Oxygen

Oxygen Hangout

2008-06-26T09:06:00.000-06:00

Quoted directly from Briana's message:
"Hey guys! We miss you all so much - that's why we want to hang out this weekend if possible! What do you all have going on Friday night around 7pm? We know it's last minute, but we were just thinking about you guys and want to hear all about camp and your summer so far! We can just meet at our house and order pizza or something like that - let us know if you can make it!! (Ashley, you are an honorary member of Oxygen!) :)

Ben and Briana"

Qdoba Party Tonight

2008-04-01T15:15:00.003-06:00

Sorry for the late entry, but here is the info for tonight's meeting. Copied directly as I received it:
"Hey guys! Just a reminder - we are meeting at our house tonight for group! We are having our Qdoba party that our lovely group members won for us last month at the Game of Realife!! Directions to our house from James River:
Information Removed for Privacy.

Hope to see you all there!!"

Still meeting tonight

2008-03-04T18:07:00.002-06:00

I will quote Briana directly concerning meeting tonight (3-4-08):
"Just wanted to let you know that we are still meeting tonight, even though you guys had a snow day today!! The roads have pretty much all melted, and Pastor Nathan said that we can still have group...yayy! Hope to see you all tonight!"

Ice storm cancellation

2008-02-12T14:14:00.001-06:00

Hey everybody. Just a heads-up: small group is canceled tonight (2-12-08), this is due to the ice storm. So if you show up you're gonna be all alone.

Normal Meeting Resumed

2008-02-11T10:03:00.000-06:00

I apologize for the interminable delay between my last post and this post, it couldn't be helped. That said, small groups have begun meeting again. Meaning oxygen has begun meeting again as normal.

New Year's Party

2007-12-19T18:03:00.000-06:00

Oxygen will be doing a New Year's Eve party with Momentum at their small group leaders house. Briana will e-mail everybody within the next few days with details, and I will post those details once I receive them.
Consequently, the guys Halo party is indefinitely postponed. Since I will be leaving on the fifth for several days, the party can conceivably not happen until we begin meeting again. I apologize for posting inaccurate information previously, that was due to hastiness & miscommunication on my part.
O2 Website

Party has passed

2007-12-12T20:38:00.000-06:00

Well, the oxygen Christmas party was last night, so for anyone who missed it, I share your pain. Studying for finals caused me not to turn my phone on for two days straight, in turn causing me to miss Ben's reminder; bummer. Anyway, I'm sure it was cool, as it has been for years, and we can now look forward to starting up again in January.
For the guys: Sometime between 12-22-07 and 1-7-08 my house will be open for a Halo party sleepover. Maybe a new years eve party?

Year's End

2007-11-17T10:10:00.000-06:00

Well, the time for Oxygen in 2007 has ended, but never fear, it will begin again early January 2008. In the meantime, there will be an Oxygen Christmas party, a girls night, and a guys night. I don't have any more exact details at the moment, but I will endeavor to obtain such details soon.
Also, one of our Oxygen members is part of the cast in the current play at the Stained Glass Theater in Ozark. So opportunity to go see that production as a group may arise...stay tuned.

Costume Party

2007-10-27T07:45:00.000-06:00

Our 10-30-07 meeting will be costume at our normal meeting place. No theme was decided upon so wear your favorite costume, and bring a treat if you can. If you don't bring a treat, at least trick us into thinking you are bring a treat.

Chickin & Costumes

2007-10-16T21:34:00.001-06:00

Ok, next Monday evening (10-22) Chick-Fil-A is donating a percentage of their proceeds to the James River youth choir. The plan is to meet their at about 6:30 to eat, hang out, and support the youth choir.
Next: Two meetings away is going to be a costume night, we haven't decided on a theme or anything, so details will get nailed down next week.
One clap for everyone! (And Ben.)
Note: The website will be updated with more details soon.
http://oxygen.springfielddental.net/

New Leaders & Website!

2007-08-28T20:17:00.000-06:00

Well, something sad and wonderful is happening. Aaron and Gina are stepping down from leading Oxygen, they're are going on to lead one of JRA's new Life Groups. (Adult Small Groups.) We pray for them and especially that Gina's pregnancy will go well.
Taking their place is Ben and Briana, two new leaders who recently began coming to Oxygen, the reason for that now revealed. Next week, 9-4-07 will be the last time Aaron and Gina will be coming, with our new leaders taking over.

Go check out the new website, now out of beta!
http://oxygen.springfielddental.net/
EDIT: Pictures from 9-4-07 are now up!

Meeting again!

2007-08-16T07:44:00.000-06:00

Just a quick note, we are now officially meeting again, with our first meeting at our new host home this coming Tuesday. (8-21-07)
Directions removed for privacy.

Canoe Trip

2007-08-01T08:20:00.000-06:00

Just a heads up, the oxygen canoe trip is stilling being planned (i.e. not canceled) and if it comes together you will receive notice via mail about it. If you have any information on a good place for a canoe trip, please contact Aaron, or myself through the oxygen website.
http://oxygen.springfielddental.net/

Cookout Confirmation

2007-07-22T11:50:00.000-06:00

Hey Oxygen members, I have just received word via USPS that we will indeed be having the cookout. The cookout will be at Dylan's house (Our new host home) on July 28th, 6-9pm. Guys are asked to bring drinks and the girls are asked to bring chips or dessert. Seeing the lack of info on the entree, we can safely assume it will be provided.
[Directions removed for privacy.]

Barbecue Alert

2007-07-14T09:12:00.000-06:00

Just a quick note to everyone, we will be having a barbecue at our new host home before the meeting season restarts to get everyone acquainted with the new location.
An unconfirmed report puts the barbecue at Dylan's house on the 28th of July.

Summer Update

2007-06-20T19:58:00.000-06:00

Well, our final meeting of the season has come and gone. Meeting at Aaron and Gina's house, we got together and for once when we split up for a while the guys got the big room. (Figure that one out.) Over the summer we are planning to have a canoe trip, and later a barbecue at our new host home. Speaking of host homes, there are several candidates being considered at the moment, and if you think your house would be good, don't hesitate to ask Aaron or Gina about it.
Here also is a link to the Oxygen website. It's in beta stage, so feel free to e-mail me through the provided link and give feedback.
http://oxygen.springfielddental.net/

Final meeting!

2007-06-17T20:28:00.000-06:00

Our final meeting (6-19-07) of the season will be held at Aaron and Gina's house again. See the below post for directions.

Patria and Aaron's House

2007-06-09T08:30:00.000-06:00

The Patria meeting was a success, along with the meeting after despite a new temporary meeting place and a single most strange happening.
Next week (6-12-07) we will be meeting at Aaron and Gina's house to have a cookout party. Come ready for hamburgers and hot-dogs! ;)
Directions removed for privacy.

Patria Meeting!

2007-05-18T15:14:00.000-06:00

On the 29th of May we will be meeting with the Junior High small group Patria. The meeting will be held at the St. Johns Community Center in Nixa. Everyone attending is asked to bring $2 to help cover the costs of food, plates, commodities, and all that good stuff.

Nursing Home

2007-04-24T15:34:00.000-06:00

I wasn't able to attend, but I was told the Nursing Home visit was a success. More details soon.
Also, more pictures are now available on the Oxygen website. (Oxygen members, you received the URL a couple weeks ago.)

Nursing Home next week!

2007-04-04T07:39:00.000-06:00

This week our favorite couple was missing and our Master's Commission leaders had to take over. I think they did a great job, and they are going places, not to mention Justin, who unprepared came and put on some awesome worship.
Anyway, next week we are going to the Nursing Home at 6:30, so people in the play get your lines memorized! I will post the directions later today.

Italian Night!

2007-03-06T21:35:00.000-06:00

Italian Night has come and gone! Most came bearing food, I came bearing an appetite. With the pizza bread, spaghetii, pasta and garlic bread to eat I must admit I stuffed myself full. Anyway, needless to say really, the food vanished within minutes and after that...well, a guys wrestling match ensued. This night was a great success, and I agree in the vote we should do Italian Night again.

Smooth Runnings

2007-02-21T18:36:00.000-06:00

Since our restart in January Oxygen has been meeting regularly and it has been awesome these past few weeks. Give a clap O2!

January Restart

2007-01-23T20:00:00.000-06:00

I just wanted to remind everyone that Small Groups are starting up again this week. So...that means next Tuesday (1-30) Oxygen resumes meeting. See you all there.

Break Update

2007-01-01T11:17:00.000-06:00

In this update i'm going to cover everything that has been happening over the past weeks since the holiday break began.

11-18 was the Bond Fire (bonfire) at Kristen's house. And while their were a few communication errors a good number of O2 members still showed up and we had a real blast talking, roasting hot-dogs and marshmallows and even freezing together when we were too far away from the fire.

12-09 was the party at Jacob's house. While this was not an official oxygen event two members, myself and Aaron, took part in so it can be counted as an O2 event. Some other friends of mine and my dad made up the rest of the players. With snow on the ground, a chill in the air and hot chocolate in the house the paintballing turned out to be a great success.

12-16 was the Christmas party at the Zielinske's house! More communication errors had the hosts showing up late but most everyone made to the party in the end. During it we played a number of fun games, had a white elephant gift exchange and learned a lot more about each other.

Some time during the break I believe some of the oxygen ladies got together for the Cookie Bake but I have no more information on this.

Rumor has reached me of a New Year's Eve party last night and I will have more info on that later.

Remember, soon oxygen will resume meeting. I have an unconfirmed report that we will begin meeting on 1-16 but this may not be correct.

Bond Fire & Cookie Bake

2006-11-16T11:12:00.000-06:00

The Thanksgiving dinner at the Realife Cafe was a great success. With not only some great food but also some great games the whole thing was a blast. The main event, aside from the wonderful homemade food, was the parent-teen know each other contest. A parent and their teen would sit in two chairs and questions would be asked of them. Three teams competed and two tied for the win so there was arm wrestling to determine the final winner. On a side note, I was the on the final winning team with my dad.
There was much more arm wrestling as the night went on and James became the champion of that for a while. There was also much talking, of course, and a number of logic defying games played. Anyway the bond fire at Kristen's house is this Saturday starting at 5pm and ending at 9pm, so bring yourself and perhaps some hotdogs and s'more stuff. The directions are as follows:
-Removed after event.-
In other news the Cookie Bake will be happening sometime in December, if you are interested you need to coordinate with Gina as I do not have the details. Lastly the paintball party at my house may or may not happen sometime during the break but if it does it will not be an official Oxygen event, I myself will set it up.

Thanksgiving and Break

2006-11-11T11:23:00.000-06:00

With Oxygen of 2006 winding down, I want to start off by thanking everyone who has welcomed me into O2 and made me feel part of it. Next I am supposed to remind everyone that this Tuesday we are meeting in the Realife Cafe for the Thanksgiving dinner with our parents; don't forget to bring the food!
Despite this being the last official meeting we are still doing the bonfire next Saturday I believe (or possibly the next), directions will be provided this Tuesday for that. Also the cookie bake is still happening, so coordinate with Gina to figure out where and when if you don't already know.
Lastly sometime in November or December it is likely we will play paintball at my house, however you will need to coordinate either with your own gun, paint, mask, and CO2 or someone elses as we do not have many extra. This event is still in the works and may be postponed to the spring, bear with us.
I do not yet have information on when (and where?) we will be meeting in 07, that will come soon though. (If I am not mistaken it will remain the same.)
For the moment I have no more information to write, so I will update this again sometime next week. 11-11-06

MIA & Harvest Party

2006-11-01T10:02:00.000-06:00

Last Saturday was the MIA Oil Change date! A number of oxygen members, uncluding myself, showed up and we helped to move cars, wash, vaccum, full fluids, change oil, and eat pizza. It was really a blast, as I learned how to drive for a few seconds some interesting cars, and I learned how to change brake pads, which was really awesome. Throughout the work I got to know some awesome MIAs (Mechanics in action) and got to learn a lot more about car engines than I ever knew.
Last Tuesday was the fall harvest festival! We were instructed to come to help in costume, so I came as a knight, some of the ladies came as princesses, and Aaron even came as a mechanic! Anyway, after a bit of confusion we got situated outside in the freezing cold to run the Extreme Nerf Zone! They had some great nerf guns that did clip loading, front loading, and cylinder loading. Some of the guns worked better than others but we had a blast. I along with my armory assistants must have loaded 2000 nerf rounds between us all. My only regret was we never got to actually play in the rounds. Ah well, it was a blast anyway with the cider incident, kettle corn, and the cold wind. We even got visits from Darth Vader, Samurai, Ninjas, princesses, warlords and ghosts!

Up and Running

2006-10-19T12:26:00.000-06:00

After missing 1 meeting due to a fever I am now up and running with Oxygen again. I had an interesting night taking pictures, (Sorry, none on here yet.) and the lesson was really great. Gina really drove home one point which I thought was important by telling a story. It was about her father talking to her sister and he said as he was holding up a Bible: "What is this?"
She said, "It's a Bible."
He said, "No it's not, this is the road map to hell."
That kinda shocked us, and she waited a minute before continuing.
She said, "No it's not."
He said, "Yes it is," then he opened the Bible and pointed to the words, "Now this is the roadmap to heaven."

The rest of the night was great as we talking a lot, had lightsaber fights, listened to music, played ping-pong and had several birthdays announced! Chrissy and Jennifer both had birthdays, so we sang happy birthday and ate cake. Well I actually ate a muffin, and during that several people were talking and showing each other how they could cross their eyes in crazy ways. Eek!
Catch you next time!
Written 10-19-06

One Big Party!

2006-10-05T09:28:00.000-06:00

Last night was One Big Party! Oxygen did indeed set up with football decorations at the Cafe on Tuesday and they were a big succes, in spite of the incident with the lights. We gave away free Hot Wings and boy, they were hot! So I would say a solid half of the people at OBP got some HW's. (Yeah, acrynom city.) With us guys helping eat *wink*, that being Andy, Aaron, Justin, Brandon, and me most of the time, plus Dillon and David dropped by (did I forget anybody?). About half of the guys wore football jerseys, me included, so we fit well with the Cafe decs. The girls I must say served up some wonderful Hot Wings, even as Refs. *Wink again.*
Anyway, other rooms in Realife had set up as Mexican, Rock & Roll, Golf, and I don't know what else because I didn't check. Outside was a real blast, even though I missed most of it. They had hotdogs, basketball, volleyball, and I think some people played some football too. Later on, the Pros started doing their Moto Cross, BMX, and Skateboarding tricks. Those were amazing, dangerous, and uh...amazing.
There was a great message that got a solid 50 people for altar call and that was the most important part of the night, so I would consider OBP an overall success. As for the pros who were doing the tricks I have no idea, because I am really bad with names.
Lastly, our local Springfield based band Hideaway came and played for a while; they were a great rock and roll band. I may have left stuff out but I put in everything I could remember at the moment. If you want more info you should join Oxygen. Yeah.

Fellowship, Fun and...Football?

2006-09-27T07:36:00.000-06:00

The past few weeks have been a blast for me at Oxygen. Aaron has been leading us in some great studies of the Bible about Daniel, Humilty, and Standing up for your faith. The guys have had some great group and 1 on 1 guy talk. I assume the ladies have had the same, but I haven't been in there. We got three new recruits just yesterday, at least one and I am pretty sure two from Master's Commission, so they are going to help out on leading O2. With Mexican night as our last fun night, we decided (Or at least part of us decided) to have our next fun night be Cereal night. It should interesting, with what I assume will be some awesome cereals to eat, along with cereal eating contests. Oxygen has gotten the honor this year of decorating the Realife Cafe for One Big Party next Wednesday. And after multiple votes, much debate, and even a lightsaber fight, the minority won out with having us do Football decorations. I still vote for the Military theme, but higher-ups wouldn't have it for several reasons. With work to be done and more info to be gathered, that wraps up this post. See you next time!

To contant Aaron you can e-mail him at: aaron_zielinske@yahoo.com

So Far, So Good

2006-09-17T18:48:00.000-06:00

The meetings of Oxygen so far have been a quite a fun and interesting time, as we have played air hockey, whacked a pinata, eaten Mexican food, worshiped the Lord, studied the Bible, and had some great 1 on 1 talks. With over a month of awesome meetings, great games, food and fellowship under our respective belts, Oxygen this year is promising for me to be an amazing expierence.