Is modern youth ministry multiplying or dividing the church?

This video trailer helps sum up the journey we've been on with starting our church 2 years ago. You may find it controversial. I'm okay with that.

Divided Trailer from NCFIC on Vimeo.

Getting ready for baby...
This past week I really shifted into baby prep mode.  Somehow realizing that 40 weeks was getting close woke me out of my stupor and made me get into gear to be ready and not caught off-guard when little E makes his entrance.

This week I:
~Cleaned my room
~Emptied the crib...still standing in my room from Elisha's days...filled to the rim with outgrown clothing from 5 kids.  We sorted and put away clothing and donated a few bags.
~Unpacked onesies, baby hats, receiving blankets and burp cloths and set them up for use
~Double and tripled dinners each night to have things ready in the freezer.  We have pizza goulash, sloppy joes, mashed potatoes, spaghetti, beef and turkey curry, rice ready to go.
~Baked breakfast cookies and homemade nutrigrain-type bars for the freezer.
~Ordered some necessary-but-hard-to-find-locally-nursing-mom items.
~Made a list of items to grill and bake this week to add to the freezer stash...pancakes, chocolate chip banana bread, cinnamon rolls, cinnamon swirl bread, english muffins, pita pockets, mini hamburgers and marinated ck breasts.
~Bought flip flops that are 2 sizes larger than my usual size to accomodate my severely swollen feet.
~Convinced a friend that she could have a baby shower for me whenever she wanted and that I'd do my best not to have my baby before her party ;-)  She moved the party up a few days and it'll be next week...I'll be at 39+ weeks.

All this while carting a ballerina back and forth to summer classes, a basketball player and his friends to practice (I have to be out with the ballerina anyway, so I take the boys and someone brings Erik home), homeschooling full throttle (so we can take off when the baby comes), and making sure I get a nap each and every day.

Hi!!!!
  Emma and Ellie here.  We hijacked Mommy's Blog(We got permission, and the usual eye roll).
  Today we were playing elves.  We usually don't play dress-up, but being that Emma is currently OBSESSED with the Lord of The Rings we decided to break out the dress-up clothes.
  Emma was a 15 year old elf named Larxlyn of Elvendore, who was in love with the imaginary prince Memulas.  Ellie was 13 year old Islelyn of Mirkwood, a happy-go-lucky daughter of the Lord Isholder. Elisha played the part of Islelyn's pet wolf, Kazack. After going to an elf festival, being attacked by Dwarves, running through the woods (that looked just like the driveway) and going to a old elf war fort for refuge we went to the palace, A.K.A. the house, for the royal ball. The royal cook Mommy fed us leftover pizza and lime water. VERY tasty =).
    We then went outside for a photo shoot, we do that often. Look and enjoy the fruits of our labor=).

                                                           Kazack, Wolf of Mirkwood

                                                                Islelyn of Mirkwood

                                                               Larxlyn of Elvendore

                                                                    Happy 4th!!!!!!!

      P.S. Erik and Everson would have played but Everson was shocked by the startling lack of action (oh brother) and Erik wanted nothing to do with our "crazy" games (as usual).
             We leave now because Ellie has to clean her dressup clothes and Emma wants a nap.=)