October 2, 2006
Contents
1. 180 News
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Contest
5. Birthday
6. Forgettable Fact
7. Potent Quotables
8. Parting Shot
1. 180 NEWS
MS Fall Retreat
Our Fall Retreat is this weekend! If you are registered you can count on this being a weekend you will always remember!
Here are a few things to remember:
•We will leave the church on Friday at 4:30 and will retrun on Sunday at 4:00.
•Please bring: Your Bible, Sleeping bag/pilow, warm clothes, flashlight, all personal items.
•Please leave at home: All electronic equipment
Prepare for a BLAST!!
RORABAUGH FARWELL PARTY
Please join us on Friday night, October 13th, for a farewell openhouse for Tim and Regina Rorabaugh. The party will be from 6:00 to 9:00 and even has a theme....corn! Please bring corn related snacks to share! They are afterall moving to Kansas!
Come express your appreciation for the way they have been such a blessing to all of us!
2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
THE VALLEY SO LOW
"It has often thrown him into fire or water to kill him. But if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us." [Mark 9:22]
There are times when we have to live in the valley. Unfortunately, it seems like the higher our mountaintop experience, the lower we come down. The fact that we have been on top of the mountain makes the bottom of the valley that much harder. In the valley, life can be drab, cold, and humiliating to someone who professes belief and then must endure the barbs of those who haven't experienced the mountaintop. The valley is also the place we're most likely to get discouraged and lose faith. We want that mountaintop so badly, but we must remember there are things God wants to teach us that we need to learn in the valley. We must sometimes live in the valley, but we don't have to live in the valley. Get it?
OZ says: "It is in the sphere of humiliation that we find our true worth to God, that is where our faithfulness is revealed. Most of us can do things if we are always at the heroic pitch because of the natural selfishness of our hearts, but God wants us at the drab commonplace pitch, where we live in the valley according to our personal relationship to Him. Peter thought it would be a fine thing for them to remain on the mount, but Jesus Christ took the disciples down from the mount into the valley, the place where the meaning of the vision is explained."
JUST BETWEEN YOU AND GOD
You're going to need more strength and perseverance than you thought you would ever need. Don't feel bad for asking God for what you need--pray for as much as you can get.
Taken from "Everything Counts" by Steven Case, copyright 2003, Youth Specialties/Zondervan. Used by permission. Order the book here.
3. SURF REPORT
~ Teen Health 411
Read articles and studies about health issues that affect today's teens
~ You Mail
A personalized voice mail program that allows you to record unique voice greetings for anyone who calls you, based on their caller ID
4. CONTEST
You want to win some free stuff from the 180 Cafe? Well bust out your phone and get your typing fingers ready! Be the first student to text message to 503.706.6521 your name and the location in the Bible of "Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity." If you are first you will win 4 FREE items from our 180 Cafe. Go!!
To see who won and to see who else placed in our contest and where, check the comment section of this newsletter.
5. BIRTHDAYS
We've got three birthdays this week! Big Birthday Shout Outs go out to Zachary Freyer, Nathan Potter, and Kyle Diemeyer. We wish you guys the BEST!
6. FORGETTABLE FACT
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
7. POTENT QUOTABLES
"If you are not guided by God you will be guided by someone or something else."
- Eric Liddell
"Joy is the gigantic secret of the Christian."
- G.K. Chesterton
===========our|sponsor===========
FAITH ISN'T FOR WIMPS
Each daily reading in "Everything Counts" plunges head first into God's Word--not watered-down stuff, but real truth with real impact. On every page, you'll find something to think about and something to do--the kind of stuff that rattles your cage and gets you living what you believe.
Order here.
Also available in your local Christian bookstore.
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8. PARTING SHOT
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
1. 180 News
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Contest
5. Birthday
6. Forgettable Fact
7. Potent Quotables
8. Parting Shot
1. 180 NEWS
MS Fall Retreat
Our Fall Retreat is this weekend! If you are registered you can count on this being a weekend you will always remember!
Here are a few things to remember:•We will leave the church on Friday at 4:30 and will retrun on Sunday at 4:00.
•Please bring: Your Bible, Sleeping bag/pilow, warm clothes, flashlight, all personal items.
•Please leave at home: All electronic equipment
Prepare for a BLAST!!
RORABAUGH FARWELL PARTY
Please join us on Friday night, October 13th, for a farewell openhouse for Tim and Regina Rorabaugh. The party will be from 6:00 to 9:00 and even has a theme....corn! Please bring corn related snacks to share! They are afterall moving to Kansas!
Come express your appreciation for the way they have been such a blessing to all of us!
2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
THE VALLEY SO LOW
"It has often thrown him into fire or water to kill him. But if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us." [Mark 9:22]
There are times when we have to live in the valley. Unfortunately, it seems like the higher our mountaintop experience, the lower we come down. The fact that we have been on top of the mountain makes the bottom of the valley that much harder. In the valley, life can be drab, cold, and humiliating to someone who professes belief and then must endure the barbs of those who haven't experienced the mountaintop. The valley is also the place we're most likely to get discouraged and lose faith. We want that mountaintop so badly, but we must remember there are things God wants to teach us that we need to learn in the valley. We must sometimes live in the valley, but we don't have to live in the valley. Get it?
OZ says: "It is in the sphere of humiliation that we find our true worth to God, that is where our faithfulness is revealed. Most of us can do things if we are always at the heroic pitch because of the natural selfishness of our hearts, but God wants us at the drab commonplace pitch, where we live in the valley according to our personal relationship to Him. Peter thought it would be a fine thing for them to remain on the mount, but Jesus Christ took the disciples down from the mount into the valley, the place where the meaning of the vision is explained."
JUST BETWEEN YOU AND GOD
You're going to need more strength and perseverance than you thought you would ever need. Don't feel bad for asking God for what you need--pray for as much as you can get.
Taken from "Everything Counts" by Steven Case, copyright 2003, Youth Specialties/Zondervan. Used by permission. Order the book here.
3. SURF REPORT
~ Teen Health 411
Read articles and studies about health issues that affect today's teens
~ You Mail
A personalized voice mail program that allows you to record unique voice greetings for anyone who calls you, based on their caller ID
4. CONTEST
You want to win some free stuff from the 180 Cafe? Well bust out your phone and get your typing fingers ready! Be the first student to text message to 503.706.6521 your name and the location in the Bible of "Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity." If you are first you will win 4 FREE items from our 180 Cafe. Go!!
To see who won and to see who else placed in our contest and where, check the comment section of this newsletter.
5. BIRTHDAYS
We've got three birthdays this week! Big Birthday Shout Outs go out to Zachary Freyer, Nathan Potter, and Kyle Diemeyer. We wish you guys the BEST!
6. FORGETTABLE FACT
Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
7. POTENT QUOTABLES
"If you are not guided by God you will be guided by someone or something else."
- Eric Liddell
"Joy is the gigantic secret of the Christian."
- G.K. Chesterton
===========our|sponsor===========
FAITH ISN'T FOR WIMPS
Each daily reading in "Everything Counts" plunges head first into God's Word--not watered-down stuff, but real truth with real impact. On every page, you'll find something to think about and something to do--the kind of stuff that rattles your cage and gets you living what you believe.
Order here.
Also available in your local Christian bookstore.
=================================
8. PARTING SHOT
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
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CONGRATS to Cole Johnson for being the first person to identify the scripture verse in our contest as 1 Timothy 4:12!
Second Place: Zach Munger
Third Place: Caleb O'Halloran
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Second Place: Zach Munger
Third Place: Caleb O'Halloran
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