An Inconvenient Truth- Dedicated to Dennis

Last week (Jan. 6) we watched the film "An Inconvenient Truth". It was the 2nd part of our "Ecology Ain't Nothin' but a G Thang". Julianne has been doing agreat job getting us focused on some of the facts that are out there. She has a minor in Environmental Studies and is just more smarter than me on these issues. So listen up as she speaks.

Hopefully we'll have some time this Sunday to talk about the movie. We will also be discussing issues regarding food. Julianne has asked to bring our favorite food or drink in that has a list of ingredients on it. I think it's ironic that today in the news the Food and Drug Administration declared today that meat and milk from cloned animals is OK to eat. It will be fun to "gril" (get it?... grill her) Julianne on that one. Here's a link.

I also want to remind everybody that just because Christian says so doesn't make it so. One thing that I've really appreciated about the Episcopal Church has been the diversity in opinions and views on a variety of things. Though I haven't researched this movie and the "facts" in it, I trust the overall theme and facts in it. We must always be doing our homework though and keep searching for the truth in all things. If you have concerns about this movie or anything else that we are looking at, let me know and maybe we can do some more research to try to get to the bottom of things.

Cedar Point

Hey guys. Here is important info about Cedar Point.

G.R.E.Y. (Youth Group) Trip to Cedar Point Oct. 27

The youth of St. Andrew’s and St. Mark’s will be going to Cedar Point ON Saturday Oct. 27. We will leave from St. Andrew’s at 5:30 AM sharp. We’ll spend the day in the park and then return at around 2 AM. To avoid pick-ups at 2 AM, we’ll sleep over at St. Andrew’s and then go to the Eucharist together. Students can get the early bird rate of $55 if they pay by Oct. 7. Others pay $75. This includes your ticket and transportation. (If you need a scholarship, let me know!) See Christian with questions. 458-4593

POVERTY

These last few weeks in youth group we hace been discussing the reality of poverty. Here are some web sites that will hopefully open your eyes to the reality of poverty.

http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty.asp

http://www.poverty.com/

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/0,,menuPK:336998~

http://action.one.org/declare/index.html?gclid=CN-vgL673Y4CFQdEFQodt1UpQA

Youth Group Photos

The Youth Group as a Whole.

The Middle School Girls With There VCR.

The High School Girls With There Winning Mountain Bike.


The Proud High School Boys.

The Middle School Boys With There Rad BMX Bike.

Our Fearless Youth Director Doing His Thing.

Youth Group Summary

Sunday September 16
This past Sunday we met as a large group in the middle school room and discussed a strong topic, poverty. We touched on some of the more dramatic statistics. The one statistic that stuck out to me is more than 3 billion people live on 2 dollars a day or less. It's discouraging to think that half the world lives on such a little amount. When most of us can find 2 dollars in change in the couch or by the dryer. But as always there is hope. Next week we will talk about what we can do to help the poor. The last Sunday of the month we will be helping out at St. Marks preparing and cleaning up for the breakfast. I believe if we take things one step at a time and understand poverty we will be able to make a difference for the better.
"...to reflect God's love to all creation..."

For all those who don't know me.

My name is Daniel Aubrey Flory. I was born and raised in Michigan. I attend Sparta Senior High School. My interest in the church has grown over my life time thanks to my parents and previous religious leaders. I'm a big fan of football and sports in general. I love to travel and see new things. I recently walked the bridge for the 50Th anniversary this labor day. My favorite sport to play is disc golf. For those of you who don't know what that is feel free to ask. I happen to have cut my thumb open well enough to get out of work that night and received 6 stitches Friday. Well if you have any more questions or anything of the like feel free to ask.

"...to reflect God's love to all creation..."

Daniel Flory

Our first youth group of the new school year.

Sunday September 9.
This past Sunday the youth group met to start off the new school year. I'll start off by saying this is, in my opinion, the funnest youth group to date. I was surprised by the number of new members to join the youth group. We started the evening off by a group discussion on the idea of seeing God in our every day lives. We proceeded to play a game called "Bigger or Better". The object of the game is to go around the neighborhood with a paper clip and you have to trade it for something bigger or better. We split up into four groups: middle school girls and boys and high school girls and boys. Each with their respective chaperons went out into the community to trade there paper clip. Each group came back to the church roughly 45 Min's later with there items in hand. The high school girls came back with a 21 speed mountain bike. The middle school boys rode in on there neon green and white bmx bike. The middle school girls strolled on back with a working VCR. But the high school boys not to be out done ran back cheering with there: 8' Mexican sign, old English long bow, assorted fire works, pine cone x-mas tree and a wreath wrapped in lights. How ever, do to some faulty judging, the high school boys were out done by the high school girls mountain bike. All in all this year promises a renewed faith in the lord and never ending memories.
"...to reflect God's love to all creation..."

Danel Flory