luckily our judges are nicer than simon cowell...we had ps natalie, thomas and dave doing the honors at the american idol ccc kidz idol semi-finals last sunday. there were 12 contestants performing songs ranging from abcdefghijk... to shark attack to hannah montana. they rocked it!
finals are the end of april so stay tuned for photos/footage of the upcoming talent, genius and hilariousness.

one of our incredible volunteers, jeff, has been spending his saturdays volunteering at lily of the valley orphanages in tijuana, mexico. three weeks ago he had the chance to meet with a local city offical and the head of the orphanage. they were talking about how much they wanted to convert an empty lot next to the orphanage into a community center soccer field. many of the kids play on the empty lot and the field would mean so much for the orphanage and kids!

jeff came back to san diego and told nate, his connect group leader, how the orphanage needed $10,000 to develop the field and how cool it would be to help!

they came up with a stroke of genius...they went to their connect group and asked them to go through things they had in their houses that they no longer used so they could sell them on ebay and craigslist. all the proceeds go towards the goal! everyone got excited and on board donating climbing gear, playground equipment, bikes, surfboards, golf clubs, clothes and washers/dryers and to date they've raised $4000!

nate said, "its been amazing to see god take a simple idea and multiply our efforts. we hope to meet our goal over the next sixty days and present the orphange with a check!"

here's a shot of the group: adam, brad, jeff, rebecca, dr terry, nick, dr brian, nate and pete (not available for photo is yvette, matt, angela, jason, nick, michael, eric, tara, josh and effi.)

you guys rock!

well the magical date for the petersons is june 9! charlize or "little charlie" as she's already affectionately called is kicking and moving around and seems to always be craving twix bars...especially on sunday mornings :)

ps jurgen and leanne are due in august and they find out the gender of their baby on tuesday!!! (you can take a guess below!)

ps leanne and ps summer, you're both ridiculously good looking...

what you see from the worship and creative arts team on sundays is the result of heaps of hard work + fun at rehearsals on monday nights. a typical rehearsal is a mini worship set, then some prayer for the team and church, a quick word from ps andrew and then we get to rocking! the detonate band splits off to rehearse for thursdays, the singers go do singer stuff and the sunday band rocks the sunday tunes.

pedroton tuning up

josiah the groove machine and paul fixing a pedal with his teeth??

brad and ben

elle writing some charts

the beautiful detonate worship leader...faith

it gets LOUD in there. this is justin concentrating on finding his part.

two oranges...

thomas giglio aka 'grem'

**bonus feature** this is a quick clip shot in july 2005...a month before we launched ccc. our first rehearsal venue was 'prestige motors' in little italy. we would back the cars out and set up our p.a. system in the garage. special kudos to the original team members who are still here two-and-a-half years later...yvette, patrick and ben! you guys rock!

thanks to san diego christian worship center for the rehearsal venue...its a huge step up from a car garage :) we love you guys!

on thursday nights the coolest kids in san diego come out to rock at detonate…the 11-18’s at christian city church...here's a few shots of the fun.

andrea, kate, roger and aaron in clash of the clans

chiddick and lou-breeziana aka ‘briana’ lead detonate!

roger, brant and brandon about to sock wrestle...

anthony (hot dog)

food games are the BEST!!

some of the junior highers...ashley, dustin, kyle and alex