XLr8! DVD Resource

Here are some photos of us making our first DVD! We can't wait to share it with everyone! :)

A look at what's next:

With our upcoming DVD resource, our goal is to equip churches to lead their children's ministries in genuine and authentic worship. 

We recognize that it would be helpful to come alongside churches to bless and encourage the fulfilment of this goal.

In 2013, we will be travelling to a church each month to teach and train the leaders and volunteers of how to engage their kids in relevant, authentic, and Jesus centred worship.

If you are interested in having XLr8! come to your church, or have more questions about what this would look like in your children's ministry department, please email us!

info@xlr8kids.net

Upcoming DVD Resource!

We are currently in the process of creating a DVD set to complement our debut album! In the early fall, we will have a resource that provides for each song: moving power points, action instructions (a step-by-step) and follow-along actions (real time, with music). 

We look forward to helping more churches lead kids in genuine and authentic worship!

If you have questions about our upcoming DVD resource, please email us: info@xlr8kids.net

Disneyland!

Recently, we travelled as a group to Disneyland to enjoy some time in fellowship with one another in the beautiful sunshine. Here are some highlights from our trip!

We all love Disneyland - it's such a happy place with tons of fun things to do! But do you know what?? One day, we'll get to go to heaven, and heaven is going to be even better than Disneyland!

Heaven will be just as fun, and there will be so many great things to do. And the best part is that we will get to be with Jesus - the one who loves us so much that he died so that we can have life! Heaven will be amazing.

Retooning the Nativity

Check out this super cute video about the story of Jesus' birth!

Introducing Cassie Elaine Churchill-Browne!

On October 21st, right on her due date, Paul and Megan welcomed their beautiful baby girl, Cassie Elaine into the world!

Please continue to pray for Cassie, that she grow to become a loving and obedient woman of God.

5 Years Later

Can you believe that XLr8! ministry has been serving God for 5 years already?! Time sure flies when you're having fun! Here we are at our first ever performance for the fall festival at Willingdon Church back in 2006:

5 years later, we feel so blessed to have performed at various churches, schools, and community events throughout the lower mainland. It's our joy to bring the gospel message to kids and we are continuing to pray for God's direction with our ministry.

5 years brings lots of change - our ministry has already grown from 5 to 10! That's right, we've all gotten married and God has blessed us with faithful spouses whom we serve the Lord alongside.

Please pray for us as we continue this ministry into our next 5 years!

Jono and Emmy tie the knot!

We are so excited to congratulate Jono and Emmy on their recent marriage! If you'd like to send a note to Jono congratulating them, you can email him at info@xlr8kids.net

Welcome Home!

Welcome home Paul and Megan!

We are so excited to see them again :) If you've been following our blog, you know that Paul and Megan obeyed a call from God to serve as missionaries in Uganda, Africa for the past 2 years.

Not only that, they are coming home with a 3rd - their little baby is due to arrive in October!

Now that XLr8! is complete again, stay tuned for some upcoming great music!

Also in the awesome news department... Jono recently got married to a beautiful woman named Emmy! Photos coming soon.

Monkeys

Hey, it's Megan, writing to you (still) from Uganda.

Last month my husband and I went away for a night to a safari lodge - a place to go see animals out in the wild and enjoy the peace and quiet of nature! Well, we'd been enjoying the peace and quiet for a couple hours, when we returned to our room to find that a monkey had broken in and stolen all of our cookies! (These were GOOD cookies too. Chocolate chip. Homemade.)

The culprit

We knew that monkeys were sneaky, but we didn't know they were smart enough to open the tent and find the cookies that we cleverly hid in the closet. I guess it wasn't such a clever hiding spot. So we decided we really needed to fool these monkeys by locking the tent zippers with zap straps and getting rid of any remaining cookies!

We left the room, and when we came back, guess who had been inside? Yes. The same monkey. Looking for more cookies. He had managed to break in even with our tight zipper, velcro, and zap straps. These monkeys were persistent! They knew what they wanted and they weren't going to stop until they found it! Thankfully after they realized that the cookies were all gone they didn't try to break in again.

"Oh man! I want more cookies."

I think we can learn something from these clever monkeys about perseverance...what do you think?!

Go!

This week we wrote a new song together! We're so excited about sharing our upcoming music with you.

This week's song we entitled "GO!" - it's about following God's command to get up and go share the good news about Jesus. It's a scary job and we may not feel ready, but God calls us to go anyway.

But it doesn't stop there - He promises that He will be by our side forever! We will never have to go alone or by our own strength, because God will always be with us, every step of the way.

You can read a great example about this in the bible! Check out the book of Jonah, it's found in the Old Testament.

Video Blog

Check out our first ever video blog!

You can also check us out now on youtube - xlr8kids

Kids!

Hey! Megan here, writing to you from Uganda.

In case you didn't know this already, we LOVE kids. We love being part of a ministry that revolves around kids. We love talking to kids, singing with kids, laughing with kids, praying with kids...and since coming to Uganda, I have loved taking pictures of kids!

Kids here love to be photographed, and then they like to look at their picture on the camera screen. They think it's pretty cool - and I bet some of you also like having your picture taken!

These are some of the kids we've seen around here recently.

One of the chores that most kids do in Uganda is collect water in jerry cans. In this picture they are all carrying water back to their homes, because they don't have running water that comes out of a tap. What are your chores at home?

2011

Happy New Year Friends!

- XLr8!

A Reason for the Season

Christmas time can be wonderful if we get to spend some time with our families, away from our homework, and giving and receiving gifts! But are these great things the reason for this holiday?

In the Bible, God tells us that he sent his one and only son, Jesus to the earth as a little baby. You can read the story for yourself by reading Matthew 1:18 until Matthew 2:12. In this story, God teaches us about the miracle of Jesus' birth. He was born so that He could live on the earth as a man and later on, die on the cross to save us from our sins. Because Jesus died on the cross for us, we will be able to spend forever with God in heaven! :)

This holiday season, we want to encourage you to read your bible and talk to God by praying to Him. Take some time to remember and thank God for sending us His son Jesus - this is the true reason for the season!

- XLr8!

CDs for sale!

You can buy our debut album, XLr8! now at Willingdon Church in the family resource centre!

Remember that you can still buy our album at Pilgrim Book and Bible on Kingsway (in Vancouver) or on itunes by simply searching "XLr8!"

:)

Crazy Carnival Photos

Here are some photos from Crazy Carnival at Science World!

Our booth... we sell cd's, buttons, posters and give away

postcards at all our events!

After our final show, many joined in to do the thriller dance

one more time!

A special thanks to Science World, all those who attended or helped out at this concert, we had so much fun!!

~XLr8!

Crazy Carnival!

XLr8! will be performing at SCIENCE WORLD this upcoming Saturday (the 23rd) for CRAZY CARNIVAL!

We would love to see you there! Find out how to get your tickets and view photos from last year by clicking the link below:

http://www.scienceworld.ca/fundraising

What are you thankful for?

Wow! It's been a while since we last blogged - but hey, we're just in time for Thanksgiving :)

Have you ever gone around the table with your family and said what you're thankful for? What kinds of things came up?

Maybe you're thankful for friends, food, the nice things you have... it's always nice to remember all the good things that God gives us.

But what if you happen to be arguing with your friends, you don't have much food, or many nice things.... should you still be thankful? What would you be thankful for?

Sometimes we take for granted (we don't stop and notice) some of the simple things in life as a gift from God. If you're healthy today, you have clothing to wear, or you have a place to sleep - these are all simple things that we can be thankful for too. Even when we're having a bad day, God has provided for us many good things!

Take some time today to talk to God - tell Him what you are thankful for!

Back to Uganda

Today Paul and Megan start their return journey back to Uganda. Wow, these past 6 weeks have sure flown by! Please pray for their safety as they travel back to Africa to continue their call from God to be missionaries there.

We will miss you!!!