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

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.

Fellowship, Fun and...Football?

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

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.