It's common knowledge that the girl scouts sell awesome cookies: samoas (except they have a new name now??), peanut butter sandwiches, and other sugary sweets. And though I try to remain faithful to the girls who have supplied me with the best cookies money can buy, there's been some competition. That's right, the freshmen class, affectionately called "Frontline", will be holding a bake sale to raise money for 40DTD THIS FRIDAY.

So resist the temptation to buy any sweets from other vendors! In fact, hold off from buying any sweets AT ALL until Friday. Consider Friday the day you can go wild and buy to your heart's content. Buy it for yourself, buy it for your friends, buy it for the fatty squirrels that aren't afraid of humans.

Bottom line: buy cookies! (and tell your friends too! btw, wouldn't it be great to share your experience with God and our church over a cookie with your friend?)

Where: the Black tables outside of Angell Hall Auditorium A

During this 40DTD campaign, it's been awesome reading scripture alongside the entire church, blogging about it (http://destinycampaign.blogspot.com/), and praying altogether on a daily basis to see where God is moving our church.

Something that has caught my eye are the undergrads. Emails are flying, ideas are brewing and change is appearing. Literally. The classes have recently launched a "Pennies War" to help raise money for the campaign. Word on the street is, Tempo (sophomores) is kicking major butt with a heavy carton of change. But then again, i saw some bills in the Roots (seniors) carton sooo...you never know.

Regardless, it's great seeing the entire church respond to God on so many different levels. From prayer to pennies, i'm constantly reminded that God cares about the "little things" just as much as the big. I can honestly say that the church's united effort has increased my excitement for what God has planned for us with each new day.

Dorm Storm? Didn't we have that 6 months ago? Did it even accomplish anything?

At the beginning of the school year we invaded the different dorms on campus holding various events (game nights, ice cream socials, etc) to reach out to the students on campus. Each night we met hundreds of people, gave out free slices of pizza, played wii until our arms fell off, scooped ice cream even after the ice cream sundaes turned into ice cream soup, and talked with A LOT of different people. At the end of each night I'd walk away feeling excited that the harvest was plentiful, but a bit uncertain, wondering if our efforts would amount to anything at all.

T-3days until our Central small group Praise Night!

I'm excited to see how this year's praise nights will turn out. ANDDD it's great to see that i'm not the only one!

Check out our Facebook event to see pictures, videos, and comments. ALSOO in all its stalking glory, look at the "guest list" and make sure your friends are going too!

http://umichigan.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7028888079

This Saturday night Intertwined, Milestone, and TNL partnered together to bless the church by cleaning up Yost. We arrived at 9:20pm and caught the last 15 minutes of the UM vs BGSU hockey game. It was SO exciting! Fans packed the arena and akin to our football games, the entire crowd performed crazy traditions like putting their hands to their heads and acting like bobbleheads. (...yeah I have no idea why they did that)

With the leaves changing and Starbucks cups already in holiday mode, it could only mean one thing...Thanksgiving!!

In light of this, my small group (Intertwined) is teaming up with our sister small group (Milestone) to reach out to South Quad with a thanksgiving dinner! Things are going full speed as we're preparing shopping lists, care packages, and games for the night. More than the succulent turkey and warm stuffing, we're hoping that people will be blown away by the community we've been forming this year and will want to come out to small group as a result!