More of a Historical Archive - Moved to our Facebook page.



If you are a member of the church or a youth parent, we are scheduling most youth events on the Blaze Facebook page now. I am only periodically updating this site. Most parents have already joined the Facebook page and if you have not done so please send me a request and I'll add you. In Christ, Guy Willis

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Heavens For Real - May 4, 2014

Blaze rode the Tide to MacArthur Mall this afternoon to see Heaven is for Real. Great movie. We also ran into Spiderman while there.




8th Annual Norfolk Tides Outing - April 27, 2014

Today the weather was meant for the national pastime and Blaze spent it at Harbor Park.  For next time we will try to get Section 213, Rows V, W, X, seats 1 thru 6.











Sunday, February 1, 2015

Cooke Elementary After School Program 2013-2014

Blaze and Team Aldersgate continued the outreach to those wonderful kids at Cooke Elementary through 2014.




Saturday, January 31, 2015

BLACKSTONE 2014 A WINNER ONCE AGAIN

On February 7-9, 2014, Blaze participated in the annual youth retreat.  For some of our graduates this would be their 7th and last Blackstone (or Rockbridge) event. 







Buffalo Wild Wings - February 9, 2014

Another Blaze stomping ground.  


5th Annual New Year's Lock-In

Once again it was up all night with our youth.  No place better to bring in 2014 than right here.





Living Nativity December 2013

This year's Living Nativity had an first ever: An All-Youth cast at one point.  It was very cool.













Trunk or Treat 2013

Truck or Treat was loads of fun this year, Hannible (Gary) Lecter, Elizabeth studying, and the Field Family handing out candy.





Regent Commercial

Since Guy is in the commercial I'll post it here also:
Regent University's new commercial. My son makes it into the commercial for about 1/2 a second before he disappears behind the raised hands. At time 0:28 on the left. You'll never see him unless I walk you there: start with the guy in the gray Regent hoodie; behind him is the girl in red; behind her is the young man with red hair; behind him the boy with the beard and the dark haired girl. Behind and between those two is my son. I'm so proud.

Starting Our 5th Season. October 16, 2013

Blaze and Team Aldersgate began it 5th season supporting the Cooke Elementary After School Program this week,  Thank you everyone who prepared food, bought food, or came out to help at Va Beach UMC tonight. Those Cooke Elementary kids were awesome as usual. We will start our regular schedule of first Wednesdays in three weeks on November 6th.




Bowling Outing - September 22, 2013

Never a bad time bowling with friends.





The 8th Annual Blaze Golf Tournament - September 14, 2013

The 8th Annual Blaze Golf Tournament was played on Saturday. Thank you Kevin, Krista, and Gary for coming out and mentoring the youth throughout the day. Thank you Cynthia for buying us breakfast. We still need to order trophies but the inscriptions will read for Taylor: "Most hole-in-ones" (really no one had more holes in one than Taylpr); for Melissa: "Best first time golfer ever" (won that hands down); for Tucker: "Best Overall" (we are going to call him Tiger from now on); and for Tyler: Best Drive (we are still waiting for his ball to land). We went to Eastside Subs afterwards and had a great lunch. Wonderful day for golf. Thanks everyone.






A Gathering at One of Our Favorite Places - Q Masters - September 9, 2013

So we went to Q-Masters for lunch and to play pool. When we sat down in the dining area I noticed the kitchen counter was full of prepared food, but when I looked around we were pretty much the only people there. I figured there might be a large group in the back. Our server recognized us from being in there before and I could see she was talking to the cooks about us behind the counter. She came over to our table and explains that the cooks had been practicing making all the items on the menu and offered to let us have anything on the counter at no charge. What are the odds of bringing in a pack of hungry youth to have lunch just as the cooks are finishing up preparing the menu for practice? God is good all the time.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Buffalo Wild Wings - July 29, 2013




Blaze sang Happy Birthday to Guy and then gathered at Buffalo Wild Wings for lunch.  

Games & Eats #3 - July 26, 2013





We had some Blaze alumni join us for Games & East #3 and a marathon match of tailgate toss.