TBC Youth

The Christian Music Scene

The web is an excellent place to learn about, hear, and see Christian music. There are tons of recources out there to help Christians get connected to Christian music that they enjoy. Here are a few websites to get started, but if you find any other sites that would be helpful list them in the comments below.

Christian Tuner is a website that contains links to live Christian radio stations, TV stations, programs, and music (mp3) downloading sites. There are over 700 live Christian radio and TV stations linked to this site.

This site contains a variety of Christian rock styles.

This site contains a variety of Christian Hip Hop styles.

This site contains a variety of Christian Hard Rock styles.

TVU is an online Christian Music Video feed, which is like MTV for Christians.

If you are interested in Christian concerts in our area, check CONCERTz!

Cardinals Baseball Game

Friday night, June 9th, we went to see the Cardinals vs. the Cubs. Each year Meramec Caverns donates tickets for our youth group to go to the stadium during Meramec Caverns night at the ball park. This year just happened to fall during a time that the Cardinals were playing the Cubs. If you don't know much about baseball then let me point out that there is a fairly significant rivalry between the Cards and the Cubs, which meant a completely packed house. I have been to Busch Stadium more times than I can count, but this is the first time I have seen it that full. Despite being squeezed in there with 49,000 other people it was an excellent game.

Unfortunatly I cannot say that tonights game was excellent. After church, a group of us went to McDonalds to eat dinner and watch the Cardinals baseball game. When we sat down in front of the television we realized that there were a couple of Cubs fans sitting right behind us. I was hoping to see the Cardinals whoop up on the Cubs again, however the Cardinals eight game winning streak ended tonight, 8-4. There is good news; what matters is not the loss tonight, but the eight game winnings streak that preceded this game. St. Louis goes into the All-Star break with the National League's best record at 54-33.

This will be one of the last times we get to visit Busch Stadium because in an estimated 637 days the new stadium will be opening. If you want to check it out and see a live webcam of construction then click here.

The New Cardinals Ballpark is scheduled to open in the spring of 2006. They are placing home plate in the southwest corner of the site and lowering seating and scoreboard heights in center field, so that the majority of spectators will have dramatic views of the Gateway Arch and the downtown St. Louis skyline.

They are attempting to make a connection between the ballpark itself and the emerging urban neighborhood on the north side of Clark Street called Ballpark Village. From Clark street and the village you will be able to see directly into the field as the Cardinals play ball.