The Deuce Weekly, 7/3 - 7/9/01

Vol II, Iss VII
7/3-7/9

Saturday... One Day Only... One Place Only...
Digital Lester making their Musical Debut...
The sounds of Caedmon's Call guitarist Justin Glenn...
The rock style worship of Gotee recording artist Stephanie Knipp...
and, are you The Deuce Weakest Link?

DEUCEFEST DEUCE... Saturday, July 7th, 4pm until at The Deuce.
Three bucks at the door, we'll have Vic & Ken's grilled out burgers and dogs, drinks, an ice cream bar set up, an open pool, and all the fellowship you can handle! Bring light clothing, because it'll probably be hot as anything... but you know it'll be a blast at our biggest summer party of the season! For more info, contact tanguy2001@aol.com

Coming Up:
*Tuesday, July 3rd... BBQ Night
Be at Common Ground at 9pm to help cut up BBQ for sale to fund the Seattle Mission Trip. We need your help! You might want to show up just to see Vic and his machete... should be quite a show. (And of course, as these things are cyclical, Sybil & her group are in Seattle right now)

*Wednesday, July 4th... BBQ Sale
Meet at 7am... yes, I said 7am, at Common Ground to help set up and help sell BBQ! I know, I know, its crack early, but its a great opportunity to serve your friends and brothers and sisters in Christ!

*Sunday, July 8th... Lunch
No lunch at the Nipps! Ken and Lynn are going out for the day, so if you show up at their house, they won’t be around! However, Daniel has offered up his house for lunch... more details in the Weekend Update.

*Saturday, July 14th... le Perc at Common Ground.
A grand coffeehouse at CG, with music, Merdi Q's new poem, fellowship, desserts and lots and lots of caffeine. Advanced tickets available, three bucks at the door. Contact Sybil for more details... Sybil@datacrest.com

*Saturday morning, July 28th... Cracker Barrel Saturday...
Return of the fellowship breakfast! Meet at Cracker Barrel on 119 at 10am for breakfast with all of your closest friends!

*Saturday evening, July 28th... Dinner with Amy V
Amy Valdmanis is having a dinner party, and we are all invited! It's a Bring-A-Dish type of affair, and I'm going to vote to make it casual formal (as in, look nice... no flip flops and biker shorts). It is at 6pm, and possibly RSVP... more details to follow soon.

*Sunday, July 29th... Raiders of the Lost Ark
One of the great pieces of American Cinema is playing on the big screen at the Alabama Theater! Harrison Ford stars in this 1982 adventure classic from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg... we'll be taking a large group for the evening show. More details soon!

*Saturday, August 4th... StephStock
Our salute and goodbye to Stephanie Knipp, the Deuce First Lady. We'll be out in Meredith's field in the outskirts of all civilization, with Factor 7 playing--plugged in and loud. More details to come soon!

Coming Soon:
*July 20th-21st... Youth Evangelism Conference with Salvador, LaRue and Rebecca St. James in concert.
*August 3rd-4th... Furnace Fest, a hardcore Christian Music festival at Sloss Furnace.
*August 7th... N'Sync in concert.
*August 25th... Night Life 2001
*August 27th... Grease at the Alabama Theater

Coming This Fall & Beyond:
*September 2001... Survivor III kicks off
*September 1st... The DFC II Begins. More details soon.
*September 7th-8th... Common Ground Campout at Oak Mountain.
*October 12th-14th... Common Ground Fall Retreat to Dalton, Georgia.
*October 13th... Auburn vs. Florida
*October 20th... DeuceNight, our semi formal.
*October 20th... Tennessee vs. Alabama
*October 28th... Common Ground Masquerade (Halloween) Party
*November 10th... Auburn at Georgia
*November 17th... Iron Bowl Party at Sybil's house
*December... Jill and Jason graduate from AU and UA, respectively.
*December 20th... Common Ground Christmas Time Special
*December 22nd... Its a Wonderful Deuce Christmas.
*December 31st... New Year's Eve Bash
*February 9th, 2002... Deuce Date Party 2
*May 2002... Star Wars Episode II
*Summer 2002... Matt and Ginger have a wedding.

The DRL (deuce request live) Top Five of Everything
The WalkAbout Dinner Theater Edition
5... Dr. Earl, taking care of one of my girls after she sliced her toe on some metal (Kourtney Kelley did just this.. slicing her foot on a piece of sharp grating that hung from the Jungle ceiling. Earl took care of her until her parents got her to the doctor to get stitches)
4... Our boat people-Tommy, Coop, Jenn and Drew
3... Eddy, for being foolish enough to let me run things. Ha! Sucker!
2... Daniel Powell, the do it all guy of the week (Daniel was the man this weekend, he really did do almost everything technical)
1... Scott Latta, for the random act of eating a stale cookie onstage. (Man, this was funny)
Just missed the cut: Josh the Maitre'd, Krista Mc, Robin Paschel, Shawn Sharp and Dinner Theater weekend.

The Spotlight Haiku
This is number 7 out of our 8 part Deuce Haiku Series... this time, darn it, I give the spotlight to ME! Well, actually, me and the drama team... courtesy of Steph Nipp.
WalkAbout with Dave
Young thespians do their best
God shows them the way

This Week's Top Ten List
In Honor of Independence Day... Top Ten Things I, Dave Dollar, Love About America
10... The Deuce readers are amongst the most easily amused in the world.
9... Good looks aren't necessary to have a successful newsletter
8... Try and find cheese fries in The Hague, you chester.
7... The flowing, melodic sounds of our national language, Spanish.
6... Fine Hollywood products, such as the hit motion picture Black Dog, and family friendly venues to show them, like Cinemax After Dark.
5... If you change your name to something stupid like The Rock, there is still a good chance you could be considered cool.
4... We got Valdmanis! (I think this was the week when I had a crush on her or something)
3... Name another country where you have a North AND a South Dakota.
2... In any other country, Ty Coffey would have been assassinated by now.
1... Its where all my cds are.

Top Ten Christian Albums of All Time,
as voted on by you, the DW audience.
We now move up to the number six spot on our countdown... and here are Drew Morris' top five: 5) Supertones, "Strike Back"; 4) MxPx, "Life in General"; 3) dcTalk, "Jesus Freak"; 2) Craig's Brother, "Homecoming"; 1) dcTalk, "Free at Last".
Number Ten - Craig's Brother, "Homecoming"
Number Nine - Third Day, "Third Day"
Number Eight - Nichole Nordeman, "Wide Eyed"
Number Seven - Caedmon's Call, "Caedmon's Call"
Number Six - Nichole Nordeman, "This Mystery" (no kidding... a fabulous album that has gotten better as the years have gone by)
Nichole Nordeman's second album does a couple of things... it avoids the "sophomore jinx", or following up a great first album with a subpar second album, and it puts Nordeman into a select group of artists that follows up a great album with an incredibly great album... ie, dcTalk, WaterMark, Audio Adrenaline.
Nordeman is becoming a masterful writer of worship and storytelling, touching on a range of emotions and theology on "This Mystery". The title track confronts the question of the mystery that is God, while fare like Tremble speaks of fearing God, Fool for You speaks of a willingness to be open in faith, and a great Stevie Wonder (!) cover, As, tells of His great love for us. Perhaps her greatest achievment, however, falls on the final track, a live version of her song Why. It is this song that caps off the album, sealing her forever in my mind as a blessed writer of love, as she tells of a little girl who witnesses the persecution of Christ, and in her innocent mind, can only ask "Why?"
Hillary Kelley wrote a few weeks ago of Nordeman's insights into the Christian walk on her (Nichole's, not Hillary's) first cd, "Wide Eyed". That continues here. -- DW ed

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