Monday, April 7, 2008

I Got Skillz Breakdance competiton Phoenix, AZ







One Place church, in downtown phoenix, hosted the first I got skillz breakdance competition. The event was great! We had a live DJ, Cre, who came from River of Life church. Two rappers who are brothers,Opex, gave a solid performance. Bboy sentrock (joseph) from For the Love crew, put up his graffiti art on the walls of the small church. Aaron,one of the pastors from my church, was the MC who got the event rolling. Then of course, the bboyn was alot of fun. There was 3 on 3 battles and the crowd had the privilege to jude who won each battle. Breakfree had to split up its members due to the size of our crew. The first battle was breakfree (josh,mike,tim) vs Andy, Nate, and Zack. Well... the crowd said that they won but I dont know about that! Then the second battle was For the Love (Drew, Joseph,shadow) vs Rez 3 (Caylin,shane,and a little girl whose name i dont know). For the love lost and once again, and we (breakfree) had to battle them for 3rd and 4th place. We lost again and I thought it was pretty close. Tim threw down his master swipes, joseph did his head spins, while mike was tearin it up on the floor work. Then came the final battle which was Rez 3 vs. Andy, Nate, and Zack. Andy displayed his flexibility and strength while nate threw down his swipes and Zack worked on his threads. Rez 3 had battled hard but fell short.Overall, the breakdancing was awesome. After all the battling the most important thing happend last. Mike had a team from his church in Anaheim california come down to help out. They performed a great drama skit to a christian song that portrayed the gospel message. God really moved. Then lastly, I had the great privilege of sharing a gospel message based off of a video that was shown before I spoke. The message was that the son (Christ) was killed so that others could live. I spoke on God's judgement,hell,justice, love, grace and forgivenss throught Jesus Christ's work on the cross! I really loved how Christ was moving and we were able to connect with people. We preach Christ and Him crucified!

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Los Angeles Mission Trip with SCA


I, Josh, was one of the leaders on the Scottsdale Christian High School's mission trip. I am acutally a graduate from SCA and now was able to help lead with some of my past teachers. The trip was comprised of juniors and seniors and we stayed at a Christian base on Hollywood Blvd. called Oasis. As far as bboy evangelism goes, we were able to go out to Venice beach and Santa Monica. Tim (veritaz) and Mike (Bishop) were able to join up with us and help plant the seeds of the Gospel. A cool story was when Tim and I were bboyn in Venice beach and a bboy named Tony from the east coast joined us. Also, a bboy straight from Japan (bboy youth was his name) joined us as well. Tim was able to share the gospel with Tony and all three of us were able to witness to bboy youth. Mike brought him to breakdance practice and was able to share the Lord with him. And later on, Tim and I had the privelege of hanging out with him and sharing Jesus Christ with bboy youth. Mike had boughten him a japanese Bible, which he refused to accept because his luggage was to full. But Tim and I had him read scriptures reguarding salvation in his own language! At least we were able to have the Bible present and God's word does not return void. It will accomplish and work its way in the heart.Bboy youth was very respectful and was listening.Praise God! It was awesome to see the entire group of high schoolers excited about evangelism and reaching out to people. Brighton, who is an up and coming bboy and a part of breakfree, danced at venice and then was able to share with people. "...Pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message.So that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ" Colossians 4:3

Friday, January 25, 2008

Bboy Bible Study Practices




Breakfree has been hosting a practice spot at Whitton Ave. Bible's church. The practices are from 7-9 pm on Mondays and Thursdays. The practice starts out in word of prayer, then practice goes for about 1hr and 1/2, then ends in a short Bible study. The purpose of the practices is obviously teach people who have a desire to bboy but more importantly, is used to help reach out to people who dont know Jesus Chirst. Roosevelt Community church also does a bboy Bible study practice on every third Monday of the month.
Out in California, Bboy Bishop (Mike Swalley) has been going to various practice spots and reachn out to the bboys. He is trying to get a Bible study going at one of the practice venues. Breakfree's passion is to try and reach as many people for Christ as possible, this is one way that the ministry is expanding.