Five-Seven-Five
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Category: oddwalkia
February 19, 2013
December 3, 2012
NCCYM 2012 Workshop Slides
For those looking for a handy download of the slides from our 2012 NCCYM Workshop (or if you’re just curious), click here! For those who missed it, Shannon and Orin led the room in sharing strategies and tips for connecting teens to the body of Christ – not in specific “use this icebreaker, play this game” sorts of ways, but larger, long-term strategies and techniques. Enjoy!
December 3, 2012
NCCYM and Wishin’ Wonderland
Oddwalk had a great time at the National Conference on Catholic Youth Ministry over the weekend in Orlando, FL. We saw a lot of old friends and met a few new ones as well. We also had the opportunity to share our ministry in a variety of settings, including the Center for Ministry Development booth, the Resource Expo Stage, a breakout session, and the Youth Ministry Extravaganza. All of these went extremely well. Congratulations goes out to the NFCYM staff and the Orlando volunteers for a great conference.
Since a few of you have asked us for the lyrics to the song we performed at the Youth Ministry Extravaganza, we’ve decided to list them here. Enjoy!
Wishin’ Wonderland
(parody of Winter Wonderland)
adapted by Shannon Cerneka and Orin Johnson (Oddwalk Ministries)
Orin: It’s staff meeting Monday, I’m falling asleep,
The principal’s fighting with the DRE,
Someone keeps moving the school desks at CCD.
No one really knows what it is that I do,
My office is tiny and my budget is too,
Meanwhile, down at the [superlong mega-seeker-church name]
they have more money than they know what to do with,
I can’t imagine what I’d do with a budget like that…
Shannon: Well, let’s go walkin’ and wishin’ together.
Orin: Together?
Shannon: Together!
Both:
We’d have a pool and a sauna
and the guys at Benihanas,
At youth group they’d make us lobster and steak, just
Walkin’ in our wishin’ wonderland.
Orin: You mean, I’d never ever ever ever ever ever have to eat pizza ever again?
Shannon: No Orin, never.
Orin: Wow!
Both:
And we’d pay off all the coaches
At the high school which encroaches
on ev’ry event we plan ev’ry lent,
Walkin’ in our wishin’ wonderland.
Orin: Wait, could we pay them off all year long, and like the band director
and everyone else too?
Shannon: Sure!
Both:
Then in our fifteen-thousand seat arena
we’d have praise and worship ev’ry night!
Monday-Wednesday-Friday it’s Matt Maher.
Shannon: Chris Tomlin at the others?
Orin: Oh, alright!
Both:
We’ll hire people who seem cooler
just to talk to middle-schoolers
And someone else who will play: hunter, bear, karate
walkin in our wishin’ wonderland
During Holy Week we’ll play a movie,
Probably “The Passion of the Christ.”
Orin: What if all the teens have lots of questions?
Shannon: Jim Caveizel will be there should they arise.
With such success, our pastor’s beamin’
We just might get one whole free weekend
And all alone we will stay, with Downton Abbey all day,
Orin: Hang on, I’m getting a text… it’s my pastor, it says, “Nice prayer at staff meeting, next youth group the pizza’s . . . on him!”
Both: Walkin’… in our wishin’… wonderland!
September 6, 2012
You Can Make A Difference!!
The map below highlights (in blue) all of the places Oddwalk has been over the years. Some of those states look sooo lonely dressed all in white. They’re bummed because we’ve never been there. Some of the highlighted states are “blue” because we haven’t been back there in a while.
If you’re looking to cheer up a few sad and lonely states, just follow this link:
http://oddwalkministries.com/oddblog/contact-us/
This Public Service Announcement has been brought to you by Oddwalk Ministries. Oddwalk cares!
June 7, 2012
SWAG! – A new pOddcast to delight your ears!
SWAG (6/7/12) – Shannon writes and performs a song about his own personal style (and perhaps a tribute to his favorite musical artist?)
I believe the word you're searching for is "oxymoron."
If you have nothing better to do for three minutes and twenty seconds, listen to this. Even if you have something better to do maybe, it’s pretty good.
And we promise, a video is coming soon, in true Oddwalk styl- er, swag, I guess…
February 24, 2012
WE HAVE A WINNER!
It’s true! Yippee!
With some helpful sleuthing from the winner himself, we are please to announce that Matthew Robaszkiewicz from the NFCYM offices is our big winner! Congratulations Matthew, and let us know what you’d like as your prize, and how to get them to you! (You know how to find us.)
Hooray! And thanks again to all who helped us reach this milestone.
February 24, 2012
About Visitor 40,002
Well, #40,001 did not step forward to claim the big prize so it’s on to #40,002. Here’s what we know:
• Visited our site from in or near Hyattsville, MD
• At 10:09 Eastern time
• From a windows machine running Firefox at screen resolution 1920×1200
• Came to our site from a facebook posting
• Visited several pages while dropping by (thanks!)
• May have something to do with the Catholic Legal Immigration Network
• Or maybe a theological college nearby?
(It’s a bit frightening how much we can easily find out, isn’t it? And we’re not even Facebook or Google!)
So, this person now has 24 hours to identify him-or-herself. If not, the $40 merch prize will go to visitor 40,003, and we already know who he is! So, a winner in the next day for sure. Thanks again for visiting!
February 23, 2012
About visitor 40,001
Yes, we have our first candidate for a winner of the $40 in Oddwalk merch – and yes, visitor 40,001, because according to our sitemeter, visitor 40,000 was Orin, checking to see how close we were, and of course, he’s ineligible for the prize.
So, here’s what we know about visitor 40,001 – he or she is:
• from or near Colorado Springs, CO
• visited our site because we posted about it on facebook
• that was around 7:55am Colorado time
• adlephia.net could be their service provider
So, if that sounds like you, let us know! You have 24 hours to drop us a line. If that person can’t be identified, we’ll move on to 40,002 and on and on until we have a winner! So, keep leaving self-identifying comments, just in case!
Thanks all for helping us reach this milestone!
February 14, 2012
The March to 40,000!
Hello friends! As of this posting, we at the Oddblog are about 150 unique visits away from number 40,000 (since we’ve been keeping track, anyway). So, it’s prize time again! Our 40,000th visitor will receive $40 in free Oddwalk merchandise – CDs, shirts, fair trade, etc. As always, Oddwalk and our families are not eligible. It would be most helpful for your cause too if you’d leave a comment on this post when you visit so we can try to identify you. If we can’t identify visitor 40,000 or that visitor doesn’t respond to our “You Won!” email, we’ll move on to 40,001 and on and on until we do have a winner.
So, visit the Oddblog early and often, and tell your friends to do so too. We expect a winner sometime this week or early next at the latest. Thanks for all your support over the years, and good luck!
January 26, 2012
Published Again!
We assume the book also has a bottom half.
