August 27, 007
1. 180 News
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Forgettable Fact
5. Potent Quotables
6. Parting Shot
1. 180 News
Wild Waves Revisited
If you were with us last week, you know the great time we had! We could have made this the Video of the Week but thought it deserved to be right up here up on top. Enjoy!
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Forgettable Fact
5. Potent Quotables
6. Parting Shot
1. 180 News
Wild Waves Revisited
If you were with us last week, you know the great time we had! We could have made this the Video of the Week but thought it deserved to be right up here up on top. Enjoy!
Pool Parties
This week on Wednesday and Thursday night we are heading for the pool! If you are in high school join us on Wednesday night from 6:00 to 8:30 and if in middle school join us on Thursday night from 6:00-8:30.
We will be traveling the the McReynold's home in Sherwood for a fun time in the water along with hot dogs! Best part.....IT'S FREE!
Neighborhood BBQ
Our outreach to our neighbors yesterday was a great time. Many thanks to all of you that helped make it so! How exciting to be used of God to bless others! May we never stop!
CD Library
Our CD Library has been updated! Check out new releases from:
Barlow Girls - "How Can We Be Silent"
Casting Crowns - "The Altar And The Door"
Cross Movement - "History: Our Place in His Story"
Hip Hope - "Hits 2008"
Need To Breathe - "The Heat"
Pocket Full of Rocks - "Manifesto"
Project 86 - "Rival Factions"
Aaron Shust - "Whispered And Shouted"
Wavory - "Conquering The Fear of Flight"
Please remember CD may be checked out for a period of ONE WEEK. There are many CDs that have been out for a very long time (up to a year). If you have any checked out CDs laying around please return them so others may enjoy them as well.
2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
"At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him, dragged him out of the city and began to stone him." (Acts 7:57-58a).
GodThink
Groupthink or Godthink? Which do you choose? It all comes down to where your heart lies and what's inside your head. If you choose to follow the group, the dangers that you're entertaining include trampling on your own convictions, ignoring God's wisdom, and flat-out getting hurt.
A recent study at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health unveiled the not-so-surprising finding that the more teenagers a teen driver has in the car, the more likely he or she will be killed in an accident. A 16-year-old driving with three or more passengers is nearly three times more likely to be involved in a fatal accident than a teen driving solo.
Why does this happen? Two things come to mind: First, groupthink leads people to do things they normally would not (driving fast and recklessly, for example). And second, when you're in a group it's easy to get distracted. Distraction can lead to death. When groupthink dominates your life, it can also lead to spiritual death.
One person who didn't follow the mob was Stephen. Read Acts 7:54-60.
What an incredible, courageous dude! He didn't flinch when an angry mob flexed. He didn't shrink when those who hated him stirred up others to join in a cruel crime against him.
It's not easy to stand out from the crowd. Sometimes it will hurt--I hope not as severely as the stoning of Stephen, but the words and actions of others can still be painful.
So why leave the acceptance of the group? Why turn your back on people you value as friends? Here's why: The more you let others shape your values and the more you leave moral decisions to others, the less you walk with God.
Stephen had it right. When he was about to die from the wounds inflicted by the mob, he said, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them" (Acts 7:60).
He loved God enough to die for Him. He loved the crowd enough to stand up and tell them they were wrong.
Do you?
(Tom Felten)
Here are some questions to ask yourself:
~ In what ways do I let others set my values and agenda?
~ What will help me reject the pressure of the crowd and do what God wants?
From Soul Journey, copyright 2003 RBC Ministries Grand Rapids, Michigan. Used with permission.
3. SURF REPORT
Pipecleaner Dance
Cool Optical Illusions
4. FORGETTABLE FACT
It takes around 200,000 frowns to create a permanent brow line.
5. POTENT QUOTABLES
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless.
- Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.
- Robert Anthony
To get nowhere, follow the crowd.
- Frank Baer
6. PARTING SHOT
A procrastinator's work is never done.
August 20, 2007
1. 180 News
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Forgettable Fact
5. Video of The Week
6. Potent Quotables
7. Parting Shot
1. 180 NEWS
Wild Waves
Our wild day of fun is this Wednesday! If you are registered to go be sure to be at the church by 8:00 am. We will return at 10:30 pm.
Here is what you need to remember:
• Bring a few bucks for a fast food dinner on the way home.
• Bring money to rent a locker for your stuff. You can share a locker with friends. Here is the cost: Small - $11, Large - $14, Family - $18.
• Bring suncreen.
• Please remember that one-piece swimsuits are required for girls.
• Watch out for dragons!
Night Strike
Join us this Friday as we join Bridgetown Ministries for Night Strike. We will leave the church at 5:30pm and return at 11:00 pm. Join us as we seek to show the love of Jesus with Portland's neediest people.
Back To School Barbecue
Be with us this Sunday afternoon for a neighborhood BBQ designed to reach our to our apartment neighbors. There will be a free lunch, kid's games and a school supply give away. If you would like to donate new school supplies (Sharpie markers, pencils, notebook paper, spiral notebooks - wide rule, and pink pearl erasers) to be given away at this event please bring them by the church office this week.
2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
"Get me this..." "Do this for me now!" "Don't do that!" "Listen to me!"
Those commands don't sound super-friendly, do they? Those commandsand a whole bunch of other ones just like 'emare frequently used by bossy people. You want to mess up your friendships? Here's a tip: Start bossing your friends around.
Most people don't like to be bossed around. Grown-ups don't even like to be bossed around by their bosses, even though that's kinda what bosses are supposed to do. But since you aren't the boss of your friends (unless you're paying them to be your friends, which would be really odd), you have no reason to boss them around, and they have no reason to put up with it.
In any circle of friends, there will be one or two people who sort of rise to the top, and then everyone else views them as the leaders. This is pretty natural, but it can get bad when it results in bossiness.
If your friends happen to view you as a leader, avoid the temptation to use that position as an excuse to tell everybody how they should behave, what they should do, and when they should do it. If you're one of the leaders of the pack, your friends probably value your opinion quite a bit, so don't be afraid to share it. But try to share your opinions in a way that doesn't make your friends feel like you think you're better than they are.
If you aren't the leader of your pack, it can become really tempting to try to increase your influence by becoming bossy. You may think that by getting a little more vocal and by bossing people around, you'll improve your position within your circle of friends. There are two problems with this idea. First, that's an example of the wrong type of competition, which we talked about a few chapters ago in this book. Second, your friends will notice you've changed and you're beginning to act like a jerk. Your really good friends might be willing to pull you aside and talk to you about it, but the rest of them will just decide they don't want to be your friends anymore.
Enough about bossiness. Go ahead and finish this newsletter! Oops! Did that sound too bossy?
**
Taken from "My Friends" by Kurt Johnston and Mark Oestreicher, copyright 2007, Zondervan/Youth Specialties. Used by permission. Order the book here.
3. SURF REPORT
~ 180 Mexico Mission Site
See pictures of our trip, watch the video, read team member reflections.
~ The Friendship Page
~ Language Penpals
4. FORGETTABLE FACT
A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
5. VIDEO OF THE WEEK
This Wednesday we are going to Wild Waves. Just be glad the wave pool won't look like this! Where's the water?!
6. POTENT QUOTABLES
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
- Anais Nin
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.'"
- C.S. Lewis
===========our|sponsor===========
WHAT ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS?
Friends can mean everything to you. "My Friends" is a book that will help you make and keep great friendships.
Order here.
Also available in your local Christian bookstore.
=================================
7. PARTING SHOT
Friends are like pockets, everyone needs them.
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Forgettable Fact
5. Video of The Week
6. Potent Quotables
7. Parting Shot
1. 180 NEWS
Wild Waves
Our wild day of fun is this Wednesday! If you are registered to go be sure to be at the church by 8:00 am. We will return at 10:30 pm.
Here is what you need to remember:
• Bring a few bucks for a fast food dinner on the way home.
• Bring money to rent a locker for your stuff. You can share a locker with friends. Here is the cost: Small - $11, Large - $14, Family - $18.
• Bring suncreen.
• Please remember that one-piece swimsuits are required for girls.
• Watch out for dragons!
Night Strike
Join us this Friday as we join Bridgetown Ministries for Night Strike. We will leave the church at 5:30pm and return at 11:00 pm. Join us as we seek to show the love of Jesus with Portland's neediest people.
Back To School Barbecue
Be with us this Sunday afternoon for a neighborhood BBQ designed to reach our to our apartment neighbors. There will be a free lunch, kid's games and a school supply give away. If you would like to donate new school supplies (Sharpie markers, pencils, notebook paper, spiral notebooks - wide rule, and pink pearl erasers) to be given away at this event please bring them by the church office this week.
2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
"Get me this..." "Do this for me now!" "Don't do that!" "Listen to me!"
Those commands don't sound super-friendly, do they? Those commandsand a whole bunch of other ones just like 'emare frequently used by bossy people. You want to mess up your friendships? Here's a tip: Start bossing your friends around.
Most people don't like to be bossed around. Grown-ups don't even like to be bossed around by their bosses, even though that's kinda what bosses are supposed to do. But since you aren't the boss of your friends (unless you're paying them to be your friends, which would be really odd), you have no reason to boss them around, and they have no reason to put up with it.
In any circle of friends, there will be one or two people who sort of rise to the top, and then everyone else views them as the leaders. This is pretty natural, but it can get bad when it results in bossiness.
If your friends happen to view you as a leader, avoid the temptation to use that position as an excuse to tell everybody how they should behave, what they should do, and when they should do it. If you're one of the leaders of the pack, your friends probably value your opinion quite a bit, so don't be afraid to share it. But try to share your opinions in a way that doesn't make your friends feel like you think you're better than they are.
If you aren't the leader of your pack, it can become really tempting to try to increase your influence by becoming bossy. You may think that by getting a little more vocal and by bossing people around, you'll improve your position within your circle of friends. There are two problems with this idea. First, that's an example of the wrong type of competition, which we talked about a few chapters ago in this book. Second, your friends will notice you've changed and you're beginning to act like a jerk. Your really good friends might be willing to pull you aside and talk to you about it, but the rest of them will just decide they don't want to be your friends anymore.
Enough about bossiness. Go ahead and finish this newsletter! Oops! Did that sound too bossy?
**
Taken from "My Friends" by Kurt Johnston and Mark Oestreicher, copyright 2007, Zondervan/Youth Specialties. Used by permission. Order the book here.
3. SURF REPORT
~ 180 Mexico Mission Site
See pictures of our trip, watch the video, read team member reflections.
~ The Friendship Page
~ Language Penpals
4. FORGETTABLE FACT
A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
5. VIDEO OF THE WEEK
This Wednesday we are going to Wild Waves. Just be glad the wave pool won't look like this! Where's the water?!
6. POTENT QUOTABLES
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
- Anais Nin
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.'"
- C.S. Lewis
===========our|sponsor===========
WHAT ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS?
Friends can mean everything to you. "My Friends" is a book that will help you make and keep great friendships.
Order here.
Also available in your local Christian bookstore.
=================================
7. PARTING SHOT
Friends are like pockets, everyone needs them.
August 13, 2007
1. 180 News
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Forgettable Fact
5. Potent Quotables
6. Parting Shot
1. 180 NEWS
Mexico Update
You've waited patiently so we're brining you as many pictures and video clips that we can in a few short minutes! We have two ways for you to experience the Mexico trip this week:
Take a look here for all of our pictures.
Also, check out the short video right here! We'll make a longer one too and let you know about it then.
Wild Waves
For those of you who registered, Wild Waves is going to be a wild time! Just remember that we leave next Wednesday, August 22nd at 8am and return home at 10:30pm. We'll post some more info next week.
Night Strike
Friday August 24th we are heading under the Burnside Bridge in Portland for a great night of serving God and our community. You'll want to keep your evening free so you can be with us for this amazing time growing together. Keep your eye open next week for times.
2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
Long before the race of Humans came into the world, there was a mighty angel—great in both rank and honor—serving in the high court of God. Though we know few details, we do know this angel wanted a station higher than the one he was created to possess. He wanted God's
place, God's throne, God's power.
And with that, God struck him down. The angel wasn't built to be God; if he wouldn't choose what he was created to be, then he'd become far less.
His angelic name was Lucifer, the light bringer. Today, he's known as Satan, and he's no storybook creature with horns and a pitchfork. Even depictions of him in movies such as the Exorcist hardly match his twistedness.
In Revelation 12:9, he's called, "the great dragon." Satan is smart and savvy. He has more power than the world's empires combined, yet he can subtly influence the hearts of men and women with prettiness, pleasure, and half-truths.
He is active in the Wild, and he desires to devour people to fill his house below. Satan is a mastermind who strategizes with his Jedi Mind Tricks on how best to capture the weak.
Why doesn't God just crush this horrible creature? If God has so much power, why doesn't God simply wipe out Satan altogether? Well, God could, and God will—one day. But not yet. The battle is not between God and Satan. The battle is over what we will do with our ideas about God.
There is a battle between Heaven and Hell over whether God is good. And the battle is for the human heart.
God could crush Satan in an instant. Yet that's not in God's purposes right now. God is more concerned about us. Will we see God as good? Will we choose to be God's friend? Or will we pretend we are God? Will we tell God to buzz off ? Satan may influence us in many directions,
but we still have the freedom to pursue God—or not.
Here's what the Bible says about the battle against the Dragon: The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the
knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:4, 5)
The Dragon's major strategy is not swinging his mighty tail or enflaming our villages with fire. Rather, Satan works to make us believe that ideas don't matter. He wants us to lack understanding about the Wild and the way Home. He wants us distracted and ignorant. He wants us apathetic. He wants us plugged into our electronics and listening to a multitude of other voices so we hardly know our own. In other words, he wants us to trust our diversions.
The Enemy isn't interested in getting us to disbelieve God or to become atheists. That's not an effective strategy for him because thoughtful atheists are still at risk of thinking hard about God.
No, the Enemy has something more sinister in mind.
At the heart of Satan's warfare is his ongoing plan for us to misunderstand or disregard who God is and what God is like. It's an attack on our knowledge of God. So he effectively uses our diversions, which lead us to search for fulfillment in the things that don't—and can't—fulfill us, until we end up ignoring our souls' true satisfactions. Satan wants us playing in the Wild among the marshes of the dead, rather than looking for road signs that will lead us to safety. And he knows that if we misunderstand God or find God irrelevant, we'll misunderstand the importance of everything else as well.
But who will take up arms against him?
One of my favorite writers once said, "It is not that we have not got enough scoundrels to curse, but that we have not got enough good men to curse them."Our Home needs protecting from the many bad ideas that the Dragon flames down upon us. Many of us get burned, yet we don't even know it. We're just out in the fields, wearing our headphones and dancing with our eyes closed.
But there is one essential starting point to protect us, which, if we don't get it right, little else will help us win the fight. It's not more prayer, although more prayer is necessary. It's not more Bible study, although that's good, too. It's not spending more time at church, although that will help us band together with other believers in the task. Rather, our protection is to arm ourselves with the best ideas we can find and then walk in them.
Facing ideas, weeding through them, and using new tools along the way will help us understand ourselves, our hurts, our struggles, and how to deal with them without turning to easy diversions. This is no battle of swords and bombs.
This is a battle for our minds. What I think matters. And what you think matters.
**Questions to live into:
Find a place where you can have 15 minutes alone in the quiet (that means turning off music, TV, cell phone, etc.). Ask yourself these questions:
If all jobs paid $10 per hour, what job would you choose? Why? When you feel uneasy, lost, lonely, afraid, be-wild-ered what do you do? How often do you use the following as diversions?
Unplug. Try going one day without listening to music. Any music. Then write down how you felt when you wanted to listen to music as your diversion. Were you surprised? Do you find it hard to admit how you really feel about this? After you go one day without music, next time
try a whole weekend. After that, try a whole week. See what happens.
Find a friend and ask, "Do you think about your purpose in life?" See what happens. If your friend says yes, follow it up with, "Does it change how you think about life?" Discuss that a bit.
Hunt for Jedi Mind Tricks. Watch your favorite TV show. Pay close attention to the commercials. Whom are they trying to convince? What are advertisers trying to get you to believe? Do you find it easy to believe what they're telling you? Do you find you suddenly have new "needs" that you didn't have before you watched the commercial? Does the commercial change what you buy?
**
Taken from "Living with Questions" by Dale Fincher, copyright 2007,
Zondervan/Youth Specialties. Used by permission. Order the book here:
http://www.youthspecialties.com/product/276647
3. SURF REPORT
~ HowStuffWorks
Learn how lots of stuff works
http://www.howstuffworks.com
~ Answers.com
http://www.answers.com
4. FORGETTABLE FACT
When opossums are "playing dead", they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
5. POTENT QUOTABLES
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a
question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
"Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt."
- Paul Tillich
===========our|sponsor===========
GET HELP WITH YOUR QUESTIONS
As a teenager, you naturally question your faith and purpose in life.
You might wonder if God's real, if God's listening, or what happens
when you die. You're not alone in these hard questions, nor are you
wrong to ask them.
Living with Questions is a book written for you—to help you form
answers to your questions, and to give you a place to be safe to work
through both.
http://www.youthspecialties.com/product/276647
Also available at your local Christian bookstore.
=================================
6. PARTING SHOT
Right now I'm having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Forgettable Fact
5. Potent Quotables
6. Parting Shot
1. 180 NEWS
Mexico Update
You've waited patiently so we're brining you as many pictures and video clips that we can in a few short minutes! We have two ways for you to experience the Mexico trip this week:
Take a look here for all of our pictures.
Also, check out the short video right here! We'll make a longer one too and let you know about it then.
Wild Waves
For those of you who registered, Wild Waves is going to be a wild time! Just remember that we leave next Wednesday, August 22nd at 8am and return home at 10:30pm. We'll post some more info next week.
Night Strike
Friday August 24th we are heading under the Burnside Bridge in Portland for a great night of serving God and our community. You'll want to keep your evening free so you can be with us for this amazing time growing together. Keep your eye open next week for times.
2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
Long before the race of Humans came into the world, there was a mighty angel—great in both rank and honor—serving in the high court of God. Though we know few details, we do know this angel wanted a station higher than the one he was created to possess. He wanted God's
place, God's throne, God's power.
And with that, God struck him down. The angel wasn't built to be God; if he wouldn't choose what he was created to be, then he'd become far less.
His angelic name was Lucifer, the light bringer. Today, he's known as Satan, and he's no storybook creature with horns and a pitchfork. Even depictions of him in movies such as the Exorcist hardly match his twistedness.
In Revelation 12:9, he's called, "the great dragon." Satan is smart and savvy. He has more power than the world's empires combined, yet he can subtly influence the hearts of men and women with prettiness, pleasure, and half-truths.
He is active in the Wild, and he desires to devour people to fill his house below. Satan is a mastermind who strategizes with his Jedi Mind Tricks on how best to capture the weak.
Why doesn't God just crush this horrible creature? If God has so much power, why doesn't God simply wipe out Satan altogether? Well, God could, and God will—one day. But not yet. The battle is not between God and Satan. The battle is over what we will do with our ideas about God.
There is a battle between Heaven and Hell over whether God is good. And the battle is for the human heart.
God could crush Satan in an instant. Yet that's not in God's purposes right now. God is more concerned about us. Will we see God as good? Will we choose to be God's friend? Or will we pretend we are God? Will we tell God to buzz off ? Satan may influence us in many directions,
but we still have the freedom to pursue God—or not.
Here's what the Bible says about the battle against the Dragon: The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the
knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:4, 5)
The Dragon's major strategy is not swinging his mighty tail or enflaming our villages with fire. Rather, Satan works to make us believe that ideas don't matter. He wants us to lack understanding about the Wild and the way Home. He wants us distracted and ignorant. He wants us apathetic. He wants us plugged into our electronics and listening to a multitude of other voices so we hardly know our own. In other words, he wants us to trust our diversions.
The Enemy isn't interested in getting us to disbelieve God or to become atheists. That's not an effective strategy for him because thoughtful atheists are still at risk of thinking hard about God.
No, the Enemy has something more sinister in mind.
At the heart of Satan's warfare is his ongoing plan for us to misunderstand or disregard who God is and what God is like. It's an attack on our knowledge of God. So he effectively uses our diversions, which lead us to search for fulfillment in the things that don't—and can't—fulfill us, until we end up ignoring our souls' true satisfactions. Satan wants us playing in the Wild among the marshes of the dead, rather than looking for road signs that will lead us to safety. And he knows that if we misunderstand God or find God irrelevant, we'll misunderstand the importance of everything else as well.
But who will take up arms against him?
One of my favorite writers once said, "It is not that we have not got enough scoundrels to curse, but that we have not got enough good men to curse them."Our Home needs protecting from the many bad ideas that the Dragon flames down upon us. Many of us get burned, yet we don't even know it. We're just out in the fields, wearing our headphones and dancing with our eyes closed.
But there is one essential starting point to protect us, which, if we don't get it right, little else will help us win the fight. It's not more prayer, although more prayer is necessary. It's not more Bible study, although that's good, too. It's not spending more time at church, although that will help us band together with other believers in the task. Rather, our protection is to arm ourselves with the best ideas we can find and then walk in them.
Facing ideas, weeding through them, and using new tools along the way will help us understand ourselves, our hurts, our struggles, and how to deal with them without turning to easy diversions. This is no battle of swords and bombs.
This is a battle for our minds. What I think matters. And what you think matters.
**Questions to live into:
Find a place where you can have 15 minutes alone in the quiet (that means turning off music, TV, cell phone, etc.). Ask yourself these questions:
If all jobs paid $10 per hour, what job would you choose? Why? When you feel uneasy, lost, lonely, afraid, be-wild-ered what do you do? How often do you use the following as diversions?
- Money-seeking
- Fashion
- Church
- Music
- Busyness
Unplug. Try going one day without listening to music. Any music. Then write down how you felt when you wanted to listen to music as your diversion. Were you surprised? Do you find it hard to admit how you really feel about this? After you go one day without music, next time
try a whole weekend. After that, try a whole week. See what happens.
Find a friend and ask, "Do you think about your purpose in life?" See what happens. If your friend says yes, follow it up with, "Does it change how you think about life?" Discuss that a bit.
Hunt for Jedi Mind Tricks. Watch your favorite TV show. Pay close attention to the commercials. Whom are they trying to convince? What are advertisers trying to get you to believe? Do you find it easy to believe what they're telling you? Do you find you suddenly have new "needs" that you didn't have before you watched the commercial? Does the commercial change what you buy?
**
Taken from "Living with Questions" by Dale Fincher, copyright 2007,
Zondervan/Youth Specialties. Used by permission. Order the book here:
http://www.youthspecialties.com/product/276647
3. SURF REPORT
~ HowStuffWorks
Learn how lots of stuff works
http://www.howstuffworks.com
~ Answers.com
http://www.answers.com
4. FORGETTABLE FACT
When opossums are "playing dead", they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror.
5. POTENT QUOTABLES
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a
question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
"Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt."
- Paul Tillich
===========our|sponsor===========
GET HELP WITH YOUR QUESTIONS
As a teenager, you naturally question your faith and purpose in life.
You might wonder if God's real, if God's listening, or what happens
when you die. You're not alone in these hard questions, nor are you
wrong to ask them.
Living with Questions is a book written for you—to help you form
answers to your questions, and to give you a place to be safe to work
through both.
http://www.youthspecialties.com/product/276647
Also available at your local Christian bookstore.
=================================
6. PARTING SHOT
Right now I'm having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.
August 6, 2007
1. 180 News
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Forgettable Fact
5. Potent Quotables
6. Parting Shot
1. 180 NEWS
Don't come to Church
Yes, you read that right. Now that we've got you reading we want to make sure you know there is no midweek program for High School & Mid School this week due to the Church Campout. If your family is here on Sunday, we have just one service at 10am. Hope to see you there or at the campout!
Mexico Team
Welcome back to the Mexico team! We're glad you arrived safely home! Continue to pray for the team and all God did in their lives. You can also pray for Delfino, Magdelena and their children. They are the family we built a house for and God is working in their lives! Pray for their salvation and health. Watch the newsletter in the weeks to come to see our team's thoughts, pictures and video!
2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
How Not to Be Tardy
When was the last time you were late for something? Was it last month, last week, yesterday, or today? (Maybe you're running late right now because you're reading this email.) What were you late for? Was it a movie, a youth group meeting at church, your little sister's school play, or soccer practice? Was it your fault that you were late, or was it the fault of the person driving the car?
Some families are never late. Other families are always late. Which family is yours? Not sure? Well, if your mom has a bumper sticker on her car that says, "Better late than never," then you're probably member of the "always late" family. We completely understand that sometimes when you're late it's totally out of your control. But getting to class on time is something you can control.
There are several reasons (most of them lame) why a student might be tardy to class. We're going to take a look at how you can avoid most of them: Wake up! This is tough to do if you're not morning person. When your mom comes to your room in the morning and says, "Wake up, time to get ready for school," do it! Don't moan and groan, roll over, and then fall back asleep. Be ready to go in the morning so you aren't tardy for your first class.
One tip for getting up on time—force yourself to not hit the snooze button. Wear a watch. Really? You mean on my wrist? Well, without a watch, many middle school students have no way to know what time it is. (Some don't even know what day it is.) Especially when you're out roaming the halls, quads, and athletic fields where there are no clocks. Watches aren't just for nerds anymore, and since you probably don't have a sundial handy, we suggest you wear one. If you don't want to wear it on your wrist, then strap it to your backpack.
Talk later. This is a tough one, but it's probably the biggest cause of tardiness. Most students aren't tardy because they didn't have enough time to get across campus or because they dropped their notebook and spent five minutes picking up their papers. Most students are tardy because they spent four minutes and 57 seconds talking to their friends, and now they believe they can somehow sprint across the campus in three seconds.
The bottom line is that you need to be aware of the time. It's that simple. How long does it take you to get to your next class? How long will it take you to stop by your locker and switch books? How long can you hang out with your friends and still make it to class in plenty of time?
** Taken from "My School" by Kurt Johnston and Mark Oestreicher,
copyright 2007, Zondervan/Youth Specialties. Used by permission. Order the book here:
http://www.youthspecialties.com/product/278825
3. SURF REPORT
~ Barrie's Virtual Clock Museum Pictures and descriptions of hundreds of antique and vintage clocks
http://www.clock-museum.co.uk
~ Smithsonian Institute
http://www.si.edu
4. FORGETTABLE FACT
The average person uses 13 different methods to control and manage their time.
5. POTENT QUOTABLES
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
- Annie Dillard
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of"
- Benjamin Franklin
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BOOKS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
As a middle school student, you're in a whole new world. "My School" is written for you - and contains stories, helpful tips and thoughts that you will connect to and learn from.
http://www.youthspecialties.com/product/278825
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6. PARTING SHOT
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Forgettable Fact
5. Potent Quotables
6. Parting Shot
1. 180 NEWS
Don't come to Church
Yes, you read that right. Now that we've got you reading we want to make sure you know there is no midweek program for High School & Mid School this week due to the Church Campout. If your family is here on Sunday, we have just one service at 10am. Hope to see you there or at the campout!
Mexico Team
Welcome back to the Mexico team! We're glad you arrived safely home! Continue to pray for the team and all God did in their lives. You can also pray for Delfino, Magdelena and their children. They are the family we built a house for and God is working in their lives! Pray for their salvation and health. Watch the newsletter in the weeks to come to see our team's thoughts, pictures and video!
2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
How Not to Be Tardy
When was the last time you were late for something? Was it last month, last week, yesterday, or today? (Maybe you're running late right now because you're reading this email.) What were you late for? Was it a movie, a youth group meeting at church, your little sister's school play, or soccer practice? Was it your fault that you were late, or was it the fault of the person driving the car?
Some families are never late. Other families are always late. Which family is yours? Not sure? Well, if your mom has a bumper sticker on her car that says, "Better late than never," then you're probably member of the "always late" family. We completely understand that sometimes when you're late it's totally out of your control. But getting to class on time is something you can control.
There are several reasons (most of them lame) why a student might be tardy to class. We're going to take a look at how you can avoid most of them: Wake up! This is tough to do if you're not morning person. When your mom comes to your room in the morning and says, "Wake up, time to get ready for school," do it! Don't moan and groan, roll over, and then fall back asleep. Be ready to go in the morning so you aren't tardy for your first class.
One tip for getting up on time—force yourself to not hit the snooze button. Wear a watch. Really? You mean on my wrist? Well, without a watch, many middle school students have no way to know what time it is. (Some don't even know what day it is.) Especially when you're out roaming the halls, quads, and athletic fields where there are no clocks. Watches aren't just for nerds anymore, and since you probably don't have a sundial handy, we suggest you wear one. If you don't want to wear it on your wrist, then strap it to your backpack.
Talk later. This is a tough one, but it's probably the biggest cause of tardiness. Most students aren't tardy because they didn't have enough time to get across campus or because they dropped their notebook and spent five minutes picking up their papers. Most students are tardy because they spent four minutes and 57 seconds talking to their friends, and now they believe they can somehow sprint across the campus in three seconds.
The bottom line is that you need to be aware of the time. It's that simple. How long does it take you to get to your next class? How long will it take you to stop by your locker and switch books? How long can you hang out with your friends and still make it to class in plenty of time?
** Taken from "My School" by Kurt Johnston and Mark Oestreicher,
copyright 2007, Zondervan/Youth Specialties. Used by permission. Order the book here:
http://www.youthspecialties.com/product/278825
3. SURF REPORT
~ Barrie's Virtual Clock Museum Pictures and descriptions of hundreds of antique and vintage clocks
http://www.clock-museum.co.uk
~ Smithsonian Institute
http://www.si.edu
4. FORGETTABLE FACT
The average person uses 13 different methods to control and manage their time.
5. POTENT QUOTABLES
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
- Annie Dillard
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of"
- Benjamin Franklin
===========our|sponsor===========
BOOKS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
As a middle school student, you're in a whole new world. "My School" is written for you - and contains stories, helpful tips and thoughts that you will connect to and learn from.
http://www.youthspecialties.com/product/278825
=================================
6. PARTING SHOT
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.
