Tuesday, September 29, 2009
INTERNET SAFETY CLASS FOR PARENTS @ FBC-H
First Baptist Church-Huntersville is hosting the CMS Parent University class "Just Visiting - Internet and Cyber Safety Class" on Monday, October 5th from 6:30-8:00 p.m. This session, which will be held in the Education Building, is taught by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and offers families information on how to limit risks posed by Internet predators and reduce access to inappropriate sites. The session will also explore current trends in young people's internet usage and the important role the internet plays today in social interaction. To register for the class, call 980.343.0318 or visit www.cms.k12.nc.us (click on Parent tab and then Parent University).
Monday, September 28, 2009
YOUTH COUNCIL MEETING - Oct. 4TH
Our next meeting will be OCTOBER 4 at 12:00-2pm in room 101 in the Discipleship Center. Students, remember to email or call your representative and let them know any ideas or suggestions you have for our student ministry for the upcoming year. Also remember to share any prayer concerns and/or praises that you may have so the council can lift them up in prayer as well.
A STORY TO WARM YOUR HEART...ENJOY!
THE OLD FISHERMAN (a short story emailed to me)
Our house was directly across the street from the clinic entrance of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to out-patients at the Clinic. One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at the door I opened it to see a truly awful looking man. 'Why, he's hardly taller than my eight-year-old,' I thought as I stared at the stooped, shriveled body. But the appalling thing was his face, lopsided from swelling, red and raw Yet his voice was pleasant as he said, 'Good evening. I've come to see if you've a room for just one night. I came for a treatment this morning from the eastern shore, and there's no bus 'till morning.' He told me he'd been hunting for a room since noon but with no success; no one seemed to have aroom. 'I guess it's my face. I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments...'
For a moment I hesitated, but his next words convinced me: 'I could sleep in this rocking chair on the porch.. My bus leaves early in the morning.' I told him we would find him a bed, but to rest on the porch. I went inside and finished getting supper. When we were ready, I asked the old man if he would join us. 'No thank you. I have plenty' And he held up a brown paper bag. When I had finishedthe dishes, I went out on the porch to talk with him a few minutes. It didn't take a long time to see that this old man had an oversized heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to support his daughter, her five children and her husband, who was hopelessly crippled from a back injury. He didn't tell it by way of complaint; in fact, every other sentence was prefaced with thanks to God for a blessing. He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease, which was apparently a form of skin cancer. He thanked God for giving him the strength to keep going.
At bedtime, we put a camp cot in the children's room for him. When I got up in the morning, the bed linens were neatly folded, and the little man was out on the porch. He refused breakfast, but just before heleft for his bus, haltingly, as if asking a great favor, he said, 'Could I please come back and stay the next time I have a treatment? I won't put you out a bit. I can sleep fine in a chair.' He paused a moment and then added, 'Your children made me feel at home. Grownups are bothered by my face, but children don't seem to mind.' I told him he was welcome to come again. And on his next trip he arrived a little after seven in the morning. As a gift, he brought a big fish and a quart of the largest oysters I had ever seen. He said he had shucked them that morning before he left so that they'd be nice and fresh. I knew his bus left at 4 a..m. , and I wondered what time he had to get up in order to do this forus.
In the years he came to stay overnight with us there was never a time that he did not bring us fish or oysters or vegetables from his garden. Other times we received packages in the mail, always by special delivery; fish and oysters packed in a box of fresh young spinach or kale, every leaf carefully washed. Knowing that he must walk three miles to mail these and knowing how little money he had made the gifts doubly precious.
When I received these little remembrances, I often thought of a comment our next-door neighbor made a fter he left that first morning. 'Did you keep that awful looking man last night? Iturned him away! You can lose roomers by putting up such people!' Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice But, oh! If only they could have known him, perhaps their illness would have been easier to bear. I know our family always will be grateful to have known him; from him we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint and the good with gratitude to God.
Recently I was visiting a friend who has a greenhouse. As she showed me her flowers, we came to the most beautiful one of all, a golden chrysanthemum, bursting with blooms. But to my great surprise, it was growing in an old dented, rusty bucket. I thought to myself, 'If this were my plant, I'd put it in the loveliest container I had!' My friend changed my mind. 'I ran short of pots,' sheexplained, 'and knowing how beautiful this one would be, I thought it wouldn't mind starting out in this old pail. It's just for a little while, till I can put it out in the garden.' She must have wondered why I laughed so delightedly, but I was imagining just such a scene in heaven. There's an especially beautiful one,' God might have said when he came to the soul of the sweet old fisherman. 'He won't mind starting in this small body.' All this happened long ago -- and now, in God's garden, how tall this lovely soul must stand.
The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.' Friends are very special. They make you smile and encourage youto succeed. They lend an ear and they share a word of praise. Show your friends how much you care.
Our house was directly across the street from the clinic entrance of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to out-patients at the Clinic. One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at the door I opened it to see a truly awful looking man. 'Why, he's hardly taller than my eight-year-old,' I thought as I stared at the stooped, shriveled body. But the appalling thing was his face, lopsided from swelling, red and raw Yet his voice was pleasant as he said, 'Good evening. I've come to see if you've a room for just one night. I came for a treatment this morning from the eastern shore, and there's no bus 'till morning.' He told me he'd been hunting for a room since noon but with no success; no one seemed to have aroom. 'I guess it's my face. I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments...'
For a moment I hesitated, but his next words convinced me: 'I could sleep in this rocking chair on the porch.. My bus leaves early in the morning.' I told him we would find him a bed, but to rest on the porch. I went inside and finished getting supper. When we were ready, I asked the old man if he would join us. 'No thank you. I have plenty' And he held up a brown paper bag. When I had finishedthe dishes, I went out on the porch to talk with him a few minutes. It didn't take a long time to see that this old man had an oversized heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to support his daughter, her five children and her husband, who was hopelessly crippled from a back injury. He didn't tell it by way of complaint; in fact, every other sentence was prefaced with thanks to God for a blessing. He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease, which was apparently a form of skin cancer. He thanked God for giving him the strength to keep going.
At bedtime, we put a camp cot in the children's room for him. When I got up in the morning, the bed linens were neatly folded, and the little man was out on the porch. He refused breakfast, but just before heleft for his bus, haltingly, as if asking a great favor, he said, 'Could I please come back and stay the next time I have a treatment? I won't put you out a bit. I can sleep fine in a chair.' He paused a moment and then added, 'Your children made me feel at home. Grownups are bothered by my face, but children don't seem to mind.' I told him he was welcome to come again. And on his next trip he arrived a little after seven in the morning. As a gift, he brought a big fish and a quart of the largest oysters I had ever seen. He said he had shucked them that morning before he left so that they'd be nice and fresh. I knew his bus left at 4 a..m. , and I wondered what time he had to get up in order to do this forus.
In the years he came to stay overnight with us there was never a time that he did not bring us fish or oysters or vegetables from his garden. Other times we received packages in the mail, always by special delivery; fish and oysters packed in a box of fresh young spinach or kale, every leaf carefully washed. Knowing that he must walk three miles to mail these and knowing how little money he had made the gifts doubly precious.
When I received these little remembrances, I often thought of a comment our next-door neighbor made a fter he left that first morning. 'Did you keep that awful looking man last night? Iturned him away! You can lose roomers by putting up such people!' Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice But, oh! If only they could have known him, perhaps their illness would have been easier to bear. I know our family always will be grateful to have known him; from him we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint and the good with gratitude to God.
Recently I was visiting a friend who has a greenhouse. As she showed me her flowers, we came to the most beautiful one of all, a golden chrysanthemum, bursting with blooms. But to my great surprise, it was growing in an old dented, rusty bucket. I thought to myself, 'If this were my plant, I'd put it in the loveliest container I had!' My friend changed my mind. 'I ran short of pots,' sheexplained, 'and knowing how beautiful this one would be, I thought it wouldn't mind starting out in this old pail. It's just for a little while, till I can put it out in the garden.' She must have wondered why I laughed so delightedly, but I was imagining just such a scene in heaven. There's an especially beautiful one,' God might have said when he came to the soul of the sweet old fisherman. 'He won't mind starting in this small body.' All this happened long ago -- and now, in God's garden, how tall this lovely soul must stand.
The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.' Friends are very special. They make you smile and encourage youto succeed. They lend an ear and they share a word of praise. Show your friends how much you care.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
YOUR 2009-2010 YOUTH COUNCIL READY TO SERVE YOU!
Here is our new Youth Council that will be assisting Marcus & the adult support group in shaping what the student ministry will look like in the months ahead. If any students have ideas, concerns or thoughts that they would like represented at the youth council meetings, share it with the your grade representative. They are eager to serve and I know for just our first meeting that this year is going to ROCK!!!
Kylie Nall (pres.), Davis Seeger (vice pres.)
Aaron Adams, Jessika Doras (connection catalysts)
Taylor Doras, Drew Barnett (worship catalysts) &
Grade Representatives:
12th - Savannah Mays
11th - Emily Seeger
10th - Mac Ingland
9th - Sam Orr
8th - Bethany Kreitter
7th - Even MeMellon, Annie Tsumas
6th - Katie Novak, Brittany Morris
The next Youth Council Meeting will be Sunday, Oct. 4 @ 12-2pm in the Discipleship Center room 101. Council lunch options are to brown bag it, order pizza & chip in $ or order Jason's Deli delivery.
Kylie Nall (pres.), Davis Seeger (vice pres.)
Aaron Adams, Jessika Doras (connection catalysts)
Taylor Doras, Drew Barnett (worship catalysts) &
Grade Representatives:
12th - Savannah Mays
11th - Emily Seeger
10th - Mac Ingland
9th - Sam Orr
8th - Bethany Kreitter
7th - Even MeMellon, Annie Tsumas
6th - Katie Novak, Brittany Morris
The next Youth Council Meeting will be Sunday, Oct. 4 @ 12-2pm in the Discipleship Center room 101. Council lunch options are to brown bag it, order pizza & chip in $ or order Jason's Deli delivery.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
UPWARD BASKETBALL & CHEERLEADING REGISTRATION NOW UNDERWAY!
Signups – See flyer on league website (www.huntersvilleupward.org) or pick one up at the church office. Flyers will also be distributed through your school or via mail, if you participated last year. Evaluation and Uniform Fitting – Mon, Tue & Thu (10/19/09, 20 & 22 from 6pm to 9pm at Lake Norman Baptist). Everyone must attend one basketball evaluation or cheerleading orientation.
Early Registration ends 10/16/09. Price jumps from $74 to $84 after that date, so sign up now. Final Registration is 10/22/09. Absolutely no registrations will be accepted after 10/22.
Our league also needs coaches (basketball and cheerleading), referees, game day help, devotion speakers, and more. Whether you have coached, refereed, or assisted in the past – or – whether you have never been involved before, we need you. Upward is a faith-based league and is a great outreach program for our community. Please consider joining us in this ministry. With your help, we can make this one of the best seasons ever. Games run each Saturday for eight weeks beginning January 16.
If you have any questions, need additional information, want to sign your child up, or volunteer for one of the above needs, then contact Garren Thomas at: garrenthomas@roadrunner.com or 704-875-8496 (home).
Thanks Garren for serving as our commissioner for upward basketball. Let us do our part as well to offer you and the rest of the team the assistance you need to make this year the best it can be.
Early Registration ends 10/16/09. Price jumps from $74 to $84 after that date, so sign up now. Final Registration is 10/22/09. Absolutely no registrations will be accepted after 10/22.
Our league also needs coaches (basketball and cheerleading), referees, game day help, devotion speakers, and more. Whether you have coached, refereed, or assisted in the past – or – whether you have never been involved before, we need you. Upward is a faith-based league and is a great outreach program for our community. Please consider joining us in this ministry. With your help, we can make this one of the best seasons ever. Games run each Saturday for eight weeks beginning January 16.
If you have any questions, need additional information, want to sign your child up, or volunteer for one of the above needs, then contact Garren Thomas at: garrenthomas@roadrunner.com or 704-875-8496 (home).
Thanks Garren for serving as our commissioner for upward basketball. Let us do our part as well to offer you and the rest of the team the assistance you need to make this year the best it can be.
Friday, September 11, 2009
It this something you would be interested in attending? Let Marcus know asap so we can plan it. However, we still need you to be be there to support the 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament raising money for World Hunger on Sunday, October 18th (the next day) following church!
Charlotte - Oct 17! TobyMac, Mercy Me, Fee & Robert Pierre invade Lowe's Motor Speedway! 4 Great Bands & 500 miles of Excitement!
S.W.A.T. TEAM RECRUITMENT for World Hunger Day
Reminding everyone that World Hunger Day is fast approaching (Sept. 26th) and it is that time again to rally the troops (youth) for the SWAT Team. From year to year this event could not occur if it wasn't for the amazing youth who give of their time and energy to serve our Lord by helping in various ways. Youth would help setting up, taking down, cleaning up and all the while having attitudes that point others to the difference God makes in a believer's heart. Wow! What a witness! If you fit these qualifications - you breathe, love God & want to make a difference - email Tom Pluer (this year's SWAT Team Coordinator) the info below at tmpluer@bellsouth.net a.s.a.p. and watch God work!
Name___________
Email___________
Cellular #_________
Time available to help on:
Friday (Sept.25)______
Saturday (Sept.26)_______
Particular Department:______
T-Shirt Size: _______
Name___________
Email___________
Cellular #_________
Time available to help on:
Friday (Sept.25)______
Saturday (Sept.26)_______
Particular Department:______
T-Shirt Size: _______
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
THE REVOLVE TOUR - OCT. 2-3
Anyone interested in attending or chaperoning a group to the Revolve Tour in Charlotte on October 2-3? This is a weekend for teen girls (6th-12th grade) and is full of amazing music, relevant real-life stories, drama and excitement to truly get their spiritual batteries charged. For more information go to "RevolveTour.com". Marcus needs to hear from interested chaperons & youth BY SEPT. 20th!! Cost is $60 per person for conference. This does not include lodging because it is in Charlotte and food will be on-your-own.
So what is a REVOLVE GIRL?. . .
LOVED
This is what real love is:It is not our love for God; It is God's love for us in sending his Son to be the way to take away our sins. - 1 John 4:10
RELAXED
So don't worry, because I am with you. Don't be afraid because I am your God. - Isaiah 41:10
CONFIDENT
If God is for us, no one can defeat us. Romans 8:31
SECURE
Don's be afraid, because the Lord your God will be with you everywhere you go. - Joshua 1:9
HOPEFUL
God loved us and through his grace he gave us a good hope & encouragement that continues forever. - 2 Thess. 2:16
So what is a REVOLVE GIRL?. . .
LOVED
This is what real love is:It is not our love for God; It is God's love for us in sending his Son to be the way to take away our sins. - 1 John 4:10
RELAXED
So don't worry, because I am with you. Don't be afraid because I am your God. - Isaiah 41:10
CONFIDENT
If God is for us, no one can defeat us. Romans 8:31
SECURE
Don's be afraid, because the Lord your God will be with you everywhere you go. - Joshua 1:9
HOPEFUL
God loved us and through his grace he gave us a good hope & encouragement that continues forever. - 2 Thess. 2:16
SUNDAY SCHOOL LEADERSHIP BREAKFAST THIS SUNDAY SEPT. 13
Thank you for agreeing to serve as Bible Study teachers in the 2009-2010 church year. You are ALL important members of our Discipleship Ministry Team. I look forward to serving alongside of you this coming Bible Study year.
You are invited to join your fellow Bible Study teachers and outreach leaders for breakfast this coming Sunday, September 13th. We will meet at 8:00 a.m. in the dining hall. Our purpose is to CELEBRATE and AFFIRM your calling as Bible Study leaders and to gather for a time of PRAYer for our Bible Study ministry. We will have a time of corporate prayer led by Rev. Gene Phillips as well as a time of small group prayer.
Also, during both of our morning worship services, we will present our Bible Study Teachers to the congregation and offer a prayer of commissioning for your ministry.
Please let me know if you plan to attend the breakfast. I am thinking of fixing pancakes…..anyone game to help?
See you Sunday…..Ms. Tina
“How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news.” Romans 10:15b
You are invited to join your fellow Bible Study teachers and outreach leaders for breakfast this coming Sunday, September 13th. We will meet at 8:00 a.m. in the dining hall. Our purpose is to CELEBRATE and AFFIRM your calling as Bible Study leaders and to gather for a time of PRAYer for our Bible Study ministry. We will have a time of corporate prayer led by Rev. Gene Phillips as well as a time of small group prayer.
Also, during both of our morning worship services, we will present our Bible Study Teachers to the congregation and offer a prayer of commissioning for your ministry.
Please let me know if you plan to attend the breakfast. I am thinking of fixing pancakes…..anyone game to help?
See you Sunday…..Ms. Tina
“How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news.” Romans 10:15b
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
PARENTS & YOUTH NEEDED
Youth Ministry Team
I would like to rally some caring, supportive parents to assist me in the ministry to our youth. In part this team would look like a sounding board for ideas, schedules and troubleshooting (a "think tank," if you will) while also helping put feet and hands to what the Lord's doing among our students. Prayerfully consider if this sounds like something up your alley. Contact me (Marcus) to hear more.
Youth Council
This Wednesday night youth will begin nominationg fellow students to serve on a Youth Council. The council made up of one representative out of each grade and some additional team leaders will meet with Marcus every other month for a YC Meeting & lunch following Sunday church. The goal of this group during these meetings is to keep our student ministry relevant, healthy & exciting! They are the ears, eyes & mouths of our students. Start praying now...and make your nominations count. Nominations will occur this coming Wednesday night & Sunday morning and the Vote occuring on Sunday, September 20th during SMC.
I would like to rally some caring, supportive parents to assist me in the ministry to our youth. In part this team would look like a sounding board for ideas, schedules and troubleshooting (a "think tank," if you will) while also helping put feet and hands to what the Lord's doing among our students. Prayerfully consider if this sounds like something up your alley. Contact me (Marcus) to hear more.
Youth Council
This Wednesday night youth will begin nominationg fellow students to serve on a Youth Council. The council made up of one representative out of each grade and some additional team leaders will meet with Marcus every other month for a YC Meeting & lunch following Sunday church. The goal of this group during these meetings is to keep our student ministry relevant, healthy & exciting! They are the ears, eyes & mouths of our students. Start praying now...and make your nominations count. Nominations will occur this coming Wednesday night & Sunday morning and the Vote occuring on Sunday, September 20th during SMC.
GETTING BACK IN THE FLOW OF THINGS...JOIN US THIS WEEK!
ONE VOICE CHOIR - Begins this Sunday at 5pm!
All 6th - 12th graders are invited to join One Voice for the new choir season. No experience is necessary! Just have a willingness to use your voice to share words of love & encouragement through song. Be a part of something bigger than yourself alone...be apart of One Voice Choir this year! ....so says the Dawn-ster!!
WEDNESDAY NIGHT YOUTH ELECTIVES
Every Wednesday night, Starting in Youth Exchange at 6:10pm!
Here is what the next three months on Wednesday nights look like for student interaction. The focus electives youth are committing to for three months are as follows:
Lydia's Loft Bible Club for Kids
C.P.R. /Emergency Responses
S.M.C. Praise Band
HEMP
DRAMA
L/A/V Team (Lights, Audio & Visuals)
Youth gathering in the Exchange starting at 6:00pm and participate in group building fun at 6:10pm led by Andrew Danner. This is followed by announcements & prayer before being ushered off to their small group experiences in assign spaces. Focus groups are made up of different genders and ages to foster relationship building as the Body of Christ. An accountability is encouraged as they begin to share their lives as they interact around the focus item. Praise God for the GREAT start we have had. New folks are welcome!
All 6th - 12th graders are invited to join One Voice for the new choir season. No experience is necessary! Just have a willingness to use your voice to share words of love & encouragement through song. Be a part of something bigger than yourself alone...be apart of One Voice Choir this year! ....so says the Dawn-ster!!
WEDNESDAY NIGHT YOUTH ELECTIVES
Every Wednesday night, Starting in Youth Exchange at 6:10pm!
Here is what the next three months on Wednesday nights look like for student interaction. The focus electives youth are committing to for three months are as follows:
Lydia's Loft Bible Club for Kids
C.P.R. /Emergency Responses
S.M.C. Praise Band
HEMP
DRAMA
L/A/V Team (Lights, Audio & Visuals)
Youth gathering in the Exchange starting at 6:00pm and participate in group building fun at 6:10pm led by Andrew Danner. This is followed by announcements & prayer before being ushered off to their small group experiences in assign spaces. Focus groups are made up of different genders and ages to foster relationship building as the Body of Christ. An accountability is encouraged as they begin to share their lives as they interact around the focus item. Praise God for the GREAT start we have had. New folks are welcome!
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