
What’s Youth Sunday without a music video?
Or even better, a blooper reel?

What’s Youth Sunday without a music video?
Or even better, a blooper reel?

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This is taking the “I do what Jesus does” to a whole, new level…
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Here is the link for the Flower City Work Camp Video I created telling of our amazing week:
Here are some of facts / statistics from this years Flower City Work Camp:
- Over 65 churches from all different denominations
- Over 650 students from across Rochester city gave up their Spring Break to serve others
- 53 houses renovated, all of which hung a sign to say it was because of the love of Jesus
- 1,000 kids came to participate at the sidewalk clubs over the course of the week!
- Close to 200 kids made first time commitments to Christ!
- Calvary Assembly had 15 kids, over 15 adults, plus parents, from our church which was a HUGE first year response!

As I shared at church on Sunday morning, my personal favorite part was seeing the balance between serving others, while also learning and growing individually. The FCWC experience is holistic: serving and discipleship. Our night sessions and “cabin time talks” were some of the best I’ve had with the students here.
I also wrote more about FCWC in another post before the week if you would like to find out more.

Here is another great highlight video made by someone else:
Praise be to God for being active in our city!

“At the heart of the historical Jesus story is the provocative, compelling, subversive, beautiful insistence that nothing can ever be the same again, not after resurrection.”
This is different.
I like it.
WDYT?

Diane Birch has been selected as this week’s featured Music Monday post based entirely on this creative music video.
Diane has a very interesting journey, traveling as a missionary’s kid through Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Australia with her father, a Seventh Day Adventist preacher. She grew up never listening to pop music, as her parents did not allow her listen to any secular music, but left home when she was old enough and headed for L.A. Even though it seems that 99% of people who leave home for a big music city fall flat on their face, Diane Birch has received critical acclaim from the Huffington Post, NPR (you can stream her live performance at a favorite venue of mine: The World Cafe in Philly), and Rolling Stone Paper Magazine. Diane’s release of her album, Bible Belt, also landed her on Conan and Craig Ferguson, and her quirky pop is gaining a substantial fan base. You can find out more about Birch here or head to her website to hear more of her music.
What do you think of the video? Were you as happy as me when you found out this wasn’t just a big video-editing project, but was actually coordinated like a complex dance piece?
Hat tip to my friend Steve for finding this.
