February 6, 2006
Contents
1. 180 News
2. Poll of the Week
3. Something for Your Heart
4. Surf Report
5. Birthdays
6. Forgettable Fact
7. Potent Quotables
8. Parting Shot
1. 180 NEWS
30 Hour Famine
Are you ready to FAST for FOOD?
Kids just like you are seeing their friends and families die from hunger -
29,000 every day, gone for good. They’re counting on you to care. Do you
care? We know your own life is busy, but do you have room to care for
someone else as well? If so, you should Fast for Food.
We plan to Fast for Food on February 24-25. The 30 Hour Famine is a combined MS and HS event.
We currently are all out of Famine fund raising books and envelopes. More will be available shortly!
To learn more about the 30 Hour Famine please visit the official web site at
http://www.30hourfamine.org/.
See last year's famine here.
This just in....
We've just learned that World Vision has been awarded U.S. Government Food and Agriculture Grants for 2006. These grants will allow us to double our 30 Hour Famine funds! That means every dollar you raise will have twice the impact.
Now when they raise $360 to feed and care for one needy child for a year, two hungry children can be helped! With your hard work and the matching funds grants, the 2006 Famine could be the most impactful ever!
New Blog
A new blog has been added to our 180 Bloggers list. Heather Wilson is checking in from Amsterdam! Read her blog here.
Do you have a blog? Would you like it added to our list? Let us know!
Movie Night
Join us this Saturday night with the rest of the church for the showing of "Beyond the Gates of Splendor." about the martyrdom of 5 young missionaries and the tribal group that came to Christ as a result of their sacrifice. The movie tells the story of the Waodani tribe before the missionaries came.
The very same men who killed the five missionaries in 1956 now share their incredible story of how their lives - and the lives of their people - have been changed forever.
This movie is the story behind the recent release of "End of the Spear."
Join us in the Ministry Center at 6:00 PM this Saturday.
2. Poll of the Week
How well do you know your staff? How well do you know what your staff looks like? Can you name the nose of this staff member?
Name The Nose
Current Results
Free Web Polls
The correct answer will be revealed in a few days in the comment section of this week's newsletter.
3. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
I know a therapist who has a folder in her office that she keeps pictures in. The pictures range from humans to nature to animals to colors, mostly pulled out of modern magazines. When her younger, less talkative clients, come to their session, she brings out the folder. She asks them to choose a picture of the day and a picture of the week. After they've made their selections she'll say something along the lines of, "hmmmmm… that's an interesting choice. (While nodding her head and furrowing her brow) Now tell me, why did you pick that one?" And with that, therapy has begun.
By listening and considering carefully their picture choices, she opens them up to talk about their feelings before they even realize they're doing it. Conversation is easier when you can talk about someone's feelings towards "something" instead of talking about their feelings about themselves.
One day a client left a Teen People magazine in her office. The therapist, in her mid-fifties, was not an avid Teen People reader, and decided to throw it in the trash. Then she remembered her picture folder, sat down and began to flip through the pages looking for pictures. After looking at every single page in the entire magazine, (cover to cover!), she closed it without pulling a single picture.
There was nothing even remotely appropriate to put in her file. Every shot of a woman was borderline pornographic. Either the women had cleavage hanging out of their blouse, a skirt so short you couldn't wear it in public, or pants so tight and pulled so low you could almost see pubic hair.
Every shot of a man and woman together was sexual, either in suggestion or actuality. She was shocked. For the first time in a long time she was faced with the realities that young people are faced with every day. She remarked to me, "There is so much pressure on young girls to be sexy!" I looked back at her, momentarily stunned silent at this incredible grasp of the obvious and brilliantly replied, "no-duh!"
Next she asked me a strange question (that's what they're licensed to do. Ask strange questions with apparently no obvious meaning and arrive at an obscure conclusion that makes you cry most of the time!)
She asked, "Do you know what a frog would do if you put it into a pot of boiling water?"
"Ummm…. Jump out?" I said with a stupid, antagonizing smile on my face.
"Exactly! (She was not deterred from making her point by my inability to be serious) because it's hot and it will kill him if he stays in it. Having been just dropped into the pot he recognizes it's potential to cook him!"
"Its like his natural instinct." I added.
"Yes," she said. "But if you took that same frog, even with all his natural instinct, and put him in a pot of cold water on a stove top that was slowly heating up, he wouldn't realize the temperature was rising, and therefore would never jump out. Even when it starts to boil!"
"Bummer…" I said sounding like Keanu Reeves in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure." I'll admit, it was not my finest or most poetic conversation ever.
As I thought about this sad little analogy of the boiled frog, I realized what she was trying to get me to see. Most times I'll get out of a situation immediately when I feel uncomfortable immediately. The situations that slowly heat up are the ones that burn us!
This therapist did not grow up watching Britney Spears strip tease on MTV in the morning over a bowl of CHEERIOS before heading out to school. She didn't have friends who wore their jeans so low on purpose so that guys could see their g-string underwear. She didn't have school shootings. She didn't have a 50% (or whatever it is) divorce rate. She didn't know the meaning of anorexia or bulimia. She didn't have porn websites at the touch of a button. And so she, like the first frog, looks through the Teen People magazine and says to herself, "Ouch! This is hot! Get out or you're gonna die!"
Our generation is like the second frog. We've been in the water as long as we can remember. It's getting hotter and we can't tell. We were born in this pot, and maybe that gives new meaning to the words of Jesus when he says, "I assure you that unless you are born again, you can never see the Kingdom of God." (John 3:3) Maybe he sees that we are immersed in a culture that is set up to destroy our self-esteem, bent on keeping us from living out God's purpose for our lives, turning our attention from committing our lives to God and living out his love to keeping up superficial appearances and envying what others have. If we stay in this heating water it will eventually, ever so slowly and without warning…kill us spiritually. Jesus offers us a new life. I never thought I could learn so much from a therapist and a frog!
Taken from "Mirror, Mirror" by Kara Powell and Kendall Payne , copyright 2003, Youth Specialties/Zondervan. Used by permission. Order the book here.
4. SURF REPORT
~ freevibe.com
Brought to you by the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign
~ fd's Flicker Toys
Make your own magazine cover, add comic book style captions to your digital photographs, and more
5. BIRTHDAYS
We've got one person to wish a most happy birthday to this week, and that would be.....Amanda Roberts! We wish you the best Amanda!
6. FORGETTABLE FACT
The football huddle originated at Gallaudet University -- the world's only accredited four-year liberal arts college for the deaf -- in the 19th century when the football team found that opposing teams were reading their signed messages and intercepting plays.
7. POTENT QUOTABLES
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched--they must be felt with the heart."
- Helen Keller
"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you."
- C.S. Lewis
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Also available in your local Christian bookstore.
=================================
8. PARTING SHOT
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
copyright 2006 :: Youth Specialties
1. 180 News
2. Poll of the Week
3. Something for Your Heart
4. Surf Report
5. Birthdays
6. Forgettable Fact
7. Potent Quotables
8. Parting Shot
1. 180 NEWS
30 Hour Famine
Are you ready to FAST for FOOD?
Kids just like you are seeing their friends and families die from hunger -
29,000 every day, gone for good. They’re counting on you to care. Do you
care? We know your own life is busy, but do you have room to care for
someone else as well? If so, you should Fast for Food.
We plan to Fast for Food on February 24-25. The 30 Hour Famine is a combined MS and HS event.
We currently are all out of Famine fund raising books and envelopes. More will be available shortly!
To learn more about the 30 Hour Famine please visit the official web site at
http://www.30hourfamine.org/.
See last year's famine here.
This just in....
We've just learned that World Vision has been awarded U.S. Government Food and Agriculture Grants for 2006. These grants will allow us to double our 30 Hour Famine funds! That means every dollar you raise will have twice the impact.
Now when they raise $360 to feed and care for one needy child for a year, two hungry children can be helped! With your hard work and the matching funds grants, the 2006 Famine could be the most impactful ever!
New Blog
A new blog has been added to our 180 Bloggers list. Heather Wilson is checking in from Amsterdam! Read her blog here.
Do you have a blog? Would you like it added to our list? Let us know!
Movie Night
Join us this Saturday night with the rest of the church for the showing of "Beyond the Gates of Splendor." about the martyrdom of 5 young missionaries and the tribal group that came to Christ as a result of their sacrifice. The movie tells the story of the Waodani tribe before the missionaries came.The very same men who killed the five missionaries in 1956 now share their incredible story of how their lives - and the lives of their people - have been changed forever.
This movie is the story behind the recent release of "End of the Spear."
Join us in the Ministry Center at 6:00 PM this Saturday.
2. Poll of the Week
How well do you know your staff? How well do you know what your staff looks like? Can you name the nose of this staff member?
Name The Nose
Current Results
Free Web Polls
The correct answer will be revealed in a few days in the comment section of this week's newsletter.
3. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
I know a therapist who has a folder in her office that she keeps pictures in. The pictures range from humans to nature to animals to colors, mostly pulled out of modern magazines. When her younger, less talkative clients, come to their session, she brings out the folder. She asks them to choose a picture of the day and a picture of the week. After they've made their selections she'll say something along the lines of, "hmmmmm… that's an interesting choice. (While nodding her head and furrowing her brow) Now tell me, why did you pick that one?" And with that, therapy has begun.
By listening and considering carefully their picture choices, she opens them up to talk about their feelings before they even realize they're doing it. Conversation is easier when you can talk about someone's feelings towards "something" instead of talking about their feelings about themselves.
One day a client left a Teen People magazine in her office. The therapist, in her mid-fifties, was not an avid Teen People reader, and decided to throw it in the trash. Then she remembered her picture folder, sat down and began to flip through the pages looking for pictures. After looking at every single page in the entire magazine, (cover to cover!), she closed it without pulling a single picture.
There was nothing even remotely appropriate to put in her file. Every shot of a woman was borderline pornographic. Either the women had cleavage hanging out of their blouse, a skirt so short you couldn't wear it in public, or pants so tight and pulled so low you could almost see pubic hair.
Every shot of a man and woman together was sexual, either in suggestion or actuality. She was shocked. For the first time in a long time she was faced with the realities that young people are faced with every day. She remarked to me, "There is so much pressure on young girls to be sexy!" I looked back at her, momentarily stunned silent at this incredible grasp of the obvious and brilliantly replied, "no-duh!"
Next she asked me a strange question (that's what they're licensed to do. Ask strange questions with apparently no obvious meaning and arrive at an obscure conclusion that makes you cry most of the time!)
She asked, "Do you know what a frog would do if you put it into a pot of boiling water?"
"Ummm…. Jump out?" I said with a stupid, antagonizing smile on my face.
"Exactly! (She was not deterred from making her point by my inability to be serious) because it's hot and it will kill him if he stays in it. Having been just dropped into the pot he recognizes it's potential to cook him!"
"Its like his natural instinct." I added.
"Yes," she said. "But if you took that same frog, even with all his natural instinct, and put him in a pot of cold water on a stove top that was slowly heating up, he wouldn't realize the temperature was rising, and therefore would never jump out. Even when it starts to boil!"
"Bummer…" I said sounding like Keanu Reeves in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure." I'll admit, it was not my finest or most poetic conversation ever.
As I thought about this sad little analogy of the boiled frog, I realized what she was trying to get me to see. Most times I'll get out of a situation immediately when I feel uncomfortable immediately. The situations that slowly heat up are the ones that burn us!
This therapist did not grow up watching Britney Spears strip tease on MTV in the morning over a bowl of CHEERIOS before heading out to school. She didn't have friends who wore their jeans so low on purpose so that guys could see their g-string underwear. She didn't have school shootings. She didn't have a 50% (or whatever it is) divorce rate. She didn't know the meaning of anorexia or bulimia. She didn't have porn websites at the touch of a button. And so she, like the first frog, looks through the Teen People magazine and says to herself, "Ouch! This is hot! Get out or you're gonna die!"
Our generation is like the second frog. We've been in the water as long as we can remember. It's getting hotter and we can't tell. We were born in this pot, and maybe that gives new meaning to the words of Jesus when he says, "I assure you that unless you are born again, you can never see the Kingdom of God." (John 3:3) Maybe he sees that we are immersed in a culture that is set up to destroy our self-esteem, bent on keeping us from living out God's purpose for our lives, turning our attention from committing our lives to God and living out his love to keeping up superficial appearances and envying what others have. If we stay in this heating water it will eventually, ever so slowly and without warning…kill us spiritually. Jesus offers us a new life. I never thought I could learn so much from a therapist and a frog!
Taken from "Mirror, Mirror" by Kara Powell and Kendall Payne , copyright 2003, Youth Specialties/Zondervan. Used by permission. Order the book here.
4. SURF REPORT
~ freevibe.com
Brought to you by the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign
~ fd's Flicker Toys
Make your own magazine cover, add comic book style captions to your digital photographs, and more
5. BIRTHDAYS
We've got one person to wish a most happy birthday to this week, and that would be.....Amanda Roberts! We wish you the best Amanda!
6. FORGETTABLE FACT
The football huddle originated at Gallaudet University -- the world's only accredited four-year liberal arts college for the deaf -- in the 19th century when the football team found that opposing teams were reading their signed messages and intercepting plays.
7. POTENT QUOTABLES
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched--they must be felt with the heart."
- Helen Keller
"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life or death to you."
- C.S. Lewis
===========oursponsor===========
REAL BEAUTY, INSIDE AND OUT
Self-care and soul-care blend, giving students a God's-eye view on make-up, dieting, sex, friends, guys, and more. Experts, rock stars, and students discuss creating your best reflection, inside and out.
Available here.
Also available in your local Christian bookstore.
=================================
8. PARTING SHOT
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
copyright 2006 :: Youth Specialties
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I know who's nose it is! You want to know?
Ok...I'll tell you!
As the poll suggests......TOM! It's Tom's fabulous sniffer!
Tom you should be glad that everyone nose you so well!
Ok...I'll tell you!
As the poll suggests......TOM! It's Tom's fabulous sniffer!
Tom you should be glad that everyone nose you so well!
Whohooo... i was right... I'd also like to say: WHO THOUGHT IT WAS BOBBI'S NOSE!!! haha... That is soooo a guy's nose.
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