Retreat flyers are available in the youth center or the church office.
Here’s the scoop:
Next Saturday we’re doing a Service Day around Warsaw/Winona Lake. It will be from 10am-2pm and will be open to anyone. We’re hoping to have a good turnout (even if you plan on going up to the Pulse Fest later on in the day).
Will you make plans to join us in serving our community? We’ll have more information later in the week.
Rested up from Momentum? Excited about what God’s been doing in us? Please plan on being here this Sunday morning for BOTH SERVICES as we as students lead our church family! More details will be talked about tomorrow night.
Don’t miss out on summer youth group tomorrow night! We’ll need your help as we find volunteers to share stories about what God has been doing in their life (Momentum, Kentucky, etc). Also, the guys and girls will be splitting up to do some sweet service projects. Girls: If you’d like to bring something to help contact Brandi. Guys: bring some clothes you can work in!
Friday DUNES TRIP:
Meet at the church at 8am as we head to the Warren Dunes in Michigan. Bring $3, a waiver, and your own lunch. We’ll be back at 5pm. This trip is open to all JH and SH students. Call the church office (574-267-6623) for more details.
Thanks for John Sproul for lots of the pictures this week…here’s one he got of the block party we helped at today:
So today the whole lot of us at momo went out in the community to do community service. Our group were assigned to go to a neighborhood and clean up around and go door and door asking for chores. I was with Cori and Chris S. At first we didn’t get much any where. Either no one answered the door or no one was home. We eventually found a couple of black folks on the street. They were having a block party remembering a boy who got hit by a drunk driver and died. He died on the same street they were having the get together. The kid was only 15 and his b-day was tom. Anyway we helped them clean up and later our whole youth group showed up to try to connect with them. I really connected with a 11 yr. old girl named shy. She and I are so tight now. We have each others cell numbers. But living in a economically-depressed community they were faced with shootings and a lot of their kids getting killed. It was eye opening and it was so real. They kept on telling us that they loved us and were greatfull that we were there. They were all like “you guys are such an inspertation.” They were all excited that we came all the way from indiana. They had ping pong, a dj, food like no other and even popcorn and a ice machine! We got information from them to keep in contact. It was so amazing because in warsaw there is not that type of life style. Parents worrying about their kids getting killed, but the heart of the people were so big. They were determined to change the way the community was. This is the short version of course but the experience was nothing i ever felt before.
J-Nell
Today was just awesome; we got to go out into the community and help clean it up, we got to feel God’s forgiveness, and we had a super awesome party at the end of today’s session! My personal experience was in the party; I did four things. 1: I screamed like I never screamed before, I was able to hear my voice over Steve Fee’s (which is an incredible feat to accomplish). 2: I was within touching distance of Steve Fee’s microphone (I literally had one person between me and the stage). 3: I touched Steve Fee’s bus. 4: While telling the youth group about the last three things I stuttered on the bus part and people thought I said something else (at least before I corrected myself). -Written by Andrew Jeffreys
We’re heading out to Aliquippa, PA in a little bit to do some door-to-door service projects and some community clean up as part of We Care Pittsburgh. Please pray for our students that they would serve well, look for opportunities to pray with people, and be sensitive to the Spirit’s leading in our time in Aliquippa.
Check out the pics from Friday:
Wow, it’s hard to believe that it is already Friday. The past few nights I have been really tired, but the sessions and the worship made up for it. The past few speakers in the sessions have been really good. I can’t wait ’till tomorrow morning when we go on “We Care Pittsburgh.” I think it will be a great opportunity to serve the community, and I’m really looking forward to it. JD French
The week has been going extremely fast for me, but during the very first session I felt like God was crying out to me and it felt amazing and right then I knew that he was going to be able to help me throughout my whole life. I also cannot wait for tomorrow because I get really excited about helping out other people and it’s fun.
Kahler Snow
Momentum has been wonderful! God has really changed my life,I got saved yesterday! 
-Taylor Helm
The past week has been the coolest thing. I’ve been to momentum before, but its always new. It never stays and teaches the same thing twice. The songs with Fee and the band are awesome. The food tastes like cardboard, but it just doesn’t matter. It just been an awesome week of hanging out, stalking people, singing, listening, working, and just having fun. Just meeting new people like high five guy and free hug man is so fun in itself. That’s nothing compared to the sweet music and hanging out with friends.
-Josh Silveus
Hey there, good lookin’! Kyrsta Jeffreys here. Things have been wonderful this week! Everything started off with a bang and it’s surely ending the same way (well, almost. One more day left). Tonight Bill Wilson spoke about how we need to have a shepherd’s heart. Having a shepherd’s heart alludes to a shepherd who is willing to risk his life to save his lamb that is caught in a lion’s mouth. He is willing to give up his life to what he can to help the lamb. Bill Wilson spoke about how we need to have a shepherd’s heart when we are called to something. Now, we may never be called to help orphans in Africa or go to the slums in a major city. But whatever we ARE called to do, whether that calling is to be a missionary in China or to be a loving wife and mother ministering to her kids in lovely Warsaw, Indiana, we are called to have a shepherd’s heart in it. Thanks for reading this. I dearly hope it makes sense! I wish I could say more, but if I stay on much longer Tim may give me a hard time. Goodbye!
Hey this is Ashley Koontz. Today was amazing!!! First of all I want to thank everyone who helped us or encouraged us to go to Momentum this year!!! It has been amazing and we really appreciate the opportunity to learn about God and how to be SOLD OUT FOR JESUS!!! Today was a day of decisions for me. Over the past year I have come to realize that GOd wants me in ministry. I didn’t know where I wanted to go or what I would be doing. We heard from Cheryl Fawcett who was a woman sold out for Christ serving people all over the world!!! Then tonight we heard from an older guy who was also literally SOLD OUT FOR JESUS!!! He helped kids in New York and in places of the world who were living in dumpsters or who were infected with AIDS or other deformities. When people said that the kids were HOPELESS, Bill , the guy who was speaking, went in and did crazy things to give hope to these kids. The stories broke my heart!!! It is good when you realize that there is a world out there who are so broken and lost and poor that you must do EVERYTHING you can to help them because you have been blessed so much! God has taught me so much! The whole youth group has learned so much too!! So thanks again for helping us come here!!! — Ashley Koontz
Anyone reading this…we’d appreciate your prayers tonight as we get the opportunity to worship with FEE and listen to Bill Wilson. Last night was great! Many of your kids decided to get their lives straight with God…some for the first time, some in a renewed way. Also, this morning several of our students stepped forward to say they were wanting to do SOMETHING with their life to reach the unreached of the world. We’ll blog more about that later.
