Pain

Right now there is a wave of pain that is sweeping over the youth population. As the economy gets worse and families are doing stretched, parents are spending less time with students. Students are free to spend more time away from the home, and are getting educated by friends on how to live their life, morals are being decided and chosen on the fly, in the heart of the moment. We live in a world were at young ages you are having to decide very Adult things. Yet we don’t have the adults around to help make those decisions. This is a time when you really need to make sure that you have people in your life that can help you. People who really care about you. People who really want what is best for you, who are there for you. Ones that you can, “tell it like it is” and they will still be with you.

Pain does a lot of things to us. Pain causes us to think differently then we would normally think. when we are in pain, often our mind will make us not want to be in a place of healing, or pain will make us feel like we are unworthily of being healed, and that those around us who are able to help us heal, are fake. This pain often makes us run from the very thing that we need. At times we know what we need, and know where to get it, but often pain grips us from running to the healer, and running from the healer.

Pulse we must be a place were healing can happen. In this time, we must step up and see that there is pain all around us, people who we would never guess to be in pain, are living a life that is consumed by pain, and the thoughts of pain. Let us be a place a healing.

Let us be a place were everyone feels like they are welcomed and loved on.

Beach Trip Permission Form

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Focus Tracks

This summer Starting June 3rd we will be having focus tracks here at the church from 6:30-8.
- Prayer and Worship with Mike and Steve
-Purity with Shaina and Maria
- Experiencing God with Caitlyn
- Outreach with Jessie and DJ.

You’ll want to make sure your here. Sign up here, or Sunday night.

Upcoming Event!!!

Hollister

I read this off of my friends Facebook page and I thought I would post it and see what you guys thought about it. “If Hollister decided that breathing was uncool, 92% of American teens would be dead.”.

I think that there is a lot of truth to this, I know that some of you think well I dont like Hollister, but what if it was your fav. brand, or Fav. artist? Would you think twice about breathing? What if a bunch of your friends started to try it and talked about how “COOL” it was to try it? Would you try it and see what happened? Would you go home and think about it in your room when no one was around? Even through you know it would kill you, would you still have to think about it, and fit to not try it?

HB Groups

Here are the two forms that Vessel girls will need for your trip Tomorow night. Make sure to fill them out and bring with you. Also if you are bringing a friend make sure they have one as well.

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vessel-homeless-outreach

56! Here is the directions to Mikes house for HB groups.

Al Menconie

We have a great speaker coming in Next Sunday Night the 22nd from 5-6:30, To watch a video about him go here. http://www.tangle.com/view_video.php?viewkey=9c0691b72190466a68cb

Dove, BE real

Join the Dove fight to BE REAL,
It is hard to watch the pressure that Girls are under to look like something that the girls they are looking at are not! The pressure is UNREAL! But until you girls change the way that you talk to yourselves, and change what you look at you will have a hard time BEING REAL with your own body and mind. Guys we need to help the girls out, and not hold them to standards that only Photoshop, perfect lighting, camera, and hours of professional make-up and hair artists can create. If we want to be a youth ministry that is REAL this is a good place to start. Let’s BE REAL about who we are, and not try to be something that NOBODY can be. If we want to BE REAL, let celebrate what GOD created and not what Photoshop created.

Text addict

Is this stuff really going on in your school? What do you think about this? This is kinda scary, sad, and makes me worried about were we are going as people. I’d love to hear what you have to say about this one.

Punchout

So I was watching Dr.Phil…yeah I was watching Dr. Phil. The show was weird teen trends. One of the ones they talked about was “Punch out”. The trend of teens filming themselves hitting each other for fun, and putting it on youtube. Also the increase of teens filming fights at school and then putting them up on “youtube” for the world to see. All are talking about wanting to join “UFC”. How real is this in your school?