BTLN UPDATE - SHIRT NIGHT

Congrats Anthony! This was Anthony's First Helmet ever! Not the first for Anthony's family though! Austin and Mike have both won multiple Helmets, now it is Anthony's turn! Alexei was there at the end with Anthony and almost had his first Helmet. Better luck next time Alexei!

Handball was the game of the week. With so many new guys it took a while for the guys to figure out the rules and the strategy of the game. The game was actually very even right up until the end when Aiden scored the winning goal for my team by swatting the ball out of the air!

In the Bible Study we looked at the story of David and Goliath.

1 Samuel 17:32-37

David said to Saul, “Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.”

Saul replied, “You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.”

But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.”
Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you.”

1 Samuel 17:45-47

David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give all of you into our hands.”

The thing that stands out about David is his confidence in God and not in his own abilities. If only we would put our trust in God like David! If only we would be confident because of what the one and only true God has done for us!

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BTLN UPDATE

Congrats Josh! This is Josh's First Helmet of the Btln year! Greenwood was there at the end with Josh, but was not able to win his first Helmet. I have a feeling that a Helmet is in Greenwood's future. 

The game of the week was Stickball. It seems like everytime we play Stickball there are a bunch of guys that haven't ever played. This time around the grade sevens had to learn. Even with a bunch of rookies the game was so much fun, Stickball is becoming one of my Btln favourites. It was one of the closer games that we have ever played.

Stickball Final Scores

Ben's Team - 10
Isaac's Team - 9
Jason's Team -8
Coady's Team - 8


In the Bible Study we looked at Noah and the Flood.


Genesis 6:5-9   The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” But Noah found favour in the eyes of the Lord.

This is the account of Noah and his family.

Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.

It is amazing how the righteousness of Noah stood out next to the wickedness of the world! If we choose to live like Noah then we will also stand out next to the world and will find favour with God.

Genesis 6:3   Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

1 Peter 3:20   God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved.

This story is often portrayed as one about God's wrath. It is a story of God's wrath, but it is also a story of God's grace! God gave the human race 120 to turn from their sin and to choose to follow him. 

Ezekiel 18:23   Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign Lord. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?

2 Peter 3:9   The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

1 Timothy 2:3-6   This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time.

Isn't it comforting to know that God does not find pleasure in the death of the wicked? Even more amazing is that he wants all men to be saved!

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BTLN UPDATE - POOL PARTY

Congrats Colton! Colton is the 2019 Btln Belly Flop Champion! Josh, Mathijs and Jonathan joined Colton in the Belly Flop Final with awesome flops in the first round. Josh had a good flop in the second round, but Colton would not be denied, winning his first Belly Flop Competition and his first Helmet ever!

There was Menno on the BBQ and ice cream cake from DQ, chips and pop in the basement after we were done swimming.



Btln 3739 Belly Flop Champions
Jordon Walsh - 2005
Jordon Walsh - 2006
Drew Brown - 2007
Andrew Eyre - 2008
Sam Schiesser - 2009
Ben Nicolson - 2010
Zach Gobbett - 2011
Dartagnan Butcher - 2012
Maxwell Nicholson - 2013
Jonathan Fojt - 2014
Nathan Mckenny - 2015
Caleb Hiebert - 2016
Caleb Hiebert - 2017

Caleb Hiebert - 2018

Colton McNevin - 2019



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BTLN PREVIEW - POOL PARTY!

Pool Party this week at Btln! There will be snacks (Ice cream cake from DQ, chips, and pop.) and of course the Belly Flop Competition!

Wednesday night 7:00-8:30
Show up early (6:30) if you want more time in the pool!

The party is at Abe's pool. 6715 18th street


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FIRST NIGHT OF BTLN

Congrats Dolan! Dolan has the first Helmet of the new Btln season! It was an amazing beginning to the new year! So many guys in the gym!

We started the year with a single game of Murderball! That's right, you heard me right, we only had time for one game of Murderball! The game went back and forth several times, both teams each having a chance to win. Finally Ben's team grabbed a big enough lead that my team could not battle back. Ben's team winning what was probably the longest game of Murderball in Btln history!

Caleb Tomilin missed the Btln grad ceremony on Last Night of Btln. Caleb was back at Btln this week, so we had an impromptu grad for Caleb! It was good to have Caleb back and so nice that his brother Linden was there to watch Caleb receive his Bible!

This week our Bible study was about Daniel.

Daniel 6:1-5 It pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom, with three administrators over them, one of whom was Daniel. The satraps were made accountable to them so that the king might not suffer loss. Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom. At this, the administrators and the satraps tried to find grounds for charges against Daniel in his conduct of government affairs, but they were unable to do so. They could find no corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent. Finally these men said, “We will never find any basis for charges against this man Daniel unless it has something to do with the law of his God.”

Daniel stood out among the 120 satraps because of his exceptional qualities! What an amazing example for us to follow! Daniel was trustworthy and neither corrupt or negligent!

Daniel 6:6-7 So these administrators and satraps went as a group to the king and said: “May King Darius live forever! The royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers and governors have all agreed that the king should issue an edict and enforce the decree that anyone who prays to any god or human being during the next thirty days, except to you, Your Majesty, shall be thrown into the lions’ den.

Daniel 6:10 Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.

Daniel was faithful and continued praying to God even though he knew that he would probably die!

Daniel 6:19-23 At the first light of dawn, the king got up and hurried to the lions’ den. When he came near the den, he called to Daniel in an anguished voice, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to rescue you from the lions?”

Daniel answered, “May the king live forever! My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, Your Majesty.”


The king was overjoyed and gave orders to lift Daniel out of the den. And when Daniel was lifted from the den, no wound was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

Daniel 6:25-27 Then King Darius wrote to all the nations and peoples of every language in all the earth: “May you prosper greatly! “I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel. “For he is the living God
and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed,
his dominion will never end. He rescues and he saves;
he performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth.
He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions.”

In the end, because Daniel was faithful all nations learned that the God of Daniel rescues and saves! Will we be faithful like Daniel?

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