The Tenderloin is a neighborhood in downtown San Francisco, California, in the flatlands on the southern slope of Nob Hill, situated between the Union Square shopping district to the northeast and the Civic Center office district to the southwest. It encompasses about 50 square blocks and a conservative description has it bounded on the north by Post Street, on the east by Mason Street, on the south by Market Street and on the west by Larkin Street. The northern boundary with Lower Nob Hill historically has been set at Geary Street.

With housing consisting almost entirely of single-room-occupancy hotel rooms, studio and one bedroom apartments, the Tenderloin historically housed single adults and couples. After World War II, with the decline in central cities throughout the United States, the Tenderloin lost population, creating a large amount of vacant housing units by the mid-1970s. Beginning in the late 1970s, after the Vietnam War, the Tenderloin received large numbers of refugees from Southeast Asia—first ethnic Chinese from Vietnam, then Khmer from Cambodia and Hmong from Laos. The low cost vacant housing, and the proximity to Chinatown through the Stockton Street Tunnel, made the area attractive to refugees and resettlement agencies. Studio apartments became home for families of four and five people and became what a local police officer called “vertical villages.” The Tenderloin quickly increased from having just a few children to having over 3,500 and this population has remained. A number of neighborhood Southeast Asian restaurants, banh mi coffee shops, ethnic grocery stores, video shops and other stores were created at this time, which still exist.

The one square mile Tenderloin District contains the largest population of homeless in the country. There are over 500 high-rise apartments filled with low-income and the poor. The need is great.

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San Francisco 2012 will be on June 25-30, 2012. The trip will cost approximately $350 per person. This price includes transportation, food, and housing during our trip.

For more information, download the registration packet.

A $50 non-refundable deposit along with the registration form is due on February 19 to secure your spot. Participation in all team meetings and fundraisers is mandatory.

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We are excited about this year’s COMPELLED Youth Convention. The lineup of bands and speakers is top notch, and includes the following:

Bands:

KJ-52 – www.kj52.com
High Flight Society – www.highflightsociety.net
Press Play – www.thisispressplay.com

Speakers:

Allen Griffith
Joey Steelman
Abe Daniel

Registration

Registration for Youth Convention is $50 and is non-refundable. All forms and deposit money MUST be turned in to Pastor Tony on or before October 5, 2010. The remaining balance of $50 is due as follows:

Registration – $50 due by October 5, 2010
Payment 1 – $25 due by October 19, 2010
Payment 2 – $25 due by November 2, 2010

Below are the registration packets for students and adult leaders.

Youth Convention Registration

Youth Convention Leader Registration

Here is the highlight video from this year’s AMAZING Heroes Summer Camp 2010. If you didn’t go, you MISSED OUT!

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HEROES Summer Camp 2010

July 12-16
Total cost – $199
$25 registration and forms – due May 25
$75 payment 1 – due June 15
$99 payment 2 – due July 2

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Each year we host approximately 1,500 young people at our Easter and two Summer Camps. Of these, many are from foster care programs and the inner cities of California and are able to come because of our scholarship program. Along with exciting team activities, students are given a safe environment of hope and healing, and are presented with the Gospel in a culturally relevant style. In the past twenty-five years of camps, we have had the opportunity to minister to more than 20,000 students, many of which have been called into full-time ministry. Each camp season has brought with it reports of lives that have been transformed by the power of God. Today, after years of ministry through Radical Reality youth camps, we are delighted to see that our Camp Staff is made up largely of people who themselves were once students at camp!

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Deposit for HEROES: Summer Camp 2010 is $25, is non-refundable and is due on May 25. All forms MUST be turned in on or before May 25. The total balance of $199 is due as follows:

• Deposit – $25 due by 25, 2010
• Payment 1 – $75 after June 15, 2010
• Payment 2 – $99 due by July 2, 2010

The registration packet contains the following and MUST be completed for EACH person attending HEROES: Summer Camp 2010:

• Registration/Camp Medical Authorization Form
• Student/Parent Conduct Agreement

We will be meeting at the church on Monday, July 12 at 2.00PM and will be returning to the church on Friday, July 18 at approximately
2PM.
If there are any questions, please call the church office at 530.345.1377 or email Pastor Tony at tmazon@asclive.org. In case of emergency during HEROES: Summer Camp 2010, please contact Pastor Tony Mazon at 530.588.0477 or email at tmazon@asclive.org.

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• Estela Zamora received the Merit Winner and Superior with Invitation to the National Fine Arts Festival for her Female Vocal Spanish Solo
• Kaleigh Husband received the Superior with Invitation for her Short Sermon

Below are their Fine Arts performances:

“Talk to the Hand” – Puppetry Group

Kiera Husband – Female Vocal Solo

Adam Price – Rap Solo

Estela Zamora – Female Vocal Spanish Solo

Adam Price – Short Sermon

Aaron Tuccillo – Songwriting

Kaleigh Husband – Short Sermon

We are so proud of every student that competed, and we can’t wait for next year!

Ekklisia will be led by Pastor Tony and Malia Mazon.
1200 Sherman Ave., Apt 25, Chico, Ca 95926.
530.588.0477

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As we come to the end of the year, we are looking for some of the best/funniest/most memorable moments at Adrenaline in 2009. Submit your stories in the comments and we’ll feature some in the annual Adrenaline Christmas 12 Days of Christmas song on December 15, 2009.

Registration

The total cost for Youth Convention is $100. Registration for Youth Convention is $25 and is non-refundable. All forms and registration must be turned in by October 13, 2009. The remaining balance of $75 is due as follows:

• Registration: $25 due by October 13
• Payment 1: $35 due by October 27
• Payment 2: $40 due by November 6

Bands

Rush of Fools

Sometimes aspiring Christian artists spend years and years developing their music and building their ministry before God places them on a national platform. Then there are times when God hits the fast forward button and a new act seems to emerge almost overnight. Rush Of Fools is definitely on the divine fast track.

In an amazingly short period of time, the Birmingham-based band went from winning a national talent contest to landing a record deal with Midas Records, a management deal with industry veteran Andrew Patton’s Patton House Entertainment, and a booking agreement with the Greg Oliver Agency. This spring the band will embark on the World on Fire Tour with By the Tree and The Turning.

The first single, “Undo,” is a compelling ballad that paints a portrait of God’s mercy and grace. Willis possesses a warm, evocative voice that draws the listener into the songs, and many will find themselves in the poignant lyric. “We see what kids are wanting and we know what they yearn for, and it’s still the same thing we yearn for,” says Willis. “A lot of the inspiration for our songs comes from talking with people and feeling the same things.I think everyone can connect to our music in some way.”

Enamored with the band’s fresh sound and pure hearts, several of the industry’s top producers signed on to help craft the project, and the band is thrilled to be working with Matt Bronlewee (Michael W. Smith, Jars of Clay, Leeland), Scott Davis (Jessie Daniels) and Jason Ingram, who fronts acclaimed band The Longing.

Revive Band

2004. That’s the year it all started.

Dave Hanbury (vocals) had been performing for years as a singer, with success in many genres of music – from choirs, to jazz and rock.
Tyler Hall (guitar) had played acoustic and electric guitar for many years with various worship groups and was passionate about song writing.

When a mutual friend introduced them, the boys hit it off immediately. Sharing a deep passion for Christian music, they headed into Ty’s garage where they combined their musical skills and began to belt out some tunes under the band name of Me and Ty .

Soon after the launch of “Going Up?”, Rich Thompson (bass) and Mike TenKate (drums) joined Dave and Ty to complete the band in 2004.

With their new lineup, the name Me+Ty was no longer reflective of the group’s style or direction (or personel!). And so, the boys adopted a new name – Revive. This name is truly representative of the band, as they seek to encourage, challenge, and see revival.

Revive recorded “Where I Belong” with producer Phil Gaudion (from the Paul Colman Trio), with mastering at Crystal and Sony studios. The album went really well with great sales and a tonne of great feedback.

Revive have just finished their second album “Trafalgar street” with producer David Nicholas(Veronicas, INXS, Zed and Sir Elton John!). They are very excited about the new direction their music is taking and are very excited to share it with the world.

Glenn Packiam

Glenn Packiam is an Associate Pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he leads the Sunday Night Campus and serves as the Director of the New Life School of Worship. As one of the founding leaders and songwriters for the Desperation Band, Glenn has been featured on several Desperation Band and NewLifeWorship albums including Everyone Overcome, the award-winning My Savior Lives and the most recently released Counting on God. Glenn has written a few well-loved worship songs like “Your Name”, “Everyone (Praises)”, and “My Savior Lives.”

Glenn is also the author of Butterfly in Brazil: How Your Life Can Make a World of Difference, published by Tyndale House. His second book, Secondhand Jesus: Trading Rumors of God for a Firsthand Faith will be released by David C. Cook Publishing in June 2009, in conjunction with his debut solo album Rumors and Revelations from Integrity Music.

What all this means is that Glenn talks with a lot of people, plays a lot of music, and drinks a lot of coffee. And all of that makes for a wonderful life. Glenn and his absolutely amazing wife, Holly, and their two adorable daughters, Sophia and Norah, are enjoying life in the shadow of the mighty Rocky Mountains.

Speakers

Glen Berteau

Glen Berteau is Senior Pastor of Calvary Temple Worship Center in Modesto, California, a church of 4100. This ministry in Central California has been explosive. All outreaches at Calvary Temple, including 10 years of presenting the drama Heaven’s Gates and Hell’s Flames, totaled over 130,000 people won to the Lord. At Calvary, Pastor Glen’s dream of training ministers has become reality as President of Global Bible Institute, a Bible school with majors in children, youth, music, missions, counseling and pastoral ministries.

As a gifted speaker, teacher, and evangelist, Glen has ministered at conferences, churches, camps, and conventions all over the world. In his youth ministry days he pastored one of the largest youth ministries in the nation – 1500 at Wednesday night youth services. Now he continues to train, counsel, and direct youth leaders and senior pastors from all over the nation.

Glen has a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Ministries and Graduate Teacher Certificate from Trinity Theological Seminary, Newburgh, IN He is the author of a youth manual, Strategies for Advancing Youth Ministries. Glen has also authored a book entitled, When God Shakes a City: The Modesto Revival.

Glen and his wife, Debbie, have three grown children: Kelli Williams, Christy Johnson and Micah Berteau. His daughters are married to Pastors at Calvary Temple, where they also serve. Micah is attending college and also serves at Calvary Temple.

Andrew McCourt

Andrew, along with his wife Isabelle, planted and then pastored a vibrant church in the city of Derry, Northern Ireland for 13 years and has recently moved to the capital city of Belfast to work in Christian Fellowship Church. Andrew travels extensively sharing the Christian message in a creative, humorous and challenging style. He is committed first and foremost to building local churches and raising up multi-generational leaders. Being the father of four children life is never dull, however, he still finds the time to enjoy running, mountains and French food!

Abe Daniel

Rev. Abe & Anna Daniel currently serve as the District Student Ministries Director for the Assemblies of God in Northern California and Nevada. As District Student Ministries Director, (DSMD) they are responsible for the training and development of youth and college pastors and leaders in over 440 churches across Northern California and Nevada.

As the DSMD, Abe’s personal mission is to build “Balanced and Healthy Leaders” in the local church. This is achieved through the ministries three-fold purpose of Modeling, Mentoring and Mobilizing Leaders. In addition to speaking at leadership conferences and regional connections, Abe travels extensively ministering weekly in church services, youth and college services and outreaches. Currently, Abe speaks to over 20,000 students and youth workers annually.

Since serving as the DSMD, Abe has also begun expanding the base of leaders throughout Northern California and Nevada. In 2008, he established a ministry for the next generation of Youth Pastors called Pathway Apprenticeship. Through this ministry, they are taking the graduates of Internships, Masters Commissions, Schools of Ministry and Church Based Bible Institutes and launching them into their calling of full-time ministry. This ministry has successfully planted 5 youth ministries within the first six months in churches unable to afford a Youth Minister with countless churches on a waiting list.

Abe traces his call to ministry back to a Summer Camp at the age of 12. From that day on, he continued to grow in ministry opportunities under the mentorship of his Pastors. He began pastoral ministry in October of 1994 at the age of eighteen. Since then, he has held a number of different portfolios in the three Northern California churches he has served including: Youth Pastor, Music Pastor, Office Administrator and Interim Senior Pastor.

Abe and Anna have been married since July 1999, and met while attending Bethany College (University). Abe majored in Church Leadership and Anna majored in Social Science graduating in 1999. Anna also completed her Masters of Arts in Education in 2008 and is an English and History teacher at a public middle school. Abe and Anna have three sons, Abraham (May 2003), Andrew and Mathew (June 2008).

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