March 4th, 2010
SoulLink this year was absolutely fantastic! We talked about how “WE LOVE JESUS” both at church and with our friends. We also talked in our small group about the motivations behind what makes us live our lives one way or another. There’s so much more to learn and discuss than one weekend can hold!
We’ve also gotten the first batch of pictures posted. If you have more pictures, give them to Cameron on a CD or USB flash drive, email them to Cameron or pictures@sacoc.org, or post them at http://www.sacocyouth.org/forms/.
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February 5th, 2010
SoulLink 2010: I Love Jesus.
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.
October 9th, 2009
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.
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October 4th, 2009
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.
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September 20th, 2009
South Arlington Youth Fall Retreat 2009
Leaving: October 9, 2009 at 6:00pm
Returning: October 11, 2009 at 4:00pm
Cost: $50 per student.
Release form: click here
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.
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September 20th, 2009
First of all, I want to thank Rick and his whole family for this fantastic BBQ that we enjoyed this afternoon. Despite the confusion (sorry!), we got 119 orders through in about 45 minutes. There was a lot of behind the scenes work that made this fundraiser a success.
Our target for this fundraiser was $1000. This was to cover the congregation’s portion of the expenses for the teen’s Fall Retreat at Mt. Lebanon in mid-October. We raised $1729.50 in sales and donations. God has truely blessed us today.
The remainder of this fundraiser ($729.50) will be applied to the mission trip we plan on taking this next summer. The collection plate is our primary source of funding, but these fundraisers allow us to continue hosting the best youth program possible despite our ups and downs.
Thank you for making this Fall Retreat possible.
God bless,
Cameron King.
September 9th, 2009
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?
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September 4th, 2009
Rick has graciously offered to prepare tasty food for us as a fundraiser for the youth. We are raising money to go on our Fall Retreat, this October from the 9th to the 11th. We are trying to raise $1000 in order to reduce the cost per teen to only $50. This money will also go to cover the fees for visitors that may be attending as well.
Please consider grabbing a take-out place on September 20th, 2009 following morning services. You will of course, be able to pay cash at the table, but ff you would like to fly though the express lane and pre-order online, please place your order right here at: sacocyouth.org/order. If you’re not ready to order, but you would like to reserve a meal with special instructions (meat selection, veggies), email cameron@sacocyouth.org with your reservation.
August 31st, 2009
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.
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August 17th, 2009
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.
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