In a few weeks, we will be traveling to SoulLink, a big youth rally in Houston that our teens have come to love. When we get there, we’ll get to see Josh Kasinger (and his new baby!) as well as lots of other folks.
If you’re a teen, I NEED you to confirm with me exactly who is coming. Seriously guys, I’ve only got one person who has paid so far.
As the teenagers settle in at their retreat center (pictured to the right), I want to take this opportunity to say a special thank you to the Aggies for Christ who were here last weekend. The weekend was fantastic. Our activities included a service project where we distributed door hangers publicizing our upcoming Fall Festival (free to everyone). We passed out or hung up 750 of these door hangers. We had a lot of fun and did even more walking. On Saturday evening, the Aggies led us in a skit-focused devotional that was very thought provoking. For en encore performance, Hutt Hudson in conjunction with the other Aggies taught Sunday school the next morning. We followed up the weekend with an appreciation dinner for the host families and sent the Aggies on their way.
Last month we wrapped up our series on the “Six W’s of Reading the Bible.” Our final two W’s were why and whatfor. In case you were wondering, whatfor is just a w-word for “so what?” The title of this series would have sounded pretty dumb if we had called it “5 W’s and So What?” Answering these questions won’t typically require much except your trusty Bible and your notes from the last four questions.
South Arlington Youth Fall Retreat 2009
Leaving: October 9, 2009 at 6:00pm
Returning: October 11, 2009 at 4:00pm
Cost: $50 per student.
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It’s that time again. Our Fall Retreat is coming up quickly, and we’re all set to go. All we need now is for your participation. We’ve talked about it off and on, and it’s been on the calendar, the whiteboard, the committee meeting agenda for several months. Now it’s time to make it happen.
Today, 9/9/2009, Leadership Network is hosting an online conference called The Nines for church leaders. This broadcast is free to view with no registration required. I caught wind of this through a Facebook post by Russel, our Preacher. The plan here is to have a ton of church leaders present a nine minute presentation with this prompt: If you had 9 minutes to sit down with leaders one-on-one, what would you tell them?
Recently, we continued our series on textual Bible study by exploring the when and where questions that are involved in reading a passage. We continue to explore the book of Titus and practice this reading in small groups during Bible class on Sunday morning. Both when and where help to frame the story in context. The assistance of a good Bible handbook can help to make these questions much easier to answer, especially when one is looking for specific dates or locations on a map.
The past two weeks, we have been studying the first two of the “Six W’s of Reading the Bible” … I place that in quotes only because that’s what I scribbled across the top of my lesson notes. This is really nothing special and exactly what you would expect: who, what, when, where, why, how (whatfor). (We say “whatfor” because “Six W’s” sounds cooler than “Five W’s and an H!”)
This little series is based largely on an adult class that Doug Henson is teaching on Sunday mornings. I have mentioned more than once that it would be good for all of us to go through that class at least once; until then, we’ll pick up the cliff notes in our own class.
It has been a busy and exciting summer. On Thursdays, we have been attending the Arlington Summer Youth Series and having activity nights on the off-weeks. SYS concluded this past weekend at Altamesa Church of Christ with a evening of praise, focus, and thought-provoking skits. On one of our activity nights, we went bowling… which was a hit! We may have to go back soon; a few pictures have been posted here.
Last weekend, we had our Summer Lockin, and that was a blast. Our theme was Lost & Found, and somehow or another about 900 forks found their way into the preacher’s front yard… The pictures will be posted soon.
