School was out yesterday for Veteran’s Day, so we decided to go and hang out in Seattle. It’s an easy way to just spend the day with youth. Fill the van, drive downtown, then bum around shops all after noon (thrift stores, etc.). It was a great day.

Come experience Urban Hymnal 3 is this Saturday. I’ve been told it’s post-modern worship music and apparently it’s a free/donation based concert. We’re making it a Ventus worship night field trip.

If anyone is in or around the area, you should join us! If you’re going - shoot me an email and you can join the bunch (sdelony@yd.org).

Here’s the details:

November 1st, 2008 - Kane Hall @ the University of Washington

Check it out here: Urban Hynmal.org

Here’s a Free Mp3: Psalm 13

Anyone in the North Seattle area (or willing to drive) - there’s a free concert this Friday (July 11, 2008 @ 6pm) featuring Shaun Groves, Brett Hite and Catalyst. It should be a sweet time with great music. All of this is possible because of Mudpuppy. He sent me info about booking Shaun on his Compassion Intl’ Tour. I passed it along to a friend and their church booked him. I’m totally stoked. You may have heard of Shaun, but Brett and Catalyst are great band if you haven’t experienced them as well.

The concert is put on by Crossroads Fellowship Church and sponsored by Compassion Intl.

www.nwcfc.org

If you ‘re driving, take I-5 north to the Smokey Point Blvd exit (#206). Take a right and the concert is under the big top across from the Safeway (3905 172nd St NE Arlington, WA 98223).

Hope to see you there!

This morning I woke up to Aida yelling, “It’s a blistered!” Then James came in our room and was telling me it snowed. I shook it off thinking that they must have been mistaken. Last night, I arrived home after a weekend youth retreat in the snow. There was no snow in sight. I brought with me a cooler full of snow for the kids to play with. They played on the porch and tossed the snow around. So when I heard that it was snowing, I shrugged it off.

Then I got up, opened the blinds and saw our backyard with 4 inches of snow covering the ground. Evidently, I can’t escape the snow…

Here are some pictures from this morning.

School was out Monday, so we took a group of kids to Seattle. It’s amazing the amount of fun you can have by investing a day with kids doing absolutely nothing. No program. No agenda. Just a van full of kids and a couple of hours. It’s that simple.