June 19, 2006
Contents
1. 180 News
2. Name the Mascot
3. Something for Your Heart
4. Surf Report
5. Birthdays
6. Forgettable Fact
7. Potent Quotables
8. Parting Shot
1. 180 NEWS
Summer Celebration
This Wednesday night we officially kick off the summer with Summer Celebration. This will be a combined Middle School and High School event from 6:00 to 8:00 and will include dinner. The cost is only $2.00 and first time guests are free.
The night will include: Hot dog BBQ, Crazy games, Giant water slide, singing, and more! See pictures of last years Summer Celebration here.
If you play guitar then we need you for the now infamous guitarchestra! We will be singing along with as many guitars as we can get! Please contact Aaron if you would like to play.
Mission Portland
Middle Schoolers this summer you have a unique opportunity to be a part of a very strategic mission trip. On July 13-15 we as a middle school group will be joining forces with Bridgetown Ministries to minister to the needs of some of Portland's neediest people.
Pick up an registration packet this week and and ask God if He would have you be a part of this strategic outreach.
The cost of the trip is only $90 and must be turned in with all registration materials by THIS SUNDAY, June 25.
2006 Release Forms
Are you new to our group? Perhaps a new 6th grader? We welcome you and hope you are able to join us on our many events and trips!
In order to participate in any of our many events in which we travel off site you will need to have a 2006 Release Form on file. If you have not yet picked one up, then you may also download one from our web site! They are available for download here. Download one now and have a parent complete it, and then read the bottom paragraph, sign it, and bring with you to our next gathering. The Release Form will remain in effect until January 2007.
2. NAME THE MASCOT
This last Saturday the high school group went on a Bigger and Better Scavenger Hunt and one team came back with a very unusual find. Well here it, er..he is....
Yesterday morning we decided that this new friend of ours would become our 180 Mascott, only problem is, he has no name. That is where you come in! We need your help in naming our new metalic friend. Leave your suggestions in the Comment section of this week's newsletter and the winner will be announced next week! There may even be a prize for the creator of the best name!
3. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
Okay, I know this doesn't come as any big surprise, but it's worth mentioning anyway. It's also worth remembering next time your parents don't do the right thing or say the right thing or can't even figure out what the right thing is. Sometimes they blow it. They make mistakes. After all, they don't really know what they're doing. Professional parents just don't exist. Parents are on-the-job learners, and they frequently make mistakes. They probably won't admit this to you, but it's true.
When you were born, you didn't come with an instruction manual. Sure, parenting books can help (your folks probably have a few of them), but not one of them contains information on how to parent you. That's because before you were born, no one like you ever existed on the face of the earth. God created you with your own blend of personality traits, gifts, talents, abilities, and special needs that nobody else ever had. And as every retired parent knows, what works with one child doesn't always work with another. So whether you were your parents' first child or their fifteenth, they still had to figure out how to parent you.
And you know what? They're still at it. That's because as you get older, you continue to change. Every day your parents have to figure out how to be good parents for you based on who you are and who you're becoming. Some teenagers require more discipline and control, and others require less. Some need more love and attention while others need less. There's no science to this--it has to be done by trial and error. That's why parents sometimes make mistakes.
I know I made my share of mistakes as a parent. I said no to my kids when I should have said yes. I said yes when I should have said no. I didn't listen to them when I should have, and I didn't talk to them when I should have. Sometimes I was too strict. Other times I was too lenient. The problem with being a parent is you really don't know what you're doing until after you've done it. Even then, it takes a few years to realize what you did wrong or did right.
Don't hold your parents to a standard of perfection you can't even keep yourself. They do the best they can. You should realize that you have a lot to do with how successful your parents are. You can help them not make so many mistakes. If you can make life easier for them, there's a pretty good chance life will be easier for you. As I said earlier, parents generally learn how to parent from their kids. Parents with problem kids seem to be problem parents. Parents with good kids seem to be good parents. See, you have a lot more power to impact your family than you may realize.
Parents aren't perfect, of course. They won't always do the right thing. Your parents may disappoint you from time to time, and you'll wonder why they can't be more consistent, more reasonable, more trustworthy, or more like the parents of somebody else you know. But parent envy only makes things worse. Your parents are human, and they're probably the only parents you'll ever get. In their own inept way, they're doing the best they can. They need your understanding, forgiveness, cooperation, and love--in spite of all their mistakes.
Taken from "Read This Book or You're Grounded" by Wayne Rice, copyright 2003, Youth Specialties/Zondervan. Used by permission. Order the book here.
4. SURF REPORT
~ The Great Family Cookbook Project
Create an online or printed collection of your family's fabulous recipes and kitchen stories
~ Roly Poly
5. BIRTHDAYS
We have got THREE birthdays this week! We wish the best of 180 Birthday wishes to Mitch Thornburg, Sarah Lewis, and Aaron Geist! Hope your birthdays are the best ever!
6. FORGETTABLE FACT
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
7. POTENT QUOTABLES
"Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul."
- Thomas Moore
"Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their child, and it is just possible that you may take after them."
- Evelyn Waugh
===========our|sponsor===========
UNDERSTANDING YOUR PARENTS
The dirty little secret is that your parents were actually your age once. Believe it or not, they went through a lot of the same junk you're going through now (including with their parents!).
... and another dirty little secret is that someday you'll be trying to make sense of your kids and their lives.
Read This Book or You're Grounded! gives you six chapters with a lot of sound-bites, and cool 'boarding-inspired cartoons, plus wisdom and common sense with an attitude.
Order book here.
Also available in your local Christian bookstore.
=================================
8. PARTING SHOT
If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
copyright 2006 :: Youth Specialties
1. 180 News
2. Name the Mascot
3. Something for Your Heart
4. Surf Report
5. Birthdays
6. Forgettable Fact
7. Potent Quotables
8. Parting Shot
1. 180 NEWS
Summer Celebration
This Wednesday night we officially kick off the summer with Summer Celebration. This will be a combined Middle School and High School event from 6:00 to 8:00 and will include dinner. The cost is only $2.00 and first time guests are free.
The night will include: Hot dog BBQ, Crazy games, Giant water slide, singing, and more! See pictures of last years Summer Celebration here.
If you play guitar then we need you for the now infamous guitarchestra! We will be singing along with as many guitars as we can get! Please contact Aaron if you would like to play.
Mission Portland
Middle Schoolers this summer you have a unique opportunity to be a part of a very strategic mission trip. On July 13-15 we as a middle school group will be joining forces with Bridgetown Ministries to minister to the needs of some of Portland's neediest people.
Pick up an registration packet this week and and ask God if He would have you be a part of this strategic outreach.
The cost of the trip is only $90 and must be turned in with all registration materials by THIS SUNDAY, June 25.
2006 Release Forms
Are you new to our group? Perhaps a new 6th grader? We welcome you and hope you are able to join us on our many events and trips!
In order to participate in any of our many events in which we travel off site you will need to have a 2006 Release Form on file. If you have not yet picked one up, then you may also download one from our web site! They are available for download here. Download one now and have a parent complete it, and then read the bottom paragraph, sign it, and bring with you to our next gathering. The Release Form will remain in effect until January 2007.
2. NAME THE MASCOT
This last Saturday the high school group went on a Bigger and Better Scavenger Hunt and one team came back with a very unusual find. Well here it, er..he is....
Yesterday morning we decided that this new friend of ours would become our 180 Mascott, only problem is, he has no name. That is where you come in! We need your help in naming our new metalic friend. Leave your suggestions in the Comment section of this week's newsletter and the winner will be announced next week! There may even be a prize for the creator of the best name!3. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
Okay, I know this doesn't come as any big surprise, but it's worth mentioning anyway. It's also worth remembering next time your parents don't do the right thing or say the right thing or can't even figure out what the right thing is. Sometimes they blow it. They make mistakes. After all, they don't really know what they're doing. Professional parents just don't exist. Parents are on-the-job learners, and they frequently make mistakes. They probably won't admit this to you, but it's true.
When you were born, you didn't come with an instruction manual. Sure, parenting books can help (your folks probably have a few of them), but not one of them contains information on how to parent you. That's because before you were born, no one like you ever existed on the face of the earth. God created you with your own blend of personality traits, gifts, talents, abilities, and special needs that nobody else ever had. And as every retired parent knows, what works with one child doesn't always work with another. So whether you were your parents' first child or their fifteenth, they still had to figure out how to parent you.
And you know what? They're still at it. That's because as you get older, you continue to change. Every day your parents have to figure out how to be good parents for you based on who you are and who you're becoming. Some teenagers require more discipline and control, and others require less. Some need more love and attention while others need less. There's no science to this--it has to be done by trial and error. That's why parents sometimes make mistakes.
I know I made my share of mistakes as a parent. I said no to my kids when I should have said yes. I said yes when I should have said no. I didn't listen to them when I should have, and I didn't talk to them when I should have. Sometimes I was too strict. Other times I was too lenient. The problem with being a parent is you really don't know what you're doing until after you've done it. Even then, it takes a few years to realize what you did wrong or did right.
Don't hold your parents to a standard of perfection you can't even keep yourself. They do the best they can. You should realize that you have a lot to do with how successful your parents are. You can help them not make so many mistakes. If you can make life easier for them, there's a pretty good chance life will be easier for you. As I said earlier, parents generally learn how to parent from their kids. Parents with problem kids seem to be problem parents. Parents with good kids seem to be good parents. See, you have a lot more power to impact your family than you may realize.
Parents aren't perfect, of course. They won't always do the right thing. Your parents may disappoint you from time to time, and you'll wonder why they can't be more consistent, more reasonable, more trustworthy, or more like the parents of somebody else you know. But parent envy only makes things worse. Your parents are human, and they're probably the only parents you'll ever get. In their own inept way, they're doing the best they can. They need your understanding, forgiveness, cooperation, and love--in spite of all their mistakes.
Taken from "Read This Book or You're Grounded" by Wayne Rice, copyright 2003, Youth Specialties/Zondervan. Used by permission. Order the book here.
4. SURF REPORT
~ The Great Family Cookbook Project
Create an online or printed collection of your family's fabulous recipes and kitchen stories
~ Roly Poly
5. BIRTHDAYS
We have got THREE birthdays this week! We wish the best of 180 Birthday wishes to Mitch Thornburg, Sarah Lewis, and Aaron Geist! Hope your birthdays are the best ever!
6. FORGETTABLE FACT
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
7. POTENT QUOTABLES
"Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul."
- Thomas Moore
"Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their child, and it is just possible that you may take after them."
- Evelyn Waugh
===========our|sponsor===========
UNDERSTANDING YOUR PARENTS
The dirty little secret is that your parents were actually your age once. Believe it or not, they went through a lot of the same junk you're going through now (including with their parents!).
... and another dirty little secret is that someday you'll be trying to make sense of your kids and their lives.
Read This Book or You're Grounded! gives you six chapters with a lot of sound-bites, and cool 'boarding-inspired cartoons, plus wisdom and common sense with an attitude.
Order book here.
Also available in your local Christian bookstore.
=================================
8. PARTING SHOT
If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
copyright 2006 :: Youth Specialties
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Happy B-day Aaron!
suggestions:
1)3-CP-What?
2)Barf-Chuck
3)Chuck-Barf
4) I'd-do-a-180-if-I-had-more-legs
5)Ismell Foul
6)Ihave Genderissues
7)Warble
8)War Cry
9)Scrap Metal
10)Magnetic
11)Pastor Salt
12)Pastor Pepper
13)Pastor Mayo
14)Pastor Gas
15)Patch
16)I'm Strange
17)Pawnshop Reject
18)Poing
suggestions:
1)3-CP-What?
2)Barf-Chuck
3)Chuck-Barf
4) I'd-do-a-180-if-I-had-more-legs
5)Ismell Foul
6)Ihave Genderissues
7)Warble
8)War Cry
9)Scrap Metal
10)Magnetic
11)Pastor Salt
12)Pastor Pepper
13)Pastor Mayo
14)Pastor Gas
15)Patch
16)I'm Strange
17)Pawnshop Reject
18)Poing
# posted by 
: 5:15 PM
: 5:15 PM
I say we Name him Tony it is a totally tight name, and my group found it so yea, we say it should be tony, well at least 2 of us do
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