Heaston Youth Update - SPRING 2015

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Missed seeing all you guys/gals over the break but school is back on full throttle and that also means we get to see your pretty faces again real soon!!  This is just information on what is coming up on the calendar for you and your parents to get on your radar!

NOTE:  WE NEED TO UPDATE ALL RELEASE FORMS.. Get the form at Church or online HERE.  Just fill it out completely and get it to us soon.
 
Wednesday Nights at Heaston 
(WN@H) kick back off on January 21st.  Attention youth...We will be having a SNOWBALL FIGHT in the gym (or near it) that night.. Come prepared!
 

Sunday Mornings
You guys/gals will continue leading and meeting Sunday Mornings at 9:30am each week. If you aren't coming, please come check it out and support your classmates. The lessons are student led (Yes, YOU are awesome!) and this helps prepare students to worship in "Big" church with Pastor Justin. 


New Life Ranch  
Our NLR2015 trip is planned for FEB 13-15, 2015 and we need you to sign up at the church as soon as possible.  Cost will be less than $100 to attend and we will 

Super Summer 
Students...Super Summer is coming! Super Summer is a Leadership Camp for students who have graduated from 7th-12th grade and who are exhibiting leadership skills in youth. Here are the guidelines for students wanting to attend Super Summer in June. You can follow them on Twitter too @SuperSummerOK .




Additional Guidelines –

1. Attend youth events 90% of the time. This camp is designed for students who show up and are an example to other students.
2. Have a leadership role/project decided and/or started by February 15th – must tell Jay or Samantha in writing.

IDEAS for serving/projects:

•    Help with visual on Wednesday nights    Soda upkeep in youth area
•    Trash duty on Wednesday nights
•    Decorating project of youth area
•    Lead a Bible study
•    Help with Moppets on a regular basis (they meet once a month)   
•    The project/service can be outside of the church...

*Our goal is for you to show leadership through serving others and developing a love of serving as Christ served the church! If you need help coming up with an idea, please come talk to Jay or Samantha.

Each student will also have to complete an application and an interview. Interviews begin in March and must be done by the first of April. The cost of Super Summer is $195.00. For more information go to supersummerok.com or visit with Samantha or Jay.

2015 Heaston Youth
January: 21st – Wednesday night begins
February: 1st – Souper Bowl Fundraiser
                   13-15th – New Life Ranch Retreat (GET SIGNED UP Today!)
March: 16-20 – Spring Break (No Wednesday Nights)
April: 22nd – Last Wednesday night classes
May: 17th – Baccalaureate Sunday
June: 1-5th – Super Summer (7th – 12th grade)
           19-20th – YEC in Texas

We are looking forward to getting back into seeing all of you and we hope you make Jesus the focus and HeastonYouth a priority in 2015!!!

Blessings,
Jay and Samantha

@HeastonYouth Update - WINTER 2014

@HeastonYouth Update
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: 

Worship

·         6:00pm dinner!! Always fun to break bread together!

·         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:

·         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!

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 29^th: 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 1^st: Annual Chicken Dinner 5:30-7:00pm

Chicken Dinner!!

YOUTH SILENT AUCTION

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 1^st.

Sunday, November 2^nd: 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 9^th: Lord’s Harvest Scavenger Hunt    

6:00-8:00pm…at the Emory’s home – on SW 25^th 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

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HOPE YOU'RE COMING!!

Haiti Potato Fundraiser 12/8/2013

We hope you'll brave the weather and watch the Children's Christmas Program and then stick around to enjoy a hot potato at the HAITI 2014 Baked Potato Lunch!!

Blessings to you!...je

Silver Ring Thing - May 1st - El Reno

SILVER RING THING EVENT COMING TO EL RENO!! 
WEDNESDAY NIGHT, MAY 1st!!


Heaston has sponsored the Silver Ring Thing a few times over the last five years and it has always been an awesome event for students on the topic of purity!

Our focus at @heastonyouth this year has been #livepure and the verse we have centered on is Psalm 119:9


You need to make sure you buy your tickets now HERE!

Our student event will start at 7pm and end at 9pm and then a parent focused meeting will begin concurrently at 7pm. 


Silver Ring Thing promotes the message of abstinence until marriage centered in a relationship with Jesus Christ through two methods: a Live Event and a small group resource called Bare Essentials. Since 1995, SRT has hosted nearly 1,000 events, reaching more than 550,000 total attendees. We welcome the opportunity to bring this program to your community and partner with you to impact students and parents with the truth of God's plan for purity.

#srt #youthmin @silverringthing @heastonyouth @jaythebanker

The 2012 Mayan Myth

Ran across this excerpt that might be helpful to any potential Mayan Prophecy wanna-be's!

"There is absolutely nothing in the Bible that would present December 21, 2012, as the end of the world. The Bible nowhere presents the astronomical phenomena the Mayans pointed to as a sign of the end times. It would seem inconsistent of God to allow the Mayans to discover such an amazing truth while keeping the many Old Testament prophets ignorant of the timing of the events. In summary, there is absolutely no biblical evidence that the 2012 Mayan prophecy should be considered a reliable prediction of doomsday.

Also included in the ancient Mayan prediction that December 21, 2012, would be the end of the world are the following theories: our sun is a god; the sun is powered by the blood of human sacrifice; the creation moment occurred at 3114 B.C. (despite all evidence that it happened much earlier); and the visual alignment of stars has some significance for everyday human life. Like every other false religion, the Mayan religion sought to elevate the creation instead of the Creator Himself. The Bible tells us about such false worshipers: “They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator” (Romans 1:25), and “since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – His eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse” (Romans 1:20). To accept the Mayan 2012 prophecy is also to deny the clear biblical teaching about the end of the world. Jesus told us, “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” (Mark 13:32)."


(an excerpt from http://www.gotquestions.org/ )