Last Sunday, I taught a lesson to the Beyond Youth about their importance and significance. On Monday, I found this video via The Doug and Jon Show that’s a good addition to the lesson. It’s focused more to girls, but this is a lesson for all kids and teens.
Quickly approaching is the new ministry year for the student ministries (Beyond Youth & Kids Zone) at Life-Givers Ministries. Sure, it’s only June, but the new ministry year starts on Sunday, August 29, 2010; a few weeks after the start of the new school year.
Can I just say that I’m excited? So excited that I want run and jump and scream how excited I am.
Last night, I was deeply thinking and praying for God to solidify the vision he wants for this new year. During this time, God gave me a phrase that struck me hard. This phrase is so powerful that I believe that God will use this new ministry year to drive LGM and it’s student ministries to a new level of ministry and closeness to God.
Here’s the sad part. I can’t share it right now. There’s some work to be done in the background before it can be shared, but keep a lookout. It is coming soon, and it will blow you away.
While driving to work this morning I became increasingly excited about this coming Sunday’s service at Life-Givers Ministries. More specifically, for the Beyond Youth. This wasn’t just some excitement about an upcoming event or about something cool, but a divine excitement. Like God is about to bust up something.
Something big it about to happen.
If you’re a teen in Berkeley county, then be at Life-Givers Ministries this Sunday morning. If you’re a parent of a teen, then get them to Life-Givers. Just do it!
10:30am. Berkeley Middle School.
This past Sunday, we at LGM celebrated our 4th anniversary of opening our doors to our surrounding communities by hosting our annual Family and Friend Day. As you may have read from my latest post on the Monday Morning Rewind series there were 3 Beyond Youth students who opened their hearts to God’s salvation and 152 people in attendance. That was awesome.
What else was cool was the lesson that I taught to the Beyond Youth, and they seemed to enjoy it. At least, if they didn’t, then they should win their own personal Oscar.
The Beyond Youth started a new series entitled, A King’s Story, and I wanted them to make Jesus’ life real to them. A real Jesus for real students. So I dressed up as Jesus to tell the story of Blind Bartimaeus, as found in Mark 10, as if it was coming from his point-of-view. His feelings, his thoughts, his perspective.
Those students were hanging onto every word that I said. Their eyes were glued to me. What they were told were words of love and compassion coming from the Savior (but not really). In the end, 3 students’ lives were changed. It was our best class so far. And I’m expecting better in the future.
For those who don’t know, the Beyond Youth have been participating in the annual Teens for Jeans program organized by Aéropostale. We started collecting pairs of jeans on Sunday, January 24th, and ended this past Sunday, February 7th. Aéropostale plans to send these jeans to aid in the Haiti earthquake relief. What’s really cool is that they are matching a new pair of Aéropostale jeans for the first 100,000 pairs that they collect and send.
This morning, Bridgett and Stephanie (a Beyond Youth parent) traveled to the Aéropostale store in Northwoods Mall to drop off the jeans that we collected. The grand total? 150 pairs of jeans. How awesome is that! Praise God!!!
If I hadn’t counted the jeans last night, then I wouldn’t have believed that we collected that many. I have to say a huge thank you to everyone to donated, and an enormous praise to God for such a great turnout.
What’s also cool is that they gave us a 25% off coupon for each pair that we gave. So, we have 150 coupons to get rid of by the last day of February. I’ve already given some away at my job, but we’re keeping most of them to give away at our church, Life-Givers Ministries. After Sunday, if we have a lot left over, we’ll figure out how we’ll get rid of them.
Finally, if you’d like to participate in this initiative, then the last day Aéropostale is collecting jeans is this Sunday, February 14th.
Extremely excited about Winter Jam coming to North Charleston, SC on Valentine’s Day. Bridgett and I are taking the Beyond Youth to this concert along with many others from Life-Givers Ministries. Plus, I get to go backstage to meet the performers for prayer before the concert. So cool!
Are you going to a Winter Jam concert or have you been to one already? Let me know.