Looking Ahead. . . Reserve these dates!
In Sunday School for the next few weeks, we are taking a practical approach to Worship by planning the Youth Worship Service.There are lots of important dates for your calendar for the next few months: May 2-4, Monandock Bible Conference in Jaffrey, NH (for girls) to attend the Authentic Beauty Conference. On Sunday 18 May, we will lead the worship program for Youth Sunday, with many opportunities to serve. That next weekend we are going to Rumney for a work weekend, Friday, May 23 and back on Monday, May 26. The week of 22-27 June we will send a team to the Boston Project. Another opportunity this year will be to attend “Upward Challenge” a week long Christian camp and teaching experience in Black Mountain, NC from 21-26 July. We will also have our 2008 kick-off event at Camp Canonicus in Exeter, RI, Aug. 22-24.
April 2008
- Apr 15: Movie Night 6-10 pm, pizza, "The Legend of Bagger Vance"
- Apr 22: Blue Like Jazz topic
- Apr 29: Youth Sunday Planning
- May 6: Youth Sunday Preps
- May 13: Youth Sunday Preps
- May 18: Youth Sunday
- May 20: Blue Like Jazz Topic
- May 23-26: Work Weekend White Mountain Bible Camp
- May 27: Final Youth Meeting before Summer Break—FUN
- Youth bi-weekly studies. The topic is Worship Styles and Substance. For our Summer studies we will examine different types of Christian worship services by attending services at other churches in the area ( June 15 and 29, July 13 and 27, and Aug 10) and then discussing our experience at our youth meetings the following six Tuesdays: June 3 and 17, July 1, 15, and 29, and Aug 12.
- Boston Project 22-27 June
- Upward Challenge 21-26 July
- 2008-09 Fall Retreat 22-24 Aug
Every Day. . .
We realize there is lots going on in the life of Senior High.... As you learn to balance the many competing demands on your time, daily devotions and prayer should be number one.
Looking back . . .
All enjoyed the September game night at the Atlantic Solutions Garage in Portsmouth. The highlights of the event was the food eating relay (how does Ben always end up with the candy?) and of course Mrs. Ferree and Molly searching for those special worms. Nine youth and two adults went to Six Flags New England and after a day of rides saw a great concert by Third Day, Thousand Food Krutch, Farewell Flight, Koi, and Siloam. Several youth also participated in a volunteer work project
Team NOLA was a great success. Several of our teens went to New Orleans to assist Katrina victims in rebuilding.
During November we continued working on our study of temptation, looking at temptation from the perspective of “Putting on Our Armor” to be ready for the fight and accepting our role as His knights in battle. Our thanks to November’s “mystery guests” Tony and Elaine Ruggiero. Also, 16 people went to the Steven Curtis Chapman concert in Lowell. A big thank you to Zoe and the others who sold calendars on Sunday mornings for our summer trips.
December and January were jammed packed. Sure, we had our usual exciting meeting on Tuesday night meetings, but we also had a special night of caroling in Newport and New Year's Eve lock-in at the Newport Athletic Club.
In January we got back on the Tuesday meeting schedule with topics of Doubt: Does God Really Care About You? and Impact: Can a Teen Really Make Any Difference in the World? We enjoyed our mystery guest, Tyler Will, on his winter break from URI. Will provided food from the kitchen and food for thought. Also, we sponsored the yearly church blood drive for the RI Blood Bank. And of course who could ever forget the fabulous Snow Camp weekend, when we set the 21st Century First Presbyterian snow camp attendance record with over 30 at a snow camp retreat! We did our banner and skit on the idea of “Under Armor” about the full armor of God and medieval theme. The Holy Spirit fell, snow fell, our goals were lifted and rumor has it the bus driver will be able to return to his job after a few more weeks of psychological rehab.
In Sunday School we finished looking at the end times as revealed to us in the Scripture. We moved to our new Sunday School classroom. We started working on a study of Worship and how we can really worship God in our church services and in our lives.