Christmas Party 2009

After a seven month break, the blog is back. I sincerely apologize for slacking on posting. I am going to do my best to not only post regularly, but to also recruit others to post as well. I do have some pictures from events between Flag Football 2009 and this Christmas Party. I will post them on the Shutterfly site soon and link to them in a different post.

Christmas 2009

We had a very good turnout on Friday night at the Hays' home for our annual Christmas party. Thanks so much to Courtney and Lance for hosting a festive gathering. The dessert competition was a big hit and may have to become an annual tradition as well. Erin's chocolate truffles won the appearance prize while Marcy's cheesecake won for best taste. When it comes down to it, we all won because we had an excuse to try 15 desserts (at least until it catches up to us). Thanks to everyone who competed and made the contest so much fun. The competition was tough is both categories.

Please check out the pictures: http://fbcymc.shutterfly.com/602

Merry Christmas!!!

Flag Football - Spring 2009

We had a great flag football game last Saturday. Bobby showed us how it's done by making one handed catches and dodging defenders after catches. I think everyone had a great time and will probably be a little sore fore a few days.

Special thanks to Hannah for taking pictures and to Luke for bringing us what we needed to have a Chicken Biscuit and water break.

We plan to have a basketball game during the summer and another flag football game in the fall.

Please go to: fbcymc.shutterfly.com to see the pictures.

Bowling Social 2009

I hope everyone had a great time at the bowling social last weekend. I apologize for taking this long to post pictures.

Bowling was a lot of fun even though everyone's main goal was to break 100. Of course, Kent was the pro out of the group - his scores were closer to 200. After a couple of games we decided we could all grab a quick burger and then pick up the kiddos.

We had a fun social...

Check out the pics: http://fbcymc.shutterfly.com/

Super Bowl 2009

Even though the announcers and commentators all said that this Super Bowl topped last years', I think most of us would have to disagree. The team most of us were going for ended up losing in the final seconds. Despite the game, we had a great social.

ESPN may have reported that the highlight of the night was Santonio Holmes' game winning catch or maybe James Harrison's 100 yard touchdown run after intercepting Kurt Warner. However, I believe most of us would have to say it was the awesome chicken wings that the Wyatt's brought.

I'm not sure what was more fun, watching the 3D commercials or seeing everyone with their 3D glasses.

Please check out the new Shutterfly Share Site I created that includes pictures from this social and all of the socials from 2008. Here's the link: fbcymc.shutterfly.com

Any visitor can view all the pictures. However, if you sign up with Shutterfly (it's free), you can download the pictures.

Prayer Requests - 2/1/2009

PRAISE - 3 youth have been saved since The Difference weekend retreat!!!

David's brother, Gabriel, and his wife are having marital problems, but are trying to work things out.

Other couples with marital problems

Pray for Shelly's dad, Marty. He has been a builder for 30 years, but with the economy is having to look at other jobs.

UPDATED: Super Bowl Party - 2/1/2009 at the Madrid's

Super Bowl Party

Cardinals vs Steelers

February 1st
4:30@ The Madrid's
3405 Picadilly Circle

Please Bring appetizers or desserts
Kids are welcome

call or e-mail April Madrid
936-554-5206
aprilmadrid@msn.com

UPDATE:

CLICK HERE FOR A GOOGLE MAP

Note: Google StreetView's street numbers are not very accurate.

The picture above is our house.

Prayer Requests - Week of 1/25/2009

Softball is starting at the high school. Pray for Richard as he deals with high school girls!!!

David's brother, Gabriel, and his wife are having marital problems

Pray for teachers and students - there is a lot of sickness going around

Luke has the flu

Mens and Womens Bible studies

Quiet Strength - Men's Bible Study

Men's Ministry Bible Study

Quiet Strength

by Tony Dungy

Begins February 4th

in the Basement of the CLC

Usual Format: Dinner then discussion

Sign up at the Church Office

Prayer Requests - Week of 1/18/2009

Erin's home church is having some problems. The pastor is getting divorced, but is not resigning. She is very concerned about the status of the church - Lakeview Baptist.

John's brother and sister-in-law will be having a baby!!!! :)

Gregg met the wife of a missionary this week and spent some time visiting with her - Emily and Nathan

April has been having bad tension headaches.

Please continue to remember some previous requests:

Henry Dunn - update: he's not going to have to do chemo!!!!

Remember the Newsom family after Chuck's passing and the Sivess and Prince families after Ed's passing away.

The Wallace's - Brian is still looking for a job

FBC Men's Ministry Lunch Devotion

FBC Men's Ministry Lunch Devotion
Speaker Mr. Johnny Polk
Director of T Bar M

Date: Thursday, January 22, 2009
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Place: FBC Basement

For reservations please call Stephanie
@ 564-1131 or email fbcstephanie@swbell.net

Axe 'Em Jacks - SFA Basketball

A few families attended the Cram the Coliseum game last Saturday and had a good time watching the Lumberjacks beat Sam Houston. It was almost like an unofficial social. After the game April and I talked about maybe doing it again. So, I am posting the remaining home game schedules for both the Lumberjacks and Ladyjacks for everyone to look over. We can talk about it further at a future Sunday School class. Maybe the 31st for the Kids Day double header - however, this happens to be the day before an official social - the Super Bowl Party.

Side notes: I will post some pictures that Marcy and April took in a few days (my camera battery died). We were the crazy people who let our kids roll down the hill in front of the Coliseum after the game. You should have seen all the kids walking by wanting to do it too.

SFA Lumberjack Basketball Schedule

Home Games Only

01/17/09 vs. Nicholls State 6:00 p.m.
01/28/09 vs. Northwestern State 7:00 p.m.
01/31/09 vs. McNeese State 7:15 p.m. (KIDS DAY)
02/07/09 vs. Lamar 6:00 p.m.
02/21/09 vs. Southeastern Louisiana 6:00 p.m.
02/25/09 vs. Texas State 7:00 p.m.
03/04/09 vs. Central Arkansas 7:00 p.m.

SFA Ladyjack Basketball Schedule

Home Games Only

01/14/09 vs. Central Arkansas 7:00 p.m.
(tonight - Cram the Coliseum part 2)
01/21/09 vs. Texas-Arlington 7:00 p.m.
01/24/09 vs. Southeastern Louisiana 6:00 p.m.
01/31/09 vs. McNeese State 4:00 p.m. (KIDS DAY)
02/04/09 vs. Nicholls 7:00 p.m.
02/11/09 vs. Northwestern State 7:00 p.m.
02/28/09 vs. Texas A&M Corpus Christi 6:00 p.m.
03/07/09 vs. Texas-San Antonio 6:00 p.m.

Prayer Requests - Week of 1/11/2009

Gregg is out of town all week. Remember Angie and the boys as they are here without him. Praise - he has passed all of his tests!!!

Continue to remember the Newsom family following Chuck's death.

Pray for the Prince family as Stacia's dad is near death.

Amber's best friend's dad, John Spellman, has leukemia. He is not talking about it.

The Difference - multi-church youth retreat this coming weekend.

Pray for peace during difficulties this year.

Update - Henry Dunn (cancer) is not going to have to do chemo!

Tim Tebow and his Testimony to the World

Whether you are a Florida fan or a fan of another college team, you have to admire the faith of Tim Tebow. Knowing that the whole world was watching, he chose to use his "global stage" to testify to the world about Jesus Christ by writing John 3:16 on his eye black.

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

So, what affect did this have on the world? Take a look at the link below.

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?q=*&sa=X&date=2009-1-8

Google constantly tracks popular search topics. In today's world Google is often the first source of information when something comes up. Google Trends basically ranks the latest top search topics and gives a pretty accurate reading of what people are interested in at any given time.

On 1/8/2009, the day of the National Championship where Tim Tebow proudly wore John 3:16 on his eye black, the top search on the Internet was John 3 16. It is pretty amazing that one 21 year old college football star was able to reach millions of people who were curious enough to go to a computer to search it out. I hope the interest that he sparked in so many people will result in some life changing decisions to follow our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Side note: Look at the search topics below John 3 16. On January 8th, John 3 16 was a more popular search than an earthquake, Oprah, and Obama. I just thought that was interesting to know.

Family Blogs

See how one of our former Sunday School teachers and his family are doing. Chris and Hollie Sammons moved to Waco last summer beacause Chris accepted an Associate Pastor position at a church in Waco.

Check out the Sammons Family Blog

http://thesammonsfamily.wordpress.com/

Also, check out a few other blogs of class members:

Nichols Family Blog

http://web.me.com/gregg.nichols/nicholsadventures/blog/blog.html

Madrid Family Blog

http://madridsnactx.wordpress.com/

(I plan to update my family blog more often starting this week)

Prayer Requests - Week of 1/4/2008

Amber & Kent's kiddos are sick

Amber has a friend, Brooke, whose dad has cancer

Jana, Bobby's intern, will be spending this semester in Uganda as a semester missionary

Gregg's mom, Linda, has the flu

April is sick

Angie and Gregg have a friend who is pregnant - she has had several miscarriages previously

Remember our government officials as we are into a transitional time with lots of changes coming