i like dhis band. yepp.

If their rising interest in mission trips is any indication, the Millennials may be a generation uniquely wired to stand—and sweat—for God.

As a young man of 23, missionary Jim Elliot wrote in his journal, "For youth there is special wretchedness; for then the powers within conflict most bluntly with the powers without. Restraint is most galling, release most desired. To compensate for these, youth has special powers."

The so-called special "wretchedness" and "powers" of today's youth have been the subject of much of the cultural conversation recently. The string of school shootings over the past few years and other alarming trends (like anorexia and self-mutilation) have aroused national soul-searching and highlight the extremes, positive and negative, of the generation known as the Millennials.

"GO UPSTREME!!" w00t w00t!!

SAN DiEGO here i come

 mann. i wanna live in stockton. yeck. i slept over there and came back this moring now i'm writing this. there are so much to talk about.. hmm?! oh yeah. well. i'm going out wid chris. omg! yess. i kno. but he lives like. umm. 4 cities away from san jose. mann he lives in stockton. i cant belive ninna told chris that i liked him. but it got better. i was so surprised he called for me. cassandra is all like on monday. shes all " aye joy, chris wants ta talk to you" i thot she was just playing but then it was chris. i was talking to him for a long time. and now everyone is going to know. omg thats so scary. once i come back to stockton everyone gona start staring at meh and do something wid chris. omg! well chris is filipino & hes a christain. i'm not gonna tell whut grade he is in or how old he is. ahah. figure it out yourself. too bad. aww. chris is so sweet. i'm gonna miss him. i'll see him tho. imma call him later anywayz. well yepp. ders more and stuff but dont wannna write in down. god bless u all !! <3

CHRiS & JOY

well i went to church on good friday at Catherdral of Faith.Hella people were there. But it was a great!ahaha. really.while i was there they did a play or skit. :"ROAD TO RESURRECTiON: the crucified king" while i was watching that i felt really blessed. It felt like god healed me & i was so thankful that i went. i asked god to help me bcuz i've been having troubles..i really felt blessed that day. mann. heh.u really like da song?? "i can only imagine" at the end.. they gave each family a needle. i meen. that reminds us that he died on the cross for us. it says "God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were sinners,Christ died for us."

 "don't want to be an american idiot" ur listening to american idiot by green day.

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new mania.
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alienation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along in the age of paranoia.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alienation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

Don't wanna be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alienation.
Everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.