In this week's installment of the Audio Update, hear a great story concerning Dannon Yogurt as well as discovering fantastic items from the latest edition of the "Hariet Carter" catalogue.  This is another GREAT show that you will not want to miss.

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RIDES--CONCERTS--FUN!
Saturday May 14th
10:00AM-11:30PM
Students Grades 9-12
DEADLINE MAY 8th

Join us as we hang out together at Great America, riding rides, seeing concerts and just plain having fun together as a group.  Our new intern Anna is gong to be there so this is a great way to get to know her.

The featured artists for this year's Spring Celebration include:

John Reuben , Rebecca St. James , Sanctus Real , Steven Curtis Chapman , Supertones

This is probably your last chance to see The Supertones since they are going to disband as a group so you may really want to go.

The cost is $25 for season pass or "Wow Card" holders and $45 for non-season pass holders.

The deadline to sign up is Monday, May 9th.

Download your registration form HERE

 

It was all about BEEF and BOXING as we have an AWESOME night together for Guyz Nite Out.  We learned how to BBQ our own steaks and the were DELICIOUS.  After dinner and a short makeover of Sal, we headed over to the Birch Room for Rumblemania 2005.  It was a blast going at it in the ring.  We took a break to pray for the girls in student ministry as well as those who were on retreat.  There was a time of challenge for the guys to "Be Men of God," and the n we finished it off with some Wrasslin.'  Man that was fun...

CLICK HERE for the Badical Pictures from the night.

What is much more fun than popping your own sheet of bubble wrap.  It seems that bubble wrap is becoming a thing of the past with all of these biodegradable packing peanuts and "air pillows" that companies are suing to ship their items nowadays.  Anyways, here is a great site for you to go to and pop your own sheet of virtual bubblewrap.

Go to: http://www.virtual-bubblewrap.com/popnow.shtml and pop to your hearts desire.

We have hired an intern for this summer.  Her name is Anna Smith and here is a short bio she wrote about herself:

Get inside Scott Helf's leg surgery, learn about Ryan's latest ticket, and more in this week's installment of the Audio Update.  This is another GREAT show that you will not want to miss.

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The Black Mamba Returns for Another GREAT show that features  a call in from Haggas currently on the West Coast portion of his USA tour, an interview with worship minister, Ken McKenzie, and much much more!!!



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The ONE Campaign is a new effort to rally Americans to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. Each ONE of us can make a difference. Together as ONE we can change the world.

We can beat:

• AIDS
• Starvation
• Extreme poverty

ONE billion people live on less than ONE dollar a day.

ONE by ONE, we can help them help themselves.

Sign up to add your voice to support The ONE Campaign Declaration. You will join the growing number of Americans who are getting involved online and in communities across the country to fight global AIDS and poverty through The ONE Campaign.
Go to www.one.org to get more information how you can make a difference.

Do you ever think that you can't or don't know how to make a difference?  I want you to meet Clayton Lillard.  He's 16 and for the past five years he has made a difference in the lives of over 700 kids.
His motto is simple: “If you have the ability to do something for someone else, do it.” The young Texan from San Antonio  rode his way to fame on a bicycle . . . well, more like 700 bicycles.

In 1998 at age 10, Clayton spotted a couple of broken bicycles someone had put out for trash. It would be really great to fix up those bikes and give them to kids who don't have one, he thought. He took them home, gave them new tires and a fresh coat of paint.

Clayton then persuaded a local radio station to announce that he was looking for 25 used bicycles. Other stations and a local newspaper picked up the story, and Clayton and his mom, Vicki, were soon staring at more than 100 bikes in their backyard. Using pizza and soda as bait, Clayton attracted a group of neighborhood kids--now known as “Clayton’s Backyard Crew” with their own Website--to help clean the bikes, replace the tires, and make minor repairs. Cash donations went for new parts, bike helmets, and locks.

Clayton knew someone who was in prison, so he decided to donate the bikes as Christmas gifts to prisoners’ children through Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree® program. “The kids think the bikes are from their incarcerated parent,” says Clayton. “That's OK with me. Just seeing the excitement on their faces as they realize, ‘My Daddy loves me!’ is the best reward.”

On December 23, 1998 , Clayton’s eleventh birthday, he made his first delivery: to a family with eight children living in poverty. As the children joyfully pedaled down the street, Clayton could hear them shouting to their friends. “Their mother was in tears, so grateful that all of them got a present,” he says. He knew there would be no turning back.

“I felt the true meaning of Christmas that year,” he adds. “And I understood how it was better to give than to receive. Kids were asking for socks or their own pillow. A bicycle--something I had always taken for granted-- was a tremendous luxury to them.”

Seven hundred bicycles later and counting, Clayton now relies mostly on Angel Tree volunteers to make the deliveries of the brightly colored bikes, each carefully chosen for the appropriate child.

“This was God's idea,” says Clayton. “He just allowed me to be the instrument that  He used to bring His love to the children.”

I believe that God has set us up in The Zone Student Ministry to be His instrument for change in this world to bring His love to others.  Let's make a difference for others.

HERE ARE THINGS YOU CAN DO IN THE UPCOMING MONTHS TO HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE: