VBS Closing Program

What an awesome week of VBS aboard the Boomerang Express.  I want to thank all the volunteers for such an incredible job.  You helped kids love God, care about people, and share Jesus! Our closing program packed out the house and I counted at least 230 people there last night, many to most of them not even regulars around East Side.  What a great week of outreach and fun!

Here are a few of our awesome volunteers.

VBS 2009 Boomerang Express

Wow! This week has been incredible so far.  I am truly amazed by the effort and joy of our VBS volunteers.  They’ve made this year’s Boomerang Express a great event for both children and adults.  We’ve had 80-90 kids each day so far with 92 registered.  I just wanted to say what a true blessing it is to partner together at East Side to change lives.  I’m looking forward to the closing program on Friday night…it’s going to be awesome!  Here are a few pictures of some of the pretty creative stuff our leaders came up with for set design and decor.

Southern California Trip

I’ve meant to blog some pictures from our recent trip to Southern California.  We went down to San Diego to visit some friends and the weather was awesome.  We also got to check out the beach, Sea World, California Adventure, and Disneyland as well.

We also had time on Sunday to check out two big churches, Harvest and Saddleback.  Here’s some pics from Harvest.  What was pretty cool was their outdoor amplitheatre and courtyard which served as an overflow area with a big outdoor screen.  Pretty fun.

Saddleback was interesting as well.  We especially enjoyed their themed children’s area…The Reef.

So there you have it.

Mac v PC Episode 7

Mac v PC parody number 7. Enjoy!

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Mac v PC Episode 6

Mac v PC parody number 6. Enjoy!

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Mac v PC Episode 5

Rob and Dan are awesome. Here’s the 5th promo video.

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Mac v PC Episode 4

Here’s parody number four. Enjoy.

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Worship Northwest

Eleven folks from our worship and tech teams headed up to Salem/Keizer last Friday and Saturday to attend the Worship Northwest Conference.   I wasn’t able to make the Friday night Big Daddy Weave concert, but everyone else said it was awesome.  Saturday was great…I got to take some guitar breakout sessions from a pretty phenominal guitar instructor and everyone else said they got a lot out of theirs as well.  Tonight at worship practice we’ll all take some time to talk about what we learned in our breakouts.  Thought I’d post a few pics.

Blazer Game

I wanted to give a shout out to Greg for organizing the Blazer game trip to Portland…everyone had a blast. There were 43 East Side’rs and friends that made it to the game. And of course, it made for a great daddy/daughter outting for a four year old. She had a blast riding the MAX, screaming at the game, snacking on her snowcone and licorice rope, and chowing down a Chalupa from Taco Bell on the way home (since the Blazers scored 100 points, everyone got a free Chalupa coupon after the game). What a great time!

Mac v PC Episode 3

Here’s our third parody of the Mac v PC commecials. Enjoy.

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