Also, because I don’t believe we have made any sort of mention about this (on this blog, at least) our buddy Carlo is currently in the Philippines for another round of missions. You can stay up to date with everything he has been doing with his special Mission Trip blog:

http://inbaguio2010.wordpress.com

And just for fun, here is a picture we took together the day he left San Diego:

-Brian

It’s been quite a while since any updates at all on this blog. The flag football league has finished its last regular season game and the playoffs are underway.

The Ambassadors finished in last place with only one win, four losses and one tie. However, SPA finished 5th in total offense and 3rd in defense with 59 points allowed. The Ambassadors also managed to finish with -16 net points, good for 4th place.

As far as the playoffs, the first round was played this past weekend. In the early game, the bottom seed SPA beat the #3 seeded NBCC to advance to a semifinal matchup against the #1 seed, LOCF. In the later game, #4 UMC won against #5 SDCF to advance them to a match against #2 ICC.

Week 2 of the flag football league began with a hotly contested matchup between the Ambassadors and Soul. The highly defensive game would end regulation locked up in a 0-0 tie, sending it into overtime. NBCC began overtime with possession. However, neither team was still able to score until SPA finally ran broke one away after a short pass. But it was not meant to be as NBCC, on the final drive, marched down the field and scored a touchdown along with the extra point to take a 7-6 victory.

The SDCF-LOCF game turned was a lopsided one with a final score of Yay 0 – Fire 25. LOCF came strong and made the most of their early possessions. On the other hand, SDCF would turn the ball over 5 times on interceptions throughout the game while only taking away one themselves. The Yay capitalized on the miscues to built a large lead and cruised onto a win.

UMC and ICC played an evenly matched game. The score was close the entire game with the Classys scoring a touchdown first and the Warriors eventually coming back to knot it back up. UMC would later go on to add another touchdown and an extra point, leaving ICC with just enough time for one last drive. However, one errant throw lead to a big interception, allowing UMC to run the clock out and take it all, 13-6.

Come join OASIS Youth & friends for the *2nd* LIVE! of 2010!

[LIVE! = snacks, hangout, performances, worship, truth, fun.]

We’ll be at the Mesa Village Recreation Hall in Mira Mesa on the last Friday of the month (March 26) @ 7pm. We’ll have some guest performances, musical worship & a special message from Conrad Asuncion. And don’t forget to arrive 15 min. early to catch the LIVE! multimedia countdown!

All are welcome to attend. Please contact Jimmy Pham (619)-723-7789 or Conrad Asuncion (858)-531-2581 for more details.

[LIVE! is the brand-new youth night of OASIS, the youth group of Shepherd's Pasture Assembly.]

*WHAT IS “LIVE!”?*
A place where young people can use their various talents–artistic, technical, and more–as worship unto God, and be drawn into a deeper relationship with Him.

A place of friendship & refuge. Whether new or old, or whoever you are, we welcome you here!

A place of true joy, true love, and true abandonment– all in real time.

[LIVE! - "anything but ordinary."]

Week 1 on the newly renamed Halftime Ministries flag football league was played over the past few weekends and boy, was it crazy.  SDCF Fire and the ICC Warriors opened up the league with a great game in the rain that would go into overtime. However, neither team was able to score any points in the end and the final score goes down as a tie: 6-6. The SPA Ambassadors did not fare so well against the LOCF Yay, getting shutout 13-0. The NBCC Soul-UMC Classys game would only play for a half before being postponed and resumed a week later. NBCC would go on to win in what turned out to be a incredibly exciting game: 21-14.

So anyone who was at Winter Camp this year may have noticed us filming everything we could. I didn’t know this then, but Conrad would later on order us to use that footage to make a montage video that would be shown at the first Live!

It would later go on to be shown at church service this past Sunday after Pastor had heard about it. (Even though he had not actually seen it himself.)

Anyway, that’s the quick story. Here it is online for anyone who may have missed it and for the rest of you who would like to enjoy it again:

Hello Oasis!

First off, I wanted to say WINTER CAMP WAS AWESOME. It was great seeing most of your wonderful faces, playing in the snow, and most importantly, personally encountering God.  I was really concerned about money and missing school and the hassle of going to winter camp, but it was well worth it!!!  Starting since my winter break, but especially since winter camp, my faith has really solidified because God just keeps revealing Himself to me in such real ways. Small things like postponed midterms and extra money have helped me see God, and I’m so thankful that He cares about all areas of my life. I’ve also been able to witness his work in the lives of two of my closest friends, who I never thought would give God another chance, who have recently renewed their faith!

I also wanted to say that I’m happy to hear about all the exciting stuff happening in San Diego! From what I’ve heard and read, the first Live! seemed to be a success (by God’s grace), and I’m so excited for this new this new opportunity for people to worship Him with all kinds of talents! I’ve also seen pictures and statuses on facebook about the flag football league, and I’m so glad to hear about the awesome camaraderie developing among lots of different churches!

As for what’s going down in Berkeley…I have recently been working with two college pastors from Chi Alpha ministries to help charter the official fellowship on campus.  Chartering is basically doing technical stuff like submitting forms and constitutions and signing papers. I meet with them several times a week for discipleship, workshops, and prayer walks.  Currently the workshop they are presenting is called “Foundations of Faith,” which reaches out to both Christians and Non-Christians. We’ve been going over the common topics like “What Is Christianity?” Today we covered “Why does a good God allow suffering? Why does a good God send people to hell?” which was a not-so-happy topic for Non-Christians to hear, but it was presented in a way for open discussion.  It reminded me of my very first Overflow, being overwhelmed by STD slides presented by Uncle Byon, yet I still came back to hear more…haha. Our group is really small for now…But I’m excited for whatever’s in store for the future

Also, adding to what’s going down in Berkeley… It’s been a crazy week at school: People breaking into classrooms and people rioting on the streets. African American students having a silent march. Israeli students and Palestinian students having their own protests.  All this craziness is leading up to the big strike tomorrow for public education.  This day, March 4, has been publicized for a long time on campus as a call to action for our public education, but with recent events such as the “Compton Cookout” at UCSD (look it up if you don’t know what it is), a lot more things like racism has popped up aside from the issue of public education.  There is so much brokenness going on on campus, and this seems to be the time for people to voice their opinions, beliefs, and concerns. Mayhem may strike from the arousal of fervent protesters. The days are getting crazier and crazier…

Arm yourselves, saints!

Jasmine

So, the first Live! was this past Friday and I must say I’m both relieved, and excited for the next one.  To be completely honest there were so many attacks from the enemies coming into this event that for a moment I was a bit unsure if we were going to be able to do it at all.  That being said, God is always in control and He definitely had His way that night.  Worship was lead by Dodjie who was in the hospital earlier that day due to a mild concussion and man it was awesome.  There was a new song- Open Up the Skies originally by Deluge was beautiful and timely.  The message was spoken by Carlo and it was both challenging and encouraging.  Carlo’s message was about not settling for the ordinary and striving for the extraordinary- the vision we had for Live! to begin with.  All in all it was an amazing night and I’m definitely excited to start work on next month’s Live!  That being said, if you guys want to contribute your talents to Live! don’t hesitate to send me an e-mail at jimmysuperz@gmail.com.  Have a good one guys!

-Jimmy Pham

Live! Event Coordinator

“We won’t be satisfied, with anything ordinary, we won’t be satisfied at all.”

In the first round/semifinals of the playoffs, SPA and SDCF played the early game in what would turn out to be a suprisingly competetive match. However, SDCF wasn’t going to allow an upset as they pulled to a late lead to take the game 46-40. The other match of the day saw UMC and LOCF in a fierce back and forth tug-of-war of lead changes. It would come down to the final play where UMC missed the tying 3-pointer at the buzzer, sealing the LOCF victory, 40-37.

The championship game would see a smaller point differential than even the semifinal matches. LOCF and SDCF played a wire-to-wire game which saw no lead larger than 2 points for almost the entirety of the game. The game came down to SDCF’s final posession which began with .4 seconds remaming on the game clock for one last chance. The shot bounced just slightly off-center before LOCF rushed onto the court. Final score: 41-40.

As for the All-Star game, two teams of mixed players played a lighter, exhibition-type game with music and Sergreg providing play-by-play announcing. Even then, the score ended up even closer than the championship game. Tied 65-65.

That’ll do it for this season. See ya next year!

The basketball regular season is over! It was quite the rough season but we managed to come away with a 3-3 record. Also, we made it into the playoffs! YEAH!

Here are this season’s scores for every game:

LOCF finished at the top of the pack with a 4-2 record. Their only two losses came at the hands of SDCF, one of which was an overtime thriller in week 3. SPA tied SDCF for second, each with a record of 3-3. Head to head, both teams took a victory from the other, neither one having an advantage. Finally, UMC rounds off the standings at 2-4. Their two wins coming from the unpredictable SDCF, one of which was a forfeit in week 1.

The playoffs begin next week. Details are still to be announced. However, as far as seeding goes, SPA and SDCF will face off in what will turn out to be both a contention for the championship game and the final record tiebreaker between the two. The football league champions UMC will take on the team with the best record, LOCF in their quest to come away on top once again.

Any way the seminfinals pan out, the final matchup will be an exciting one. A sureshot win is guaranteed to no one.