Thursday, October 19, 2006

Up and Running

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

Thursday, October 05, 2006

One Big Party!

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.