Friday Night Fun, so named by a vote of
the students, has been a huge blast and major blessing over the first month
we've been running it. Food, fun,
friendship, fellowship, and more, all in one short Friday night! (6:30 – 8:30
every Friday Night) Games have included kickball, volleyball, team-building activities, and much more. We spend time hanging out and eating food,
while just getting to know each other better.
In
addition, each week we have a group time where we explore two things.
First, we've had guests each week telling us about what community is,
where they are involved in the community, and things that can be
done by anyone to get involved in the community. We've been learning how
community can be your family, your church, your school, the strangers you run
into at the library or the park, and even the people who you never run into who
you can effect by acts of service such as cleaning parks, helping the community
trailer parks or libraries, doing road cleanup, and other behind the scenes
sorts of service acts.
The
other part of the larger group time reviews and expands upon the teaching we did the Sunday before at church. We've been taking a
very close so far at the first few chapters of Genesis, learning what it means
to be made in the image of God, and had a very powerful and dramatic reading of
the first four chapters of Genesis. We also spent time in group prayer
for our friends – that was a powerful time.
This
coming Friday (tomorrow) is the Parents Open
House, and we invite students and parents to all come together! We're
excited to see you all for more Friday Night Fun! Also don’t forget to spread the word for October 7th – it is our official kick-off day.
Here are some comments
from the youth that reflect the general sentiment captured in the weekly
surveys:
Loved it!
Awesome Night!
Thank you, thank you thank you!
God is Awesome!
Thank you, this is my first time here and I was moved.
Keep doing what you do
I never knew Genesis was so inspiring
Praise God for his love!
what impacted you tonight?
The reading & thinking about it & praying was
amazing
That we are created in God's image, but that it is
distorted because of our sin
How powerful God is; It was really something to think about
The words that Florin was speaking, they just seemed so
much more
Meeting people more, getting to know them
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