reasons to celebrate

well alumni is finished and the results are in, fifty thumbs up. yup we had 25 guys show which gets me another point as well as Nates team (which was mine) won at murder ball! so that was 2 and the third Dan T went out one of the first times so he did not win bulldog. anyway we got together and started at 7 with 25 guys out! the first pic back from left to right-Lance, Brad, Joel, Cam, Kenny, Calvin, Dalton, Nate, Tim, Justin, Dev, Blake, Owen, Aaron, Bruce, Dan. Front from left to right-Derrick, Mike, Evan, Jer, Jordan, Ryley, Jason, Josh, Ben, Dylan(with son), and Charlie. so ya over 25 guys it was awesome. we played murder ball which was dead even but Nates team coming out ahead one win. after we played hand ball which was pretty intense and the other team won.......hee hee the other team. after we got some pics and then ended with bulldog starting with the Captin in the middle. any guesses on the victor for bulldog? yup thats right Aaron F himself! we ended with the circle and headed to my place for food and hot tub! it turned out to be everything and more! Canucks even won against calgary that night!!! thank you for all the guys that came out especially those who travelled in bad weather (Dan and Nate) to get here!!! it wouldnt have been the same without you! so plan for the same time next year hopefully starts to be a tradition! in other battalion news the battalion blog has reached 2000+ hits since sept 20th! thank you for visiting it so often it couldnt happen without you faithful readers and i know theres a lot of you out there so a big thank you for getting the blog to 2,000! anyway i hope you are having a good holiday and we at the battalion blog want to send out a happy new year to you all!!! later dayz

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pics brought to you by Cam Tyssen

Alumni is on!

aight boys the day is here! THE FIRST ANNUAL BATTALION ALUMNI PARTY! we have been planning this for a long time and the day is finally here! im very excited to see lotsa guys out tonight and i hope to see you there! we have informed a lot of people so first prediction is 25 guys make it out. second prediction is Dan T winning british bulldog and finally i predict Nathan K's team to win by a long shot. so the night will start between 6:30 and 7:00 at the Gospel Chapel Gym. we will play games by popular demand most likely and after that everyone is invited to my house (ben Jepsen) for some food and hot tub! so bring your shorts! also pop and or chips are welcome. so if you are apart of battalion and are in grade 11 or 12 you are welcome. and if you have been involved in battalion and are now graduated from it then you are also welcome! cant wait to see some old faces! bring a camera this only happens once a year! later dayz.

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merry christmas i hope this finds you well

hey guys its been awhile! i hope your holidays from school and work has been great! all of us from the battalion blog just want to wish all of you a merry christmas and remind you that Jesus was born so that we could truly live! so enjoy your time off kick back and thank God for all he has done! later dayz.

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creation fest 2007!

so for those of you who are up to the memory verse challenge we get to go to creation fest 10th anniversary! so pretty much if you ask dev jason charlie owen joe me or lance youll find out that its the greatest thing ever! its tons of fun and im just talking about driving there! anyway ill talk more about past years later! so go check out the creation fest website at http://www.creationfest.com/nw/ it will have all your info! anyway keep it real and have a great christmas! later dayz

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good times all around

well since i will be heading out for a few days i thought i better get a post done for you all! so the night started out with the guys forming in squads with charlie as our sarg tonight! there was no squad meeting just a Bible study that Joe K got together for us at the end. so we went straight to hand ball (1 for 3). i was placed against Blake which fueled my abition to win even more! it was one intense game if i have ever seen one and i have seen many in my days! it ended up being pretty tight and our team won beating blakes team (2 for 3). after this we needed to burn some more time so we sent Ryley Hep off to hide in the church for sardines! after 5 min or so we headed out thru the church to find him and hide with him! he hid well cause we didnt find him for quite a long time! while we were hunting Lance and Sammy went to get some pizza for the guys! we finally found Ryley hiding under a TV in a cabenet. we then headed to the gym for pizza! after eating we played the ever so popular Bull Dog with Nick starting in the middle! as the story unfolded we got to Kevin H as the victor! atta boy Kev! ill try to get a pic up when i can! the numbers tonight were around 25 to 30 guys getting a point for the world! come on boys get your butts out to battalion!!! anyway the score is now set at world-20 ben-9 well worlds only double now roughly! so it was a great night to end off the 2006 year! dont forget 6:30 battalion alumni night dec 27th! meet at the gym! i hope you all have a very merry christmas and a happy new year! see ya in 2007!

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last night of the 2006 year

well guys its the last night of the 2006 season! i expect a pretty good turn out in fact part of my predictions for tonihgt is 1. turn out of 40 guys and leaders! 2. blakes team will lose but not by much! and 3. we will be playing hand ball! so by the predictions you can prolly tell that blake chursinoff will be joining us as well as Joe Kraftchick and Ryley Heppner! im not sure but Calvin Peters and Kenny Johnson may be making an appearance as well! so its a pre alumni party! anyway 7:00 at the gospel chapel gym (same as usual) for 2006 good times! in other news the alumni party for dec 27th (open for all grade 11 and 12's and of course alumni) has bad news! as you know we will be meeting at the church for games and then back to my place for food but now there will be no hot tub! sorry but it was out of our control the hot tub will not be working by that time! so anyway keep it real spread the word for the last battalion of 2006! later dayz

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Nick D takes the cake! (actually the helmet)

the one on the right is our very own Nick Deboeck who adds to the list of men who have won the helmet for bulldog! yup it was a low but great night at the second last night of battalion for 2006! things started off with Mike Trainer as our sarg since Jason H was gone for b ball. we split up into two groups for the squad meetings since numbers were a bit low. the bible study was based around the story of the rich man going to hades and the poor man (lazarus?) going to paradice. we then headed to the gym and voted on either sardines or murder ball and murder ball won by 2 votes! so we had 10 on 10 murder ball and i was with Lance! i was trying my best trust me! we lost 6-0. ya a slaughter if i have ever saw one! Lance recapped on the squad meeting and had a message (or is it mesage? i think its message) on how we need to know where we are going and once we do we need to make sure that we tell our family and friends cause it would be horrible to see them go to a place worse then hades! (forgive my spelling). we ended er off with bulldog as usual and we had drew brown start in the middle! he may be short but he packs a wallup!! it came down to a few grade 12's and nick. nick came thru to win the helmet! congrats man i knew you would pull thru! yes it was one heck of a night! now lets bring up the scores we have one point for the world since kerri didnt have a baby tonight (not that i know anyway) a point for ben since i guessed right on the bible study being taken from Luke and another point for ben since i guessed right on Lance getting slaughtered.........sometimes i hate it when im right. i also want to tell you i was trying hard and my pride counts more then points trust me! i also want to tell you that i make predictions on the spot when i blog i do not call anyone or ask lance what he will be speaking about that night! even ask Lance i never talk to him about predictions! anyway the final score is world-19 ben-7. hey im making some ground! anyway all in all it was a great night full of laughs and gags............kinda. alumni party dec 27th 6:30 Gospel Chapel Gym spread the word like wild fire! later dayz

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P.S. Sammy Jepsen is the evil emperor and is trying to take over the world with his powers!

Tis the season

hee hee man i love calvin and hobbes! anyway i liked my last post so i kept it up until now and man it sure got some reaction! maybe not the reaction i was really looking for but i hope you now know who is responsible for brigade! anyway tonight is battalion so no we have not shut down for christmas yet! tonight should be a typical night (which is an oxymoron if you think about it). so i think the score is world-18 and ben-5 so i meen thats not toooooooOOOoooOOoooOO bad! anyway tonights predictions are as follows- 1. tonights Bible study will be taken from the book of luke and ephesians........just a feeling. 2. Jer will be gone because his wife will give brith tonight.........just a feeling. and finally 3. Lance Martens team will lose horribly tonight at the game we play.........not a feeling a fact. so there ya have it! will ben be up to 8 after tonight? i guess we will have to wait and see!!!!! so i hope you all come out for battalion tonight i think it may be the last night but dont quote me on that! dont forget that all grade 11, 12 and alumni from battalion are invited for good times dec 27th 6:30 at the gym and then bens house for food and hot tub!!! so tell any alumni and get some guys out for the night! later dayz and happy holidays!

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Lets not forget (a dedication to the shepherd and his sheep)

God is the reason why we do what we do! its good to look at the people God has put into place to fulfill his will. it was Gods will for battalion to take place wed nights in Grand Forks B.C. and he started it all with a man named Joe Coughlin.

Sometimes to know where we are going we have to look at where we have been! i think thats from some movie and its kinda korney but i just wanted to remind ya of some brigade history.

In 1937, Joe Coughlin, a college student teaching a Sunday School class of boys in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, started a weekly club program in order to challenge his restless pupils. It wasn't an unusual idea, but Joe wasn't an ordinary Sunday School teacher. He was a young man with a vivid imagination and a burning zeal to serve Christ.

Coughlin dreamed on a grand scale: his Sunday School class of boys could become the nucleus of an army of Christian young men marching for the cause of Christ. The movement grew, molding thousands of boys into mature men of Christ.

Joe Coughlin had a dream and followed thru with it! with his passions and Gods help he started what we call Christian Service Brigade which we attend Wed nights (battalion) and thurs night (stockade). Because of this man and Lance Martens we get to meet wed nights and have a great time. It would be weird to think that wed nights would be filled with nothing! just think missing out on all the great things we do at brigade because Joe didnt follow his dream for something bigger! a world without battalion would be a sad thing, a world without Joe Coughlin would be a tragedy.

Joe is no longer alive but theres more about him at the brigade web site http://www.csbministries.org/coughlin_bio.html i challenge you to look it up!

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good times with the root

so great night wed night with the three b's! Ted came in with his fine cooking skills and made us some sausage along with some kicking sourcrot! we also had lots of barqs with beans and bacon! and on the side you ask? well ill tell you! we had apple sauce!!! ya some good stuff! also for those playing crokinole there was chips and some sweet Martens dip! yes we were stuffed! but after eating like nothing else we went out for some football by popular demand! Lances team- 2 Jers team- 0 ya not so good since i was on jers team! we played in the back well technically the front of the church in the parking lot with snow and ice. after football we played british bulldog in the snow with Sam S and Lance M in the middle! and it came down to scubba steve and bad bad leeroy brown!!! (who left his bible at the church by the way) and though niether made it to the other side Drew came out as the victor!!! way to go man! after football we got some dessert from my dad Bruce! needless to say the cinnamon twists went quick! we ended the night with more crokinole, Jers battalion board game and creation fest DVD to give ya a taste of what you have been missing by not doing the memory work!!! (ill talk more about it later). so im pretty sure i covered everything now. next week normal night back in the gym for 3 weeks i believe before christmas maybe 2 im not sure. by the way go stop by at blakes blog to vote for the battalion blog!!! anyway have a great weekend and dont forget the alumni party dec 27th grade 11's and 12's welcome! keep it real!

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pictures brought to you by Lance Martens

B is for Battalion

well boys and ..........men the three b's night is coming! thats right tomorrow night december 6th 7 oclock we will be gathering together for food and fun! make sure your there and dont miss it! also if you want to dress up i will not stop you, if you dont want to dress up i wont stop you, and finally if you do not want to dress at all i will stop you!!! so some early thoughts! first off its wrold-13 ben-5 i think anyway. so i predict that our captin Lance Martens will down 5 meno sausage! second i predict that Taylor W will win more crokinole games then anyone else, and finally Jeremy Martens will down 6 cans of barqs!!! ha ha o man i cant wait to see what will happen! so ya 7 oclock in the fireside room come in thru the kitchen if you want! in other battalion news Ben Jepsen has posted more battalion pics as well as other pics on the picasa web page thanks to Tim Feenstra who supplied all the wrestling pics. there is a link on the right side of the web site for the pics! www.picasaweb.google.com/radio16777 go check it out! anyway i think thats everything dont forget alumni party dec 27th! later dayz

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pictures brought to you by Dev Chursinoff

The Three B's

aight so next up on the Battalion schdule is the ever so popular Three B's night!!! next week the dog pound (gym) is being used by the church for the adult christmas banquet preperation so we are out but just of the gym. we will still meet next week and you can come thru the kitchen as always and we will meet together for food and fun in the fireside room! so what are the three B's you ask? well ill try to tell you! we got Barqs, Beans, and Bacon! though im not sure if we are having bacon this year for the main course is M Suasage! so if its not bacon you can replace it with ben or(foot)ball or something like that! ;) anyway come by same time and get ready for food but also dont be afraid to dress up! as well ive heard rumour of Joel Feenstra running some out door snow foot ball! so dress warm so we can go out and throw the ol pig skin! so i guess you can count this as our christmas party but it isnt our last night thats for sure! so get ready for some food and fun this week! also in other battalion news the 27th of dec is a alumni party for guys out of battalion so please email me or let me know if you are able to make it out for that! keep it real guys!

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P.S. pictures do not work for blogger right now i dont know why! sorry.

Battalion Alumni Party

Blake your question has been answered! we are planning on a Battalion Alumni Party! we have the date set for Dec 27th 2006! we want to meet at the Gospel Chapel Gym sometime in the evening (ill let you know the time asap) and have a alumni battalion night for those of us who have been apart of battalion and are now too old to attend. after that make sure to bring your swim shorts cause we are going to head to Ben Jepsens for food and hot tub! so please let me know if you can make it for that date email me at abendigo16@hotmail.com and also give me comments and suggestions for what you want to see for the night! cant wait to see you guys later this month! later dayz

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