...and fall short...

Yes I admit, in recent weeks I have fallen short of the expectations put forth by the Parkcrest Youth Group blog readers. Alas, furthermore I have fallen short in duties as a youth leader, spending my Friday in South Quesnel unstead of where I should be at Parkcrest Bible Chapel. However all is not lost, because as I think of how I fell short, I realize that in one way or another we have all fallen short. Let's go for a walk down the Romans road....

Romans 3:23 - For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

You see the Bible tells us that we have all fallen short of God's standard of perfection. This happened when Adam sinned in the garden and has continued through human history. This sin keeps us away from God, and it gets worse...

Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

Not only does our sin seperate us from God, it also leads to death. We can see that in the world around us through all the suffering and disease. It gets worse even yet, the Bible says that ultimately our sin causes eternal death, meaning seperation from God and spending eternity in Hell...

Hallelujah!! There is good news. You see God loves us so much that he is offering us a gift of eternal life. Our sins can be forgiven and we can pass from death unto life through Jesus Christ. Interested how? Read on...

Romans 5:8 - But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

What great news! God knew that our sin would seperate us from Him and that the payment for our sin was death. But since He loves us so much He took the penalty of our sin on Himself, through Jesus Christ. Christ bore the penalty of our sin!!

However it is not enough to simply know these facts. Like all gifts, you have to receive it for yourself.

Romans 10:9 - That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord' and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

You see, although Jesus died for our sins, He didn't deserve death. The bible tells us He had power over death and conquered it once and for all. If we acknowledge God's gift of salvation through Jesus to be true, confess it and believe it in our hearts your sins will be forgiven! What great news!

You must individually receive Christ as your savior, no one can do it for you. Its between you and God. So if you haven't already dealt with your sins, what are you waiting for? Accept Jesus as your savior now and be forgiven friend.

If you have any more questions, leave a comment or contact me at parkcrestyouth@hotmail.com

Chapel O' Love

Well happy valentine's day one and all. Of course more important than the so called V-day is the fact that the annual (if you ignore the 2 year hiatus) Chapel O' Love went on this past Saturday night.
Since only Fentons and Scotts read this you guys need no description of the night, which is good, because words cannot describe how amazing it was. Let's just say, in response to Elton John's question 'Can you feel the love tonight?' Had Simba and Nala been at the Chapel O' Love they would have responded 'Yes we can...grrrrrr'

Here is God's Valentine to you:
For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life. - John 3:16

Pictures to come....

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Pizza

In a quest to provie only the finest ingredients for the finest youth group in the world I spent my week pretending I was busy at school. However, the truth of the matter is that I spent the week scowering the face of the earth in search of fresh, delicious ingredients: Pineapples from Mongolia, Pizza Crusts from Israel (they tried to tell me it was some sort of unleavened Passover bread...bread without yeast? yeah right! What'll they think of next? Hamburgers made of beef?!?!?!) Tomato sauce from Nunavut, Peperroni from Albania, Green Peppers from Chili, Chillies from Green Pepperland and miscelaneous ingredients from a Horse farm.

Bringing these all together, the talented (and yes, one of the PYPYG members is a professional pizza maker) and lovely PYPYG constructed their own pizzas. After devouring the delicious pizzas, we spent some good time worship God through song. The food was good, the singing was better and the people were the best.

Here are a few pictures from the night....funny enough, I don't have any pictures of pizza.


Jordanna was briefly the youngest member of the youth group....yet strangely one of the most mature.


What a lovely group of rockstars


In an attempt to make people lose their appetites, Steve grew a mustache. They still ate their pizzas, however Steve still lucked out in that he found some of his pizza the next morning in his 'stache...


I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts....these guys are monkeys.