What an awesome weekend at "Survive". We had 20 youth attend the conference, some of which are not presently involved in church anywhere. My hope is that they will find FBC is a great place to plug in and learn more about Christ.
There were over 9,000 youth in attendance and during the outreach experience they collected over 25 tons of food for Sunshine Ministries in St. Louis.
Our group partnered with a local church in Granite City and shared the gospel to the people living near their church.
What an awesome time to experience God.
Amen
Here is the last form that I need for everyone to fill out prior to our departure on Friday!
This form must be filled out by your parents and turned in to me before you are able to board the vans!
Click on Survive to download the release.pdf form!
Hello All,
I just wanted to post a few things to prepare us for the upcoming Survive '08 event.
If you are planning on attending there are a few things that you will need.
First, everyone must have a FBC Medical Release Form filled out. Please click on the link to download this form. You may also pick up this form from Devin.
Second, the schedule is as follows.
February 8, 2008 - Friday
February 9, 2008 - Saturday
February 10, 2008 - Sunday
Third, the LETTER TO PARENTS is posted here! If you're parents need to read it and the dog already ate it they can come here and get it!
Finally, I am excited! God is going to work in and through us in a mighty way at the conference. Be prepared to be changed!
IN HIM,
Devin
It is time! Survive is here! Dare2Share Ministries has done it again. We are ready and pumped to go to St. Louis, February 8,9,10!
About the Survive Youth Ministry Conference Tour
Dare 2 Share's Survive Training Tour will equip teenagers to live strong and stand firm in a culture of fear due to global and personal uncertainty. This training weekend will use 2 Peter 3:9-14 as a survival guide to provide teens the hope and victory that comes only through Jesus Christ.
Major Themes:
The Friday Night Drama:
The Survive Tour drama focuses on the imminent return of Christ amidst growing persecution as a motivation. The setting is five years in the future. Terrorism is now a global problem. "Radical extremism" in any religion is viewed as pre-terrorist action. Evangelism is now seen as part of that radical extremism. Proselytizing is outlawed, viewed as an invasion of privacy and a pre-terrorist act. A group of Christian young people are caught in the crossfire between faith and survival. Will they choose to share Jesus in spite of the cost or will they just shut up and stay alive? The outcome of this life-rattling drama will motivate your teens to live strong, stand firm and speak out no matter what the consequences.
Skits, Clips, Audience Interactive Experiences and Outreach:
Appropriate movie clips, original video shorts, audience interaction activities and a four hour outreach experience (collecting canned food for local rescue missions, collecting prayer requests and sharing the good news of Jesus as youth groups in pre-mapped areas of the conference city) will be an integral part of the training experience. Every six to eight minutes something different happens on stage to maximize the training and keep the thousands of teenagers fully engaged the entire weekend.
We will SURVIVE!
If you are still wanting to tag along with us please let Devin know as soon as possible!
Hello all,
I just thought that with the fact that many of you are bringing friends to GAMEDAY and they might not have been able to get the forms that I need from church, I would kindly post them on here so you might download at will.
There are two forms that need to be filled out completely before you may set foot on the vans.
Gameday will begin at 12:30 p.m. as we will be leaving the parking lot at FBC!
We will leave at 12:30 p.m.!!!
Parents will have to sign you out of school....school policy!
Thanks,
Devin
There are many plans set in place for the near future with the FBC Youth.
Let me give you a break down!
Click on the following links to obtain further information about these events.
This is an infromational meeting about the who, what, where, and why of the SKI TRIP...if you are interested at all, even the least bit, if you have a small hankern' you do need to come to the meeting. We will meet in the youth room at 5:30 p.m. tonight before prayer meeting. I will be swift and prompt and let you know all you need to know and answer all your most difficult questions...about the trip.
Ok Be there.
youth room
5:30 p.m. Dec. 20, 2006
Thanks,
Devin
Ok...I admit I am not an avid ice skater. I am not good at all. In fact this was my first time out on the ice. I had no idea how slick the ice would be. I know that sounds stupid because of course ice is slick, but man is it ever slick. However, I did not fall down thanks to the wall around the edge. I had a blast! Thank you to all those who went and put up with my poor skating, I will improve and maybe next year if we go skating I will be going out in the middle and doing some jumps! Ok...maybe not.
A good time was had by all!
Hello all you crazy youths!
I know that you will be checking the blog and looking for these details so here they are pass them around!
We are going Ice-Skating at Ice-Land Sports Complex (Louisville) and Mr. Gattis for pizza afterward!
Here is the link for Gattiland http://www.gattiland.com/louisville/index.html
Any questions call me at home or at the office! Bring a friend!
See you Saturday!
Devin
Yes! I am excited about the opportunity to take the youth ministry here at FBC to Perfect North to ski, tube, or if you are just crazy enough snow board. I have a unique challenge.
I want us all to have T-Shirts for this trip. However, I want the design to be something that the youth have designed.
So...here is the challenge!
I would like you to design as best you can a T-Shirt to represent this trip. The T-Shirt must contain the Journey Ministries logo somewhere and must also remind us of the purpose of the trip.
What, you may ask, is the purpose of the trip? To build solid Christian relationships within our youth group and especially our parents!
We will be focusing on Gary Chapman's "The Five Love Languages"
Click here to print out a T-Shirt to use as a design template.
To the person who designs the winning T-Shirt for the trip will be awarded a free ski pass of their choice including rental.
Total prize package is worth between $50-65.
All T-Shirt designs must be turned in by Oct. 18th! No late entries will be allowed!
It must be your own design to win. Copyrighted material may not be used!
I am sure that Shakespeare didn't have our FBC youth ski trip in mind when he penned the phrase to be or not to be. However, I am sure he wouldn't mind me tweaking it a bit!
So...what is it to SKI or NOT to SKI?
I am currently looking at a ski trip retreat idea for this coming winter. This trip would include a chance for us to get together share Christ with one another and our folks as well as pound some powder on the slopes.
Have you ever been skiing?
Would you like to go skiing?
Are you afraid to go skiing?
Whether you have been skiing for a long time or you are a novice the idea of sliding on snow is appealing I believe.
This snow trip would also include snowboarding for those who are a little more daring as well as snow tubing for those who would rather relax and ride the tubes.
If you are even remotely interested or think this might be fun. Either drop me a line at journey-ministries@hotmail.com or post a comment to this blog.
Ski you later!
Devin
