Chilibrate Good Times, C'Mon

This past Sunday, we had a great time at our Chilibration after church. We even had the Maricopa Chili Cook-Off winner in our midst. Definitely some good eats, y'all.



A little out of focus...sorry...





Bob Harter sports his college colors...even when they stink. :)



Jon Griffith's mug shot :)

Our New Home

Starting this Sunday, New Valley will start meeting at a new and permanent place. We are psyched. Tonight we unloaded our trailer for the LAST TIME! We needed to have a little fun while waiting on the trailer to arrive. Enjoy.



No, he's not levitating. That's just our drummer being silly.



A fun one with our pastor...



And the original...





These are just plain silly..and not the best Photoshop..didn't feel like selecting everything so closely..

Vision Day

This day was a bit momentous for New Valley. God seemed to have dropped a new facility in our laps when we were hoping for one but not feverishly looking. This was our first service to 'try it out'. We are excited to soon have a new home...a place we can make our own.

This is our worship leader, Carson, doin the strut.



David K, quite the cutie.



David's very cool parents. Jean is an elder at New Valley.



Scott (our pastor) and Jack listen to Jack's iPhone. He recorded Scott saying, "Carson's a tool." (Scott said it by mistake in a sermon. He was describing all the things..tools..God has used at New Valley). Trust us, it's funny.



Jaden, another one of NV's Kidz



Lobbyville





Jeff and Shelley, two of the best greeters you'll ever meet.



Cookies anyone? Lauren, our Impact Director, serves it up.

Brandon's 30th

A few of us celebrated one of New Valley's finest birthday last Friday night. Brandon turned 30, so we surprised him at his fav coffee spot, Lux.







Carson (our worship leader) and Kacie (his beautifal and talented fiancee) silly it up.



Jay, still on his new iPhone, and Herry



Lauren (our Director of Impact) and Kerrith (one of Brandon's good friends from San Diego)

Carson and Kacie's Surprise Wedding Shower

We took a few pics at the small, intimate gathering the Kutskos hosted for soon to be wed Carson (our worship leaders) and Kacie (our head sound tech)(what a great combo, eh?). There are pictures of random people in here..and none of Carson and Kacie. That's b/c the few pics that weren't taken of them just didn't turn out. We will have to get a good one of them and post it soon.

Here is our host..



Another one of our soon-to-be-wed couples..Jeff and Sarah. They are awesome.



Mandy and Rhys, the cutest child in the entire world.



Jay and his new iPhone are one. As it should be.

Inn-n-Out 'n Other Stuff

Church on 8.19.07

Becky (our pastor's wife) handling announcements gracefully...



Carter (one of our pastor's sons) handling the door NOT so gracefully... :)



The Formisano Family...ALWAYS looking good...



A few of us went to In n Out after church. Jack was making fun of me (Jeff) for my Facebook activity. He will soon be judged. :)

Prayer

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Vermon Pierre Wedding

These are some random pics from a wedding we went to for Vermon Pierre...a great guy and pastor of Roosevelt Community Church.



Roosevelt Community Church


This is a pic of three pastors that God has called to help transform the city of Phoenix...David Avila (New City Phoenix), Scott Brown (New Valley Church), and Dave Bennett (New City Phoenix).



David and Ann Marie Avila



Our Pastor



The Pastors' Wives



A different side of our pastor :)

Post Church Fun

Some of New Valley's finest :)



Our pastor and worship leader...being silly.



Jeffarazi



This is sort of a joke. Mike saw a picture I took that had the #95 in it (our table number at Pei Wei). He was like, "Huh, that's cool. My camera doesn't do that." We then had to explain to Mike that it was on the table.





Josh Berryman at same said table.

The New Valley Mercy Team

This is a pic of our Mercy Team sans a few folks. We are reading through a book by John Perkins and are being challenged to think outside the box and out of our comfort zone.



Esch! We'll miss ya, man! Jim and his wife Sherry have taken a job in Chicago. :(