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August 28, 2008 by Gilbert Leave a Comment

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  • Over 200 middle and high schoolers and a total of almost 300 people showed up last night for the Edge party.
  • Our youth pastor, Gene Reinemen and his team did an incredible job of making this an awesome event for the kids right before they went back to school.
  • The Safety of Routine and the Ryan Payne Bandprovided the music, while Brad Mowry inspired the kids to make a difference this school year.
  • Of course there was plenty of food, treats, prizes and games.
  • The entire staff took turns in the dunking booth.
  • I love how much Earl gets into these things…he was all dressed like a dunking booth jester and had plenty of one-liners to heckle them with.
  • Somehow I drew the short straw and was in last.
  • Got dunked about 20 times and got colder and colder as the night progressed.
  • I had plenty of one-liners all prepared but for some reason most of the people throwing at me were in the 6-10 age range.
  • Sort of hard to tell a 6 year old that he throws like a girl when it might cause him to cry, give up sports all together or have a negative self image for the rest of his life.
  • I’m going to speak at the prison tonight…maybe I’ll try a few of the lines there…ummm on second thought…maybe not.
  • In any case, it was a great event!
  • Today Earl challenged Heidi Pisle to a 3 balls each challenge in the dunk tank.
  • Earl went in first but Heidi missed.
  • Earl didn’t…Heidi was soaked.
  • Just finished up staff meeting…
  • We have a lot of fun with one another…but we still get things done!
  • Got a few meetings yet, then some programming for the weekend, followed by speaking at the jail and then catch the end of the worship team practice.

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