An Intro

Hello Exit 31 readers!

This is Dani Lanza- member of the Exit 31 youth group- blogging.

Since Jimmy Whittmer and Austin Detwiler left the Exit 31 youth to attend college, I have volunteered to keep up with this blog. I love to blog, so doing this is a treat! I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for me. What would you like to see on this blog? What changes would you like to be put into effect? What topics would you like for me to cover on here? Since this is a fresh start, I would love to recieve your feedback and I will definitely take everything you say into account.

Also, take time to view the other followers' blogs and go and explore new ones- it's nice to get more insight on different things by different people. I would also like to encourage everyone to try to get involved with the Exit 31 youth group; whether it's helping out with the band, setting up, or volunteering once a month.

I would like to take a minute to promote a Non-profit organization known as To Write Love On Her Arms. You may have already heard or read about this organization, but in case you haven't....

To Write Love On Her Arms (www.twloha.com) is an organization to raise awareness and get help for people suffering from; Depression, thoughts/attempts of Suicide, Addiction, and cutting/self harm. To learn more about this organization, visit the given link. If this is a topic you feel passionately about, visit the website for more details on how you can get involved; such as donating, joining the TWLOHA street team, or creating your own organization.

Remember, LOVE is the movement.

I would like to encourage all of you- and I will be doing this as well- to reach out and demonstrate love; even when it is hard to do so. Love is more-so an action than a feeling, and if you attended the SubZERO winter retreat recently, you would have learned more indepthly about this.

If you have any biblical questions or need help with something, talk to Michael Harder who is the Youth Pastor at Branch Creek Community Church. As much as I would love to offer my insight on whatever you need, and I would love to do so, Michael is the most legit person to go to for help. I am not a credited source of help.

Again, remember that LOVE is the MOVEMENT.

Peace.

1 Corinthians 13: 1-4
If I speak in human or angelic tongues, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not love, I gain nothing.