Skateboard Show

This week my wife and I met with Martin Powers from Lemoore Unified School District. I talked to Martin regarding the use of bleachers for the Skateboard show that will be in the civic this year. We want to seat at least 200 people for each showing. We are wanting to reserve these bleachers for our P4L event now! My wife and I went to the Lemoore Campus and located the bleachers with the help of Mr. Powers. We measured the bleachers and talked about the amount of people we could seat with each bleacher. It seems that we will need to request 4 bleachers from Lemoore High. The bleachers will make the show more comfortable and will help us to managed the 200 students that will be showing up to see BFC (Boarders For Christ). Martin was very helpful and showed us around the campus. We will need your help to transport theses bleachers the morning of the P4L event. If you would like to volunteer your time to help us load and set up these bleachers, please let me know and join us for our next volunteer meeting on 11/09 in Room #11 after the second service. We are looking for someone who would be willing to organize the set up for the show and help us with transporting the bleachers. email me at paul@kcfchurch.org.

Buses for P4L

I talked to Ron Hughes this week regarding the buses for the Party 4 Life. I talked to Ron regarding the amount of teenagers that we are trying to reach. I explained that this year we are going to try to reachout to 1200 youth. We will be printing 1200 tickets this year. Last year we had 5 buses running and this year we will have 6 buses. We are wanting to back a bigger splash in Kings County. The youth pastors in Visalia are putting together a Party 4 Life and they are going to be printing out 1500 tickets. I believe that there are more youth to be reached in this area. I talked to Ron regarding bringing youth from Corcoran. Ron stated that they have a bus system in place. Yesterday I called the Director of the Dial A Ride bus system and inquired about bringing a bus from Corcoran. I will need more people to help me reach out to the youth in Corcoran and the surrounding areas of Hanford. I believe that we can add at least 100-150 youth to our event. If you live in this area or would like to help reach out to the youth of Corcoran please email me at paul@kcfchurch.org

Extreme Zone Gladiators Style

I met with Linda from the Hanford Bible Store. We talked about working together on Party 4 Life. Linda and her daughter were very excited about what we are doing for the teenagers in Kings County. They stated that they have been praying that more teenagers would drop into the store and take a look at the Bibles and Music that they have available for them. Linda thinks that Party 4 Life is a great way to keep the kids off the street during the New Year's celebration. Linda stated they would like to donate some prizes and material for the students who come out to the event. I would like to give prizes away at the Extreme Zone (inflatable equipment) in the church auditorium. http://www.nbc.com/American_Gladiators/

We have reserved several pieces of inflatable equipment this year from Joey's Jumping Castle. Here is the plan: Turn the church Auditorium into an Extreme Zone and have an American Gladiator Style competion during each half hour. This will take some work and more adult supervision. Hint... We need more adult volunteers. We put together the Extreme Zone during the Jr. High Lock In, and it worked out great! The students are motivated by the competion and the ability to win a prize. Alice is going to give us a good price on the equipment listed below:
Sumo Suit and Jousting
Sports Run
Over sized Boxing Rink
Obstacle Course

I would like to get the Rock Climbing Wall for 8 hours but I need a sponsor for that piece of equipment. The plan would be if some one could sponsor the Climbing wall we will place their logo and business name on the Top it. (PLEASE contact me if you would like to be the Exlusive Sponsor for the Extreme Zone.

We need people to help us with getting prizes donated. Here is a list of items you may want to donate
1. skateboards
2. radios
3. Candy
4. gift cards
5. T Shirts
6. Caps
7. music CDs
8. Bible.
etc.

If you can help us by volunteering you are a saint!! If you can not volunteer please contact me if you can donate prizes or money to help sponsor the event. paul@kcfchurch.org

Take a look at:http://www.americangladiators.com/

Boarders 4 Christ

Boarders for Christ is coming this year to Hanford P4L
We are going to have a great time and we are excited to bring BFC from Carlsbad CA. This group has been doing shows for the last Ten years and they are going to be with us to help celebrate the New Year. Help us get the word out about this years P4L. We still need volunteers to help at this venue. The team will share a positive message about staying off drugs and alcohol to our students. If you would like to help support P4L but can not attend this event, you may want to think about donating some money to help sponsor this venue. Please contact me at paul@kcfchurch.org if you can give financially or volunteer! Go to their BFC web site to check them out and spread the word. http://www.boardersforchrist.com/.

Men to the Rescue

Last night, I met with the following veterans, who signed up for the Party 4 Life 08

Daniel Vargas Sr. said he would like to continue working at the Bowling Alley. Vargas stated that he has served at the Bowling Alley on New Year's Eve every year since he was born.

Daniel Vargas Jr. signed up to be our MC at the Civic center. He would like to MC the Skateboarders Show and Talent Contest.

John Castaneda signed up for the Civic center activity room. John told me that every year he manages the pool table.

Bryan Goldman said that he will help set up sound or do what ever is needed.

Manuel Grijalva signed up to be one of the attendants for the parking lot control.

Anthony Costa signed up for the food court at the Civic Center. Every year the men's ministry put together a Bar-B-Q meal for our students.

Marten Powers indicated that he would help us set up the Civic Center for the Skateboarder's Show.

Mossie Kines is going to help with getting more sponsors and help get the word out to the community.

John Kuyper will be the site coordinator for the Metro 4. He loves watching movies all night.

Civic Center

Today we got the Civic Center nailed down. Good thing for us our church reserved this in advance. Good going church staff! This year we are going to provide a skateboarding show in the Civic and we are going to move the inflatable equipment to the Church auditorium. We will need to get bleachers in the building and provide food in this location. We will have three shows throughout the night. This is going to be a new venue for P4L this year that we believe the students will enjoy.

Meeting with Visalia Youth Pastors

Yesterday morning, my wife and I met with Pastor Jeff Atherton who is coordianting the Visalia Party 4 Life. Jeff had a lot creative things that he his doing to help make 08 a huge success. He is adding a new venue and their vision is to have over 1000 students in attendance. We talked about media coverage and ways to advertise Party 4 Life on the Radio stations and Cable. This year we are going to join forces and get the word out that their are two Party 4 Life celebrations going on. We believe that the more parents and students hear about this event the more participation and support we will have from the community.

2008 SPONSORS

This year we have some really great sponsors and there are more to come! Thank you for all your support.

If you would like to Sponsor this event individually or with your business please email me at

paul@kcfchurch.org

Volunteer Meeting

This year's first Volunteer Meeting happen at 12:30pm at room #11 on KCF Campus. We had a great time getting to know the site coordinators and new volunteers. We discussed the new venue of the SkateBoarders show at Civic and talked about the inflatable equipment at the church location. The auditorium will be a great spot for the inflatabels and the Big Screen will give us a great way to show music videos, slides and make it an extreme event.

Party 4 Life O8

We are well on our way for Party 4 Life 08. We just met with Roger at the Adventure Park in Hanford and he gave us his full support and discussed key issues on how to make this year a success. We had a chance to pray for the students that will come to the event this year.