The Youth Unite: Jen Jen

Jen Jen Jen Jen Jen Jen Jen. Has a nice ring to it huh. And not ony does it have a nice ring but it is the next contestant on "Who's that youth group girl who is actually graduated and has left us for a college right in the middle of our year?" Alright our first clue is that she's a girl. Your second clue is that she is the daughter of the Jensens and a sister of Deanna who was featured long before. Give up? It's Jen Jen. Jen Jen is a 19 year old girl in love with Christ. With today's day and age Jen Jen has been improved and now comes equipped with a Josh, (bf i think). Jen Jen spent her younger days in our youth group being an inspiration for all. She is allergic to a million and one things and takes a habit of stabbing herself with insulin before every meal. YUM!!! Jen Jen can be seen taking several vacations to a certain island called Turltle Isle where the turtles live and so does Jen. Jen now spends most her time hanging with her books staying up till the early hour of the morning and still acing all her classes. Although she runs on nothing at all and is completely crashed by the end of the school year she moves on and does more work than she can handle. She is one of the rare Molly handlers out there and probably one of the best.

Jen has a lot more to her than just small children and tall red-headed guys. She's beautiful. But that's not what I'm getting at. Jen has a HUGE heart and a passion for God. She holds her standards high for dating (although not high as they used to be) and strictly follows the Lord in every step. She is a great encouragement and a giant inspiration for anybody. She knows God's Word better than most people I know memorizing whole chapters at a time. She follows his Word carefully and takes careful consideration into every aspect of her life. She truly follows the Lord in every way and loves Him. She's encouraging to others and faithful to all and loving to anybody. She is awesome.

The Youth Unite: Amy

Trombonin’ it up is our friend Amy. Amy is our musically talented friend. She has playing Trombone for a long time and has become a great scholar at it. Not only does she scholar at Trombone but she is a scholar period. She has an amazing education surpassing many. She has only been at our church for about a couple of years but we have enjoyed her presence the entire time. She became a Christian actually at our church and has been a great encouragement and enlightenment. She has so much fire for God. She has a strong relationship with God and follows His Word very carefully. Strong in her faith she lives up to it in her school as well. She is a public schooler and therefore part of the minority. And yet there is no wary or tripping in her faith, she remains strong. She brings a light mood to any event we hold and she is most enjoyable at all events. She is a prayer warrior and a great leader. Everyone give it up for Amy.

The Youth Unite: Mafoo

Mafoo. Which derives from the term Mathew, which is Mafoo's real name. Mafoo is the most eccentric character we have at youth groups. He has quite the character actually. Alas he as moved from us though. While he was with us though he blessed us with a midget type character with a exaggerated emotions and loud shrieking Scatter ball war cries. He is fast and bare footed. He moves like a mongoose and looks like a porcupine. Except he has grown his hair out now and looks more like a dog than a porcupine. This wide-eyed dwarf now lives far away but remains in our family. He couldn't do it without us. Mafoo is an accomplished claymation artist. Actually he's got WAAAAY too much time on his hands. But at least he does neat things with it. He makes neat awesome art as well. In fact you can view some of his art on YouTube, that is if you can find it. Mafoo is also a master at killing the dude. Being mostly creative he can kill the dude or defend the dude with quick precision. Mafoo is gullible beyond all extents believing every word that he hears. If you were to tell him he was a chicken yesterday, he would believe you. Mafoo can scale tall buildings, but it takes him a couple of days. He has to get all the equipment and then do lots of stuff and camping out. Eventually he makes it there. Well, I can’t really describe Mafoo in any other way, so if you want to know more just talk to him yourself. Ciao.

The Youth Unite: Jazz

Jasmine is the princess of Aladdin’s world and this Jasmine is the princess of Joe’s world. She is truly a princess as well. She comes from a fun loving family that consists of a lot of strange people. Jasmine herself though, not so strange. Very cool actually. First of all she wears Converse. What else could you actually want from a girl. Then she is very pretty. Long golden lochs of hair fill her head making her very beautiful. She is a quiet person though. She doesn’t speak up too much though, and she doesn’t participate in games too much, but she enjoys scatter ball which is all we ask of her. Don’t think she is a push over though, you anger her and she will come back at you like a chimpanzee. WACHAWOO!!! Otherwise she is a calm person keeping to herself most times. Wow, I’m really not sure what else to say about Jazz, if you have suggestions, give me a comment or two. Gracias y ciao.

The Youth Unite: Joe

And now we can finally return to our previously scheduled program: the Youth Unite. Today's special guess, and he is quite the special one, the last of the Abbate siblings, it's Joe. Joe is a small unmeaningful child full of creepy gooey things. I don't know the name of them. It has been known that Joe has an obsession with Elmo the sesame street character. What isn't probably known is that his obsession has gone far enough to actually kidnap the character and is hiding him in a small puppet ring around his waist. Joe is compulsive and scary at most times and he has known to lash out with a pop in the face. The only known weakness of Joe's is a pie. Joe loves pie. His favorite flavor: pie flavored pie. A simple pie in the face will take Joe off of his feet and render him absolutely helpless. Because of Joe's smallness he can creep up on the most unspuspecting victims and squeeze the bajongers out of them. Believe me, I am a victim. He seems to appreciate the fuzzy sweater vest as a nice resting area. BEWARE: DO NOT WEAR FUZZY SWEATER VESTS AROUD JOE. Joe definately has some resemblences to his brother. In that they are both very, very loud. Impossibly loud actually. And very random. Joe also can eat anything he wants too and lots of it. He has a black hole for a stomach and just consumes things by the table. And when it does come to food he becomes extremely territorial. Beware stealing food from Joe as well. The thing that Joe probably hates the most which is the one thing that seperates him from the rest of youth group is that he hate POTO.

Alright can you say LOL. Because I was actually just having a lot of fun with that. Actually Joe is not really like that. That would be Joe in the extreme sense. It's true he likes Elmo, but he's not filled with creepy gooey things or anything like that. Actually, Joe is a very fun person to be around. He makes games much more lively. How me might be competitive, he comptetes well and is a great athlete. He is also very considerate of prayer as well. You can tell he will be a person who will grow up with a strong relationship with God. He's also considerate of other people a lot. He would never let anybody be left out of the loop. A great friend. And a good hugger. I can now safely say I have given you the REAL Joe.

The Youth Unite: Jordan

Welcome to the most delicious blog of your life. I want to introduce you to Jordan. Jordan is the best food in the world. It is especially good to put him on pizza. Luckily for us we have a stash of Jordan sitting in our youth group and we keep him growing quite nicely. In fact, the best pizza ever cooked was recorded to have some Jordan on it. Besides being a good pizza topping Jordan is also a rabbid pianist, and an amazing bunny rabbit. He can play very many good songs to dance too including the best one in the world. POTO!! Jordan has a problem with keeping secrets though. Often I find that he knows things about me that I don't. This results in about a half an hour or so of wrestling only to be disappointed for a bit longer. Needless to say, I still always win and come out on top. Jordan is also the smartest boy in the universe. At least that is what he thinks. That's actually not really true, but don't tell him that.

And that would be Jordan for you. Anybody want pizza?

The Youth Unite: Mac

Mac's actual name is Makela and she is the cool outcast that you see in the hallway. And I don't say outcast meaning unsocial, I mean it as in she is different from other people in a very obvious way. If you were to attend my youth group you would be able to snatch her out of the crowd immediately due to the fact of her hair color. It's always changing. Lately it has been a neon orange color, easily distiguishable. Does this happen to sound familiar? For those of you following along with the Youth Unite series you may see similarities between Mac and Lizz, and this is for a good reason. In fact, the same reason that Mac is the biography right after Lizz. Lizz and Mac share more than just hair styles, they share nearly everything in taste and are best friends. Mac is the other hard core rocker chick you will see playing at some huge concert in downtown Detroit. She is a musician (from what I hear) and a dancer by what I see. She seems to be vegitarian and a tree hugger of the sorts. If there is a tree, it doesn't go unloved by Mac. It is her destiny to marry a flower when she is older. It seems she isn't ready for mairrage right now though. Another one of her vast loves is for Batman and converse. Amazing isn't it. She is the owner of one of the few knee high converse I have ever seen. Talk about jealousy.

I can safely say that there are a couple of very intriguing characteristics about Mac though that blow my mind. First of all she is another lover of the Phantom and she can ACTUALLY sing as high as Christine. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? It is awestriking. She can hit the highest note I think I've ever heard and ever will hear. Another amazing thing is that Mac has gone through so much drama in her life right now, most of which I probably shouldn't post for the world. And Mac is still found to be a happy butterfly every day. She is always in a bright mood, no matter what is going on. You can see that God is comforting her and leading her through her life. She is one of the strongest girls I know because of that. And for that, I tip my hat to you fine lady.

The Youth Unite: Lizz

If I am to tell you the story of Kody it would only make sense to tell you the story of Lizz. Just in case you were asleep for the last post about Kody, these two teddy bears are dating at the moment. In fact that is how we came to know about Kody and how he joined the family. Actually if you have read the biography of Toby you would be happy to know that these two are siblings. They seem to have an indifferent relationship. Anyways, Lizz is an oddball all to herself. She has quite the accent in her speak, in which she finds it impossible to ennunciate most things. You almost have to speak the language to understand it. Lizz dresses like a mad woman as well. If the patterns and colors are complete opposites then thats perfect to wear for her. She is the icon rocker you will hear about when you are 34 years old reading your newspaper and seeing the upcoming bands. She acts like a puppy very innocent, however we have suspicions to believe that she may be quite viscious when provoked. She is amused by the simplist things and you can often find her pullinjg a piece of string for enjoyment for hours. Her goal in life is to appear as cute as possible. Lizz is always happy. In fact, we have diagnosed with a psychological disorder called Mania. Lizz has also been known as a blueberry due to her crazy hair colors. Its almost rainbow colored. A punkish girl no doubt.

Lizz is one of the more interesting characters in youth group, but she is an encouragement too. She is faithful, and very outgoing. She loves all and hates none which is a testimony in itself. She has brought more family into our midst which is something to be praised and she is a good friend to those around her. Maybe following her clothing and hair choices aren't something to be admired, (although that has got some character as well) following her personality towards other people is a great example to live by. (I hope that all made sense. Its hard to do when you're describing Lizz)

The Youth Unite: Kody

Our newest edition to the YG (and one of my new best friends) would be Kody. Kody, surprisingly, fits in perfeclty with the rest of us here at YG. He has strange qualitites and a fun personality. Kody first joined our YG by his infatuation wih Lizz, another interesting character not yet described for blogspot readers. Luckily Kody has found more than just her here in our family. Kody has more funny things circling him too. Kody has a strange wanting to be a girl. In his online self he is a girl. Why this is so is beyond me. In fact, I'm not sure I would wish to know. Kody is also a sucker for romance and long walks on the beach. He loves reading about vampires falling in love with little girsl. A.K.A. Twilight. Kody has some superpowers too. Kody has a camoflauge quality of making himself appear younger than what he actually is. Another one of his superpowers is his amazing writing ability. Kody is an awesome storyteller and he as a future in it definately, if he so choses. For a sample of his work just click here. Kody has also become one of the amazing scatterball athletes forcing himself up to the heights of scatterball royals. Kody is Pokemon master in himself as well. I give him that. He has obsessions of Manga comics and other video games.

There is more that I envy about Kody though. Kody, although a new child of God, has a great passion for learning about Him. Kody attends faithfully to YG and sunday church and although he says little he does listen. (I can tell.) He asks plenty of questions after services and lessons and he learns a lot. On wednsday nights you can often find him talking with Pastor Troy about things unknown, although you can probably guess. There is more to learning, but he is on the right track. Kody is a great inspiration for many Christians to be continue in their knowledge of Christ and His Word. Ladies and Gentelmen I present to you Kody. Welcome to our family Kody.

The Youth Unite: Deanna

Deanna will be the beautiful dark haired girl sitting at the piano playing heart-melting music. You will see her as realistic, and normal. You will be deceived. Deanna has a lot of quirky tricks up her sleeve as well, only hers are unexpected. First thing you will notice of her is that she is cold. All. The. Time. There is almost never a time in your life where you will see her warm. This is why in 90 degree whether, she will be wearing a sweater. If you ever eat with her you will experience once again, an unexpected quirk. You can find Deanna mixing the strangest food together. Of the sorts, she adores chocolate milk on almost everything, including lasagna, and on top of that she will put ranch. Her favorite food is probably bananas in a bowl of chocolate milk. Wow. She is also allergic to everthing, including grass. I am 100% serious about that. Her last quality is that she doesn't speak during fellowship. Not that she doesn't fellowship with us, it's just she developed of habit of silence during this time. We think it has to do with childhood tramatic experience, but that is still undecided.
Deanna is also a great ministry example. Deanna has always shown something great has innocence. You can look at anything she does and it is innocent. She is always helpful when it comes to taking care of her mom and everyone else in the church. But as well as that she is careful to not throw herself into sinful or tempting situations. She does as the Bible says and flees from sin. Her greatest compliment is that she knows the scripture well. She always is reading everyday and she knows references and verses. Her goal is probably to memorize the whole Bible someday. I believe she could do it. How inspirational?

The Youth Unite: Toby

Toby is another one of my strange brothers. I hope you meet him someday because he truly is a show to watch. Toby is the kind of person who would get sucked into the Dungeons & Dragons world because he loves the idea of chainmail and weapons. He's with Levi on the whole "duct taped weaponry." It all confuses me. I can also see him obsessing over cats... a lot. I don't know why? When you talk to him for the first time you may laugh a little because of his "accent." It just doesn't match his appearance at all. But that's not all that is unexpecting. I suspect he may be going deaf as he has a tendency to speak MUCH LOUDER THAN IS NEEDED. And if you think that's loud you should hear his laugh. He could silence a marching band.
But I digress, Toby has some amazing qualities about him as well. Toby has obsessions about reading the word too. His mind complexes me too, because he has the stranges bizarre and complicating theology I could ever imagine. I like how he challenges you to think about a subject a lot. He also backs up a lot of his arguments with scripture. He shows a great deal of knowledge of the scripture and it shows some good qualities for him. He's now a care-free adult who I believe is ready to tackle the earth, with a scream like a war cry. So there is my friend Toby for you. I hope you enjoy him.

The Youth Unite: Levi

I come from a pretty strange familiy but it's a huge one. In fact God talks about that a lot. I have a huge family all over the world because, unlike most western culture people, I have my roots dug deep into something that puts me in a family all over the world. In Psalm 68:6 David said that God puts the lonely in families. Isn't that great?

Well anyways, I was specifically talking about my youth group at church. We're the strangest bunch that I think I could ever get into, and I love every one of them. I can't understand how a group of youth would try it's hand at trying to be so strange as to scare our visitors off, but then I guess that filters out the squemish and the weak. Let me show my youth group.
First there is Levi. Levi likes to be as loud as possible sometimes and he likes to try and be one of us. You know he gets himself into so many things like duck taped weapons and black fingernail polish.

He's actually graduated and he's our game leader but it's really that he never wants to leave youth group. Sometimes though his ideas are too crazy and can get us into a little too much danger. That's why we have adult leaders who help us stay out of that. He's fun to hang out with but you have to keep under control otherwise you'll find him with black hair and a sequin vest, or even worse he'll be without a shirt with a bowtie doing some strange dance. But don't worry. As long as you keep in line he's harmless. Harmless as a hamster.
There is one thing to beware though. He has an aweful habit of growing disgusting facial hair. Be warned it is gruesome and hideous. But we still love him. Well that was Levi. Next blog I will say more about others in Youth Group so be prepared.