Are you ready to make a difference?
Help the Homeless week is Feb 22-28, but Decision is going to make February, Help the Homeless month.
The City Mission serves lunch everyday and one food they serve a lot is Mac N Cheese. It's cheep and it tastes Great!!! So to help we are going to gather as many boxes of Mac N Cheese as we can. Now I don't want to just get 100 boxes or 300 boxes or even 500 boxes. I want us to raise 1000 boxes!
Why? Well first because there are thousands of hungry people in our community that need food and it's up to us as Christians to do it. There is another reason though. If we raise 1000 boxes our good friend Adam Lackovic will let us dye his hair HOT PINK! This is a win win situation, help the homeless and see Adam with PINK hair.
Who will join me on this?
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Help The Homeless / Make Adam Pink
No Church Tonight
Hey Everyone! Hope you're all doing good.
Church has been canceled tonight due to lots of snow and terrible roads!!!! So stay inside and drink lots of hot cocoa:)
Before I let you go I have some announcements.
1. I'm going to the City Mission this Sunday, Feb 1st. I will be preaching and we are leading worship for the service there. We will leave the church @ 9:30am if you would like to go. This would be a great way for you to serve and help the homeless.
2. Feb 22-28 is Help the Homeless Week, but we are going to take the whole month of Feb to Help the Homeless. We are going to gather as many boxes of Mac n Cheese as we can. This is one Item the City Mission always uses.
If we can gather 1000 boxes, Adam L. will let us dye his hair HOT PINK!!! but only with a 1000 boxes. A box costs like .25 cents. I want to help the homeless and turn Adam Pink, so who's with me?
Thursday, January 22, 2009
New Pics and Encouragement
What's up guys?
Hope you are all doing real good. Just wanted to let everyone know I've updated our announcements as well as got some pics up from Winter Weekend 09. Click the link under the announcements. New music coming soon. Aaaand don't forget our Devo's.
I also want to encourage everyone with what we talked about last night. God is always engaging us and we can have a personal relationship with Him. To the place that we can know His heart, think like Him, act like Him, talk like Him. Our Father wants us to have his power and resources coursing through our lives. This is what sets our God above alllllllll others! We can know Him.
But for it to happen, we must take the time to engage Him. How? By taking time to read our Bibles and meditate on a scripture that sticks to us. Don't just read and leave. Read and think about the one thing that stuck to you. Then apply it to your life. If you don't get anything then use a verse that you know challenges you.
When you pray, pray from your heart. Talk to our Heavenly Father like you talk to people. Don't be rude of course. Hahaha! But talk to Him. Pour out your feelings and what your experiencing. It doesn't have to be fancy. Just real. Five quality minutes with God is better than an hour in prayer and only doing it to reach a goal. God's biggest thing is He just wants to be with You.
Take time each day and do this. Your relationship with God will go deeper and deeper. You'll become a life changer and you will never fail! Why because you are connected to Jesus and He never fails!
Love you each.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Time To Redline
Redline is back! Time to take our journey with God to the max.
Starting Wednesday, February 10th we will begin small groups. Here's how they will work.
1. Every 1st Wed of the month will be a Decision service. This is for everyone, and will be a chance for you to bring a friend! This will kick of the topic for the month as well.
2. Every 2nd and 3rd Wednesday will be small groups. We will meet in the youth room and then break up into our small groups.
3.Every 4th Wednesday will be a flow night. We will have a longer time in worship, prayer for friends and schools, and communion. It's a time for us to really engage God in a deeper way as a youth ministry.
Get ready for deeper relationship building and to Engage God!
Finally New Videos
Don't Drink and Drive
Grocery Store Wars
The Best Thing - Reliant K
New Contest
NEW CONTEST!!!
As Christians we believe the Bible is God's Word. Not just a book, but actually God's Word. Like if Jesus was to stand before you Words. And because it's God's Word, as Christians we need to read it and get it in us. I mean think about it, how are we going to become like Jesus if we don't know what He's thinking or how He lived? It's that important! It's so important that we should carry it everywhere with us. Especially to Church.
Many Christians don't bring their Bibles to Church. How weird is that? You wouldn't go to the store without your clothes or to a sword fight without a sword right? Then we certainly shouldn't forget our Bibles when we at least go to CHURCH. But many of us do.
OK so here's the contest.
Every teenager that can bring their Bible to church on Wednesday nights, will get a check mark next to their name. By April 1st, if you've brought your Bible 6 times you will get your name placed in a hat 6 times. On April 1st we will draw one winner from that hat. The winner will win a New Bible, a New Devotional, Dinner for them and two friends, and two youth leaders of their choice, and also get to go bowling!!!
So what does this all mean! BRING YOUR BIBLES TO CHURCH!!!
April 1st will be a Big Event Night - Details will be coming soon!
February Series
Are You Wearing Your Boundaries?!!!
This February we are going to be talking about love and dating and all that good stuff! And it is good stuff, but a lot of times in our lives our relationships can leave us feeling terrible. Much of it has to do with us not knowing what true love is, part of it is we get into relationships for the wrong reason, but the biggest reason is because we don't have boundaries.
God has created each of us to be in relationship and He has also set up guidelines or boundaries for us to follow in our relationship building. Just like clothes protect us from the elements of the weather, these boundaries protect us in our relationships. When we wear the boundaries it keeps us safe from all kinds of emotional and physical anguish, giving us more joy and happiness than we can imagine, but when we stop wearing those boundaries it can leave us in complete distress.
This month is not about NOT dating, but about how to set up boundaries in your relationships that will keep you safe and prepare you for your future spouse, all while having fun!
Don't miss this!
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Winter Weekend09
Hey everyone!!!
Winter Weekend is this weekend.
We will be leaving the church Friday at 530PM, so be here by 445. Please eat before you come because we won't be serving dinner there. There will be a snack later after our service. Also bring your own snacks if you want.
If you still owe money or haven't turned in your permission slips, please have it when you arrive at the church.
This is going to be a great weekend!