All Nighters and Reel Theatres

Happy Shake in the making: a happy meal blended to milkshake like texture.

Happy Shake being consumed while the rest of us tried not to vomit

2007 started with a youth all nighter for us. It was definitely an experience to remember! After 12 hours of lock in, it felt like we had been at camp all week with these young people. It is amazing what a little quality time does for relationship building. We had numerous testimonies of God opportunities that our youth staff had with students to talk with them, pray with them or just understand them better.
We were expecting a smaller night than our Christmas party because of New Year's options and the fact that we were locking them in a gym for 12 hours, however we had 19 new young people that we didn't have on the data base show up to hang out with us. They seem to be coming for all over the valley to find out what God is doing in this youth ministry that hasn't even really begun yet!
On that note, we heard from the Reel Theatre today that we are cleared to start renting a theatre from them starting on the 17th of this month! We are extremely excited! We are just waiting to hear about the rent prices before we confirm everything. So, we are two weeks out from the launch and have tons of stuff to wrap up before then. You can be praying for our sanity in these next few weeks and for supernatural wisdom in decision making.
In personal news, we had a great Christmas season with both sides of our family. And as some of you have already heard, we are expecting a sibling for David sometime around August of next year. We are pretty excited about that too! God has been so good to us throughout this whole move and transition in our lives that we are feeling overwhelmingly blessed right about now.