About last night …
-I think things just keep getting better and better. Now, I say that knowing that I personally had a few heart sinking conversations last night about the hurts and wounds that our youth are carrying around. So when I say “it’s getting better and better” it means this: we, as a group, understand that nothing else matters except for knowing Jesus and loving his people. As I talked with some of these friends of mine I got this overwhelming sense that even though they are struggling, they are enduring through and leaning and resting in Jesus. Awesome!
-Tiffany Hahn shared her story Tuesday night. WOW! She came from a real crazy situation and God has transformed her into an incredible woman of the Lord. She shared how the JCX peeps have loved her and prayed for her and how that “just didn’t happen” anywhere else in here life. She was told she would be a “waste of space” but was treated with love and dignity by her friends and by the peeps at JCX. Best part was at the end when she said this about Jesus: “Matthew 28:20 ‘Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age’. And it’s so true. Having one person care about me made that much of a difference for me. And I can’t even put into words how much better I am. And everyone here has made a difference in my life. Thank you to everyone.” So great and thank you Tiffany!
-Our focus was how to baptize with your life. We used Matthew 18 as our foundation and talked about what it means to “become like a child in the kingdom of heaven.” We spoke about how we live and not allow our choices, although not always bad, get in the way of what God wants to do in someone’s soul through us. We also spoke about how welcoming someone is not converting them. Welcoming is understanding that they have value and we treat them that way … because they are created by a God.
-Another great story from one of our JCX peeps next week. Also, we’re talking about how we baptize one on one. Get ready! See ya Sunday!
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
JCX 8/17/10
Some quick thoughts about JCX Tuesday:
-It was weird not having the grads there anymore. Although, two of them showed up to give me a hard time and I got to kick them out again! So fun!
-We have a large group of seniors this year. The best part, they are all ready to influence and love. This is the first time in a few years that our seniors have been this fired up! I’m excited for each of them.
-So, has anyone been praying about who will disciple them? How about choosing to disciple someone else?
-There were many new faces on Tuesday. Great job inviting … keep it up. Remember, the goal isn’t to get people to church; the goal is to love them no matter what.
-I had a chance to read the encouragement cards that each of you wrote to our seniors. WOW! Some great stuff with a lot of scripture too.
-If you had your own radio show what song MUST be played?
-Next Tuesday we celebrate our juniors, class of 2012.
-How are those projects for the kingdom worker cards going? Let’s accomplish each one and do it for the Lord.
-This Sunday @945am we have some great things planned. Prepare to get yourself rocked!
-It was weird not having the grads there anymore. Although, two of them showed up to give me a hard time and I got to kick them out again! So fun!
-We have a large group of seniors this year. The best part, they are all ready to influence and love. This is the first time in a few years that our seniors have been this fired up! I’m excited for each of them.
-So, has anyone been praying about who will disciple them? How about choosing to disciple someone else?
-There were many new faces on Tuesday. Great job inviting … keep it up. Remember, the goal isn’t to get people to church; the goal is to love them no matter what.
-I had a chance to read the encouragement cards that each of you wrote to our seniors. WOW! Some great stuff with a lot of scripture too.
-If you had your own radio show what song MUST be played?
-Next Tuesday we celebrate our juniors, class of 2012.
-How are those projects for the kingdom worker cards going? Let’s accomplish each one and do it for the Lord.
-This Sunday @945am we have some great things planned. Prepare to get yourself rocked!
Thursday, August 12, 2010
JCX 8/10/10
Recap of JCX Tuesday:
-Teaching: Our focus for the evening was that you cannot make disciples by the way you live without first surrendering everything. The phrase we talked about was “Jesus is all that matters”. We looked at Luke 6, starting in verse 26, and talked about how this is truly what it means to surrender everything. Great stuff!
-Worship: We spent some time praying over our graduates Tuesday night. There was also a place where they could write prayers and encouragements too. I was amazed at how much was written and what the youth wrote to each other. Very inspiring and encouraging. It’s always a tough thing to see say goodbye to the grads. It’s awesome that most of them our attending local schools and we’ll see them Sunday nights @8pm for our college night called REfresh. Here’s a picture of some of our grads:
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-Celebrate: We handed out the baptism certificates to our freshly baptized peeps. Justin is missing in this picture because he was at football practice and came late. Here they are:
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-Celebrate again: Here are the actual baptism pics (taken by the one and only Amanda Nightingale). They are all action shots coming up out of the water:
Elizabeth
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Kariana
Alyssa
Delanie (to fast for the camera)
Amanda
Justin (I love his face coming out of the water)
-Best part: Hanging out with the group and talking about Jesus. I hope that others will get a chance to come and hang with us Tuesday night. Invite, spread the word … we are fun to hang out with! Really!! Love ya, mean it … Mike
-Teaching: Our focus for the evening was that you cannot make disciples by the way you live without first surrendering everything. The phrase we talked about was “Jesus is all that matters”. We looked at Luke 6, starting in verse 26, and talked about how this is truly what it means to surrender everything. Great stuff!
-Worship: We spent some time praying over our graduates Tuesday night. There was also a place where they could write prayers and encouragements too. I was amazed at how much was written and what the youth wrote to each other. Very inspiring and encouraging. It’s always a tough thing to see say goodbye to the grads. It’s awesome that most of them our attending local schools and we’ll see them Sunday nights @8pm for our college night called REfresh. Here’s a picture of some of our grads:
-Celebrate: We handed out the baptism certificates to our freshly baptized peeps. Justin is missing in this picture because he was at football practice and came late. Here they are:
-Celebrate again: Here are the actual baptism pics (taken by the one and only Amanda Nightingale). They are all action shots coming up out of the water:
Elizabeth
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Kariana
Alyssa
Delanie (to fast for the camera)
Amanda
Justin (I love his face coming out of the water)
-Best part: Hanging out with the group and talking about Jesus. I hope that others will get a chance to come and hang with us Tuesday night. Invite, spread the word … we are fun to hang out with! Really!! Love ya, mean it … Mike
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
JCX 8/3/10
It was a powerful night at JCX Tuesday. Here are the details:
-We started with info about the kingdom worker cards that our youth received at CIY. These cards have specific challenges on them and ask the youth to complete the challenge within the year. An example of a card is: create a free carnival in the park and invite the community to come and play. That’s the idea. We are attempting to complete each card by next years CIY.
-Our CIY people were excited about the debuting CIY video that Matt put together. Here it is:
-During our worship through song each youth wrote their name down on a prayer card. Then they placed those cards on a table and picked up a name and wrote a prayer on the back of the card to that person. Very cool to read what was written and really encouraging for our youth.
-The teaching focused on Jesus and his invitation to “come and see, come and die.” We used Matthew 28:18-20 as our focus. At the end of the teaching we invited our peeps to move if they need to proclaim Jesus is Lord for the first time, reconnect to Jesus or mentor/disciple someone. We also invited our youth to get baptized. That was awesome! Six youth decided Tuesday night was when they wanted to do that. So … we did:
-Such a great night! We are really seeing God transform lives. There were others who said they were ready to be baptized but wanted to wait and talk it over with their parents … which is a good thing.
-Here is a picture of us baptized people praying to close out our time together:
-We started with info about the kingdom worker cards that our youth received at CIY. These cards have specific challenges on them and ask the youth to complete the challenge within the year. An example of a card is: create a free carnival in the park and invite the community to come and play. That’s the idea. We are attempting to complete each card by next years CIY.
-Our CIY people were excited about the debuting CIY video that Matt put together. Here it is:
-During our worship through song each youth wrote their name down on a prayer card. Then they placed those cards on a table and picked up a name and wrote a prayer on the back of the card to that person. Very cool to read what was written and really encouraging for our youth.
-The teaching focused on Jesus and his invitation to “come and see, come and die.” We used Matthew 28:18-20 as our focus. At the end of the teaching we invited our peeps to move if they need to proclaim Jesus is Lord for the first time, reconnect to Jesus or mentor/disciple someone. We also invited our youth to get baptized. That was awesome! Six youth decided Tuesday night was when they wanted to do that. So … we did:
-Such a great night! We are really seeing God transform lives. There were others who said they were ready to be baptized but wanted to wait and talk it over with their parents … which is a good thing.
-Here is a picture of us baptized people praying to close out our time together:
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