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Monday, 27 October 2008

Inferno 2008
Inferno 2008

Inferno is a church event that happens every year in October at the Apostolic Church in Auburn Hills. Nearly over 2,000 people attend this service. We normally have this service around Halloween. One year a man came in asking if this was a haunted house. Laughing as we told him, "No its not, but there sure is a Ghost in here." He decided to stay for the service.
I went to Cedar Point as a volunteer, a few weeks before Inferno, to help raise some money so we could purchase the lights and pay our visitors. Sadly, people are shocked or amazed that we are doing this for a church event. (By the way don't work at Cedar Point!)

The clock was counting down from five minutes. There were four walls covering the stage, making it look like it was boxed in. We couldn't see what was inside, but as we watched the screen we could see the musicians inside playing as the clocked ticked away. Soon enough 0:00 seconds has made its way when an explosion lit up the sanctuary and the boxes came crashing upon the floor! But there were no musicians! As I looked across the wide area, I saw them being lowered from a platform that was up near the celling. It was amazing as they began to play! when the platform reached the floor guitar player Joey McVeaty went into a solo as drummer Jonathan Mann raced to the drum set on stage! Soon enough everyone was on stage rocking out! Before the service had started they had the area locked up so they could practice being lowered. The bass play, Jimmy, was terrified of heights. He was so afraid that he almost went up with the platform two hours before the show started! The theme of Inferno was to go green, and they handed out pins and stickers that said reuse me, and had the recycling symbol on them. They handed out T-shirts, and a Nintendo Wii. They even had a giant green dinosaur blown up on top of the church.

After Inferno a large group of us went to After burn. After burn is what we call the next event, which is anywhere we want to go to hang out passed midnight. This year we went to Gameworks to play some video games! This was hard to get into pass midnight. Once again another business didn't believe we could bring in a large body of people from a church event. All we wanted to do was hang out or "fellowship". Once we showed the manager the DVD's of Inferno he finally agreed to stay open pass midnight for a private party.

For Inferno 2006 and 2007 intro's check out the video section on this blog! They do some wicked stuff such as solo's and such. Just to clarify Inferno is in no means trying to compete with having the best concert because frankly as a Church we wouldn't last and that's not what Inferno is about, but it is sweet to have once a year, regardless! Our mission is to just spread the word by all means! But unto some warnings!

Don't buy glow sticks to hand out in a sanctuary. They did this one year and people began to throw there glow sticks across the sanctuary, and as they landed they exploded. This made a mess on the carpet of the SANCTUARY, but no big deal we just had a hard time cleaning it up.
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008

Let me Out!

     M.I.S happened Fri, Sat, and Sun here in Michigan of last week. (M.I.S. is Michigan International Speedway.) A group of people from my youth group traveled about 45 mins to get there to collect tickets from people.e.
Glen, who reminds me of Dwight from the TV show The Office, asked me
to help. I said, "Yeah, sure I'll go." Even though I didn't want to go,
and I ended up not going, but it reminded me of a story from last year.
   It was about this time when M.I.S fans came to the track hammered and ready to party! I'm helping my youth group collect tickets when I became tired. I went into Bro. Robby's car, my youth pastor, who is the UPCI Youth President of Michigan. I'm sleeping in his car because no one is going to mess with his car. I'm napping safe and sound when suddenly the door opens up! I look over, half awake, thinking that it is my cousin, Jordan Newman! I look up, barely able to see, I smile with this sleepy grin on my face. The person smiled back at me. Once fully awake I realized that who I thought was my cousin was actually Glen McGee or Dwight look alike! But he starts driving my youth pastor's car!
"Where are we going?" I asked.
"To get some pizza." Glen responded.
"Will you let me out please! I have to go pee!!" As I reached for the door.
"No! Bro. Robby said for you to come with me!" As he zoomed off for the next 20 mins.
     I was so confused as to why I had to go with Glen to get pizza. I tried texting my youth pastor, but his phone was still in the car! I text so many people in those twenty mins. 'Where is Glen taking me, I've got to use the restroom NOW!' Finally Glen stopped at a market place. He went in to find pants, I want in to find a bathroom! They didn't have Glen's size, and they didn't have a bathroom! We passed the pizza place and Glen never got any pizza. Finally we made it back to the race track where I could relieve myself! Later in the day my youth pastor got the text and he just laughed. I told him the whole story and he told me that he never told Glen that I had to come with him! Wont wont wont.
Awesome Life

      It started for me in 1989. Sega Genesis was released in New York, New York. The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of prodemocratic demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tienanmen Square massacre. The movie Batman was released in the United States. President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi soldiers from Kuwait, which Iraq had recently invaded.
     And I was born on May 12, 1989, with a damaged aorta val. This damaged val was unbeknownst to the doctors as they did medical tests on me. They sent me home damaged and broken. Three days later my parents and other family members noticed that I was having a hard time breathing. I'm rushed to the hospital where doctors dispute over my well being. It was decided, by a senior doctor, that I was to be airlifted to a hospital that could perform open heart surgery. Hours of intense surgery pass by, and I am fixed up with notice of an oversized heart. I almost didn't make it, but how did I survive this? Or even why? Thousands of babies die each year from birth, and I was one of the few exceptions. It is even amazing that you, the reader, are alive and well. We had no choice of being born to whom we were going to be born too. We couldn't have planned this life, but we are here, and I would like to write on behalf of all the babies, and embryos that did not make it through birth that life through all it struggles, through all its ups and downs, through all the good and the bad that this life is Awesome! Sad as it is that they didn't make it I am glad that I did.
     With this life that we have we are given an option. That option is what to do now with our life with the time that is given to us? We can help a third world country, we can donate our money and time, we can play video games, start a buisness, we could even start a guild of assassins and eliminate the scum of this world or even be the scum of this world to take it over. We could try to start a revolution in China or even try to stop the practice of abortion.This is only 1% of the things that we can or could try to do. Some of us may do these things or will do these things. Some of us may succeed and some may fail, but this is why life is so awesome. We are given the power to do what we want to do, to be who we want to be even through insult and criticism. So today do something great or do something evil, be board or be entertain, go to work or quite your job. It is your freedom to do what you want to do. Not including some countries, and this freedom of life will end at death which will be unbeknownst to you and where you go from there is based on whom you served and the chocies that you've made here on earth including your belief, your religion, and not so much your good deeds. So if one of us is in heaven (hopefully myself) and the other is somewhere else, be sure to know that I will be blogging on how I am so glad that I made it to where I made it.
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