Category: matchbox ministries

  • It's Wednesday, and in my world, it's called Youth Group Night!  My girls are 7th grade girls – 9 of 'em, and last week was our third week meeting together and we hadn't talked about guidlines while we meet together.  The group decided on the above guidelines…and it worked pretty smoothly. Eighteen different times (or…

  • matchbox ministries (the youth ministry at church) kicked off the new school year with the first youth service (a church service run by youth for youth ages 11 to 19 with Youth Guy (age 25) bringing the message) on Sunday. The fall series is called Rhythm, and rumors were flying about a big surprise and boy…was it ever a…

  • A friend, Erik, took some amazing photos at the concert at church Friday night. If I’d known he was going to be taking photos..I would have left my camera at home!  His photos are brilliant! Youth Guy Bryan Roe + his assistant for the evening, Joey. Trademark of Family Force 5. Youth Guy delivering some…

  • The youth ministry (matchbox ministries) is blessed to have a photographer who takes thousands of photos of the youth ministry and every church ministry – every week.  He captures those still small moments and moments of celebration!  I love this image of the band’s instruments in sillouhette. Friday night was the Office Party to introduce…

  • at youth group last night…. "I’m sorry..I didn’t catch your name… it’s…..Luke?" ______________________________________________________________________ now it’s poetry time… kids play gameskids like to hurtkids like to throwsand and dirt that’s why we medicate. –an original poem by Rona Selby ______________________________________________________________________ The junior high girls and boys last night did an amazing job brainstorming projects to tackle…

  • It’s monday! The weekend flew by. I attended HUSH – a youth ministry prayer/fasting mini-retreat.  It was amazing and refreshing and thought provoking and life changing. Saturday was recovering from a youth overnight event.  Sunday was a standout message from bryan roe, the youth pastor… and then a walk, chinese food takeout and introducing the…

  • wednesday night because it is spring break for area schools, there was no regularly scheduled youth group, but student volunteers showed up to put concert posters up in neighboring cities (you can see the "iron fist" poster to the left of the Youth Guy).  We fed them pizza, they goofed around, and then the band…

  • Tinker toys, originally uploaded by jenn32807. We’re in the middle of a huge youth group last minute trip to an ice cream shoppe when Robotics Guy (RG) and I began a discussion about robotics and the robot his group worked on for months. It’s now in a storage facility waiting to be brought out at…

  • Spent this weekend at a retreat for the youth and adult leadership of matchbox ministries – a youth ministry. I’ll let the photos tell the story…. But imagine with me for a moment… you are sitting in the beautiful dining room of a conference center/campground, gazing out at the snow covered ice on the lake. …

  • spent an afternoon with three girls + one puppy + chinese food + fun in the dollar store + pretty leaves = perfect day! more photos here photos by sunny