Celebrating Life, Baby Shower and Mother's Day
Last night at Guy-Girl Night, my wife was showered with love, food, gifts, and community as the girls hosted their surprise Baby Shower. It was a great night of fun games, conversation, and joy as we look forward to the birth of Baby Watkins. And for the guys, we looked ahead to our Mother's Day event by creating invitations for our moms to join us for a special night to honor them. It was a great night for both groups, celebrating the gift of life, and appreciating the mothers who make it possible! Pictures will eventually be posted from the shower :)
*Mark your calendars Mom: May 9th
On May 9th, we are still meeting for our Guy-Girl SNL night, but we're inviting the moms out for a special treat. The girls will meet in the Youth Room for a special Mother-Daughter time, while the guys invite their moms to a dinner in the gym for a Mother-Son event. For now, just mark your calendar, 6:30-8:30pm on Mother's Day...more info will come.
Click here to visit our 30 Hour Famine site!
We have 25 students signed up from our group who will be joining 50 more students from Grace Baptist Lancaster ,Millersville Bible Church, and newly joined, Lampeter UMC for a weekend of education, experience, and service. We're raising awareness about poverty and trafficking in our world by going without food for 30 hours. *Students should begin fasting after lunch on Friday*
The weekend includes sleeping outdoors in a cardboard city, presentations from several organizations such as Love 146, Who Cares and Hope Internaional, interactive games, activities, a service project, videos, response stations, and small group time. You'll have to experience it to believe it!
*Students coming should bring:
- Permission slip signed and filled out
- Duct Tape for their shelter construction
- Clothes, toiletries, etc for the weekend, including pillow, sleeping bag, etc.
- Clothes to get dirty in on Saturday morning: service project!
- DO NOT bring: food, cell phones, other electronic devices (ipods, video games, etc)We need cardboard, cardboard, and more cardboard! If you have any big pieces/boxes or have connections to some, we need as much as we can get.
Event Needs:
- Cardboard: We need as much cardboard as we can get, so if you have some, we'll take it!
- Chaperones: Whether you're with us the whole time or just part of the weekend, we're inviting adults to join us for our time.
- Roaming Guards: We need volunteers to give a couple hours from midnight to 7am to walk the line between the guys and girls section of the cardboard city.
- Dinner help for Saturday night: We're closing the event off with a meal and could use some extra hands in the kitchen.
The only fundrasing we're doing BEFORE the Famine is to sell tickets for the May 1st concert at the Chameleon Club, featuring Reilly, Farewell Flight, Josh Albright Band, Chuck Gibson and St. Elouise. Below you can check out the headlining band Reilly. Doors open at 6pm, music starts at 6:45. ALL proceeds benefit Love 146, an organization fighting trafficking. Click here to visit their website. We are trying to sell 50 tickets as a group...So you're invited to join us for a night of music while also learning about the issue of trafficking...And then hey, help us spread the word and be apart of this great opportunity. Tickets are $10 in advance and can be purchased from Justin.
REILLY - Sunlight (HD) from Reilly on Vimeo.
This week:
Thursday: Disciple
Dinner at HOP 6-6:45, Disciple 7-8:30pm in Youth Room
We continue our look at God's Love Story by looking at "being the church". We welcome Pastor John Laughlin in to lead our LAST Thursday night Disciple.
*We will meet for one last Disciple on Friday April 30th, from 6-10pm to look at the Holy Spirit. Check out what we've been doing, visit our Disciple blog page!
Friday-Saturday: 30 Hour Famine
5pm: arrive, register, start building your cardboard shelter!
7pm: We'll gather to welcome everyone and kick off our event together.
*Event is over at 7pm Saturday. Parents are invited to join us at 6:30pm to hear about our weekend.*
Sunday Morning: Encounter, 10-11am Youth Room
We're looking a little deeper at true fasting as we spend time sharing about the 30 Hour Famine. (A reminder for the Fladelands, George signed up for snack this week!)
Parents of Youth Sunday School Class
Don't miss this time of support and fellowship for parents with teensagers in the house!
10-11am in the Albright Room)
Sunday Night Live, 6:30-8:30pm
Come on out for a night of fun, fellowship and food as we gather together around a theme from God's Word.
Looking Ahead...
- May 2nd @ SNL is a Celebration Feast
- May 5th: National Day of Prayer Youth Edition at LBC: Follow the video blog posts of the worship leaders and speaker, Ben Murray (From the fall retreat!)
- Barnstormer Games: We are looking for 30 volunteers (ages 16 and older) to run a base-side concession stand for each of the games listed below. You will be teamed up with another volunteer from the church to serve customers by bringing them their order or running a cash register. Training is provided, no special skills required!
- 9% of the profits we make that night are donated to the Grace Youth Group!!
- Dates: June 19, July 10, July 26, Aug 21, Sep 3, Sep 17
