Me? Trouble??

So this on going feud has been going on at my work pretty much since the day I started.
Actually since the Day I started in Youth Ministry, but I’ll talk more about that at a later time. I’m actually going to write a book with comic strips about other youth people that have had this same feud, so be watching for that someday.
I started here as youth director in September and right away I made some small changes.

First I took the stinky couches out and got used ones that all matched from the Gospel Mission. They didn’t smell bad and the kids weren’t all “that used to be in my house and I little sister peed on it like five times”
YAHOO right? Nope!! I was told no more couches could come into the youth room, followed by
“Some people don’t even want this to be the youth room?” WHAT really? OK I’m here to reach out to youth in our community not cause problems and be told I don’t even matter….going on I got some new staging to spruce it up a bit ok no troubles, then my big wheels started to come in, we had a huge fund raiser for our mission trips where we raced big wheels in a figure 8 track loads of fun, then my Dad and I started going downhill with my intern and brother, so it’s all fun and happy.


We did a youth service where I spoke and we promoted the big wheel event it was great but of course their were problems cause we were riding them inside, they don’t make any more of a mark then a dolly or wheel chair, no problem. Dan’s last week last week we decided to let loose and go for a ride around one last time no troubles then we come in on Monday and our big wheels are locked to the Green machine? WHAT? I think it’s pretty funny cause we didn’t make any marks and didn’t run into any walls just having some fun.. so I cut the chain problem solved….that’s what I am problem solver….here is a cool video to commemorate our moment of triumph…And by the way I got a written safety violation for riding them inside

Am I the only one sick of Celebrities?

What about these service members who have gave there life for our country? No matter how you view the War these Hero's died fighting for us!!! I'm sick of all the Hype around Celebrities!! What have they done for our country? We need to remember the Hero's!! Where are they in the news!!!! Here are some that gave their life this month!! they all have families who will miss them for thier sacrifice!! please pray for the families as you read the names! America is good at wanting to feel comfortable, lets break that and remember!


25-June Spc. Joshua L. Hazlewood, 22, of Manvel, Texas, died June 25 in Arifjan, Kuwait, of injuries sustained from a non-combat related incident. He was assigned to the 614th Automated Cargo Documentation Detachment.

24-June Spc. Casey L. Hills, 23, of Salem, Illinois, died June 24 in Iraq of injuries sustained during a vehicle roll-over. He was assigned to the 100th Battalion, 442nd Infantry Regiment, Pago Pago, American Samoa.

19-June Spc. Chancellor A. Keesling, 25, of Indianapolis, Ind., died June 19 in Baghdad, Iraq of a non-combat related incident. He was assigned to the 961st Engineer Company, Sharonville, Ohio.

16-June Capt. Kafele H. Sims, 32, of Los Angeles, died June 16 in Mosul, Iraq, of a non-combat related incident. He was assigned to the 18th Engineer Brigade, Schwetzingen, Germany.

Sgt. Joshua W. Soto, 25, of San Angelo, Texas, died June 16 in Iraq of wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 77th Armor Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Fort Bliss Texas

Staff Sgt. Edmond L. Lo, 23, of Salem, N.H., died June 13 in Samarra City, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device that his explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team was acting to neutralize detonated. He was assigned to the 797th Ordnance Company, 79th Ordnance Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas.

5-Jun Lance Cpl. Robert D. Ulmer, 22, of Landisville, Pa., died June 5 as a result of a non-hostile incident in Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, II Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune N.C.

4-Jun Spc. Christopher M. Kurth, 23, of Alamogordo, N.M., died June 4 in Kirkuk, Iraq, of wounds suffered when his vehicle was struck by an anti-tank grenade. He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.

Garage sale

So we decided to have a garage sale with my sister Victoria and her Nick, then some of our friends were thinking of having one the next weekend so they just added to our sale. It was a lot of fun we stood on highway and waved a sign to let people know of all the fun that was going down. It did start raining in the afternoon but went away pretty fast the first time then it down poured on us and we packed it all up and took it away!!

A Tribute to my super Intern

Our Church is striving to do all things under three distinct pillers! It's a great way to focus all we do!

Learning … about God, the Bible and His creation is key to developing a relationship with Jesus and deepening our love for Him. The primary learning opportunity at SCF is our Sunday Service. But we have many more ways to learn about Him.

Relating … When it comes to spiritual growth, relationships are critical. Genuine life change occurs when God's principles are worked out in real-life relationships. At SCF, small groups are not just what we do—they are who we are.

Serving … gives each of us the opportunity to demonstrate the love of God to others. Whether it is here at SCF, in our community, or even in the world beyond, each of us is called to offer the hope of Jesus Christ to those in need wherever they are found.

Big Church

So I'm really really loving our Church right now, in "Big Church" we did a three week series about God in culture. The first week was about God in movies the second week was God in Music and one of our Pastors Brett incorporated a ton of wonderful music into the service even a song by Miley Cyrus.....I know but it was a really neat service. Last Sunday Scott our Lead Pastor did God in human expression and it was really great. Chris our creative arts director had three different painters come in and use different forms of painting to create this huge visual for our service. It was really neat the person that did the spray paint was one of my students so that was really neat to see I also had a student that was chosen to read a poem she had written....it was really great. So if your church is lame and boring!!! Hey come visit us we'll break your church norms!!!

Breaking down walls

So I've been doing this Series on the Old Testament exploring some of the charters and themes, and last night was our last in the series. So we talked about Breaking down walls we build between us and God. I thought what better way to do that then to actually break down a wall.....makes since right? So I had all the students come up to the wall and write things people have as "Walls" in their lives that seperates them from fully living in God. then I had them when everyone had wrote on the wall come up and smash it all to bits.

The message was about Joseph and how he had enough faith to listen to God's instructions and defeat Jericho.

Well it was AMAZING it did make a bigger mess then I had anticipated but it was really fun and I'm pretty sure then students will not forget what the message was.

I got High

Yes I jumped onto the stage during rehearsal for my first Sunday morning in Big church!! I had an amazing student leadership team doing worship and announcements it was really great to be able to share my story with the church and how I came to be where I was it you wanna listen let me know I'll give you the link. well that's all for now later!!!

Why do we do it?

So I got home from Men's retreat looking like a bruised banana. Shanna asks why we do it. I just said because it's fun right? Well Wikipedia says this

Paintball is a sport in which players eliminate opponents by hitting them with pellets containing paint (referred to as a "paintball"), usually propelled from a CO2 or compressed-gas (HPA or Nitrogen) powered paintball gun (or marker).

The Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association estimates that over 5.4 million people played the game in the United States in 2007, with over 1.5 million playing at least 15 times.

What it forgot to say is that it's pretty stinking fun to hunt down people and splatter them with paint! We played a game called push where teams try to get flag that's in middle and push to other teams base I got the flag like three feet from the others teams base but they had a guy puppy guarding it and he shot me.

Then we played kill the president......with our Lead Pastor I was on the terrorist team both times first round we got him then second round they sent someone after me and they saved the president. Despite the pain it was fun!!!

Why do we do it?

So like in December of Last year I had this idea to teach a series on the old Testament stories that kicked some serious booty and this is the main advertisement for the series.

It's been a great series we taught on Samson and how he got hammered by a Girl
Tonight we are talking about Balem and how his Donkey didn't take to kindly to being kicked!

28 Then God gave speech to the donkey. She said to Balaam: "What have I ever done to you that you have beat me these three times?"

29 Balaam said, "Because you've been playing games with me! If I had a sword I would have killed you by now."

30 The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your trusty donkey on whom you've ridden for years right up until now? Have I ever done anything like this to you before? Have I?"

He said, "No."

Who is Jesus to You?

I saw this video and thought about how sometimes we look to Jesus just when things are really bad
and life is sucking.

Why is that?
I mean, I work at a Church and teach all this but still fall into this sometimes.

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." -- John 14:6 (NKJV)

So why are we not always looking to him for guidance? I think we let life get in our way and we let business edge Jesus out of our lives. I hope you think about this in your own life today and let God not just be a vending machine! If you want prayer shoot me an email I'm here jonathann@scf.net

Who is Jesus to You?

Hey all

I thought I'd take the chance to give a quick update on the life of the J Nalywaiko's. Jaden is having a blast in 1st grade I have lunch with her at school and it's great to meet all her little friends and see her interact with all the other kids. Shanna got an amazing job at a preschool working full-time as a lead teacher so she will love that! Addison is able to go with her and really have a structured environment....Shanna says "It's no joke, her class is hard core with stations and everything"....well that might not been exactly how she said it but you get the point.

Well As some of you know we moved out of the dark clouds of Washington (dark in more ways then one) and into the Sunshine of Sparks, Nevada. It was truly a blessing to be able to step into an awesome church www.scffamily.net and a youth ministry that was alive and growing and unrestricted.

I'm the Director of Student ministries.
http://www.scffamily.net/main/en/content/page?p=Jonathan%20Nalywaiko

It's been amazing to have such creative freedom and resources. We had a our dodge ball tournament so that was great. Tomarrow I leave for our first on Four mission trips this one is with the Middle Schoolers to inner city San Francisco. I've been training them to love others in uniqu ways and this is the final "field test".

I also recently found out that the community center has a dodge ball league starting end of January so I'm trying to get a team for that it's an adult only thing so that will be a great way to meet other people in our community.

My latest thing as you can see from some of my videos is big wheelin, I'm working on a fund raising event and of course I have to test the big wheels to make sure they are safe for students right? Anyway check it out.

I have a new Army Reserve Unit that I'm apart of so it's nice to be able to serve my country still in that way. Last Sunday I preached at the Sunday service so that was a great thing to stretch myself out of just the youth. Last Monday we had our Monday night kick off and got tons of new students so I was excited about that as well as my Student leadership team. They worked really hard to make our year kick off fun and exciting.

Shanna and I are really enjoying other aspects of the church as well, we went to a couple connect class for couples to learn together and have fun...well the newlywed game night, and for those of you who don't know were pretty good at the game cause we used to practice when we had nothing else to do. Anyways we are excited about what God is doing here at the church and in the youth ministry and culture of our area. I have been well received here at a new church family.

I want to encourage all of you that read this, no matter how hard we try to follow the will of God people are sinful and sometimes the plans get rearranged but God will always bless you if your obedient to his will for your life!! I love where I'm at and the amazing feeling of being appreciated is great! So serve him in all you do and don't give up!!

My parents are pretty excited to have us so close as well. So if you want to check out what else we have going on here are mine and Shanna's blog addresses and face book info

if you want out phone or address e-mail me and I can hook you up jonathann@scf.net

Jonathan Blog ------> http://www.nalywaiko.blogspot.com/
Shanna Blog -------> http://4shanna.blogspot.com/

Jonathan facebook -----> http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=677830603&ref=profile
Shanna facebook ----> http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=677830603&ref=profile#/profile.php?id=1635220211


Thanks all,
Jonathan Nalywaiko

Christmas

So we had some fun Christmas day, got to the mall and Santa left us a cart to play with so once again I say Nalywaiko's know how to have fun!!!

My Dad Rocks

My dad has got to be the coolest dad ever!! We got a razor scream machine and found the steepest hill in their area and drove to the top and rode all the way down. The only thing we changed on the big wheel was the back wheels and moved the seat! More to come!!!

Big Wheel

So I got this idea for a fun raiser to raise money for our mission trips, one thing lead to another then I got a big wheel then I found a hill then.....well you'll see

Yes it's that time of year again

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Sweet new radio station in My area.

Check it out it's way different.

If Jesus is good enough for Evil knievel he is good enough for me

ten commandments

I fell on the floor laughing when I saw this so I thought I'd share with all my peeps.......so here you go!

AVAST

Another talk like a pirate day is upon us, Where yeee beee

My pirate name is:

Mad John Flint

Every pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a little bit. Like the rock flint, you're hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you're easily chipped, and sparky. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
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Farting Hippo

Seriously what's funnier then a farting hippo in the bathtub?


nothing......nothing......

not a fan of Ellen but this is funny!!!

old people are cool

Sparks....where

Hey all, amazing things are happening in our lives. A couple weeks ago I got a call about a youth director position at a church in NV. At first I was like desert, that's exciting.....well no way it's totally sweet their are alot of trees and it's really family friendly were super excited. God is doing amazing things thru the church were going to so it's a real blessing to able to be apart f that. And anytime I can be 45min away from Tahoe....hello ....I'm there. Thanks for all your prayers and support thru this transition time and I'll keep yopu more updated. Thanks!!

God is Good

here are some more pics lots of things goin on in life right now but' it's all good

gotta run talk more later

Hey There

SO I got some pics, this is my ride right now!!

But it's all good Cause I'm really enjoying meeting so many great people and I get to help people get from one place to another. It's been a great in-between churches job...I'm very excited also for what God has next for me

My story

So there I was 5:30 am...yes I know there is a 5:30 am but I was there in liner with about a dozen other people all waiting.......excited........wondering......we were all scred to gewt out of line to go to the bathroom but a coffee chop opened early so we all made a pac to save each others spot so we could run and get cofffee or a begal if we wished.....but who could eat at a time like this?

YAHOO the doors finally opened, 30 minutes per person they told us, ouch. You see I was on duty that friday and due to be at Fort Lawton at noon. So I was in uniform. Ya I know I wasn't trying to get any points but I had to go straight to work after I got it.....Finally the time came and I got my phone I held it up over my head and made the little angels light noise AWWHAAHHWW everyone out side cheered it was great until the guy came out and said " were all out of 16g's" Ouch for all those people in line...anywaz I had to wait till that night to open it up and start it cause I had to go to work, all day I would open the box and touch it, it was great I finally got it after waiting all these month.

I was excited........here we are two weeks later and I have to say it's in my top five

1)Jesus
2)wife kids
3)parents other family
4)Iphone
5)In N Out Burger

I know it passed in and out when it had that scrolling date and time thing it's so amazing I'm really enjoying it! It's great...

My Girl

How wonderful is it to have such cute girls around me all day long?

for fun

Powerful

I love how videos can say so much with so little. I was very moved by this video, even the third time

DISNEYLAND

Were going to Disneyland! I'll tell you all about it when we get back!!!!

SWEET

Ya we had our first motorcycle ride / Date / Dinner / super fun time!!!

My Family

Well hello all,
Shanna thought it would be a super idea to go to point defiance and take some pics. It was fun she even let me take some pics with my fuzzy hat on.....not this one but others....over on the left. Well Jaden is on spring break so that's loads of fun for her and Addison is wanting to walk but just won't commit. I'm still enjoying riding my super red scooter, if you didn't hear about it look at a past post I talk all about it. Well I guess that's all the update for now have a great day and e-mail me to say HI!

I love this video ever time I watch it I see things I didn't see the last time. Do you ever feel like your being torn in two different directions? I sure do....when things get all screwed up and you don't know where to turn it's a wonderful thing to know that Jesus is there waiting to hold you in his arms when your hurting! If you wanna talk shoot me a line
nalywaiko99@gmail.com

Dodgeball

The Tale of a fish named Swallow

So Lindsay thought of this great idea. When her attendance got to 50 one of the high school leaders would eat a live gold fish....pretty cool right? Well she got the fish and we named it swallow....lol....then our office got to hot or it got sick or it got freaked out because it's name was swallow and it died.....what?.....yum went to the big fish bowl in the sky, so being the good Pastor I am I had a funeral for it complete with words and taps....bye bye old friend.....check it out.

LONG LIVE FREE HUGS!!

My new scoot RED

Well I saw the post on craigslist and didn't believe it at first. I'd been looking for a Honda elite 250 since October, then there it was Portland $1200, good condition for sale at the Portland rescue mission, they get donations and sell them and use the money to feed homeless and hungry people. Well I thought to my self..." Is it wrong to deal with someone who is using the money for good things?" Then I thought no it'll be ok so I went down talked to the guy on the phone he said they could come down a little bit but not much cause it was in good condition, so I finally got to test ride it and it ran great higher miles but still running top shape, I got it for a great deal and now I'm excited cause it's starting to be more sunny and I get to ride my new scoot RED. that's the short version of the long story.

HELLO

Well I know I haven't written in a little while so here I am. Last weekend was super great for me, I got to go to Portland for two night by myself....I know it was a stretch for me I really like being around people so it was different to be by myself but it was great many adventures and I met alot of neat people also. The main reason I WENT DOWN WAS TO PICK UP MY NEW SCOOTER. IT WAS A GREAT DEAL AND MADE FOR A VERY GOOD STORY. LOOK ABOVE TO READ THE STORY OF RED. Any way I stayed in a hostel that was pretty nice not smelly and I wasn't scared for my life that that was good. When you stay at hostles you always meet interesting people. I met a guy that was from Vancouver island on his way back from San Diego he was reading a book about a chaplain so we talked religion for a little bit, usually a topic to steer away from with strangers and strangers in a hostel from Canada. But it was great

I went to a few malls which I always enjoy.....I miss the great mall in Minnesota it was the best one I've ever been to but these malls were ok. anywaz it was a good time I looked at a broke scooter that needed alot of love, but I went to look at it for my friend Dan who is looking to get into my scooter gang, we'll keep looking for that special scoot. Well I guess that's it for now drop me a not say hi whatever...nalywaiko99@gmail.com

HEY LETS GO SKATING
Body: I'm going skating today so why don't you come? Katie is coming so that'll add some fun and you should come! Meet here at the church at 12:30 we'll be back at 4:30 or if you need to leave early that's cool to. Text me if you wanna go so I know we will have enough room for you! bring $10

Later
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Duct Tape

Someone put a hole in the wall

Battle of the Sexes Feb 13th

Hey everyone come to our battle royal-al....I think that's how you spell it...?...!?>> anywaz this night is going to ROCK!!!
We'll have different points for different things if you wear blue for boys and pink for girls your get points if you bring friends then you get points if you answer questions and play the game you get points if you bring Jonathan Brownies you get points all kinds of things!! Come check it out!!

Build a Robot movie night

February 20th, bring a robot you built for sweet prizes and enjoy popcorn, rootbeer floats and more!

WINTERFEST 2008

WE HAD TO MUCH FUN DANCING AND SINGING, HERE IS ONE OF THE MANY FUN TIMES

WINTERFEST 2008

Wow it was a rocking trip!! We had snowball fights, fun, fod, twister, all the good stuff you need on a great trip. I hope everyone that went had an amazing experience! Here is a short video with some of the pics from the trip. The snowtubing was sweet, we had a chain or 13 people it was cool, Bob and I tred to go on one tue but it didn't work so well...lol....it was still funny, I hope God touched each of us this weekend!
GOD BLESS

WINTER RETREAT

WEDNESDAY IS THE LAST DAY TO SIGN UP!

My brother did this video

My younger brother does videos and has an amazing talent and gift, stay tuned for more of his work.
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HUMAN OWLINNG TONIGHT!!!!!

COMME CHECK IT OUT IT'LL BE A HOOT11

Really neat video

this is one of the collest video's I've seen. It's simple and very powerful! Enjoy

human bowling January 9th

Mike Huckabee responds to evolution question

THANK-YOU MR. President

WINTER RETREAT

January 18-21
It's going to rock!!!
Came by the church to get info! This could be you!!

Funny Story about Jaden

So we went to this speggitii thing on Friday and sang Christmas carols and fun stuff like that, when we were leaving Jaden said she had to go potty no problem she went in there I went to my office to get some things before we left. When I came out like 5minutes Jaden was still in there and Shanna was out front waiting for her and had gone into check on her like three times... well she got out and off we went got all loaded in the car and driving home and real quietly Jaden says...."Mommy" Shanna says "Yes" Jaden replies" when I was in the bathroom I was peeing then my Butt exploded" so we all start laughing then it got quiet and Jaden goes on " I think the fiber you gave me worked to good" Laughter again Jaden says" Can I not take it any more I don't like the explosion.....it was very funny her cute little voice telling us about her experience

My girls

thought I'd post some stuff about my girls cause they rock!

Your missed Grandad 1915 - 2007

Off to California

Hello all well I'm off to California, I wasn't planning on going for Thanksgiving but My Mom and Grandma asked me to do a little memorial for my Great Grandpa so off I go...It'll be sad to be away from my girls but I know they will be taken care of here

Food Drive and Skating!

Hey everyone, wanna help out people needing food? wanna have some fun collecting food? come with us on Saturday we're meeting at the Church at 12:15 then going to albertsons till like 2:20 then were going to skate and station for some fun roller skating! if you wanna come to albertsons and meet us there for an hour or the whole time come on by! if you wanna just come skating come on by!! it's going to be loads of fun!!

Who Loves the Keytar?

BELIEVE ROCKED MY FACE OFF CHECK OUT THE COOL VIDEO BELOW!!

Jr High Believe - Mas Tortillas Music Video

why?

well we were having breakfast at denny's and the food was taking along time to come out so when the waiter brought out syrup it was a short pause before one of the jr. high hboys starting taking shots whhich led to two boys and so on...
we had a very fun time taking shots

the next morning when we went back to the same place thy didn't bring out syrup ttil we asked for it.....I wonder why.....dunno......I love my job

Signs

ever see a funny sign? or maybe not a funny sign just a sign out of place


I'm going to start a sign board, any sign that will be hung in na public place has too pass the 'stupid person ' test

Like here in Lakewood the high school stadium was named after the guy who probable donated all the money for it....the only problem his name....Harry Lang.......really.......can you like name it after his Mom or someone that isn't going to get all th laughs everytime some one says '"you going to Harry Lang tonight to see the game" i mean seriously ya stadium that is used for two o high school's football games.....I don't get it

Funny Pictures

old guy

This text is red
Hey I was at Joe's and this guy was checking out my scooter he's all "hey those are pretty cool flags where did ya get them?" It was cool I talked to him for awhile and off he went in his electric scooter chair thingy, I meet the coolest people being out on my scooter!

one of my Good Friends

Deputy 'lucky' to be OK

By RANDI ROSSMANN
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

A Sonoma County sheriff's deputy, about to throw down a spike strip to try to stop an approaching speeding car, instead dove for his life as the sport-utility vehicle came at him, clipping him in the leg, sheriff's officials said Monday.

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"There's a boot mark smeared across the hood of that vehicle. That's how lucky he was," said Sheriff's Sgt. Kevin Young, who spoke to the injured deputy as he was being loaded into an ambulance.

Deputy Brett Fairbanks was recuperating at home Monday after being released from the hospital with a broken ankle, Capt. Dave Edmonds said.

He was hit early Sunday by a 16-year-old suspected of drunken driving. The teen driver plowed into the deputy's patrol car, demolishing it, after hitting the deputy.

The driver was leading another deputy on a chase through east Petaluma just after midnight when he struck Fairbanks.

The Petaluma teen was being held in Juvenile Hall. His name was not released because he is a minor.

The teen was driving on a suspended license and on probation for a prior conviction, Petaluma police said.

Fairbanks patrols the south county. He was in the Petaluma area when he heard the chase start.

He drove to the west end of Corona Road where he anticipated the chase was headed. Fairbanks pulled over near Industrial Avenue near the base of the overpass and got his spike strip out of his trunk.

"He ran to the side of the roadway to throw it out," Young said.

But too quickly the Toyota Highlander was headed down the overpass, directly for him, Young said.

Fairbanks dropped the strip.

"He turned and ran. The car went to turn north onto Industrial and hit his right leg," Young said.

Fairbanks was thrown several feet by the impact. The teen driver then traveled about 35 more feet and smashed into the deputy's Ford Crown Victoria patrol car.

Young estimated the Highlander was traveling between 50 mph and 65 mph when it hit the deputy and patrol car.

The impact pushed the squad car about a foot off of its frame and crushed the driver's side, Young said.

Fairbanks was conscious after being hit and said he knew he had broken bones. He also could hear the siren of the chase deputy approaching and quickly dragged himself to the side of the roadway.

"He crawled away about 25 feet. He knew he had to get out of the way," Young said.

When Petaluma officers arrived they found the teen still in the SUV. He wasn't pinned but may have been unconscious after hitting the air bag, Young said.

The teen was taken to Petaluma Valley Hospital to check for injuries and was cleared to go to Juvenile Hall.

The teen was arrested on suspicion of driving drunk, evading officers and driving without a license.

The police chase had started minutes earlier outside the city on the far east side of town.

Deputy Michael Yoder was patrolling when he saw the Highlander run a stop sign while turning onto Adobe Road from Sonoma Mountain Road, Young said.

The driver turned wide, into the deputy's path, and the deputy had to swerve to avoid being hit, Young said.

Yoder then flipped around and tried to pull over the Highlander. The driver stopped, briefly.

"As Michael got out of his car, it sped off again," Young said.

The driver blew through two more stop signs as he drove as fast as 100 mph, weaving as he went, Yoder said. The driver finally sped through a red light on North McDowell Boulevard and headed over the Corona overpass where he ran into Fairbanks.

Fairbanks underwent surgery Sunday morning to repair the ankle. He could be out of work for several months.



Hope and pray for a quick recovery! You Rock my face off Brett

PARTY

At Church 6:30-7:30

--Bounce house
--Music
--Candy
--Prizes for best costume
--Candy
-Bounce house
--Music
--Candy
--Prizes for best costume
--Candy
-Bounce house
--Music
--Candy
--Prizes for best costume
--Candy

Believe trip Pics

Photobucket Album

Believe Crazy Girls

Crazy Girls

So we were standing in line for the bounce house when these five girls in front of us were talking about some cute guy they saw, I butted into the conversation trying to figure out who they were talking about they pointed him out making comments like “his nose is so perfect” “ He is so hot” then I walked over to him and was like hey can you come with me for a second and he listened I walked him back over to where the girls were and they had run away and were no where to be found, so I asked the boy his named he was confused his name was Isaac it was great….later they all surrounded ma and were like “what did he say” then one the girls grabbed my arm then was like “ that was soooo cool” I felt happy!! Here is a pic of them and our group the rest of the conference they came and hung out with our group, which was cool. I really enjoy meeting new people, I already knew this about myself but I thought I'd say it again!
here they are
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Believe Blog

Leading up to Believe,
Well coming home from NYC was very exciting, I was excited to get all ready for Believe I had a few things left to figure out

1) I needed a girl leader since the one I thought was going to be able to go on the event had to stay home and fill out college apps
2) I needed to get train tickets for the crew and
3) I had to make sure I had money for us to go to the market

So I called like six different girls to see if they could be a leader and all had other things going on one wanted to go but was concerned that she would be the only girl leader so she finally said no, so I gave myself till 5:00 on Thursday to find one before I had to call the girls and tell them they couldn’t go…so like 4:30 I thought ….how about Katie the old intern…. she’s not old she was the intern last year and now worked for spot…. So I went down to talk to her and she said YES I was so excited I jumped up and gave her a big hug it was awesome!! So one thing down two to go

So I called the train station and found out more people were taking to the train that day and they were all sold out, so WOW…ok…I called like three van rental places and all of them didn’t have vans or quoted me like $450 so I got budget and they were cheap and had a van available to pick up next day so off I went to get the van Friday at 2:00 kids showing up at the church at 3:00………..so off we went

I don’t know how it started but whenever I leave for a youth trip I stop at 7-11 before we head out so that’s what we did Yummy I like slurppees……………more to come!!

Other fun things from the believe trip
-Taco Bell
-Party music
-Stories so funny we almost peed our pants
-Collin taking syrup shots (see video)
-Pillow fights (see video)
-Free hugs
-Crazy girls (see explanation)
-Crazy Ninja “chicken”

National Youth Conference

NYC
So as you know during the last days of our San Diego trip it was pretty much on fire, no really it was crazy how smoke filled the air was, it was all aound us. One of the groups that was their had lost there Church to the fire but that were still at the conference.

we had so much fun and learned a lot, the thing I took away from Doug’s marriage ministry and Family was always make time and make sure your family is number 1 and they feel that way, I’ve ad problems with this in the past but I’m really trying to turn that around and make my girls feel special and the major priority in my life.
Some random things and quotes from the San Diego trip

-My Butt hurts but I would do it again (Lindsey after felling crowd surfing)
-San Diego River sign…
-Flaming Dr. Peppers

Scooter

It was a cold and rainy day in October, Shanna was in Disneyland with Addison and my mom (SHHHHH don't tell Jaden) and I had been talking to this guy about a scooter he had in Centralia, that's like an Hour or so away.

The scooter he had was pretty good it was a 1985 Honda Elite he had repainted it black and army green so I thought it would be suiting for me, also he was a single dad and I felt bad that I had talked him from $500 to $300 but it needed a starter and it didn't have a kick start....so before we left to go check it out I looked one more time on the greatest treasure site in the world www.craigslist.com and behold another scooter similar but with a much more desperate plee from the owner that he “Needed to sell it fast” he sent me a picture and wow was it in need of repair, I called and asked him about his price and he was willing to deal so off we went...We got there and it was in an car repair place I talked to him for a while and found out he was a mechanic and had done a lot of work on the Scooter including rebuilding the carburetor. Like I said it was rainy so I said we would go to get some lunch and be back when it cleared. We ate then it cleared and I went back to take a little test drive.......WOW I got on this scooter and gave it the gas and it took off, I had only ridden 50cc scooters up to this point and this one was an 80cc how does30cc make so much difference?

Anyway I got it brought it home and started the repair process. The front flaring was broke so I fixed it with metal strapping and bolts, I also busted up the visibility with some super cool orange duct tape. This scooter is super fun to ride and I'm having so much fun riding it!!

Day Two or three

Amazing speakers!!!

Family Force five in concert and Phil from veggie tales told us his story about having a dream growing it all up then losing it and having to give yourself back to God it's amazin!!

We got kicked out of the same college.

Youth Conference Day one.........

National Youth Conference Day one…

Well Taylor thought it would be a great idea to get up way to early and get to the airport for our flight, so we got through security and were all sitting at the gate to what we thought was our plane.

But really wasn’t our flight and apparently they called our names and none of us heard so when we went to get on our flight they wouldn’t let us on, but eventually we got on and needed up flying into San Diego….named by the great settles meaning a whales………

anyway we got on the plane and off we went. Then mid flight Taylor remembers that our bags are going to LAX so the bag scramble begins all in all we got to In-n-Out and had the best burger in the world then off to the conference and got our bags and went to sleep before midnight….

OFF to San Deigo.....

Were going to the Youth Training in San Deigo, it will be fun!! I'll update you to anything fun and exciting that goes on!

FYI/Chinese Toy Recall.

Cause so many asked for it again!!

Talk like a pirate day is awsome Sept 19th

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Ebay

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Who doesn't love seeing that email that says YOU HAVE WON!!

Well you have won ebay.....in my heart........

Funny ancorman intro

this was for one of our lessons on REACT Sunday morning.

Amzaing video

I'm not going to lie, I cried a little when I watched this for the first time, it's so true we get wrapped up in the world and we forget the wonderful things jesus has for us and when we try to go back to him it's just that much harder to reach him but he will fight for us! WOW Thanks Jesus you rock!!

My pirate name is:

Red John Rackham

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Talk Like a Pirate Day Sept 19th

I love talk like a pirate day I made a video this year it was fun! Only got talked to by three security guards while filming! Good Day

Change is good

The Rock is the new Quest! This is the super cool graphic for our group! Soon we will have shirts and cool things with this logo on it stay on the look out!!

Gotta love a Mac

fifth quarter at UPPC

Final the top moments from the ministry tour!

Top five things from trip

Lindsay
1.Bungee
2.Sermon at Generation Church
3.Free Hugs
4.Water bottles
5.Talking to people at City Team

Chase
1.Sermon at Generation Church
2.Bungee
3.Serving food and talking to people at City Team
4.Maranatha church service
5.Pastor Jonathan’s leadership skills

Taylor
1.Sermon at generation church
2.bungee
3.free hugs at baseball game
4.Games at Tacoma Church of god
5.Prayer with youth at New Song church

Brian
1.Bungee
2.sermon at generation church
3.serving food
4.free hugs
5.bank of America observation deck

Devon
1.Bungee
2.Free hugs
3.Winning deal or no deal at Bullwinkle’s
4.bank of America observation deck
5.serving food at city team

Ashley
1.Prayer service at New Song church
2.City team
3.Serving and games at Tacoma first church of god
4.Dignity village serving lunch
5.generation church

Pastor Jonathan
1.Ashley thinking fart box was real
2.worshiping with maranatha church
3.generation church service
4.Watching kids serve and learn from it
5.mowing the lawn at First Tacoma church of god

Shanna
1.Being on my first mission trip
2.Free hugs at baseball game
3.mowing lawn at Tacoma first church of god
4.Pastor Jonathan’s leadership abilities
5.seeing kids get excited about serving

TOP QUOTES FROM THE TRIP

So did you spend anytime at fort Lewis?
-Chase

Small child

There’s a fountain
-For Ashley

Double A’s mom
-Pastor Jonathan

Big stinky returns
-Devon

Is their a church in this neighborhood cause I’m not up on my hobo stab insurance
-Taylor

Run from the cops
-For Lindsay

Schnoodles
-Shanna

YEAH that’s how it’s done
-Devon

How do I jump?
-Brian

Are you sure no ones ever been hurt doing this?
-Chase before he jumped off the bridge

Free hugs? I want free hugs
-Asian guy

You’re a little young for me but I’d take you to lunch
-Shorty McHotchick

Who is hugs and why does he need to be freed?
-Guy at baseball game

Uncle Bob

Who doesn't love this story in the Bible?

See I'm not the only one that enjoys wal-mart

Who Doesn't love FREE HUGS?

I did this video on free hugs and this was my favorite part....Yes we did get asked to leave but not till the very end of our 1hr time in the store!

Bungee

it wasn't working so hopefully it's all Good now!

Shoes

Funny story, at my wedding we had disposable cameras for everyone to take pictures of the wedding. Well when we got them all back we had a lot of really good pics and one camera full of peoples shoes.....who did this you ask.....well of course it was my youth pastor.

When I passed out the disposable camera to the kids I asked them to not do that cause it wastes our money developing them, so one of the got a digital and took pics of shoes so here they are.

Day Nine

Day nine
Well today was amazing, we got up a little later, Shanna made us an amazing breakfast and off we went to Seattle to site see and do a service at city team ministries in the evening. I’ve added more pics today cause their was a lot going on!

Day 8

Hiya all!! This is Shanna checking in from Seattle! We are in a beautiful library taking a little break. Jonathan wanted me to write about our day yesterday so here goes nothing! :)

We arrived in Port Townsend via Ferry (first time for some of us) around mid-night and take the venture of finding a gravel road leading to our friends house. Noelle greeted us @ the door with a huge smile and loving arms and hands to help us load in the house. We got a much need nights rest and woke up around 8am to a beautiful view of the Puget sound. Showers we had and breakfast was made as we planned out our adventures for the day. We loaded up into the van around 8:45 in hopes of catching the ferry into downtown Seattle. Its the most amazing thing because it drops you off right in the heartbeat of the city, so it was very fun for those of us who have never seen the city before. Pikes Place to the left and Seahawks stadium to the right (hey no BOOING!) We make our way to city center. There we meet some amazing people who are so happy to have us there to help. Half of us painted a room/office (okay MOSTLY painted the office, only a "LITTLE" on ourselves) for them while the others folded and organized a bunh of donated clothing for the shelter.
After a long days work we were able to make our way down to the Old Speghetti Factory for some wonderful food and amazing fellowship. Once done we headed down to the Mariners stadium to pass out some free hugs, along the way our sprits were filled and we met some special people. WE ended the night back on the ferry to Port Townsend where our wonderful host had warm beds waiting for us! :)

Random facts of the day.
Chase spoted a "mini deer"
Schanoodling... is it in the dictonary?
Lindsay's laugh is wonderful!

my girl

I just wanted to post this pic cause my Jaden rocks!!

Love ya girl
Jonathan <>><

Day Six

So we got up early to get to the jump bridge, having to deal with alot of different things we got to the bridge late but it was all good,

first went Taylor perfect swan dive, then he came up and jumped backwards

Next I jumped, Sweet rush it was amazing I will deffinately be going back the that bridge again.

Next came Chase......Scared he went over the bridge and hung out for a little but finally got up the courage to make the plunge.

After came Ashley, she ran to the bridge then leaped over, when she got to the bottom of the cord she let out a blood curdling scream that will haunt our dreams forever.

Next came Devon fearless he jumped not making a sound but leaping all the way.

The last two were our surprised jumpers Brian and Lindsay both not planning on jumping but both jumping and loving it! So the video will be up when I get back to the church and have time to edit it all up.

More to come...our free hugs at the baseball game.....

Day Seven

Wow it's been a crazy couple of days. We lost two girls and gained two girls. Well Actually we gained an angel (Shanna) and the angel's little helper (Addison)

We got to Tacoma First Church of God and got our assignments and the work they wanted us to do, The lawn was very large and someone was going to mow it....that someone was me and Shanna. The kids really enjoyed helping out and afterwards we played a few games with their group so that was loads of fun.

We ended the day by going to the YMCA to take showers and chill in the hot tub. We're all looking forward to Seattle and The City church.

More to come from Shanna.

Day Five

Day Five
We woke up early to get new song cleaned and head off to Maranatha Church. We got to the service early and it was amazing. The kids really enjoyed the service and they had home cooked food for us after service which was cool.

After lunch we went to a place called dignity village which is a homeless camp, we went with some youth from Maranatha so that was neat to do a joint activity. Sunday night we headed down to Pioneer Square to do some free hugs. It was pretty cool a lot of neat people responded great. We also went down by the waterfront and walked back and forth for awhile giving hugs and those who didn’t hug always had a smile on their faces when they saw what we were doing. It was cool.

Everyone is excited about the jump tomorrow so that should be wonderful.

Pics

Day Four

Day Four
We started off today with a big breakfast at Denny’s Exciting right well it always is with the Reedsport group. We sat down and this guy came on by and starting talking to us so we invited him to sit on down and have breakfast with us. He was cool he spent 23 years in the army and had a lot to say do it was neat to provide him nine people to listen to him even if it was for a short time.

We went to the Saturday market which was cool we all got henna body art (don’t call them Tattoo’s) It was fun then we went to Burnside skate park to pass out sandwiches and water to all the skate kids. They all enjoyed it and some of the homeless people from Friday night came on by to talk with us and get some sandwiches.

We finished off our evening having an amazing prayer and worship time with some of the youth from New Son church, the one were staying at.

The trip is going wonderful God is really touching our hearts and I know we still have some amazing things up ahead.

Day Three

Day Three
Wippie it’s day three, we started off practicing for our big service tonight at city team shelter.

Taylor amazed us all by waking up next to the pink bunny it was cool See pic above.

It was a great day! A little loyd center, little moving junk around the basement of city team. It was awesome to see our kids serving food to all these people and I’m pretty sure they all enjoyed it. The service went pretty good had a few people laughing and a few nodding their heads so it was super cool.

Day two

Day two
We got up way to early like 7:30 ate breakfast took a pic in front of friendly street church. We learned that the Pastor had jumped off the same bridge we are jumping off on Monday so that was fun.

We got to Salem Capitol building and were ready to give some free hugs. When we got there their was a few guys there giving away free massages, weird ha? They were doing more of a protest against regulations for massage therapists, anywaz Valerie got a massage then I started but the guys were really rough and that goodness another lady came up and started asking all these questions so they hooked her up.

Funny thing at the capitol building they have this huge fountain in front, actually it’s water spouting out of the ground but this mantence guy came and put a bunch of bleach in the system then one of the kids decided it would be cool to run through it and get all shaken wet….which one of the kids? Well it was a girl and not Lindsey, Valerie, or Annie……yes it was Ashley, she smelled like bleach all day.

We ended up being able to come to Portland a day early so that rocked, we’ll be here at New Song for three nights, it’s like our little home we took over two rooms and are trying to contain all our activities to those, we got to help them put stickers on water bottles for an event they have coming up so that was great to be able to serve them like that.

Ministry Tour

Day one
Well off to a great start, got the trailer a little late but we got on the road at 1:00 after our traditional stop at the Sev.

We went to Costco to get food for lunch and breakfast’s Shanna suggested I give on of the leaders money to get all the kids ice cream so they wouldn’t all follow me around the store saying “ Get this get this” it worked! You rock hunny!

We got into Springfield found the church then went to dinner at the burrito boy which was fun. I introduced all the kids to my little friend. Mr. Fart box. It was really funny when Valerie stuck her head out of the window because it smelled so bad.

We went to the crossfire service it was a great worship experience and the kids got to see a different kind of service. Over all it was a great day,

Quote of the day is from Taylor Ladd “Is this where the church is, because I’m not caught up on my hobo stab insurance?

Church of God

So I was at this seminar thing in Portland a while back with all these Pastors and people that worked in the Churches. The title of the conference was "Breaking down the walls"

which is cool, Church should be in the community and not hold on to buildings as the body of Christ.

The main speaker was great, a big wig in the salvation Army, an incredible speaker, hey speaking of incredible did any one catch that in the movie The Incredibles when Mr. Incredible was in the space probe thing he had mimosa’s? How funny is that?

Well this Salvation Army guy really brought the point you have to get out in the community to really show God’s love I was like “Ya and?” So that was great

I went to one where this guy who had started a after school program was teaching so I knew it was going to be pretty useful, so he starts talking then stops and asks us all to introduce ourselves with our name, position at the Church, and something that makes us happy, so that’s cool right

First person go’s and the happy thing was like God’s love in our Churches….Ahhhhhh…….how sweet..then

Second guy happy thing the holy spirits work in Churches today…..so was thinking well ya all those things make all of us happy cause we all work at Churches

DuH……..So the girl before me said the thing that makes me happy is I’m pregnant with our first child, everyone claps and is all gushhyyy

So it came to me and I was like in my head (“Play nice....should I cheese it up or not”) well I chose not to go all Pastor on them and I said "My names Jonathan I’m the Associate pastor and what makes me happy is blowing bubbles in my Chocolate milk…………no one said anything…

come on who doesn’t like doing that?......so the speakers looks at me and kinda smiles and says ok….well that’s great…..hey I was just trying to show people that little things could make you happy also….

The point to my story is we don’t have to look at huge things like God’s love or the Holy spirits work in our world those things are wonderful but little things can make you happy to. So please add to my list of things that make you happy!

Bubble in chocolate milk

colored show laces

Dry socks

Crocs

Welcome to the great state between Washington and California

So I’ve lived in California most of my life and except for short stints lived in Washington the next longest….next longest…is that right>?? Well anyway when we moved to Oregon we knew it was going to be different, I want to share a very funny stories with you about something that happened or that we saw here in the great state of Oregon.

It was a clear sunny day to go to the fair in Eugene. Jaden was excited to see the animals and I was excited to ride the swings (my favorite ride) so we get to the big giant dirt lot they call a parking lot and I’m looking for the guy that is going to take way to much of my money to allow me to park my car in this lot. To my surprise there is a big sign FREE PARKING really? Free parking wow that’s great…. was it a trick like some kid that made a sign to me funny…..sounds like something I might have done when I was younger…..who am I kidding I’d probable do it now….so moving on we parked and started to the gate when I saw the most amazing sign that made me almost pee my pants I laughed so hard What? Ya? Ha? Really in a state that is al about the environment and hugging trees and holding your hand no tax never pump your own gas cause it might spill……..they are charging for bike parking and not for car parking? What an amazing state we live in.

Cool Video I did for one of my classes

So I was in this certificate program at Southwestern community college, it was a certificate in Human services. I wanted to learn more about how people in our community can help people that have a less and run into tough times. So one of the classes was called self-awareness. The class was all about how to know your self better so at the end of the class we had a project where we had to present something that showed who we are, some did picture boards some had really long PowerPoint slide shows I chose to do a video with different things in my life that represent me. Here it is I hope you enjoy it. I’m sorry if it is a little long but the assignment presentation needed to be 15 minutes so I did a 9 min video and spoke for a bit.

Me so happy

Hello, I get to go to Disneyland next week isn't that cool? Well I thouhgt it was not very often you get to go to disneyland unless you live in so cal? which I guess would meen you could go anytime you wanted. or not......um.....

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