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Youth Sunday 2009

by Ashley on Dec.03, 2009, under Ashley Bingle

You may remember from my 2006 post that our church has special services that are led by the middle and high schoolers of the church. I have been involved with these services as they changed over the years and my role in them has similarly changed. I eventually gave up trying to race up and down the stairs so that I could help Dad in the tech booth between singing and was eventually given the task of leading the hymns by myself. Last year it seemed like I was singing for practically the entire service what with at least two hymns and two praise songs, the offeratory, and the closing song. I have never had a speaking role before, because I was so busy singing, but this year all that changed. Amber ended up leading the hymns and I didn’t have to sing any of the songs. This is because I delivered the sermon.

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Due to our transition to a new senior pastor, the Stewardship season was pushed back and extended from what it normally is, so it slightly interfered with our normally scheduled Youth Sunday service. We also tried to keep more loyal to our regular services at each time, 8:15 classic, 9:30 praise, and 11:00 blended services, by including more and less hymns for the first two services respectively.

I also got to preach my sermon (Generosity) on the Thursday prior to the youth run service as practice, though our new pastor usually does a different sermon on Thursday than on Sunday. I suppose my sermons were different too, mostly because I messed up differently each time. Grandma and Grandpa made it in time for the last service after they went to the early service at their church.

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Mom and Dad videotaped so we have all four versions of the sermon, including versions from the tech booth upstairs for the Sunday versions, plus one video from church and an audio recording. To hear it for yourself, click here. If you’d rather read it, click here.

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The Song of Jenny Lake

by Ashley on Aug.02, 2009, under Ashley Bingle

Just sit right back & you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip
They started from String Lake trailhead and returned at quite a clip.
The path was long and treacherous, with trees down and the like.
Five Bingles they set out that day for a three hour hike,
A three hour hike

The path it started getting rough, the ground was filled with frost,
If they were not back by sunset then
The Bingles would be lost,
The Bingles would be lost.

The trip’s two hours longer than how long that it should take
With little water,
Not much food,
Rich Bingle and Karen, his wife,
Plus Alyssa,
Amber and Ashley,

Here at Jenny Lake.

So this is the tale of the Bingles as they hike for a long, long time,
They’ll have to make the best of things, it’s an uphill climb.
So Ashley and Alyssa too, will do their very best,
To hurry back ASAP, no time to take a rest.

No coats! No guides! No cell coverage, not one bit comforting,
Out in the middle of the wilderness, as primitive as can be.
Stuck on one side away from help, no boat for them to take,
The lonely, stranded Bingles, here at Jenny Lake!

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Ashley’s Florida Christmas Songs

by Ashley on Dec.25, 2008, under Ashley Bingle

I’m dreaming of a green Christmas,
With lots of palms and grass to mow,
Where the treetops bristle,
and children whistle,
Until I say they’ve gotta go

I’m dreaming of a green Christmas,
Not like the Christmas cards I’ve seen.
May your days be quite peachy keen,
And may all your Christmases be green.

I’m dreaming of a green Christmas,
Not like the Christmas cards I’ve seen.
May your days be quite peachy keen,
And may all your Christmases be green.

 

Oh the temperature is frightful,
But the pool is so delightful,
And since we will have no snow,
Let It Grow! Let It Grow! Let It Grow!

The rain doesn’t show signs of stopping,
Just keeps on drip-drip-dropping,
It does the grass good you know,
Let It Grow! Let It Grow! Let It Grow!

Oh the weatherman gives us a fright!
The sun makes this day really warm!
Though the breeze makes us all delight,
Watch out not to get caught in a storm!

Oh the rain, it is slowly dying,
And, oh dear, the grass is trying,
But as long as we shall not mow,
Let It Grow! Let It Grow! Let It Grow!

 
 
Merry Christmas!
-Ashley

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