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Photos of Our Belize Adventure
Pictures & Albums
Downloads & Documents
Music Downloads
Best Paper Airplane Ever
Resources & Webpages
Must Visit Webpages
Sarasota Christian Church
www.sarasotachristianchurch.org
The Night Life Teen Center
www.nightlifecenter.com
Lake Aurora Christian Camp
www.lakeaurora.org
Have Questions About God?
www.meant4more.com
Online Bible & Study Tools
www.crosswalk.com
Struggling With Porn?
www.xxxchurch.com
Christian Devos & Blogs for Teens
www.planetwisdom.com
www.dare2share.org/soulfuel/archives
Christ In Youth
www.ciy.com/believe
www.ciy.com/move
Must Reads
The LIVE NLT Bible: This is a grat Bible for teens. It is easy to understand and has a lot of helpful material along the way.
Cost: $17.50
Don't Check Your Brains At The Door: This is an easy to understand book that helps teens defend their faith and know how Christianity stacks up to what the world says.
Author: Josh McDowell & Bob Hostetller
Cost: $10
Oneighty Devotional: This an excellent daily devotional for teens. Take the challenge -- Spend 5 minutes a day with God and see what happens.
Author: Blaine Bartel
Cost: $2
Do Hard Things - A Teenager Rebellion Against Low Expectations: Written by teens for teens. DHT is a challenge from teen brothers, Alex and Brett Harris, to break the stereotype that teenagers are lazy, elfish, and apathetic. Rise above the norm, do hard things, and change the world.
Authors: Alex Harris, Brett Harris, and Chuck Norris
Cost: $12.25
How To Win Friends And Influence People: This is a classic must read that is relevant for everyone in every stage of life. This little book is packed with practical and sound advice on how to be more influencial. The lessons in here may be common sense; but if common sense was so common than why don't more people show it?
Author: Dale Carnegie
Cost: $8.00
Sex Has A Price Tag: This little book is brutally frank and totally sympathetic, written to girls and guys. It is full of personal testimonies, medical stats, and practical solutions; encouragement in the form of biblical examples, and more when it comes to sex, dating, God's boundaries.
Authors: Pam Stenzel and Crystal Kirgiss
Cost: $9.99
Lose Your Cool - Discovering a Passion that Changes You and the World: Teens today are filled with passion. Unfortunately, they're often passionate about trivial things. Zach Hunter believes that his generation can uncover passion for good-- a passion that has the power to change the world. Zach wants to encourage students to tune out all the noise in the world that tries to distract them from things of meaning, leaving them numb to the things that are in rhythm with God's heart.
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Mission Complete - Day 7
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First off, I have never seen a group pull together and work as hard as our team has and still maintain a positive attitude throughout the week like I have on this trip. Parents, you should be proud of your kids!
We woke up bright and early this morning, even though it took us a while to be completely coherent. Exhaustion really set in after yesterday's busy day. But we were committed to getting everything done so as soon as we got to church we went straight to work. Today we needed to finish painting the building and do touch ups wherever needed. We also needed to finish the fence project by installing four rows of barbed wire all the way across the fence. We also had a list of extra things to do, like pick up trash in the park and along the roads. Paint the exterior of the small Sunday school building, and prepare for an Easter egg hunt for the VBS finale if we had time. Today was the hottest day yet and we had a lot to do, but by the grace of God we managed to check every project off the list (including the extras)!
After all our projects were done, we had a relaxing lunch which consisted of fried rice and fish and coconut ice-cream. We prepared for VBS and ran though our skit a couple of times before the children began to show up.
As soon as the kids arrived (early of course) there was no more time to relax. It was time to put our game faces on and play futbol. As always, the little kids showed us up. The kids came in droves. I never got an official count, but I am pretty sure we broke the century mark. The coolest thing about today was that all the “big kids” who stood back on the fringe really got involved and proved that what we were doing was worth while for the community. We wrapped up VBS with an Egg hunt; we even had three golden eggs and gave away soccer balls to those who found them. Of course, the kids had a hard time leaving and some of the Pelicans even had a hard time saying “adios.”
Once the kids went home we had an opportunity to express our gratitude to Pastor Ric and his family. We presented them with cards, gave them resources to help the church, shared scripture and prayer with them, and gave lots of hugs. It was a bitter-sweet moment for everyone, but we encouraged each other knowing this wasn’t the end of a mission trip but the beginning of a lifetime relationship. Pastor Ric said it best, “We are no longer strangers. We are family.”
Following our good-byes, the Pelicans went to eat dinner and celebrate what the Lord has done this week through our efforts. Later, we returned to the hotel where we debriefed, planned for tomorrow, sang and shared in a devotional thought.
Right now we are enjoying a little free time as we pack up to go to Caye Caulker early in the morning. Tomorrow we get to go be tourist and go snorkeling and do a little souvenir shopping.
Thank you for all of your support and prayers, this week would not have been possible without you. Praise God for what he has begun here in
Don’t forget to post your replies!! Until tomorrow…”Good Night!”
Published on Friday, April 2, 2010 @ 12:40 AM CDT
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Day 6 - The Pelicans at the Ruins
Our trip is ruined. Get it...ruined. Hahaha. I thought it was funny ;-)
Published on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 @ 11:11 PM CDT
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The Real Work Begins - Days 4 & 5
We have lots of work to do! We are Pelicans, not Pelican'ts.
Published on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 @ 1:01 AM CDT
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Belize It Or Not - Day 3
See what the Pelicans were up to on Day 3 in Belize!
Published on Monday, March 29, 2010 @ 11:06 PM CDT
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Belize - Day 2
See what we were up to in day 2.
Published on Saturday, March 27, 2010 @ 11:58 PM CDT
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Belize - Day One
We all made it here safely and everyone is ok. Clik here to read more about our first day in Belize.
Published on Friday, March 26, 2010 @ 7:43 PM CDT
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Go The Extra Mile

As teenagers, we are one of the most stereotyped groups out there. Adults expect nothing but trouble from teenagers. This really aggravated me last week in Spanish class. I had just finished a test, and my good friend Death Ray texted me, saying that he was too sick to lead worship that night. The teacher saw the phone, confiscated it, and said I would get a zero on the test, because the official school policy is that if you have a phone out, you’re cheating.....
Published on Friday, May 15, 2009 @ 10:41 AM CDT
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Susan Boyle Dreamed a Dream

May I have your attention, please. Stop what you are doing and join the crowd of 100 MILLION people worldwide who have been inspired, moved, and/or encouraged by this video:
Published on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 @ 10:41 AM CDT
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Forgiven...Again
Do you ever wish you could go back in time? Where would you go? What would you do?...
Published on Monday, April 13, 2009 @ 10:40 AM CDT
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