The 180 Blog

Contents
1. 180 News
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Birthday
5. Forgettable Fact
6. Potent Quotables
7. Parting Shot

1. 180 NEWS

A Record Breaking RIOT
Wow! What a year it was at the RIOT, so good that we made it into the Guiness Book of World Records! You've probably always thought there was barely enough room for one person in a porta potty. Well how about trying to get 25 people into one? It has now been done and will be a new world record!

That was just the tip of the iceberg for the weekend. It was a great time all the way around! To see all the pictures please click here. There is one picture in particular that just screams for a caption! It is posted on Pastor Brian's blog at www.brianeberly.com. Check out the picture and add your thoughts as to what a good caption for it would be!

HS Rafting Trip


July 11 is the day, we go raft the Deschutes River in Maupin, OR, and you will not want to miss out!

If you are in high school (including current 8th graders) you will want to pick up a registration packet this week! Space is very limited and all registrations must be turned in by Wednesday, June 7. Don't miss this one! Flyers are also available for download here.





180 Video of the Week
Have you ever just run straight through a wall of bushes? Well a few of us did at the JH RIOT!



Letter From Oscar
We have just received a letter from Oscar Silvestre the little boy we sponsor in Boliva. Here is what he says....

Dear Friends, Firstly my greeting to you, wishing you the best. That also goes for all your family. All my family is fine. My gratitude to God. How are you? Here in the Student Center we are doing many activities. I do too many lessons. I also learn a lot the Word of our God. I close with a kiss and a hug. I wish you have many blessings. Oscar

If you would like to write Oscar a return letter on behalf of our group we, and certainly Oscar, would welcome it! Please email your letter to Pastor Brian and he will make sure it gets to Oscar.

2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART

The secret to finding meaning in this life lies with God. Therefore, the only logical thing to do is to obey and follow him. After all he designed the world we're living in. No one knows it as well as he does. So why would we listen to anyone else--including ourselves--in deciding how to live in this world?

Do you have a nice computer? If so how do you treat it? Do you try to take care of it according to the manufacturer's suggestions in the user manual? Or did you say to yourself, "This is my computer, and nobody can tell me what to do with it! Why shouldn't I be able to submerge it in water? It's mine, right? Why shouldn't I write with a permanent marker on the monitor? Why shouldn't I stick lunch meat in the DVD slot? It's mine! It's all mine!"

If you did those things, you would be both right and stupid, wouldn't you? Sure, the computer is yours. And you can do what you want with it. The computer's designers aren't going to come after you to try to stop you. You can ruin the thing if you like.

But if you want to get the best use out of your computer, you'll follow the design instructions.

The same principle applies to you. Your life is yours...in a sense. You can do what you want with it. But if you do the opposite of what the Designer of life tells you to do, you're asking for trouble. For one thing you'll suffer the consequences for mistreating your life. Your life will stop working as it was meant to work. What's more, you'll have to answer to the Designer after your life on earth is all used up.

It's your life--don't be foolish with it.

Taken from "Living A Life That Matters " by Mark Matlock, copyright 2005, Youth Specialties/Zondervan. Used by permission. Order the book here.

3. SURF REPORT

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4. BIRTHDAYS

We have one this week! We want to wish a VERY HAPPY Birthday to Julie Hanson. We hope you have a GREAT one!

5. FORGETTABLE FACT

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

6. POTENT QUOTABLES

"The great danger facing all of us... is not that we shall make an absolute failure of life, nor that we shall fall into outright viciousness, nor that we shall be terribly unhappy, nor that we shall feel [that] life has no meaning at all -- not these things. The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to tender the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God -- and be content to have it so -- that is the danger: that some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with husks and trappings of life and have really missed life itself. "
- Phillips Brooks

"No indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness."
- George Macdonald

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7. PARTING SHOT

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

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