Do you remember the first Disney movie your parents showed you? How about all the innocent songs, dancing animals, and defeated villains? What if I told you that there’s so much more behind that mask of innocence?
Well at InterHigh Monthly V, we delved into true worldview of Disney with about a hundred students from all over the Bay Area!
Worldview of Disney
We began with presentations from our very own mentors on the worldview of Disney, reliving our past a little bit (watching some among us do their best to sing some …

Flowers, chocolate, hearts, and supermarkets flooded with the colors red, white and pink.
That’s what is commonly associated with Valentine’s Day, but for the Element Youth Group, it’s a day to be countercultural, as for the past five years, the holiday has gone hand in hand with demonstrating acts of compassion. Each year, instead of waiting around for that special someone to come knocking on our door, we mobilize and go out into the community to model God’s love.
This year, our gifts of handmade cards and blankets went to the …

Date: Feb 27, 2010
Time: 5-9pm
Place: 2000 North Loop Rd, Alameda, CA, 94502 (Get Directions)

Exposing the Disney Myth.

How many of you have ever watched Little Mermaid? Or Beauty and the Beast? Or Aladdin? You probably thought it was just a harmless kid’s movie, where its all about a beautiful princess finding the love of her life, about love at first sight, and about living happily ever after. But what is the real worldview presented in these movies? What do these movies have to say about relationships, about self-image, and about gender roles?…

Did you know that an average U.S. citizen spends 3,700 hours a year watching some form of mass media? That’s a little over five months!
At last month’s InterHigh Monthly, we learned facts such as this as we excitedly witnessed once again over 160 students flocking from all over northern California to attend, as well as a group that drove four hours all the way from Fresno!
The night started with a talk on the influence of media, as we watched a video created by Focus on the Family titled “Mind Over …

Dates: Jan 30, 2010
Time: 5pm – 9pm
Place: 2000 North Loop Rd, Alameda, CA, 94502 (Get Directions | BART)
Cost: Free!

Happy New Year! We will be kicking off our first InterHigh of 2010 with a jam-packed schedule so you don’t want to miss out!
Session #1: Mind over Media
We’re going to take a look at media’s powerful ability to influence us. Each year, we spend hundreds of dollars per person on media, looking for entertainment or to pass time. However, sometimes we’re getting a lot more than we bargained for. Given that much of today’s media …

Once again, over 150 high school and junior high school students decided to spend their saturday evening at InterHigh. This week we had a chance to look at the inner workings of the cell. The junior high school students got a head start in biology, and the high school students marveled at the intricate processes that take place in a not-so-simple cell.
Watch this animation video made by scholars at Harvard.

It’s the DNA in each cell that makes these intricate processes possible. DNA, as anyone who takes high …

InterHigh is pleased to announce our first Winter Camp!  So far, we’ve had wonderful sessions together, studying apologetics at the InterHigh Monthlies, getting to know another through dinner, fellowship and games.  We feel that it’s time to spend an extended time together at a winter camp, listening to challenging messages about living out our Christian faith.  InterHigh invites all of you, who have been to at least one InterHigh Monthly, to participate.
Here are the details
When?
1.  Begins: Sunday, Dec. 20 at 3pm (We will meet at 2000 North Loop Rd., Alameda, …

Glad you “tuned” in to this week’s recap of InterHigh Monthly 2! This past Saturday, we learned about how our universe is intricately fine-tuned, from some very smart science-minded individuals who earned (or is earning) their science and engineering Ph.Ds at Berkeley. 
We were fortunate enough to have a little bit of their brain power rub off onto us, as we explored a few of the constants that make life possible here on Earth and the strong evidence for design in our universe. Did you know that if our earth was …

Dates: Dec. 5, 2009
Time: 5-9pm
Place: 2000 North Loop Rd, Alameda, CA, 94502 (Get Directions)
Costs: Free!

“I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science. It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaws and holes as sound parts.” – Charles Darwin
“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case” – Charles Darwin
When Charles Darwin first came up …

Well we did it.  We had our first InterHigh Monthly, and we were encouraged by the sign ups and the turn out as we had almost 150 high school and junior high school students get trained on answering the five arguments for the existence of God.  Who would have thought that the arguments could be found in K-MART (Kalam, Moral, Anthropological, Resurrection and Teleological)?
Everyone, from 6th grade to 12th grade were taught how to recite and remember K-MART.  The InterHigh staff were encourage by the student’s ability to regurgitate, with …

We at InterHigh would like to thank all of you for attending Rise: Take a Stand for Jesus. After three months of preparations, the day finally came, and we’d like to thank God for meeting all of you at our first event on Sept. 26th. God answered our prayers, and Pauley Ballroom at UC Berkeley was packed.  Sean McDowell and the InterHigh staff were in awe at the turn out of Christian students, youth leaders and pastors.  We hope that you were all encouraged by the praise & worship, …

Standing in Pauley Ballroom, at 5:55 with a group of other college students, waiting for the clock to hit 6PM, I was more excited than I’d been in a very long time.  In just a few minutes a huge crowd of youth would be coming through those doors, and we had just three precious hours to try to interest them in a ministry that could very well help to define the course of the rest of their lives.  The pressure was on, but at the same time we mentors knew …