March 2008

Hello one and all,
I know you’ve been long awaiting the newsletter written by me Luke Kadlecek. But now, the time has finally arrived when you get to read a newsletter containing wit, humor, entertainment, and the facts on what went on at this months MESS meetings. I know quite the powerful punch. So, getting right to the point. The first meeting was pretty much the typical normal interesting TOTALLY AWESOME MESS meeting one expects from such a phenomenal group of teens like us…or most of us some have the uncanny ability of being incredibly mean to me and if anyone knows what uncanny means please, email me, I’m dying to know. Jason also brought a friend from school, Sophie.

We also found out that at the next meeting the winner of the “invite a friend” contest would be given their prize. Amy was in the lead with a lame 3 or 4. Second place was like 1. Although, many of us dedicated member worked very hard at getting people to come but simply could not persuade people. You would think Kate and Sam would have people coming by the millions with their incredible speech/debate ability but they must resist the urge to use it because they don’t but we all try very hard. Amy is just too good for us. We honor you Amy. There were some people missing such as my most beloved sister which deprived (I’m on a roll using these words I don’t know) us all of some good laughs.
The Tasseff girls and the Adkins also were gone with my sister due to a speech tournament which they all did EXCELLENT in I am glad to say.

Moving on to the next meeting, Caleb Sevcik gave a last chance attempt at winning the Friend competition by bringing Jenna Grant but still did couldn’t do it. Jenna was also a first time visitor to the youth group and enjoyed it greatly…I think. Amy also brought a friend who had already attended an outing or two… For Amy’s diligent efforts she was rewarded a picture of the very hot and sexy John Calvin… a man any girl would be honored to have a shirt of I am sure or at least in Pastor Mark’s eyes. Josh was not able to attend because of a math test supposedly. He was greatly missed. The big event of the meeting though was the Scholtens pool was finally open and I was the first to take full advantage of that heedless of the temperature. It was cold to say the least but you went numb after a couple of minutes so it wasn’t too bad. Awhile later Bethany decided to face her fears and joined me and shortly after Bibby joined Bethany which caused Noah, of all people, to man up and join us. We also had our music outside which was different but pretty cool as Caleb wowed us with his incredibly beastly guitar skills. Karli, my previously mentioned beloved sister tried to outdo him later in the evening with her old lady in the shoe song. It was a classic battle, the weathered professional against the first time amateur. I’m not sure who’s better. Probably Caleb by a very minute margin. All in all, it was a pretty awesome Youth Group and I believe we all left encouraged and ready to keep on fighting the good fight to shine for Christ wherever we go.

Luke Kadlecek

If you’ve never been to our youth group and would like to email Pastor Mark at pastormarksch@sbcglobal.net .

If you are a part of MESS and would be interested in writing this blog/newsletter for February you can email me at regan@rastetter.com

God Bless!