The Deuce Weekly, 3/27 - 4/01/01

Vol I, Iss VI
3/27 - 4/1

The DRL (deuce request live) Top Five of Everything… The Oscar Edition.
5… Bjork. Wearing the swan dress gave us something to laugh about during that gosh-awful crap she was singing. (to this day, one of the worst dresses I've ever seen)
4… Steve Martin. Kept the zingers coming, with his best shots at Russell Crowe.
3… Sybil Johnson. Fourteen right awards. I got ten.
2… Julia Roberts. Yeah, we knew she’d win. But it was so fun watching her smile onstage.
1… Michael Nipp. Slowly building an award show dynasty, winning his second Oscars in a row. (he won the following year too, before entering into a slump that lasts to this day)

Coming Up:
*Spring Break this week…. Wookiee and Shawn are still taking applications to head to the beach! Contact either one, and they will give you the lowdown for this end-of-the-week excursion. (they went by themselves. somehow, I think shawn is a daddy now)

*Thursday, March 29th… No bible study, but meet at Common Ground at 6:30, and we’ll take in Chuck E Cheese pizza. Bring five bucks for pizza, and some money for your tokens. Afterwards, there may possibly be a group going to see the late showing of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”, so watch for details! (the group consisted of me, The Hall, Sybil Johnson and one other guy I can't remember)

*Tuesday, April 3rd… Wade Morris, the barefoot preacha-man, is doing a little service at Common Ground. You don’t want to miss this!

*Saturday, April 7th… Cracker Barrel Saturday. Meet at the Cracker Barrel on 119 around 10 am for a big fellowship breakfast.

*Friday, April 20th…Common Ground Afire! Meredith Quintana is hosting a big fire at her house, way out in the boonies, so listen up for more details! (this is the one where Josh Crosby kept jumping the fire)

*Saturday, April 21st, in the day. Our first Deuce-outing, as we just all go gather and play at the Oak Mountain state park!

*Saturday, April 21st, in the evening. Supertones, Switchfoot and Reliant K in concert at Metro Church o’God.

*Saturday, April 28th… The Dove Awards, live at The Deuce!

*Sunday, April 29th… Life Connection luncheon at the Refuge, 12 noon.

*Thursday, May 3rd… The Survivor Finale! After Bible study, come on over and watch my Elisabeth win the million dollars! (not only did my Elisabeth Filarski not win--Tina did--but she went off and got married)

*May 4-6… Common Ground beach retreat! See Sybil for details.

The Spotlight Haiku
To show our appreciation to everyone around The Deuce, I bring you our salute! So far we’ve saluted Matt Latta, Drew Morris, Eddy McBroom, Eric Hasha and Ashley O’Neal. This week’s spotlight haiku goes to Amy Vos
Little Amy Vos
You know the size of her heart
Pretty face, smart chick

In the coming weeks… salutes to Sybil Johnson, Jill Berthon, Ginger Thomas, Ross Kingrey and Kenny Fisher… and even more to come!

If I Could Be Serious for a Minute…
This week, I challenge you… pray for your nation at least once in the next seven days. More than once if you can, but at least one time this week. Pray specifically for our schools and for our country’s leaders. You can do it.

Coming Soon
*May 16th… Timothy McVeigh is executed. We’re thinking of having a BBQ.
*June… Deuce History Month
*June 28-30… WalkAbout: On Holy G’Round dinner theater at Valleydale
*July 7th… DeuceFestDeuce
*July… The Deuce Invitational Nerf Golf Championship
*August 4th… So Long Steph, S’nipp’s good bye party.
*August 7th… *Nsync in concert
*September 1st… The Deuce Football Championships return
*October 6th… Deuce Semi-Formal
*December… It’s a Wonderful Deuce Christmas

More details to come on all the above.

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Have a great week!
Dave

The Deuce Weekly, 3/20 - 3/26/01

Vol 1, Issue V
3/20-3/26

The DRL (deuce request live) Top Five of Everything:
5. Jodi Nelson… I heard the cookies were excellent
4. Gonzaga Bulldogs… I think we just all like these guys.
3. Stephanie Campbell… We’re just good friends
2. Jennifer Adams… earned the title Deuce Diva for providing dinner again!
1. Tommy McLeod… welcome back, Highlander!

Coming Up at The Deuce
*March 25th-Oscar Night at The Deuce. Come to our little Oscar shindig, pick the winners, the best record for the night takes home movie passes!

*Spring Break-Contact Shawn Sharp if you are a guy and interested in taking a trip to Panama City for a few days with he and Wookiee. The contact is Shawngs@bellsouth.net.

*April 3rd-Wade Morris speaking at Common Ground. You don’t want to miss this guy, he’s awesome!

*April 7th-Cracker Barrel Saturday, breakfast at The Cracker Barrel.

*April 20th-Common Ground Bonfire at Meredith Quintana’s house. Merdi actually lives in a town called Podunk, Alabama, in Sticks County. We’ll let you know.

*April 21st-The Supertones in Concert, with Switchfoot and Reliant K. Come join the party! Its at Metro, not The Deuce, by the way. Jason Carson of the S’tones said The Deuce was too nice of a venue for them to play.

*May 4-6… The Deuce follows Common Ground and invades PCB. Talk to Sybil and get yourself on board for a great weekend.

The Spotlight Haiku
FYI… A haiku is an old form of Japanese poetry that consists of three lines. Five syllables in the first and last line, seven in the middle line.
To show our appreciation to everyone around The Deuce, I bring you our salute to you! This week’s spotlight Haiku goes to Ashley O’Neill
Quirky odd Ashley
Battle with Mike, always wins
Eat up, Ashley, eat!

If I Could Be Serious for a Minute
If you aren’t coming to Thursday Night Bible Study at Sybil’s house, you are missing quite an adventure with the Spirit. Matt Jackson and Justin Glenn led us in praise and woship, while Nathan guided us in prayer and testimony. God was there, where were you?

Coming Soon
*June 28-30… WalkAbout: On Holy Ground dinner theater with V’dales WalkAbout drama team.
*July 7th… DeuceFestDeuce.
*July… The Deuce Invitational Nerf Golf Championships
*August 4th… So Long Steph, our salute to the departing Steph Nipp.
*August 7th… *Nsync in Concert… guess which Deuce member will be going?
*September 1st… The Deuce Football Championships, Season II
*October 6th… Deuce Semi-Formal
*December 15th… It’s a Wonderful Deuce Christmas

Our website is still slated to go on www.TheDeuceOnline.com, but for now we are regulated to this site:
http://personal.bhm.bellsouth.net/bhm/s/h/shawngs/deuce.html
On the site you will find an archive of encouragement mail, plus some other little tidbits here and there. It’s a skeleton of what it will be, so please keep checking back!

Common Ground website:
www.geocities.com/cground2
This is the site for the college/career ministry at Valleydale. Meredith Q has worked hard on it, so make sure you check it out!

The Deuce Weekly, 3/13 - 3/19/01

Vol I, Issue IV
3/13-3/19

If I Could Be Serious For A Minute:
It’s not the guns faults, its not the kids faults, you can blame Satan, but the blame falls on us. We, as Christians, aren’t doing our job we were sent here to do. If we did as we were commanded, to go tell the nations, the world still wouldn’t be perfect, but it would be closer than it is now.

DRL (deuce request live) Top Five of Everything
5. Stephanie Campbell… her chorus of Steve Camp was simply well done and well timed. And her chicken salad junk was really good too.
4. The Deuce… yes, shameless self promotion, but we had 35 people at the Midnight Breakfast. That’s worth a number four ranking.
3. Lethal Weapon 4… Jet Li rules. I don’t care what you say.
2. Duke University… Did you see the smackdown laid upon the poor Tar Heels of North Carolina? Pretty vicious.
1. Josh Crosby… Tore the kitchen up with me as we served 30 plates of breakfast in an hour. We salute you, Josh!

Coming Up at The Deuce

*March 12th-Tonight is the last night to sign up for Deuce Madness, our NCAA Tournament game. Fifteen guys and a chick have dared to sign up, so email me if you want to play.

*March 17th-Common Ground is holding a babysitting night for the young married couples. I have never been a dad, but I can assure you that when you are a young married, you’ll want someone to take your kids for the night so you can out and do whatever it was that you used to do before you were married. IF you want info on how you can help, email me and I’ll fill you in!

*March 12th-18th-Highlander Awareness Week. Our friend Tommy “The Highlander” McLeod is returning from Northwestern University, practically a graduate, and on Sunday the 18th, come hang out with Tommy at The Deuce.

*March 25th-Oscar Night at The Deuce. Come to our little Oscar shindig, pick the winners, the best record for the night takes home movie passes!

*April 7th-Cracker Barrel Saturday, breakfast at The Cracker Barrel.

*April 21st-The Supertones in Concert, with Switchfoot and Reliant K. Come join the party! Its at Metro, not The Deuce, by the way. Jason Carson of the S’tones said The Deuce was too nice of a venue for them to play.

The Spotlight Haiku
To show our appreciation to everyone around The Deuce, I bring you our salute to you! This week’s spotlight haiku salutes Eric Hasha.
Sarah’s little bro
Accepted in The Deuce now
Hey! Eric is Hot

Coming Soon:
*May 4-6… The Deuce follows Common Ground and invades PCB.
*June 28-30… Stages: In the Round with V’dales WalkAbout drama team.
*July 7th… DeuceFestDeuce.
*July… The Deuce Invitational Nerf Golf Championships
*August 4th… So Long Steph, our salute to the departing Steph Nipp.
*September 1st… The Deuce Football Championships, Season II
*October 6th… Deuce Semi-Formal
*December 15th… It’s a Wonderful Deuce

The Deuce Online
Our webpage is up! Its still in the early stages, but you can find archives of all the encouragement mailers, a few stories here and there, and some other stuff. Pictures are to come soon. It should be up at TheDeuceOnline.com, so try it out.

Common Ground
You can also visit the awesome job that Meredith Q is doing on the CG webpage at this address: www.geocities.com/cground2

Feedback, comments and all that rot are welcome! To be removed, simply hit reply and type “remove me from your list, you sexy brown man”.

Dave

The Deuce Weekly, 3/5 - 3/11/01

(all notes in grey and italicized are written on 3/6/06)

Vol 1, Iss 3
3/6-3/12

If I could be serious for a minute:
Over 25 students in the middle school alone have come to Christ in the last three weeks or so. If that isn’t enough to make you smile, then just know its absolutely nothing from us... its all God making it happen.

DRL (deuce request live) Top 5 of Everything:
5. The Great Space Coaster. Who remembers it? No gnus is good gnus.
4. Jimmy Bowling. Interesting stories, talks all night long.
3. Omar Vizquel. Signs a contract for 17.5 million less per year than A-Rod. Does cartwheels of joy. Baseball fans will know what I am talking about. (who is Omar Vizquel? no, seriously--I don't remember this guy)
2. Jason Lazzero. Signs a contract with Student Life for far less then 17.5 million per year than A-Rod. We all praise God for his faithfulness.
1. Rebecca St. James. One heck of a concert. (it was a good concert)

Coming up at The Deuce:
*March 9th-March 9th. Come over about 11 Friday evening, and at midnight, enjoy a pancake, waffle, egg midnight breakfast. Two dollars per person covercharge, all you eat. Josh on waffles, Dave on cakes, and we’ll hang out into the wee hours of Saturday morning. Oh, and the Deuce Cafe coffee will be open.
*On March 11th, its Selection Sunday for The Big Dance. We are going to try our first March Madness prognostication round-up, so email me to sign up. So far we have Wookiee, Justin, Drew and Matt. Who else dares? And Matt said for the women to not sign up and waste our time.
*March 17th-This is a Common Ground thing, but I encourage you to help if you can. We are babysitting for the young married class at Valleydale. One guy per two girls... can’t go wrong, huh?
*March 25th is Oscar Night at The Deuce. I have a copy of the Oscar ballot, and can email it to you upon request, or you can go to EWonline.com and get them. Everyone picks the winners from the 23 categories, the best record gets you two free movie passes, provided by The Deuce. (Steph & Shawn tied for this game last night)
*April 7th-Cracker Barrel Saturday. We had almost 20 this past weekend meet for breakfast, so if you aren’t there, you miss out!

The Spotlight Haiku
To show our appreciation to everyone around The Deuce, I bring you our salute
to you guys. This week’s haiku salutes Eddy McBroom, our wonderful youth
pastor at Valleydale Baptist.

See Eddy teach kids
See Eddy clean out buffets
Eddy Loves Mary

Coming Soon:
*May 4-6... The Deuce follows Common Ground and invades Panama City
*June 28-30... Stages: In the Round with V’dales WalkAbout drama team.
*July 7th... DeuceFestDeuce.
*July... finally, the Deuce Open Invitational Nerf Golf Championships (still, never happened)
*August... So Long Steph, our salute to the departing Stephanie Nipp
*September... The Deuce Football Championships, Season II
*October 6th... Deuce Semi-Formal
*December 15th... It’s A Wonderful Deuce: The Party

Thanks for all the great feedback from you guys on the newsletter... keep that (constructive) criticism coming!
Dave

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