@HeastonYouth Update
Winter 2014
Winter 2014
It has been a few months since our last update so we wanted to catch everyone up to speed on what is happening in youth ministry at Heaston.
Wednesday evenings:
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| Worship |
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6:45pm – Our current study is Follow Me
by David Platt.
What it really means to be a Christian and follow Jesus Christ wholeheartedly, submitting everything to Christ. We meet as a large group for worship and a teaching time then the students break into small groups to discuss the lesson in more detail.
Sunday mornings:
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Student led:
A couple of students study the verse that will be taught in the Worship
Service by Pastor Racca and they lead a discussion on the verse and how it applies
to our lives. We are hoping to get the student ready to worship and prepared to
apply what they’ve just discussed gathering with the youth. If you are interested in helping lead a
discussion…let Jay or Samantha know!
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| Student Led Sundays |
We
encourage every student to bring their Bibles. The YouVersion app is wonderful
and we use it extensively, but it is always good to have a working knowledge of
the text itself. Call it going "old school".
If
you don’t have a Bible or you’ve outgrown that Bible you got when you were (maybe) 8yrs old, please let one
of the leaders know. We would love to provide a Bible for you to have and use!
Please mark your calendar with the following dates:
Wednesday, October 29th: Fall Carnival
6:00-8:00pm at Heaston
The youth will NOT be
meeting this week. Instead we are encouraging the youth to come and help serve
the children’s ministry by helping with games during the Fall Carnival. The
youth are responsible for three games so have your youth sign up to help!
Saturday, November 1st: Annual
Chicken Dinner 5:30-7:00pm
YOUTH SILENT AUCTION
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| Chicken Dinner!! |
This is always a great
time with a large crowd! The youth have traditionally had a Silent Auction and this year is no
different. The money raised from the Silent Auction will go toward a Heaston mission partner, STEP (Evangelical Theological Seminary of Port-au-Prince). The
STEP administration is looking for resources to empower their faculty members
to receive students in their homes and to travel with them to the field so that
they can have time together to talk, and for the faculty members to be able to
influence the lives of the students outside of classrooms (aka discipleship).
We are using the proceeds from the Silent Auction to help fund this project! We have asked the students to sign up to
provide a service to be auctioned such as babysitting, yard work, etc. or to
make something or provide an item to be donated. Please visit with your student
as to what you can donate! THANK YOU! We would like to have all donations
in before 3:00pm Saturday, November 1st.
Sunday, November 2nd: Wawa Jean-Baptiste, President of STEP, will be speaking with the youth. This is definitely worth getting up for on Sunday morning!!! Here are pictures from our mission trip in Spring 2014.
Sunday,
November 9th: Lord’s Harvest Scavenger Hunt
6:00-8:00pm…at
the Emory’s home – on SW 25th Place The
youth will meet at 6:00pm for dinner and then divide into teams for the
scavenger hunt. They will go with an adult around El Reno to gather canned
goods, toilet paper, paper towels, peanut butter, etc. All the items gathered
by the teams will be donated to the Lord’s Harvest in El Reno for their
Thanksgiving distributions. You may send food with your student or leave it at
the youth office to contribute to the Lord’s Harvest. THANK YOU!
In December, we will be caroling for Senior Adults at the Woodson Apartments and will have a youth Christmas Party…dates and times will be coming!
It is our pleasure and privilege to share our love of Jesus Christ with your students!
Please let Jay or Samantha or any of the leaders know if you have questions!
Blessings,
Jay and Samantha
Twitter/Instagram: @heastonyouth
Twitter/Instagram: @heastonyouth
