To all my faithful readers:
Just a quick YN update. We are still having the Fun Run and the Celebration at the Meridian from 8p to 1am. However, the Space Fest Education Day is going to be rescheduled. Stay tuned for more info about that. As part of that, the Art Contest will also be rescheduled.
Thanks for checking my blog!
Please go here for more Yuri's Night info (and link to purchase tix): http://yurisnighthouston.net/
Monday, March 30, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
I'm running a Space Art Contest!
Hey!
Do you know any kids in grades K-8? Do you live in the greater Houston area? There is a space art contest underway!
Yuri's Night is an annual celebration of space.
Houston has a 3-part Yuri's Night celebration. There is a Charity 5k Fun Run / Walk, a SpaceFest Education Event, and a Celebration to finish off the evening.
This year, Houston is celebrating Yuri's Night on April 4th instead of April 12 due to the MS-150 and Easter.
One aspect of the SpaceFest Education Event is The Future of Space Art Contest for kids in grades K-8.
The Future of Space Art Contest is designed to spark public interest in the future of space with artwork inspired by Human Spaceflight. Click here for Rules and Participant Entry Form. Prizes will be awarded to the top 2 artists in each category: K-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8. Artwork must be received no later than March 31, 2008 at this address:
SpaceFest 2009 Art Contest
c/o Bridget Jones
13100 Space Center Blvd, Mailcode HB1-30
Houston, TX 77059
If you have any questions, feel free to email us at YNHouston.Art@gmail.com
Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009
Time: 11:00am - 4:00pm
Location: Rice Stadium
Street: 2176 University Blvd. Houston, TX
Other places for YN Info:
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Clear Creek Celebration!
Here are my notes from the Clear Creek Celebration last night.
What do we celebrate? We celebrate progress, commitment, sacrifices of character. We don't have to be told to celebrate when we see things being done the way they "ought to" be done.
Attendance:
Average attendance:
EB CS
2008 3111 572
2009 3480 4??
Community = 20,000+
Sunday crowd = 2000
Attenders = 3000
Committed = 1400
Core = 500
Healthy balance of servers to attenders.
Clear Springs campus won't grow without personal invitations and relationships. Our life is a circle of responsibility. It is providential who you have proximity to. Need to be proactive about Conversations and Invitations.
Goal = 1000 in attendance at Clear Springs by March 2010. We all own that, not just Clear Springs. We all need to invite people we know all over the Bay Area. We are one church in two locations.
Groups:
We can't be the church to you if you're not in a group. Community is the best atmosphere for making disciples. We do that by using the "7 G's" (Glorify, Grace, Growth, Group, Good Stewardship, Gifts, Go). In a group you are naturally challenged to move from consumer to contributor. Do you have those "2am friends?" Be a Paul / Barnabas (pouring into people, challenging them to grow).
1422 Adults in group
222 Navigators (group leaders)
Goal = 250 Navigators by March 2010.
Helping people in need:
IKE Assist : IKE came and YOU assisted.
We helped 100+ families last year with $82,000 through our People In Need Fund.
Church planters used $131,000
Goal = 100% of groups serving outside the church.
Volunteers:
884 committed volunteers on Sundays and Wednesdays.
Goal = 2400 by March 2010
What's next?
Move into our new kids building by Aug 2009
Aug 2010 - Start a third campus
If you think that's too big of a goal "what are we going to do with our lives?!?" We need to resist the tendency to "get comfortable." Take a risk, be uncomfortable, be daring.
Bruce concluded by reading "I stand by the door." I loved it, so I will post it here for you to read.
Thanks for taking the time to read this post!
I Stand at the Door
What do we celebrate? We celebrate progress, commitment, sacrifices of character. We don't have to be told to celebrate when we see things being done the way they "ought to" be done.
Attendance:
Average attendance:
EB CS
2008 3111 572
2009 3480 4??
Community = 20,000+
Sunday crowd = 2000
Attenders = 3000
Committed = 1400
Core = 500
Healthy balance of servers to attenders.
Clear Springs campus won't grow without personal invitations and relationships. Our life is a circle of responsibility. It is providential who you have proximity to. Need to be proactive about Conversations and Invitations.
Goal = 1000 in attendance at Clear Springs by March 2010. We all own that, not just Clear Springs. We all need to invite people we know all over the Bay Area. We are one church in two locations.
Groups:
We can't be the church to you if you're not in a group. Community is the best atmosphere for making disciples. We do that by using the "7 G's" (Glorify, Grace, Growth, Group, Good Stewardship, Gifts, Go). In a group you are naturally challenged to move from consumer to contributor. Do you have those "2am friends?" Be a Paul / Barnabas (pouring into people, challenging them to grow).
1422 Adults in group
222 Navigators (group leaders)
Goal = 250 Navigators by March 2010.
Helping people in need:
IKE Assist : IKE came and YOU assisted.
We helped 100+ families last year with $82,000 through our People In Need Fund.
Church planters used $131,000
- Ukraine
- Cuba
Goal = 100% of groups serving outside the church.
Volunteers:
884 committed volunteers on Sundays and Wednesdays.
Goal = 2400 by March 2010
What's next?
Move into our new kids building by Aug 2009
Aug 2010 - Start a third campus
If you think that's too big of a goal "what are we going to do with our lives?!?" We need to resist the tendency to "get comfortable." Take a risk, be uncomfortable, be daring.
Bruce concluded by reading "I stand by the door." I loved it, so I will post it here for you to read.
Thanks for taking the time to read this post!
I Stand at the Door
By Sam Shoemaker (from the Oxford Group)
I stand by the door.
I neither go to far in, nor stay to far out.
The door is the most important door in the world -
It is the door through which men walk when they find God.
There is no use my going way inside and staying there,
When so many are still outside and they, as much as I,
Crave to know where the door is.
And all that so many ever find
Is only the wall where the door ought to be.
They creep along the wall like blind men,
With outstretched, groping hands,
Feeling for a door, knowing there must be a door,
Yet they never find it.
So I stand by the door.
The most tremendous thing in the world
Is for men to find that door - the door to God.
The most important thing that any man can do
Is to take hold of one of those blind, groping hands
And put it on the latch - the latch that only clicks
And opens to the man's own touch.
Men die outside the door, as starving beggars die
On cold nights in cruel cities in the dead of winter.
Die for want of what is within their grasp.
They live on the other side of it - live because they have not found it.
Nothing else matters compared to helping them find it,
And open it, and walk in, and find Him.
So I stand by the door.
Go in great saints; go all the way in -
Go way down into the cavernous cellars,
And way up into the spacious attics.
It is a vast, roomy house, this house where God is.
Go into the deepest of hidden casements,
Of withdrawal, of silence, of sainthood.
Some must inhabit those inner rooms
And know the depths and heights of God,
And call outside to the rest of us how wonderful it is.
Sometimes I take a deeper look in.
Sometimes venture in a little farther,
But my place seems closer to the opening.
So I stand by the door.
There is another reason why I stand there.
Some people get part way in and become afraid
Lest God and the zeal of His house devour them;
For God is so very great and asks all of us.
And these people feel a cosmic claustrophobia
And want to get out. 'Let me out!' they cry.
And the people way inside only terrify them more.
Somebody must be by the door to tell them that they are spoiled.
For the old life, they have seen too much:
One taste of God and nothing but God will do any more.
Somebody must be watching for the frightened
Who seek to sneak out just where they came in,
To tell them how much better it is inside.
The people too far in do not see how near these are
To leaving - preoccupied with the wonder of it all.
Somebody must watch for those who have entered the door
But would like to run away. So for them too,
I stand by the door.
I admire the people who go way in.
But I wish they would not forget how it was
Before they got in. Then they would be able to help
The people who have not yet even found the door.
Or the people who want to run away again from God.
You can go in too deeply and stay in too long
And forget the people outside the door.
As for me, I shall take my old accustomed place,
Near enough to God to hear Him and know He is there,
But not so far from men as not to hear them,
And remember they are there too.
Where? Outside the door -
Thousands of them. Millions of them.
But - more important for me -
One of them, two of them, ten of them.
Whose hands I am intended to put on the latch.
So I shall stand by the door and wait
For those who seek it.
'I had rather be a door-keeper
So I stand by the door.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The Power of Support
I had the honor of attending the Superior Achievement and Recognition Award (SARA) ceremony with a friend from United Space Alliance last night in Galveston, TX. The accolades and accomplishments of the selected winners were quite impressive! I wanted to share one highlight of the evening with you. The keynote speech was given by Shuttle Program Manager John Shannon who reminded all the SARA recipients to thank their spouses. Without support at home, we would be so much less likely to do the amazing things we do. He shared the story that his wife went home to visit her family and ran into her high school boyfriend who is a restaurant manager. Shannon commented, "It's a noble profession. We need those! But then I got cocky." He proceeded to ask his wife, "Aren't you glad you married me? I'm the Shuttle Program Manager!" To which she responded, unblinking, "Well, honey, if I would have married him... he would be the Space Shuttle Program Manager!"
So, to my dear family and friends who have pushed me to pursue my dreams of working in the space program: Thank you! I wouldn't be here without your continued support!
So, to my dear family and friends who have pushed me to pursue my dreams of working in the space program: Thank you! I wouldn't be here without your continued support!
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