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Sonlight Mission Trip Updates

tallohood — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:43:59 +0000

For updates on the Sonlight (Tallowood’s high school choir) Mission Trip to San Diego, check out tallowoodtalking.com.

Camp Tallowood 2010 Flashmob

tallohood — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:13:12 +0000

On May 16th at the Camp Rally in the Tallowood gym, about 50 students spontaneously did this:

Are you ready for camp? I know I am!

-Micah

www.tallowood.org/students

tallohood — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:53:51 +0000

We are working hard to keep our online presence up to date so I have been trying to make this site (www.tallohood.com, no longer www.tallohoodtoday.com) interesting. I don’t always make that happen consistently, but I’m doing my best. Usually after a big event, like SPARK, we have lots to say. Other times things are a little slow and I don’t have much to write about. Anyway, I have recently updated the header image and done a few other small changes. Hope you notice the changes.

Another thing I’ve been working on is the “official” students page on www.tallowood.org. I am very excited to say that you can now DIRECTLY access the Tallowood student ministry web page by simply going to www.tallowood.org/students. This is the place to go for all the latest news and info for upcoming events, so be sure to check it out. And you can always come here to see videos from past events and occassional thoughts from your student ministry staff.

I hope you enjoy it!

-Micah

SPARK 2010 Video

tallohood — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:00:19 +0000

Check it out. Good times!

-Micah

SPARK 2010 Pics

tallohood — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:45:44 +0000

Check out the Tallowood Student Ministry Picture Site for pics of SPARK! It should be worth your while.

-Micah

SPARK 2010

tallohood — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:01:26 +0000

8th graders after their shaving cream war!

We had an awesome weekend these past few days during SPARK. Check out tallowoodtalking.com for more details from the view of Karen Harrell, who hosted one of our 6th grade girl homes! Links to her two blog entries are below:

Friday reflection

Saturday reflection

-Micah

Xpress and Abby Tracy Reflection

tallohood — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:31:12 +0000

We had such a great time at Xpress last Friday night. Thank you so much to all of our students who brought artwork and poetry and shared presentations! It was amazing to see so many unique and creative xpressions of singing and tumbling and violin and piano and guitar and dulce de leche cheesecake squares and…well, you get the idea!

We also loved hearing a few minutes from Abby Tracy and to see the faces of many of the boys that she loves and rescues from the streets of Kampala, Uganda.

We were grateful for Abby sharing the entire weekend with us to learn more about how God brought her to love on street kids, the miraculous ways God has worked to expand the ministry in the past year, and also to hear the dreams and visions for the future! She is saving money to buy a plot of land and build a new home out in a village so that boys can truly get a fresh start away from the influence of the slums. Won’t it be amazing to see how God could use the people at Tallowood to help this vision become a reality?

You can continue to help Abby and be a part of her ministry in the following ways:

1) Pray for her and the boys at the Ssenge home, the Kivulu home, and the boys and girls still on the streets. Also pray that she will be able to expand the ministry by building another home and starting a ministry to girls. Check out her blog at http://africa-love.livejournal.com to learn more.

2) Give money to help meet monthly expenses and expand the ministry!

3) Sell bracelets and necklaces which raises funds for the ministry AND keeps several young men off the streets who make the jewelry!

4) Plan a short-term trip to go to Uganda to love on street kids!

-Rebecca

Abby Tracy is coming back!

tallohood — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:54:23 +0000

Sunday Evening, January 24^th, 2010

”I am addicted to working with street children. Completely addicted.” -Abby Tracy

Sunday evening, February 22, 2009, Abby Tracy spoke in our evening worship service, at the conclusion of the Spark weekend. That night, she captured our hearts with her passion for God and her tenacious commitment for rescuing homeless street kids from the dangerous streets of Kampala, Uganda. It has been almost a year since she has been with us and she is coming back to give us an update on what God has been doing on the streets of Kampala to rescue the homeless and provide a way of escape from darkness, both physically and spiritually. Let’s pack out the Tallowood worship center Sunday evening, January 24th, to worship the Lord and to hear from Abby. She will be sharing stories and pictures of children that have been rescued for eternity and ushered into the Kingdom of Light.

Abby will also be here Friday, January 22^nd for Xpress. Xpress this year will provide opportunity for our young people to share the love of Christ through a variety of creative ways. The evening will spotlight Abby’s ministry and the opportunity to give, so that other street kids may be rescued. Bring your families and come be a part of this night together. We are asking that each person attending bring a minimum $5 donation for Abby Tracy.

Sunday morning, January 24^th, Abby will speak to the Tallowood youth group at 10:15 am, in the chapel, sharing her life story and the reason she is in Kampala. This will be youth Sunday School that morning. Parents of youth are invited to come.

For more information about Abby and her ministry, please check out the following websites.

www.africa-love.livejournal.com

http://www.abbytracy.com

-Jerome

Christmas in the Xchange

tallohood — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:06:46 +0000

This Wednesday our students gathered together in the Xchange for our annual Christmas celebration. It was a really fun night with both middle school and high school students. Fortunately, it was cold outside so our students were able to get in the Christmas mood with some hot chocolate, apple cider, and lots of Christmas snacks! One of the Christmas classics, Elf, was on the big screen while students decorated the tree and hung out in the Xchange.

Once everyone had a cup of cocoa, everyone participated in a Gingerbread House Decorating Contest. We had one house for every grade (6^th – 12th) and lots of candy and icing. We gave everyone 25 minutes and let them go to town decorating gingerbread houses that will be on display during Christmas at Tallowood in a few weeks.

Overall, each grade had some really creative houses, but the winning house was the seniors’ house (which had a little help from some battery operated lights – some cried cheating, but I say it is just the senior advantage!) It was really cool to see what they came up with.

After everyone got cleaned up, we met around the Christmas tree and sang Christmas carols and read scripture. We ended the night with a challenge from Rebecca to let our light shine to those around us, especially around the holidays.

It was a really fun night. Now if only I could have eaten one of those gingerbread houses…

-Micah

Passion 2010 is coming!!!

tallohood — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:54:51 +0000

I am so excited because last night our youth staff spent a few hours with some adult leaders for Passion 2010 which will be held in Atlanta right after the holidays. Passion is a ministry for college students led by Louie Giglio that has seen God do some pretty amazing things through them. Passion has organized and hosted different kinds of gatherings in the past 20 years or so including OneDay, the Passion Conference, and the Passion World Tour.

This year, well technically next year, Passion is hosting Passion 2010, a four day conference (January 2-5, 2010) to gather college students from around the world in worship and prayer, instilling in them a passion for God and a desire to live all of life for His Glory. This will be an amazing few days as students experience huge worship gatherings with as many as 20,000 people and then more intimate community and family groups that are as small as 8 people. There will be some pretty amazing pastors and worship leaders too (Andy Stanley, Francis Chan, Beth Moore, David Crowder Band, Hillsong United, Chris Tomlin, Kristian Stanfill, and lots of others).

It is pretty exciting to be a part of all of this and to see how God is moving. Jerome has recruited some amazing people to serve together at this conference as community group lead hosts and it will be great to reconnect with some old friends I haven’t seen in a while. Laura and I are pumped to be able to serve at Passion together and to be able to recruit some old friends of our own too – we have some friends coming to Atlanta from LA to be a part of our community group team. I can’t wait to serve all those college students with them!

Anyway, registration closes soon, so if you are a college aged student, get on it and go register NOW!

If you want to know a bit more, check out their promo video, below.

-Micah