Check this band out!

This band is called - All Sons and Daughters.  I've put up one of their songs up earlier this year.  Here is another great song by them.

I've also attached the lyrics.

There was a day we held our breath
And felt the sting of bitter death
When all our hopes were buried in the grave
Our eyes awake our hearts were torn
Between our faith and what we knew
Before our king was buried in the grave

And grace was in the tension
Of everything we've lost
Standing empty handed
Shattered by the cross

All we had
All we had
Was a promise like a thread
Holding us keeping us
Oh from fraying at the edge
All we knew
All we knew
Was you said you'd come again
You'd rise up from the dead

There was a day we looked for proof
That you had risen from the tomb
And all our doubts began to roll away
We touched the scars upon your hands
You kept your word
Oh son of man
You buried death by taking on the grave

You came here to save us
Cuz everything was lost
No longer empty handed
Clinging to the cross

All we had
All we had
Was a promise like a thread
Holding us
Keeping us
From fraying at the edge
All we knew
All we knew
Was you said you'd come again
You'd rise up from the dead

It is is won
It is done

All we have
All we have
Is the promise like a thread
Holding us keeping us
Oh from fraying at the edge
All we know
All we know
Is you said you'd come again
You rose up from the dead

Winter Weekend - 3 part event!

I hope you all are enjoying your time with your family. We have talked about this weekend event for a couple of weeks now, but I wanted to give you all some details concerning the Progressive Dinner/ Overnighter/ MAC Missions. It's a three part event that will be tons of fun.

Tomorrow, December 28th, we will be meeting at the Lighthouse at 6pm. Please be on time so we can have plenty of time to travel house to house.

We will be travelling to three different locations enjoying appetizers, a main course, and a dessert.

After our bellies are full, we will go to two different houses and spend the night. The guys will spend the night at the Setters, and the girls will spend the night at the Brown's. We are okay to stay up, HOWEVER, we will NEED TO SLEEP at some point in the night because...

We will be leaving the houses at 10am to go do a service project at the Moore Activity Center, in Covington, KY. We will be serving the center from 10:30-2:30.

Our goal is to be back to the Lighthouse by 3pm on Saturday.

You will NOT need any money for this event.

If you are not able to attend part of this event, don't worry! Feel free to come to as much as you can. We are providing a lot, because we know that the days after Christmas can start to run a little slow, and you may not be able to see your friends as much.

If you have any questions, just e-mail, text, or call me.

Caroling tomorrow - CANCELLED

Tomorrow's caroling extravaganza has been cancelled.  The latest weather report has it raining most of the late afternoon and evening, which was when we were going to carol.  Please pass the word along to any and all of our friends!

Please Watch!

Here we come a carolin'

This Saturday (December 15th)  we will be caroling at local neighborhoods.

We will meet up at the Lighthouse at 5pm and be done by 9pm.  The original calendar said from 3-8pm, but we have changed the time.

 If you can come late, or if you need to leave early, NO PROBLEM! Just call and find out where we are, and join in.

The Point - Christmas!!!

This Wednesday (December 12th) we will be having our annual "Dress as your favorite Christmas Character" Contest.

Find a character that you absolutely love and dress up like them for Christmas. You could be Frosty, Rudolph, Buddy the Elf, or even the Grinch!

Anyone who participates will receive a prize, and we will also have one fabulous prize for the best costume.

Christmas Time Is Here!

Christmas festivities are upon us now!

We have many things happening this month.  Each week this month we will have a little something "extra" for our Wednesday night services.

This Wednesday is the Church's Holiday Dinner.

In the weeks to follow we will have our "Dress as your favorite Christmas character contest" and our annual "Ugly Christmas Sweater" Contest.  We are going to expand it this year.  We are asking people to wear anything tacky.  So if you were given a tie, or a shirt, or earrings that you only wear once a year, bring them in.

We've also added a few new things this month.  We will be caroling throughout different neighborhoods.  We will also be having a mission project at the MAC in Covington.

Check the calendar.  We'll soon have a calendar of the next 6 months.

We know that your month will be crazy at times and really boring, so we are going to offer as much as we can to help you through the boring times of December.

Merry Christmas!

Medical Release Forms

We are making things a little easier for the students and their parents.

On one of the tabs above you will see "Medical Release Forms".  This medical release form will be good from now until the end of the 2013 year.  We will have copies of this form available at the Lighthouse.  By filling this out, you will not have to fill out any other medical release forms for the rest of the year (besides the one for camp.)

Halloween Outreach

Here is some more info on the our Halloween Outreach, this Wednesday!

Trick or Treat lasts from 6-8pm.  We will be setting up at 5pm.  If you are available to come out and help, we could use your help then!

Several hundreds of people will be in the Hartland neighborhood.  Our goal is to give hotdogs, hot chocolate and hot apple cider to anybody that is in the neighborhood. 

Some of you will be handing out the goodies to people that visit my house.  Others will travel, going house to house giving the goodies to the houses that are passing out candy.

We need some donations!

We are in needs of...

Hotdogs, buns, and condiments.
Canned Drinks
Condiments
Crockpots

We will have a party after the trick or treating.  During this time we will give prizes out for best, funniest, and creepiest costume of the night.

Please wear something that is apropriate.  We are representing our church in this event.

Fall Party - CHANGED!!!

So we've been talking about a fall party at the Lighthouse on Halloween.  We are changing our activity... just a little bit.

We are going to participate in an outreach event during the Halloween event.  The event will still last from 6-9pm

From 6-8pm we will be cooking burgers/hotdogs for the Hartland subdivision.  We'll also be passing out candy, hot apple cider, and info about our children's and youth events. 

From 8-9pm we will have an after party at my house (which is in Hartland).  We will have our costume contest with prizes for creepiest, funniest, and best costume.

If you would like to help us grill or if you can help provide hamburgers or hotdogs please e-mail me at oakridge.youth@hotmail.com

Fall Retreat!

Fall Retreat Weekend

 

November 9-11th

Cost - $60.00

Location - Underwood, Indiana

 

Signup in the Upstairs of the Lighthouse

Summer Mission Trip

Here is an update on the summer mission trip/camps.

High School students will have the opportunity to serve in Eastern Kentucky.  We will be working with churches in an Appalachian community.

We are working on getting some solid dates. We should have those by the end of the month.

If you aren't able to attend this trip, you can still attend Crossings at Jonathan Creek.

Camping!

Boys Fishing Retreat This Friday!

Here are some details on the event...

1.  It's going to be awesome.
2.  There is no running water, but there is electricity.
3.  You need to pack sleeping bags.
4.  Bring some fishing gear.
5.  Food is provided!
6.  It's going to be very awesome.
7.  We will be leaving Friday afternoon, and returning Sunday morning after morning service.
8.  Transportation will also be provided!

If you have questions, see Chad Martin, Scott Daugherty, or Matt Pendley.

New Series!

 

Goodbye September!

It's been a while.  It's been too long.

Here are some things you may have missed if you weren't at youth this month...

We had hundreds of students come together for 3 nights.  We sang in song, we listened to how God is "better than... anything", and we saw lives changed.

We got to listen to an amazing speaker from Kazhakstan.  His life was changed by a simple gift in a shoebox through Operation Christmas Child.  We were blessed to hear his story of finding Christ surrounded by non-believers.

Millions of students worldwide came togethr to pray at a flagpole.  We saw more and more students go to Walton Verona, Simon Kenton, Summit View, Twenhofel, and other schools, professing their love for Christ.

We finished a series on living a missional life.  We are beginning to understand that our life has a greater purpose and its time for us to do something in the world around us.

We were challenged to leave a life changing book for someone to read.  Our goal is to leave dozens of Bibles in public areas so that others may read the Holy and true Word of God.

But September is over now....  It's gone and we can't go back no matter how hard we try.  Its time to move on.

What can we do next?  What can we see God do in our lives?

Reveal Workday

This Saturday (September 15th).

3 pm

Piner Baptist.

Workday.

Be there!

*If you need directions let me know.  We need a lot of help, so if you are able to please come out this Saturday!  We will be doing some painting so make sure you wear appropriate clothing!

We will be working on the background and set of Reveal.

REVEAL - T-Shirts

Here is the shirt design for this year's REVEAL.  If you would like one, they are $5.00.  Give me the money and your size and we will get you one ASAP!

DirtyFridge

The Dirty is back friends!

We will start back practice this Sunday at 5pm.  We will meet at the church.  If you have never been to practice, and would like to join, this would be a great time.  We will talk about this year's goals and plans for the group.

Operation Christmas Child - Youth Event

There is an exciting thing happening this Saturday, September 9th at 11am.  We are having an Operation Christmas Child (OCC) youth event at Piner Baptist.

If you need a ride, we'll be leaving the Lighthouse around 10:30am.  Don't be late!

Timur Nesbitt will be speaking.  He grew up in Central Asia.  He will sharing his experience as a person who received a shoebox from OCC.

We'll also have a small worship service lead by our very own youth!

Stranger Video

Here is the video from last night.

Orange Schedule

We now have our ORANGE Schedule finalized.  To find the material you will be helping out with, just lick your name.  A document will come up which will explain exactly what will be happening that week.  If you haven't signed up but still would like to help, let Bro. Thom know ASAP.

Here is our helpers so far:

September (starts September 9th)-

Week 2 - Gail Wallace, Cassie Schoborg, Josh Ball
Week 3 - Tina Broaddus, Leah Painter, Alex Schoborg
Week 4 - Shelley Pendhttps, Sarah Setters, Noah Pendley
Week 5 - Cynthia Jones, Zak Setters, Ben Schoborg

October (Starts October 14th)
Week 2 - Autumn Schneider, Chris Setters, Nichole Daugherty
Week 3 - Sandy Hammons, Nathan Daugherty, Caitlin Hammons
Week 4 - Gail Wallace, Cassie Schoborg, Josh Ball

Text Message Ministry

We are starting a new accountability/uplifting ministry. 
Every school day we will text message out a scripture.
If you would like to receive that daily text of scripture, we will have a sign up sheet today during "The Point".

New Wednesday Nights

Starting this Wednesday, August 22nd we will be starting a new Wednesday program.

After much prayer and consideration we have decided to cancel our afterschool program.  If it looks like we need to bring it back we can always do that but for right now we will be cancelling it until further notice.

Youth Choir will still have at 6pm in the Sanctuary.  I encourage all of you to be a part of this ministry.

The Point will now be in the Lighthouse at 7pm.  The doors will open at 6pm so if you would like to come early you may, and when you get out of choir you can come on over to the Lighthouse.

We will have drinks and snacks upstairs.  This is NOT a meal.  We are expecting you all to eat before you come to church.  We will have good snacks but if we start to see students using this as their dinner we'll have to take the snacks away.

The Point will start at 7:05.  At the time the upstairs snacks/drinks will be shut down and everyone will need to have finished eating/drinking before they enter "The Point".

As most of you have already seen The Point looks more like a worship service.  We have more music and preaching.  We've opened up time before and after to hang out, play games, and eat.

Orange - Youth Help

We are starting a new children's ministry on September 9th.  One of the exciting aspects of this ministry is that youth will be able to help out.

The children's church time will now go the entire hour.  Children grades 1-5 will be meeting in the upstairs of the children's department from 11-12 on Sunday mornings.

Here is where the youth will fit in...

We need helpers that will assist in children's church.  These helpers will help run the tech equipment, as well as help out with skits and leading worship.

We only need 1-2 youth every week.  We are also instituting a rule that youth are only able to help out with children's church 1 out of every 4 weeks (the other three weeks you will be in the main church service).

So if you would like to help out with skits, setting up/tearing down, running sound/video equipment we will have a signup sheet available this Wednesday during the point. 

Give Me Faith

This song was on my iPod this morning.  Take time to listen to it today.

There are many times in our life when having faith in God is so easy.  But there also many times when doubt seems to run throughout our life.

Our faith in Christ will help shape the decisions we make.  If we trust God, we will follow what He tells us to do.

How much do you trust God?

Or maybe a better question is...

How much of your life do you trust God with?

Back to School - In the Pool!

This Wednesday is our annual back to school party. 

The pool party goes from 5-8pm on Wednesday.  We will have The Point at 7pm at the pool.

We'll have games, food, and a good time of fellowship/storytelling to start off the new school year.

The party is at the Setters' house.  If you need directions, call the church (363-4363) or ask another youth.

If you attend youth, this would be a great thing to invite your friends to!  We would love to see some new faces!

Let's get ready...

Tonight in The Point, we talked about no longer living as a dead person.  We talked about how we need to "kill" our sin on a daily basis and put on good things.

Here were the two lists that were made.  One is a list of things we should get rid on a daily basis and one is a list of EVERYTHING we should put on everyday.

Copy and paste, print out, do whatever you can to remind yourself.  School is starting back.  Let's live each day not for ourselves but to glorify our Maker.  Read Colossians 3.  Why do we live like we are dead when we've been given life?

Which will you choose today?

Orange Luncheon!

We are having a meeting after church this Sunday (August 6th) about our new Children's Ministry Strategy - Orange!

The youth are encouraged to attend this meeting as well.  There will be many opportunities for you all to be a part of this new ministry.  Please invite friends and families to this (especially if they have children in grades K-5).

The meeting should last a little over an hour.  We will have food at this event!

Youth Ministry Overhaul

The next two Sunday nights will be pretty big when it comes to our youth ministry.

We will be having meetings to discuss our youth ministry as a whole.  Everything... and I mean EVERYTHING is on the table.  We'll be discussing all of our ministries, events, Bible studies, outreach, and communications.

This Sunday we'll focus on our Fall and Winter activities and ministries.

We want to do our best in growing our ministry to glorify God.  We may be changing certain aspects of our ministry so make sure you come out and share your opinion.  If you don't come out you may lose a ministry or event that you really want!

Here are just some things we will be talking about THIS Sunday...

1.  Afterschool Program
2.  Middle School/High School Ministries
3.  The Point
4.  Halloween events
5.  Reveal - Youth Revival
6.  Thanksgiving/Christmas events
7.  SHARP Groups
8.  New Year's Lock-In
9.  Outreach events

10.  Lighthouse Ministries

Sunday's gameplan - July 29th

Everything is normal for Sunday except for our 6pm time.  Sunday School and DirtyFridge practice will be the same!

At 6pm we will be planning our outreach event for Southside Baptist Church and their VBS.  Even if you aren't able to attend the VBS event please help us with the planning.

Future Sunday night plans
August 5th - Youth Meeting about fall and winter
August 12th - Youth Meeting about Spring, Summer, Camps, and Mission Trips
August 19th - Orange Training
August 26th - Orange Training

Hillsong Concert Question

Here is a video of Hillsong's "Search My Heart".  This group is one of the biggest names in worship music today.  They have written hundreds of songs throughout spanning many decades.  Other songs you may know...
-  Take it all
-  None but Jesus
-  From the inside out
-  Mighty to save
-  Hosanna

They have a concert September 14th.  Tickets are $30 unless we order more than 10 and it drops to $25.

Please let me know if you are interested in attending this concert by clicking on the survey located to the right.
Only click if you are interested and ABLE to go.  We want to reserve tickets soon, and if we know if more than 10 are attending than we can lower the price!

Outreach Next Week!

I wanted to let you all know that we have an awesome opportunity to reach the city of Covington next week.  We were recently invited to help Southside Baptist Church with their Vacation Bible School.  This church is in the heart of downtown Covington.  It has a place called the MAC which is a lot like our Lighthouse.

We know its short notice but if you are able to help out some of the days that would be awesome.

We will be leading Recreation Time with the kids.  We will be playing games with 3yr olds all the way to 6th graders.

The VBS is NEXT WEEK (July 30-August 3rd).  It goes from 6-8:30pm everyday.  We will provide transportation to Southside each day.

Our regular Wednesday service, The Point, will be replaced with helping Southside with their VBS.

We need to know how many people will be helping so please respond to this e-mail with your name, and which days you will be available to help work with this ministry.


If you need more info please don't hesitate to call/text - 8598668812, or e-mail me - Oakridge.youth@hotmail.com

3rd Attempt!

We are trying again tomorrow! (July 25th)

Field Day Ministry at Hartland Subdivision
5-8pm.

Meet at the park around 5pm.

See you there!

Field Day Postponed

We've checked the various weather services and it doesn't look good for this evening.  We will go ahead and postpone the field day to next week.

The storms are supposed to roll in around 5pm, and on top of the storms there is also a heat advisory until close 8pm.

We will have a worship service in the Lighthouse at 7pm.  There is also a meal meeting at 6pm.

Field Day Rain Plans

Right now the forecast says that we are at risk for severe storms for tonight.

Be on the lookout for text messages and website posts for further info.

If it is storming severely we will have a worship service at the Lighthouse at 7pm.

Final word will be sent out by 3:30pm.

Youth Camp Service

We will be having a youth camp service this Sunday morning.  We will be taking over the entire service and one of the things we'll be doing is special music.  Start thinking of the stories of when God was moving in your life.  We will be singing this song.

We will need everyone to meet during Sunday School in the Sanctuary this Sunday to go over everything.  I'll let your Sunday School teachers know what is going on.

Wear your camp shirts and nice pants.  Please try and wear khaki's but if you have none to wear then you can wear NICE jeans.  Do NOT wear pants with holes or are too tight.  Nobody should be wearing shorts.  If you wear something inappropriate you will have to stay out in the congregation.

Field Day Ministry - July 18th!

This Wednesday, July 18th, we will be having our field day ministry.

We will be meeting up in that park at the Hartland Subdivision (where the Brown's live).  Hartland is located next to the Independence Cemetery. It is near St. Cecilia Church, and down the road from the Independence Courthouse.

We'll be spending our time playing with neighborhood kids and then sharing a Bible study near the end.

We have 2 goals.
1.  Spread the gospel to a local neighborhood
2.  Invite them to church and let them know about our children's ministry.

The event will be from 6-8pm.  Students working and helping out need to be here at 5pm.

I am Jonah

The kids are now at POI's (Point of Impact).  We have some icing cakes, doing crafts, tubing, kayaking, playing basketball, and zip lining.  We are about to have lake time where kids can climb inflatable icebergs, jump on water trampolines, slide down water ziplines, and fly off of the infamous blob. 

We have good news about the blob this year.  In years past the weight difference between the blobber and blobbee had to be 50 lbs or less.  This year they bumped up the weight difference to 100lbs.  If you have no idea what I'm talking about, it basically means that someone my size gets to jump onto an inflatable pillow with someone who weighs 100 lbs less than me on the other end.  This will catapult them off into the water and simply put, it... is...awesome!

Pray for our kids as they continue their study through Jonah.  We our blessed to have Rob Turner as our speaker.  He was our camp pastor last year, and as most of you know, spoke out our youth revival service last fall (REVEAL).  He is doing a great job at getting out of the way, and letting God move.

We will be presenting the gospel at each church group time.  It may sound like we are overdoing it, but when it comes to the Gospel, as Christians we should never get tired of hearing it.  The gospel is what keeps us going.  It's our lifeblood and without we would be nothing.

We're here!

We made it to Jonathan Creek safe and sound!   Thanks to Bro. Byron for driving the bus.

It started raining last night which was a WONDERFUL blessing!  The forecast is much cooler for the rest of the week.

We'll have photos soon! 

If you would like to see our worship service this evening, get on facebook, and look up the Crossings Camp page.  They will be streaming the worship service live.  Our worship starts at 7pm CENTRAL TIME.

Here are some things you could pray for:
-  Most of our students have never been to camp.  Pray that they adjust quickly and comfortably
-  We have a lot of students who do have Jesus as their Savior and Lord.  Pray for life changing decisions this week.
-  We have a lot of students going through a lot of junk.  Pray that they can surrender everything to God.
-  Pray that we stay safe and injury free!

We'll have a post later on today. 

What are we called to do as Christians?

He has told you, O man, what is good;
    and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
    and to walk humbly with your God?
                                                Micah 6:8

Do justice
Love kindness
Walk humbly

This past Sunday we talked about each of these things God requires.

The thing that stands out to me first is how it always starts with a verb.  DO justice.  We know God's way, we know how God intended things to be.  It's now time to DO things that are fair, right, and on God's standard.  There is a group that God repeats over and over and over again in His word.  God instructs us that they be treated with love, kindness, fairness, and justice.  That group is the widow, the fatherless, and the foreigner/sojourner.  How would you live this out?

The Hebrew word for kindness, can also be translated as the New Testament Greek word for mercy or grace.  Think of that phrase again.  LOVE mercy.  LOVE grace.  How do we LOVE those things?  I can appreciate when I see a kind deed being done.  When I see someone hold the door open for me and wife, but I don't know if I love them for doing it.  Do you appreciate that God sent His Son to die on a cross for your sins?  Or do you LOVE God for giving you grace and mercy?  Do you LOVE the grace and mercy that you don't deserve that has saved you from God's wrath?  How would you live this out?

We sometimes confuse humility with low self-esteem, or low self-image.  Humility is more about perspective than anything.  Being humble is seeing God as this infinitely powerful, infinitely all-knowing, and infinitely infinite, and realizing we are not.  God is perfect.  We are not.  God overcame sin.  We have not.  Do you start to see the pattern?  WALK humbly shows that we are to be moving.  A common lie is that you are incapable of doing things because you are not good enough.  God is good, you are bad, so you shouldn't get in the way of His work.  Just sit back and watch someone better do it.  Watch Billy Graham, or a pastor talk to people about Jesus because you aren't good enough.  We WALK with God.  We move with God.  We realize God is powerful and so we stay with Him.  We realize we can't do things on our own, so we stay with Him.  We WALK.  We don't stay.  How would you live this out?

Your assignment is to take these three phrases and translate them for our youth culture.  Do not change the meanings, but find ways that we can remember these points and talk about them easily.  

These three phrases will be our theme that this youth group will have forever.  This isn't a month theme, or even a yearly theme.  This is what God expects from EVERY believer.

How would you live this out?

Middle School Departure

If you are attending Jonathan Creek Camp - meet up at the church at 8:30am.  Our goal is to leave the church parking lot at 9:00am.  The sooner we leave, the more time we have at camp!

A Guide to Great Camping!

I asked our veteran high school students if they could make a list on "how to get the most out of camp".  I must say that I agree with this list.  Even though it may seem a little long, if you follow this list your next week will be absolutely awesome!

Here is their guide to great camping at Jonathan Creek:
1.  Participate in as much group activities as possible.
2.  Don't spend free time in your dorm room (go out and do stuff)
3.  Don't look for camp boyfriend/girlfriends
4.  Don't take your phone anywhere.  Leave it in your dorm!
5.  Eliminate distractions - Focus on God!
6.  Do your quiet time - don't just sleep
7.  Do something you wouldn't normally do
8.  Be serious in worship, have fun in morning celebration
9.  Be active in small groups
10.  Listen to your small group/Bible study leader
11.  Try to learn something from your leader
12.  Sleep!!!  You need your rest!
13.  Don't prevent others from sleeping - They need their rest too!
14.  Keep up with your hygiene!
15.  Don't overdo it on the food - don't waste it
16.  DO EAT - Make sure you eat enough!
17.  Stay hydrated - Drink plenty of WATER
18.  Listen to sermon at night - take notes, look for one big thing each night.
19.  Bring your Bible - to camp, and worship
20.  Listen to your chaperones
21.  Bring tennis shoes and extra socks
22.  Stay in groups of 3 or more
23.  Don't annoy other rooms or groups
24.  Don't spend time "fixing yourself up".  It will be hot and sweaty and your makeup will run!
25.  Start praying not that God prepares your heart!

Attention Middle School Campers

If you would like a list of what to bring to camp click on this link...

http://www.gocrossings.org/camps/students/what-to-bring/

Remember that shoes and sturdy shorts (denim or khaki) need to be worn if you plan on climbing the tower or doing the ziplines.

Girls must wear a one piece, and water shorts if they plan on swimming.

An OAK RIDGE RULE - Please bring t-shirts with sleeves.  You may bring tank tops but you may only wear them in your dorm room.  If you plan on going outside, you must wear a t-shirt.

Short Video of Street Evangelism at New Orleans

Sorry about the shaky camera work.  Here is a small portion of the camp video we will be sharing at the end of the month.

Field Days Postponed!

On the calendar it says that we will be having a field day outreach.  When making the calendar we tried to schedule around many things.  We avoided two camps, vbs, and other summer activities.  For some reason we forgot to plan around the 4th of July.  Whoops!

We will postpone the field day until after the middle school camp - June 18th.  We will still do two separate field day ministries at two separate neighborhoods.

Some of you have asked what we will be doing at this field day outreach.

It will last from 5-8pm.  Our goal is to invite every kid in the neighborhood for a time of games and fun.  
We'll have everything from face painting, kickball games, hotdogs, and other fun stuff for the kids to do.  We are trying to reach students grade 1-8th grade.  We will be telling them about the Orange Kid's Ministry coming to Oak Ridge in September.

We will also have a worship service at 7pm.

For the next few weeks we will brainstorming ideas on how to invite kids and parents to this event.  We will also be planning on how to connect them to our church, and more importantly connecting them to the Gospel.

Check this band out

Check out this band.  They are called All the Sons and Daughters.  They have a pretty unique sound, but their songs are pretty amazing.  Here is one of my favorites.

The Power of Oranges

I promise this is not a post about Major Orange Man...

Here's a quick story of something cool that happened in one of the ministry tracks.  We were tasked with walking through a local neighborhood, find people, share the gospel, and invite them to local churches.

It sounds easy, but its pretty terrifying to put yourself out there like that with strangers.

Our kids were ready though!  We just got done eating lunch and had some leftover food.  The campus that we stay at provides the food.  They have a rule in place that once food leaves their campus they cannot take it back, so any leftovers we had would be thrown away.

We were bummed about the waste but it only took a few seconds on the sovereignty of God and how perfect His plans are.  We took the remaining oranges outside to hand out to people.  We met a man who was from Africa who came to America to study medicine.  We met two elderly ladies that attend church down the road and had a strong faith in the Lord.  We also met a man who spent 30 minutes talking about his life.

Each of these happened with the same beginning.  We literally walked up to them and asked "hey do you want an orange?".  It's an odd request.  I don't know how I would react if someone offered me an orange.  But everyone we offered one to, took one!  Not only that but everyone we offered one to, was another opportunity to share the gospel.

The man from Africa studying medicine had an even more unique story beyond the oranges.

We were looking for people to talk to.  We went outside and looked at the various bus stops.  We didn't see anyone.  We sat down because it was incredibly hot and humid.  We then saw a man (the med student) look at us, and walk across 4 lanes of traffic.  Once he got near us he sat right next to me. 

There are many times we complain that its hard to witness because you just don't see opportunities.  By simply sitting down, God gave us an easy to see opportunity.

It made me wonder how many missed opportunities I have had in my life because I was either too busy to sit down, or to distracted to see the man sit next to me.

When was the last time you shared the gospel with someone?

Day 2 (part 2) -... finding tracks.

Here are what our students and adults are going to be doing this week...

One will be cleaning a park that is bigger that Central Park.
Three will playing games with kids and sharing the gospel with them.
Six of us will be in the streets of the French Quarter, evangelizing to people we meet.
One will be working in a women's home, helping a thrift store.
Five will be working at a women's home for women who struggle with drugs.

Pray for their safety and pray for God to use them this week!

Also pray how God could use YOU this week to glorify His name. 

Day 2 (part 1) - Making tracks...

This morning we arrived in New Orleans.  We walked at the riverwalk area that had some amazing shops and wonderful food.  Our students got to experience authentic Cajun and New Orleans style food.  Many of them have pushed themselves to skip the burger and try things like jambalaya, fried craw-fish, and gumbo.

We then walked around the French Quarter.  It's a section of New Orleans that has many shops, street performers, and artists.  There was this music that played throughout the area.  Jazz was everywhere you looked.

One thing everyone found out quickly.  New Orleans is HOT!  Not just a little hot, or "sit in the shade to cool off hot".  It's hot and humid.  After an hour of walking we decided it was time to leave and head the University.

Getting to Tulane University we saw some amazing houses.  We saw gorgeous structures.  We also saw a lot of poverty.  We saw many homeless people.  We saw many people that absolutely need the Lord.  A lot of people are still questioning why Katrina had to come.

Please pray for the area of New Orleans.  For such a beautiful place it is absolutely heartbreaking to see the spiritual devastation. 

Day 1 - 13 hours... of awesomeness!

Before I begin to tell the stories.  I want to let everyone know that we will be putting pics as soon as we can.  So much has happened in just these two days that we are going to try and organize everything so we don't forget or leave anything out.

First of all, thank you to all of the guys that helped us with the trailer turning signal issue.  Driving through, Louisville, Nashville, and Tuscaloosa made it absolutely necessary for us to be able to merge left and use our turn signal.

We tried!!!  We tried to make it to New Orleans in one day, but we just couldn't.  So we stopped two hours early in Laurel, Mississippi and stayed at a hotel.

13 hours on a church van sounds like insane torture, but oddly enough it wasn't that bad.  When we met up with the Setters' in Brentwood, TN, I expected a fight or struggle on getting off the van, to ride in their nice SUV.

They actually all wanted to stay.  We had to start a rotation, so that everyone got a turn on the SUV.  But it was pretty obvious they wanted to stay on the van.  It wasn't because the van had nice seats, cool air conditioning, and a great stereo system.

Our kids legitimately enjoy being with one another.  It doesn't very significant, but let me assure you how amazing that is.  Nobody enjoyed seeing someone get off the van for their rotation.  The SUV was a much nicer ride, had better sound, had better a/c, and the seats were more comfortable.

We are so blessed as a church to have such an inclusive youth department.  We may have struggles, but cliques aren't one of them.  Of the 11 students on the trip, everyone is comfortable with everyone else.  (And two of our students have never even been to camp with us before!)

To make a long story short.  We have a special group of kids.  We should follow their example sometime!

Middle School Campers - Registration

A couple of you have asked if there is a permission slip to sign to attend middle school camp.

You actually sign up online.  Here is the link that takes you directly to where you need to go!

https://mail.crossingsministries.org/gre/resolution/alreg/2012/index.asp

Remember, to put...

Oak Ridge Baptist - For your church
Covington - For the city
KY - For the state.

Creating an account will let me know you are for sure attending camp!

It's almost here!!!!

The New Orleans camp is almost here!

Get ready for an awesome week of camp and to see God do amazing things!

We will be leaving by 9:00am.  This means that everyone should arrive to church around 8:30.  The sooner we get on the road the better! 

We will be stopping a couple times for gas and potty breaks.  We will also be stopping twice to eat on the way down.

For parents and other church members!  Like always we will have daily updates for you on this website.  I guarantee that our students will have LOADS of stories to tell so our website will be full of awesome stories of lives changed!

Start praying now.  Pray for safety, and pray that God can use us in mighty ways this next week.

Shoes and swimming

Attention High School Students attending MFUGE in New Orleans.

You MUST bring close-toed, and close-heeled shoes to camp with you.  You may bring sandals and flip flops with you but you are not allowed to wear them on the mission sites.  They will not let you go to your mission site unless you are wearing shoes.  Even if you signed up for a less active ministry track you still must wear shoes.

You may bring a bathing suit to camp.  There will be free time during the day for you all to swim if you want to.  There is also a sand volleyball and tennis court.

Good advice for campers...

Just keeping swimming....

Pool Party at the Setters!

This Wednesday!  5-8pm

Please wear a modest bathing suit!

The Point - 7pm will also be at the Setters!

Pizza, swimming, games, worship, and more!

High School Checklist!

If you are attending the high school camp make sure you...

1.  Receive a camp packet from Bro. Thom
2.  Fill out your medical release form
3.  Get it notarized (we have people that can do that at church)
4.  Do the first study in your Dirty Jobs book (pick up a book if haven't gotten one yet!)
5.  E-mail Thom your top three track choices (if you filled out the paper or already e-mailed me you can skip this step!)  -  oakridge.youth@hotmail.com

Calendar Update

The month of August has been added to the calendar.

Make sure you keep checking the calendar for important dates.

Reminder - Tomorrow is the block party at First Baptist Walton.  We will meet up at Oak Ridge at 5pm.  The block party starts at 6pm.

If you need a ride to Oak Ridge let Thom know ASAP.

What am I called to do?

Dirty Jobs

From now until camp, we will be taking Sunday night services and using them to help us prepare for camp.

The Middle School students will prepare themselves on how they will grow at Jonathan Creek.  We will be spending time talking about our goals for the week.

The High School students need to prepare themselves spiritually for the work they will be doing in New Orleans. To help with this the high school students will be working through a 4 lesson study called Dirty Jobs.  Thanks to Valerie for letting us know about this.

Camp Balances Due

Camp Balances are due this Sunday, June 3rd.

If you don't know how much you owe, here is some help on figuring it out.

How much you owe
The original cost of camp - $300
If you paid a deposit - $275
If you worked the fundraiser - $280
Fundraiser + Paid deposit - $255

If money is an issue let me know.  That should NOT be the reason to not attend camp.

If you filled out a scholarship form you will not need to pay anything.

End of the School Year Party - CHANGED!!!!

We have been invited to a block part at First Baptist of Walton.  The block part is next Wednesday June 6th.  We originally had an end of the school year party but we are changing it so we can participate in this event with other churches.

The great thing is that not much will change.  The times remain the same.  If you need a ride meet up at Oak Ridge at 5pm.  If you are driving yourself then just meet us up at First Baptist around 6pm.

There will be live music, games, and a message later.

We will be back at church by 9pm.

David Crowder-less Band

If you haven't heard of the David Crowder Band, I guarantee you've heard of one of their songs.  One of their biggest hits "No One Like You" has been sung at summer camps across the U.S.

This past year the band decided to call it quits.  They released one last album - "Give us rest or a requiem".

Soon after the album was released, news broke that members of the original band were making a new band called "The Digital Age".  It is made up of the David Crowder Band, minus David Crowder.

They haven't released an album yet, but here is a video of their latest rehearsal.

Another good reminder...

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.  John 10:10


What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?  He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?  Romans 8:31-32


And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.  Philippians 4:19

Prayer Request Time

The next two days will be a big day for one of our youth families. 

Tonight Lauren Martin will be graduating from Walton Verona.  Her plan after high school is to attend the University of Kentucky. 

Tomorrow her mother, Miss Hasty Martin will be traveling to Africa.  As most of you know Hasty has been involved with a wonderful organization, Operation Christmas Child (OCC).  This ministry gives churches opportunities to reach out to people all throughout the world.  With a simple shoebox full of toys and toiletries, we are able to share Christ's love and the gospel with children that have never received a gift before.

This past year Hasty was invited to help distribute the boxes in Uganda.

Please pray for Hasty, Chad, and Lauren.  Pray for Lauren as she finishes this chapter of her life and starts a new one.  Pray for safety for Hasty as she travels across the seas.  Pray for Chad as he supports his family.  Pray a prayer of thanks that God is sovereign and in control of all of these situations.

Take a few moments everyday to lift this family up in prayer.

VBS 2012!

Just a reminder to everyone that VBS is soon approaching!  Vacation Bible School is now in June!

The dates for VBS are JUNE 17th-22nd

Middle School students will be with me in the youth class.  High School students are encouraged to assist teaching the other classes.

Our theme is usually a little different than the rest of the kids in VBS.  Our theme this year is "The Race!"  Invite your friends and start praying now for this great ministry!

Orange is coming...

Start praying for something new that will be happening this Fall.

We will be launching a new ministry and YOU can be involved.  If you have a heart for children's ministry stay tuned for more information on this new ministry.

Special 5th Service

On Wednesday, May 30th we will be having a special worship service.  Any month that has 5 Wednesdays, we take that last Wednesday to have a special service.

This worship service will be for middle and high school students.  We will also be taking that time to talk about our summer plans.

DirtyFridge will lead worship.

This will also be the last day of the afterschool program.

A good reminder...

Ever felt worthless or that you couldn't do anything right?  Ever felt like you just weren't good enough?  Watch this video.  You are God's beloved creation!

Graduation Banquet!

You're invited!  Our First Graduation Banquet!

Date : Saturday, May 12th
Time : 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Where : Fellowship Hall

Plan on attending this special time as we celebrate the lives of our seniors.  We are inviting parents, relatives, youth workers, and students.

If you would like to help we are in need of side dishes and drinks.  We will be having chicken for our main course.

For High Schoolers

Here is a list of different tracks you can choose for the High School camp at MFUGE.  We will be staying in New Orleans this year.  Everyone attending camp needs to pick their top three choices. Everyone needs  to pick something that they enjoy doing, but also pick something that is a little challenging.  Each track has its challenges.  I encourage everyone to pick something more social.  Painting, Construction and Yardwork, is a great ministry, but this track is not for mature Christians.  This is usually for students who are not good at sharing their faith, so unless you feel God calling you to this ministry, try not to sign up for this track.

Children’s Ministry
This ministry track involves working with children in a variety of settings including: Vacation Bible Schools,
Backyard Bible Clubs, Day Camps, and other site-specific work with children. The purpose of this track is to minister to children, providing your students with the opportunity to teach and lead children through Bible
stories, games, crafts, and music.
Social Ministry
This ministry track provides students a variety of ministry opportunities for meeting the physical, emotional,
mental, and spiritual needs of people. Students in this track my minister in: mentally/physically handicapped
centers, homeless shelters, soup kitchens, food banks, clothing closets, furniture distribution centers, refugee
ministries, prison ministries, Baptist Centers, Salvation Army Sites, and other community organizations with
similar purposes. Students will work both directly with people in the community as well as behind the scenes.
Painting, Construction, and Yard Work Ministry
Students in this track will spend their time doing light construction work, roofing, repairing, cleaning, painting, and yard work. These tracks work with various organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and local housing authorities to meet the physical needs of churches, schools, families and individuals.
Creative Ministry
This ministry track uses the gifts and abilities of students to minister through drama, interpretive movement,
puppets, clowning, singing, and other ministry performances. Students in this track will spend their week
traveling to nursing homes, children’s centers, residential homes, beaches, parks, and other places where they will be able to minister creatively.
Games and Recreation Ministry
This ministry track is designed to help students use their athletic ability and willing hearts to share the gospel
through sportsmanship and Christ-like attitudes. These tracks are located in children’s centers or homes,
apartment complexes, and boys and girls clubs.
Peer Ministry
This ministry track is offered in Nashville and New Orleans and is designed to train students to minister to their peers. This track will focus directly on students’ ministering to other students through opportunities of service and building relationships. Throughout the week students may work in a variety of ministry settings, such as foster homes, teen centers, community centers, etc. Students need to have completed 10th, 11th or 12th grade.
Evangelism Ministry
This track is designed to give students an opportunity to share their faith with people in the community. The
track will work in populated areas and will engage people in conversation through handing out refreshments,
organizing activities, playing music, etc. Students may also partner with local churches to pass out flyers and
prayer walk as part of church planting efforts.

For Middle Schoolers

It's time to register for your POI's and fill out your medical release forms for the summer camp at Jonathan Creek - Crossings!

Please visit this website - https://mail.crossingsministries.org/gre/resolution/alreg/2012/index.asp. 

Click on "New Participant".  Even if you attended camp last year you need to create a new account.

Once you do that, make sure you click "Oak Ridge Baptist", "Covington" and "Kentucky".

Here is an important step.  You will get an student ID.  Please write it down and make sure you have it handy.  You may need to log back in to fill out more information.

Finally, you do NOT have to have your medical release forms notarized this year.  Just as long as there is an adult witness to witness you and your parent signing the form that is all we need.  You CANNOT attend camp without a medical release forms.

The POI (Points of Impact) are basically the activities you will be doing throughout the week.  There will be a brief description of each activity.  You can change your selections, but keep in mind that the sooner you signup the greater the chance you have at getting your choice.  I encourage everyone to try new things, but only sign up for things you will be willing to do.  (For Example - Don't sign up for climbing if you are deathly afraid of heights.).

Any questions just shoot me an e-mail - oakridge.youth@hotmail.com

Religion or Devotion?

This is a video that I've watched many times.  This is David Platt, the writer of Radical.  I encourage EVERYONE to watch and share this powerful video.  As Christians we have a lot of work to due, and it's going to take sacrificing everything to do it. 

My Child Revelation

This post is about something God revealed to me yesterday.

I got some unexpected to myself.  I had been around a lot of distractions that were taking my focus off of God.  To make a long story short, I knew that I needed to take this time and just talk with God.

I started praying for specific youth and then I started praying about myself.

A great conviction came over me.  In the past couple of weeks I had done one-sided prayers.  I had been so distracted and "busy" that I had a hard time actually hearing what God had to say.  During this time I was reminded of how Elijah waited for God.

God is completely all-powerful.  I think sometimes we say this and believe it.  But then we get an unhealthy view of our life.  With prayer, we begin to think of God as one who serves us.  Our prayers become lists of empty words and requests.

So I started to pray differently.

I just stopped talking.  I didn't say anything.  I cleared my mind of all my thoughts.  I just waited.

I waited to hear God.  I no longer was in control of the prayer.  I put my prayer in God's hands.  I just waited for Him to move.

And then something amazing happen.  Two words came into my head.  I didn't hear the physical voice of God saying these two words, but I knew God was speaking to me.  He only said two words and it radically changed my night.

"My child".

I knew that God was my Father and I knew I was His child.  But to be honest I spent more time of thinking God as my Father than the other way around.  I knew God as my Father, but I never spent much time thinking that God viewed me as His child.

On the surface it doesn't sound like a big difference.  God is my Father and I am His child sounds like the same thing.  But last night, something deeper was revealed about this relationship.

I am a child of God.  I am loved.  I am cherished and cared for.

The feeling that I got last night was relief.  I am His!  After hearing this I broke down.  All of the distractions and walls I had been putting up the past couple of weeks soon fell down.  I was a helpless child and I found comfort in that.

Yes God is my Father and I can go to Him for anything.  But I am also His child.  I'm not just a child.  I am His child. 

He knows my heart and loves me anyway.

Scholarship Deadline!

This is a reminder that scholarships for youth camps are due THIS SUNDAY, April 29th.  If you help lowering the cost of camp, please fill out this form and turn it in to Bro. Thom.

MFuge Change -

We will be leaving for New Orleans sooner than expected.  Instead of leaving Monday morning, we will be leaving June 24th Sunday morning at 9am.  This will give us plenty of time to rest, eat, and see the town before camp.  Make sure you mark your calendars for the change!

No Afterschool Program This Week

This Wednesday - April 25th - We will NOT be having the afterschool program.  We will still have our regular youth choir practice at 6pm, and our youth services at 7pm.

May 30th will be the last afterschool program of the school year.

Check out this Christian Artist!

Rachel Chan has an album out called "Go".  She is the daughter of Francis Chan (author of Crazy Love) and she is ONLY 16 YEARS OLD!  I encourage everyone to check out her album.

Here are the lyrics to one of her songs -

*High School Students - This was the song we talked about tonight.  You can find it on youtube or iTunes.   The message of this song is a very difficult one to live out.  Sometimes God calls us to be friends with non-Christians, and sometimes He calls us away, because they are pulling us away from Him.  A friendship built on Christ is literally and everlasting friendship.

Ready and Waiting

Its not that I don't love you
I hope you understand
Because of what your choosing
I can not be your friend
But oh how i love to take your hand
and lead you away from where you stand
But I can't walk beside you
On a road we know is wrong
It breaks my heart to leave you
In a place you don't belong
And God knows I wanna stand by you
But until the day you love whats true

I'll be ready and waiting here for you
As soon as you find nothing satisfies
your thirsty eyes then you'll see
why I had to leave

I know you think your alright
But you can not deny
Your life was so much brighter
When you lived it in the light
I know what its like to live a lie
To feel like your broken deep in side
I know how it hurts to cross that line
So until you've left that world behind

I'll be ready and waiting here for you
As soon as you find nothing satisfies
your thirsty eyes then you'll see
oh I hope you see soon

I know what its like to live a lie
To feel like your broken deep in side
I know how it hurts to cross that line
So until you leave that world behind

I'll be ready and waiting here for you
As soon as you find Jesus satisfies
your thirsty eyes then you'll see
why I had to leave

I'll be ready and waiting here for you
As soon as you find Jesus satisfies
your thirsty eyes then you'll see
why I had to leave

Stop and Think

Please take some time to watch this video.  Very strong presentation of the gospel.  This is Francis Chan, the writer of Crazy Love.  Share this with your friends and family!

MFuge - High School Camp - New Orleans

I AM JONAH - Middle School Camp - Jonathan Creek

Crossings 2012 - I AM JONAH Trailer from Crossings Camps on Vimeo.

Camp Scholarship Form

Camp will be here before we know it!

It will cost $300.00 to attend either camp this year.  We understand that this is a lot of money so we are doing all we can to lower that amount.

At the top of the Website you'll see a form that says "Camp Scholarship Form".  Simply fill it out and turn it into Bro. Thom.

Please have your forms in by Sunday, April 29th.

Money should NOT be a reason for you to not attend camp this year!

D-Now Photos

On the right hand side of the web page click the photo.  If you have more photos give me a flash drive with them on it, or put them on facebook!  We'll be loading videos very soon!

Hotdog Popcicles!

This past week during the afterschool program we stumbled upon something wonderful.  Something great.  Something that the world may not be ready for!

Hotdog Popcicle

Here is the recipe....

Ingredients -
Hot Dogs
Water

Directions -
1. Take a pot of water.  Boil the water.  Put the hotdogs into the boiling.  Cook the hotdogs thoroughly.
2.  Get 6 foam cups.  Fill the cups each with the water used for the hotdog (hotdog water).
3.  Cut up a cooked hotdog and place it in the foam cup filled with hotdog water.
4.  Place spoon in cup, and put cups in freezer.
5.  Wait about 2 hours to freeze.
6.  Give popsicles to the middle school boys.
7.  Bon Apetite!

Ch-Ch-Changes

We're changing things up a little bit on the youth website.  Here are some features that will be coming soon!

1.  Daily Updates - Each day we are going to have announcements, contest posts, pictures, videos, or just a word of encouragement.
2.  Guest Posts - Every once in a while we'll have a guest article from people you know (or may not know).  You'll have posts from Rob Turner, Rachael Hurt, Bro Randy/Byron/Chris, and others.
3.  There will be more photos of stuff we just got done doing!  (Like the D-Now).

Living our lives built on sacrifice

Easter has now passed us by.  For the next couple of weeks you'll probably still find Easter grass, and if you mow the lawn you'll probably mow up some eggs that weren't found.  It's okay to put away all of the Easter decorations.

But it's really important that we don't put away what happened this season.

Jesus Christ died for you and me.  Everything we have ever done and will ever do has been paid for by His death.

This was the discussion we had in the High School "The Point".  We are not saved because Jesus was placed on a cross.  We are not saved because a crown of thorns was put on His head.  We are not saved because of what happened to Jesus' physical body.

We are saved because Jesus absorbed the wrath of God.  The punishment that we deserved.  Jesus took that punishment with Him to the cross.

This has to be what our lives are about.  Knowing this, should change how we live our lives.  We no longer live for ourselves.

Christ has died for your sins not so we can do what we want, but so that we can be freed from sin.

Find ways to remind yourself of what Christ has done for you!  Here is a video that will help!

D-NOW

So it's been a while and a lot has happened this past month, but in just a little while we'll be having our DISCIPLE NOW WEEKEND!!!

Here are some details for you and your parents.

What you need to bring...
1.  Sleeping Bag
2.  Bible
3.  Permission Slip
4.  $10.00
5.  A friend that also has all of the above.

When does it start?  7pm AT THE MAIN CHURCH BUIDLING.  You will meet your small group leader, as well as your host home.  We will have a kickoff, and then a dismissal.

Our theme this year is IMITATOR.  We'll have t-shirts this year that has the same logo.

Some of you have asked if its alright to leave in the middle of it.  The answer is YES.  Come when you can!

Please invite your friends to this.  This is equivalent to a lock-in.  They'll enjoy it, and it lasts longer!

Contest Post

It's finally here!  The big one.  Whoever wins this contest post will know exactly what we will be doing for the D-Now giving them a clear advantage at the task.

Reply to this post, or e-mail me oakridge.youth@hotmail.com

Special Worship Service

This Wednesday, February 29th we will be having a special worship service for the youth.  The middle school and high school will be combined this night.  DirtyFridge will be leading worship for a section of our service.  We will be meeting in the Fellowship Hall at 7pm.

Our goal for this week is to spend the evening speaking directly to God.  Way too often we attend worship services, sing songs, and pray prayers without ever having God in mind.  How can we "worship God" and never even think about Him?

This doesn't mean that we just need to sing louder or better.  You may spend the evening in silence in prayer, or writing a letter to God about the junk in your life, or praising God for all that He is.

Start the worship service today.  Right now.

Don't wait for a specific day to spend time with God.  Do it now.  God may have something He wants to tell you now.

Have you worshipped God today?

Contest Post!!!

First contest post of 2012.  If you read this you will win a fabulous prize...

Just reply to this post, or send me an e-mail at oakridge.youth@hotmail.com

The prize for this post will get to make a major decision concerning our youth camps this year!  They will get to choose the final color of both of our shirts!  This is a major decision.  So if you want to have that power win this prize!

Afterschool Program!!!

Our afterschool program starts this Wednesday!  We've changed it up a little bit but here is the basic schedule...

2:00-3:00 pm - Pick up students from various schools
3:30 - Arrive at Lighthouse - Work on homework
4:30 - Challenge/Open/Service/Tech
6:00 - Youth Choir/Meal Meeting
7:00 - The Point/SHARP Groups

We will leave an hour for homework.  If a student needs more than that they can work on it during the 4:30 time slot.  If a student doesn't have homework they will help setup the fellowship hall for our meal/Church activities.

Each week we will have a different theme.  The theme of each week spells out the word C.O.S.T.  This is a reminder that the afterschool program's cost IS FREE!!!

During the 4:30 time slot students will be...
Challenge - During this time a fun challenge/activity will be presented to them.  They will try to work together as one group, or as separate teams to accomplish their goal.
Open - This week is left open.  Students will have this week free to work on homework, play games, or just hang out.
Service - Many students are in need of service hours.  This week gives student's opportunities to serve the community, the church, and eachother.
Tech - This week is dedicated to all things involving technology.  Students will get to make videos/commercials, work on our website, and learn how to work other sound and video equipment.

Here is an example of a video, that a few of the youth made on a Wednesday...