scenes from halloween

my lovely wife, tonya and our spider trunk. worked perfect in the back of our honda element. tonight was trunk-n-treat. we had a great turnout for the first time at our church.





overheard at trunk-n-treat: "now i have to go to my stinky neighborhood. which isn't too stinky because i have a full bag of candy."

xbox 360 recieves an update

the fall update has a full lineup of added features. check the list here. one of the biggies is the ability to stream videos (wmv) to your 360 without having a media center pc and from other devices, too. it also includes support for divx.

3000 pumpkins

3000 pumpkins once sat here. as of 7:30pm on october 30th, all of them were gone. our group did a great job with this fundraiser. i just can't believe we sold out.

for more on the funraiser go to pumpkins usa.

wrong again

it seems the new version of snapshot is actually already out.

waiting

it seems i am always waiting for something. i am ready to get our youth webpage up and running. but i am waiting on a new software version to come out before we get going. one of the best packages is from simply youth ministry out in california. they offer a software package called snapshot. occording to this page, the new version will be out in October, 2006. that means one more day until it is released or there is more waiting to be done. patience is a virtue, right?

fun finds

the folks at grow-a-brain found some interesting picture on the web and put them into a collage.

this is great.

The New Atheism

this is an article in the november 2006 issue of wired magazine. the author interviews and attends ateist gatherings and a few churches to see and experience some of the differences. the interesting thing is that the "new atheists" are starting a movement of heavy evangelism. the goal is to find people who haven't made a decision on God and persuade to believe that there is no God. it is good to know where others stand. the write is not necessarily in support of this movement but illustrates what this belief is about.