@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

Heaston Youth - APRIL 2014

If you aren't on the email list you might want to tee up the sound here and take a listen to whats up with youth over the next few weeks.

• FCA Event - April 9th - No youth at church
• Super Summer Applications
• We WILL have youth on Wednesday April 16 & 23rd.
• New Life Ranch spring retreat - April 25-27th - SIGN UP!

What's up with @HeastonYouth ??

Hope you get a chance to come hang out with us for every single one of these events!  We'd love to see you.

Don't forget that a few of these you need to sign up for in the Youth Area or let Jay or Samantha know via text.

Kingdom Weekend will be awesome this year!  We have a worship band from FrontlineChurch.tv and Abraham Wright will be joining us this year!

HEASTON YOUTH - FALL 2013

Well, summer is almost over! We have had a great time meeting with the youth this summer and are excited about the upcoming Fall plans!

Please mark your calendars for the following dates and events:

Please plan to have your student join us THIS Sunday morning, August 18th  (during Sunday School) to hear Lori Rush speak on behalf of her foundation, East Gate Foundation. (eastgatefoundation.com). AUGUST 18th is also the PROMOTION Sunday for all incoming 6th graders to join us in youth! We are looking forward to seeing them!!!

Sunday, September 1st  - The youth will begin the fall Sunday school classes with Sid Gooden and Steve Jensen leading the guys and Paula Harman and Nelaine Monroe leading the girls.

Wednesday nights start back up onWednesday, August 28th with MEET THE PARENTS! from 6:00-8:00pm. We invite all the parents and youth to come on Wednesday night to have dinner, games, worship and learn about our upcoming fall schedule. Please plan on coming with your youth! This will be a fun evening together as well as an opportunity to see the updated Youth facility and to hear what we have planned for the fall.

We will begin our Wednesday nightclasses on September 4th from 6:00-8:00pm for all of Heaston Church (all ages). The youth will be studying Francis Chan's Crazy Love. You can check it out atwww.crazylovebook.com.

Please feel free to contact either Jay or Samantha, regarding anything youth. You can respond to this email or call us at the numbers below.

We are looking forward to what God has in store for us all this fall! Please plan on joining us for Sunday, August 18th and Wednesday, August 28th!

Jay & Samantha

FOOD MANIA!!! Plus 1..

Tomorrow night (Aug 7th) it's FOOD MANIA at Youth!! The focus is on raising food donations!

So bring 3-4 (or more) BOXED or CANNED FOOD ITEMS for donating to The LORDS HARVEST. 

-canned meats

-canned veggies

-canned other stuff!

-boxes of cereals

-boxes of mac & cheese

We'll be eating dinner at 7pm and then getting a little MESSY!! SOOO Let Jay or Samantha know if you'll be there!

ALSO: don't forget Lecrae is THIS SATURDAY and we need to know by Wednesday night if you'll be joining us!  Will leave as early as 2pm and we are shutting down the park y'all!!  Ticket price is $18 for the entry to the park...bring a little dough to eat..TEXT ME!!
(don't let the money thing keep you from coming...let us know if you need help)

@heastonyouth

@jaythebanker

@HeastonYouth Announcement - PODCAST

Go to the @heastonyouth podcast HERE!

The remodel continues...GETTING CLOSER!!

Youth hard at it..taping and prepping for NEW paint!

Getting closer to DONE!  One final big push tomorrow night and we may just have something we can work with!

Carpet was going down today! 

And the 2-60in TV's will be going in (hopefully) tomorrow night.. 

Chase working the carpet and Stephen "supervising"!

Love that corrugated tin look!  Music outta really BOOM!

Painting and lighting...oh my!

New cabinets in the kitchen and the NEW fridge will go THERE!

#livepure

 @heastonyouth

Heaston Youth Announcements

Year End Youth Info!!

Just a few things to let you know about as 2012 winds down..

(1) WEDNESDAY, DEC 12th - is "Youth Night at Blessings Baskets" which will be held from 6pm-8pm at the El Reno FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH located at 1505 West Elm. Please bring your student to Free Will Baptist at 6pm and make sure and pick them up at 8pm. DINNER will be served at the event for all youth workers. This is the night youth from around El Reno help sort items and prepare boxes for pickup/delivery.

(2) SUNDAY SCHOOL - DEC 23rd & 30th - will not be meeting for any age group at Heaston. We will only be worshiping together at the regular time, 10:30am. A big shout out to Paula/Nelaine and Steve/Sid for serving the youth in an incredible way as leaders in Sunday School!!

This Wednesday will technically be the last meeting of our youth until after Christmas break so we pray you and yours have a MERRY CHRISTMAS. We ask that you continue to pray for this wonderful group of teenagers and continue to encourage them to read their Bibles and staying committed to living out their faith.

COMING in SPRING: Wednesday Nights at Heaston will start up again on Wed, Jan 16th.

Samantha and I and all the leaders count ourselves very blessed to be able to serve each and every one of them. These are terrific young people!

If you (or your youth) ever have any questions, comments or concerns, please do not hesitate to send us an email or call.

Blessings2U!

Fall Festival - Youth Pic Scavenger Hunt 2012

Matt Huber - big boy!

Claire, Scarlett, Ryleigh, Kirsten and Madi!

The whole gang!

Tyler "the Duck" Havener and Stephen "Smeller" Havener!

Upcoming November Youth Activities

We want to make sure everyone is clear on tomorrow night's activities as well as the next couple of dates we have for the youth to meet. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Wednesday, October 31st - The church is having a Fall Festival for children up to 5th grade. The Fall Festival will involve dinner, games, a storytime, hayride and lots of candy from 6:00-8:00pm.

Happy Fall!!

THE YOUTH are also going to be having dinner (6:00pm) and then help with the games for the Fall Festival. AFTER the games the youth will gather for a Scavenger Hunt with adults driving. We will go longer tomorrow night on account of the scavenger hunt - WE WILL END at 9:00pm. The youth are encouraged to wear a non-scary costume and come join in the fun! (the youth are doing a picture scavenger hunt!)

Sunday, November 4th - We have youth at the church from 6:00-8:00pm. We are having a movie night to watch the Not A Fan Movie. Dinner will be provided.

Sunday, November 11th - The youth are having a youth fundraiser lunch for the church. We will be preparing a Mexican meal with the help of Gloria Blanco. Please have your students to the church by 9:30am to help prepare the meal. The youth will also serve and clean up! We have included a list of items that we will need for the meal.

In His Service,

Jay and Samantha