The 180 Blog

Contents
1. 180 News
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Birthdays
5. Forgettable Fact
6. Potent Quotables
7. Parting Shot

1. 180 NEWS

Senior Farewell
High Schoolers be sure to join us this Wednesday for a very special farewell party for our graduating seniors! Graduates, this will be a night you will not want to miss, complete with a slide show covering nearly 7 years!

This Sunday will also be a special day for all grads. In both worship services, we will be recognizing and honoring you, our graduates. Be sure to be with us for this special time.

Eigth Grade Farewell
Middle Schoolers, we have a special night planned for you as well. This Thursday night we will be honoring our eighth grade graduates. Be sure to join us for a fun night of memories, laughs, and good food!

Promotion Sunday
This Sunday, is Promotion Sunday! Please plan on meeting in the Worship Center as opposed to the Youth Center for the Sunday School hour. We will be welcoming in our new 6th garders in 180 style. If you are eighth grade this will also be the day you move up to our high school group!

HS Rafting Trip
July 11 is the day, we go raft the Deschutes River in Maupin, OR, and you will not want to miss out!

This is for all high school students and current eighth graders. Space is very limited and all registrations must be turned in by This Wednesday, June 7. Don't miss this one! Flyers are available for download here.

CD Library
Our CD Library has been updated. Check it out now for the following new releases...

Eleventyseven - “And the Land of Fake Believe”
Flyleaf
Hawk Nelson - “Smile It’s The End of The World”
Hyperstatic Union
Kutless - “Hearts of The Innocent”
Mercy Me - “Coming Up To Breethe”
Pettidee - “Thug Love”
Sanctus Real - “The Face of Love”

Please remember that CDs may only be checked out for a one week period. We also ask that you please do not copy or burn them. Did you know you can find a complete listing of our library on our web site? Just click here to see it.


2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART

Perhaps you've heard the saying, "Jesus first, Others second, Yourself last equals true JOY." Timothy lived this kind of life. He, like Paul, was genuinely concerned about the spiritual welfare of the Christians in Philippi. They'd both learned to put their own needs aside to focus on how they could help others.

Have you learned the secret of true JOY? Are you making it a practice to keep Jesus first in your life, others second , and yourself last?

What response looks most like you?

a. I want to think of others before myself, but I usually don't.

b. Jesus is absolutely of utmost importance in my life.

c. I enjoy trying to help others and usually put my own needs on the back burner to focus on what someone else needs.

d. I want to develop this kind of genuine joy, but I'll need to totally rearrange my entire life to do so.

"But I think it is necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger, whom you sent to take care of my needs. For he longs for all of you and is distressed because you heard he was ill. Indeed he was ill, and almost died. But God had mercy on him, and not on him only but also on me, to spare me sorrow upon sorrow. Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have less anxiety. Welcome him in the Lord with great joy, and honor men like him, because he almost died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for the help you could not give me." (Philippians 2:25-30)

The church in Philippi had given money to Epaphroditus to deliver to Paul as a gift. While Epaphroditus was with Paul, he became very sick. When he was well enough to travel home, he returned to the Christians in Philippi and gave them this letter from Paul (the book of Philippians) as a thank-you note.

Have you ever written a thank-you note? Sometimes people write thank-you notes after they've received a Christmas or birthday gift. But think about this: The greatest gift ever given to you was given by Jesus Christ. Have you ever thanked him for the gift of eternal life he's given to you? Have you told him how grateful you are for his death on the cross?

Take time to write Christ a thank-you note right now.

Taken from "Secret Power to Joy, Becoming a Star, and Great Hair Days " by Susie Shellenberger, copyright 2005, Youth Specialties/Zondervan. Used by permission. Order the book here.

3. SURF REPORT

~ How to Write A Thank-You Note

~ ThinkQuest

4. BIRTHDAYS

This week we want to wish BIG 180 Birthday Wishes to two people! Give it up for Elizabeth Wright and Monica Noe! We wish you the BEST!!

5. FORGETTABLE FACT

The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic lights to change.

6. POTENT QUOTABLES

"Joy runs deeper than despair"
- Corrie Ten Boom

"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love."
- Mother Teresa

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7. PARTING SHOT

If someone leads but no one follows... are they just out for a walk?