out of the truck and chase it off as it is trying to peck me!

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Garage Sale

Last weekend, we had our Elevate Garage sale, to raise money for our trip to Mozambique. Its only 28 days away! Well, word spread that we were having our garage sale and people just started coming from all over the place with donations! We even filled a truck and trailer full of furniture from ONE house!
We began organizing for the garage sale on Friday around 3:00 PM. Little did we know what was in store for us... The stuff just kept building up. We ended up staying the ENTIRE NIGHT, forgoing any thought of sleep, just to organize the stuff and set up for Saturday morning. People were stopping by at all hours of the night, buying things. Before Saturday morning, we had already made over $200! By the time 5 A.M. rolled around, we had finally finished setting up and had our first official customers (the hard-core garage sale-ers) stopping by. Our very first customer even bought THIS item!

No one knew what this was. NO ONE. It was a mystery. But Our very first customers bought it for $25. We asked what it was and I think she made something up about birds...she didn't know, either.



We were all verifyably insane by 4 A.M. Our gymnast friend, Gabi even performed for us.




You never know what you will find at a garage sale. This is an OLDSCHOOL HPC Christmas CD. I snatched that one up, baby!



Just about every time we turned around, Blake was wearing a random item of clothing. I think this was the school marm look.


We ended up making even more money than we thought, worked harder than we ever have in our lives and actually had a lot of fun. When I finally got to bed on Saturday night, I had been awake for 39 hours! It will all be worth it when we are in AFRICA!! I also have to give a shout out to all of the people who volunteered their time to help us out, especially Ms. Shiela!! We could not have done it without ya'll!

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Let the games begin...

I dont have much to blog about, it's just a pretty busy week with Elevate stuff. So here's a little peek into the real life of an elevater...

What happens when you dump a cooler of ice-cold water on your roomate in the shower?




You get a bathtub full of pinecones, redbugs and spiders. I'm not even gonna lie though, it was really funny.

Monday, March 19, 2007

If you weren't at Amplified, you should have been!


Amplified was great. Friday night we packed out the Annex. Obed Edom was great and Chad spoke a great word to our students. Saturday night only got crazier when we had a barbecue and a No Talent Show in the back of the Annex, after the students spent the day renovating some Baton Rouge high schools.


Saturday only got crazier when Amplified joined Latenite at HPC's Highland Campus. Our own Refuge Band did worship and Chad spoke again. It was great! We even had some on-the-spot baptisms in the HPC lake! No, we don't have a baptismal at the lake - it's just a muddy lake! Old school, baby...


This was my view of the Amplified service from the sound booth...


God showed up (as if we doubted he would) and it was slammin. It is so refreshing to see a bunch of crazy kids on fire for Jesus, ready to change the world.

Friday, March 16, 2007

Amplified weekend!

Here is a pic from our Pre-Amp service, this past Wednesday night. If you don't know, Amplified is a weekend where Refuge (highschool) and Pathfinders (j-high) come together and pursue God like crazy. It all starts on Friday night with some worship from Obed Edom (Christ for the Nations) and a message by Chad Daniel. You never know with Chad - it could go all night long. Saturday everyone will go downtown and renovate some local highschools and it all culminates on Saturday night, when Amplified joins Latenite (college and young-adult) for service. It is gonna be a crazy weekend!

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Sanders


Last week, Full-Time Elevate (and Mrs. Susan) went to Mercy Ministries, in West Monroe. On our way home we were all starving and hit a long stretch of highway with NOTHING in sight. So, our fearless leader, Michelle, decided the absolute next resteraunt we see, we are going to eat at. That place would end up being a fine dining establishment called Sanders. I was not very happy about stopping here, but decided to make the best of it. Little did we know it would end up being one of the highlights of our entire trip! The food was great, the people were very friendly (it was in a town with a population of 80) and I think we were thier biggest rush in years! They also had a soft serve ice cream machine that Kaycee got a little carried away with.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Elevate in Relevant Mag

Elevate has an advertisement in the latest issue of Relevant Magazine. That is pretty cool, if you ask me. I even made it in the ad. (Thanks Rob) It's a picture of the back of my head that may be slightly larger than a grain of rice. Big time, I know. Anyway, it's a great magazine so if you haven't already - pick up a copy of it.

Thursday, March 8, 2007

I gave in.

Congratulations, Dan.
 
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