Archive - November 11, 2012

Caleb, Jacob, Rachel, and Abby joined David Curtis in leading the youth in worship during our final session. They did a great job! We’ll welcome David back any time possible.

Toby concluded the night by giving the youth a time to laugh. It’s amazing how many church bulletin typos he shared with us.

We are not rooted in God’s love if we are not joyful. The three main thieves of our joy are 1) Satan 2) Self and 3) Situations. Our joyfulness flows from knowing that our God is in control. The God who is in us is greater than the god of this world. Our actions spring from a boldness and confidence that only the Holy Spirit can give. In the words of the song “Our God” that our band sang this weekend, “And if our god is with us, then what could ever stop us. And if our God is for us, then what could stand against.”

Thank you to all of our church members who committed to pray for individual students this weekend and to write them a note. Thank you to the Sunday school class that stepped up and provided amazing suppers for the students. And a huge thank you to the brave college students that acted as small group leaders and to the church families who opened up their homes for the students to spend the night in. God has truly been at work in their lives this weekend. May all glory go to Him and Him alone.

We kicked off this afternoon with our second large group session of the weekend, led  in worship by David Curtis, lead singer of Run Kid Run. After recording a Christmas song Friday morning, he traveled to Jackson, TN to help our kids worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth. You can check him out at www.davidjosiahcurtis.com.

Toby then continued our study of being Rooted in God’s love by basing his sermon in Luke 15, the Prodigal Son. As he walked us through the story, he reminded us that we don’t have to get cleaned up to come back to God. Praise the Lord that He doesn’t make us grovel for forgiveness because He already paid the debt on the cross for us.

During free time, the girl’s had the opportunity to serve Birth Choice. They painted canvases with Bible verses. Birth Choice will be putting the decorations in their celebrate life bag – the bag that they present the mothers the day they give birth to their baby.

And the entire youth group helped our church pack Operation Christmas Child boxes with one of our Sunday School classes. All together, almost two hundred boxes were packed today!

Continue to pray for the students as we will enter into our third and last large group session at 7:00. Pray for our student band that will be leading worship with David.