FIFTY6 is coming this Sunday…
Yesterday was our second annual AYF Summer Picnic @ the Hilliard’s. Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the end of school!
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LIFE
Make sure to head on over to our updated LIFE 2007 page – we now have a packing list up, daily schedule, and the conference speakers/bands!
attendance: below average (19 students, 1 new student, 6 leaders
topic: Life Together: gifts & serving (Matthew 25:14-30)
fun factor: above average
game: capture the tiki – capture with flag w/ tiki torches & water balloons
music: everlasting God – Breton Brown; mighty to save – hillsong united; getting closer – bridge band
lesson quality: average
student response: average
Last night our focus scripture was the Parable of the Talents found in Matthew 25:14-30. We talked about the fact that everyone who is a follower of Jesus has been given spiritual gifts. With those gifts, we have a choice – to use them or waste them. The master in the parable wasn’t upset with the last servant because of the money; he was upset because the servant knew the master, and still did less than the least with his responsibility!
attendance: above average (32 students, 6 leaders)
topic: senior night
fun factor: above average
game: steal the bacon & stuff the car (who knew you could get 14 people in a Jeep in 8 seconds?!)
music: n/a
lesson quality: Hershey Park slide show; AYF year in review video; senior gifts presentation
student response: above average
We had a GREAT night at AYF last night. It was awesome to see so many faces out to honor our seniors who are getting ready to graduate from State High. Our first slideshow was to showcase a game we did at Hershey Park two weeks ago:the group was divided into 5 teams, each with a camera & plastic army men. The mission: who can get the best pictures! We had some great ones. That was followed by a video of our events over the past year, culminating with presenting gifts to our seniors. Parents, make sure they’re in church on Sunday, because we’ll be presenting another gift that morning. And who’s kid doesn’t love gifts? Finally, the night wouldn’t be complete without a cookout on the grill – thanks to our new leader Jill Zeger for cooking up some grilling goodness!
Here’s what’s coming up!
attendance: below average
topic: Life Together : growing to be like Jesus
fun factor: average
game: n/a
music: only one love – Yvonne Parks; getting closer – bridge band; son of God – starfield
lesson quality: above average
student response: average
Our focus scripture Wed. night was John 15:1-8, “the Vine & the Branches”. From this we talked about how just showing up to church and growing spiritually are not the same thing; that spiritual growth often requires developing habits, such as prayer and studying scripture. We also touched on what pruning is – the cutting off of the old to encourage life. Pruning can be painful & difficult, but is often necessary. And what better what to illustrate pruning that hacking off my beard?
some items for this week:
attendance: 30 students, 0 new students, 4 leaders (1 new leader, Jill Zeger)
topic: Guest Speaker Roberta Clogg :: missionary apprentice in Kosovo
fun factor: average
game: flags
music: made to worship; mighty to save; you never let go; show me your glory
lesson quality: above average
student response: average
We’re in a week or so at the church of our Antioch missions program, so everything is buzzing with international missions. We had a flag ID game – the student to correctly ID the most if the 21 flags in the sanctuary won an iTunes gift card. Roberta Clogg, a good friend of mine from college and an alum of AYF shared about her time this past year in Kosovo. She’s serving in a country where 1/10th of 1% of the population are Christian. Crazy. Recently, she’s been doing a lot of work in her community meeting students/youth and sharing the gospel relationally with them. It was a great night, and had some great questions from our students about Roberta’s time & ministry.
