remix is moving to Wed. nights this fall!

yes, it is true! After much praying, eating, sleeping, bible reading, meeting, paint balling, swimming, jumping, and dvr...ing (if that is a word) we have decided to move REMIX our weekly gathering for students to Wednesday nights starting August 13. We are really excited about what this change is going to bring. We really feel like students are connecting and serving each Sunday morning at Grace and that we need a midweek time to build community and take time to focus on rethinking what it means to follow Jesus Christ. So here we go, spread the word and then go on facebook and myspace and look at our latest media release from www.relevantstudents.com to promo the move. yes this video will win an award, we are not sure what award but it will win an award. Well, I leave for vacation this week so look for posts from the beach at www.michaelbayne.net I know I will have some good stories!

last update from NEW Orleans...

Yea, this is it until we get back from New Orleans. Today was just a great day for the team here. By far we found our groove on our VBS site. The kids plugged in and connected with the story today, they went crazy and did some crazy dancing with me playing the guitar, they really opened up in small group and connected with our team. Today was why we are here and on Friday we get to share the gospel with the kids. Many times the kids have asked us why we are here and of course we are here to invest in them. They have never seen this so this is all new. Our goal Friday is to as clearly as we can help them to understand what God did by giving humanity Jesus. Pray for us, it is going to be wild to see what God does. We feel the week was a win since we were able to get this club going and we have a church following us. In or work in the mornings we have been able to clear out 6 overgrown yards! The neighbors have been so thankful. Imagine having to have the house next to your overgrown with weeds, snakes, and bugs? yea, that would stink. It has been great to just serve. Thanks for everyone who prayed for us. We get back Saturday evening and I am ready to see Kelyn and Kozbi! we are headed to our last worship gathering of the week tonight then getting off campus to go get some ice cream, yea...you know how we roll at GCC! We have to get off campus and have some fun.

Will get a recap post up after we get back in town, pray for the team as we share the message of Jesus with the kids in the 7th ward on Friday.

Day 3 from New Orleans

We are over half way through our week here in New Orleans. The team has done an amazing job, just amazing. One thing that we have learned this week is that there are real places in America where people do not know who Jesus Christ is. Yes we are in the middle of an area where kids do not know the message of Jesus. These kids are just trying to work through life on their own. This is the first time in over 3 years any church has tried to do work in this area so imagine how many places there are like that in America. Today in our group none of our 11 kids really had any kind of church they went to. They are learning about Ester and really do not know what a Bible is. As followers of Christ how can we not go, connect, explain, pray, give, serve. I know there are kids just like this in Clarksville. There are families who are generation away from any member of the family being a follower of Christ. While we sit in our churches arguing about worship style, church planting, theology, discipleship, giving, and building projects we are surrounded by people who are separated from God and will be after they die. As followers of Christ we have to rise up and join God on His mission. This is his plan and so many of us are juts watching the days go by. Our team has just learned to look for every opportunity this week. Every one of us can look for a chance to connect with someone who is not a believer...we were made for this mission, to spread the fame of God. Our team is just glad we get to be a small part here in New Orleans.

mission lab update DAY 2

Yes we made it through day 2 of Mission Lab here in New Orleans. Thanks for praying, we saw our VBS site go from 12 kids on day one where we just connected with them to 31 where we got to move through our entire vbs plan and really invest in the kids! It was wild to see 31 kids show up. In our older kid group we had two 8th graders and they were just hungry for connection. Again it was amazing to see our team invest, serve, give their life away. We also had an adventure in southern New Orleans, we are cleaning out lots that are over grown with grass, weeds, trash just to help the neighborhood. Look at these pics. Please keep praying for the team...God is on the move.

day one from Mission lab...

Day one from here in New Orleans was simply wild. Yes...we get to start a new location for a bible club in the 7th ward that has not had any work being done in over 3 years. This experience rings so much of projects I have been involved with in Mexico and Brazil where you start a new work. Thanks for all you who are praying for us, please keep it up. Today we had to change our entire plan. We had a grand total of 0 people show up for the project and the site we were working at was covered in grass. This sounds wild but it was the best thing that could have happened to us. We prayer walked the entire ward and just met people and prayed. We changed our plans and went back that afternoon to try again. By the end of the day we had connect with 12 kids...yes 12 and we are going back on day 2 to see what God does. We are also going to be working with a city park department to do some work in local places that need clean up and STUFF, we will see what that means later. Here are a few pics to help you get the feel of where we are serving...

mission lab...leaves Sunday!

A team of 20 leaders and high school students leaves Sunday for a week of serving in New Orleans Sunday at 7 AM, yes, one week to give our lives away and serve others. Yes I know it does not sound fun to serve other people but this is what we were made for, this was God's plan. His hope is that we will see hurt and bring healing in a dark place. This week we will be updating our blog with some pics each day and some thoughts from New Orleans. This will be the week where we put the summer pickle to REST (if you went to Bigstuf or Student Life you know what we are talking about) We are praying God will use us to make a difference, to think His thoughts, to serve His way, to love the way He has made us to love. It will be incredible to see what God does and you get a front row seat here on the relevant blog and at michaelbayne.net.

Well it is official, we have some big news about remix, but it is on the way. We are excited about the fall. We will be releasing the fall schedule for remix very soon. It is going to be a great fall.