Whoooo- Lockin Time

It's almost here, only a few more days to the lockin this Friday! Meet at the church at 7:00 pm(or 11:00 if you have Fri night plans) for fun and fellowship. We'll have breakfast in the morning and finnish up at 7:00 am. The lockin will feature great games such as ultimate frisbee, fear factor and many more.

Experiencing the Psalms

Sunday nightslall year long Darell will be preaching the Psalms. He will be using “orientation,” “disorientation,” and “new orientation” as his structure for the Psalms. This is pretty cool, but we will be complimenting it with also exploring Psalms in a different way when the youth meets. Our emphasis will be on experiencing the Psalms- through music, readings, prayer and other stuff (You know I like to keep things a little mysterious so you don’t know exactly what is in store). Our first meeting will be August 20 (also the last day for “Grease”) and we will have a special guest musician (Brandon Rodgers, the worship leader from Park Avenue Baptist Church). If you are in choir- stick around, it is a little more singing but should be a different enough in style and I think you will find it refreshing. If you aren’t in choir- Come on to the church at 6:00, this is for everyone.

When: August 20, at 6:00 PM
Where: Youth House

Wednesday's Back

Remember last year, when I visited the church and there was this fancy Wednesday program featuring dinner and then a youth group Bible study or something along those lines. Well its back and better than ever. Im pretty excited, one of my first experiences with yall was leading a Wednesday night program. "So what do we have instore for this year?" you may be wondering. A lot. Of course theres the food at 5:30. Then theres the seeing your friends in the middle of the week and fun conversations. On a regular basis you should be able to expect some fun games or activities, a brief Bible/book/thematic study/discussion/brainstorm/experiment/experience/activity. I hope that really paints a clear picture of whats in store.

For the next few weeks we will be doing 101 (a designation in college of an intro level course). We'll start with Old Testament 101 and take an overview of the whole Old Testament in 4 weeks. I think this will be pretty interesting and informative and at the same time build a good foundation for some of the serious Bible study we will be doing thoughout the year.

You may want to read over the entire Old Testament as we may be doing a gameshow style event.

Have a good week yall
Josh

Malawi Fundraiser

This Saturday New Heights Baptist Church Youth will be doing a fundraiser for Missions in Malawi from 11:00-4:00. We were invited to attend and I wanted to pass along the invitation to yall. Whether or not any of us can attend, I think it is awsome to see what God is doing around the world and even through youth groups around us. I love the opportunities we have to serve God here at FBC, but am trying to remember what is going on with or brothers in sisters in Christ at different churches. Its kind of nice to see some of the different pieces of the puzzle (a reference to this past weeks sermon) can come together.

Directions
158 Lamar Rd.
Macon, GA 31220
Click here for a Map

Youth Council

Ready to become even more involved in your youth group? Committed to growing spiritually? Do you have a passion for helping others? Do you have ideas for the youth group but no where to express them?

This years Youth Council will re-energize our church's commitment to spiritual growth and youth involvement. We know that being young doesn't mean you don't have good ideas, or strong committment or any of that stuff people sometimes think about youth. Youth Council isn't for everyone though as it requires an ability to commit time and effort to planning and working to improve the youth group as well as to grow spiritually.

An all new application form will be available starting Sunday, August 13. There will be two representatives for each Sunday School Class age group (7th&8th), (9th&10th), (11th&12th). Criteria for selection will include a lot of factors suchc as commitment, availability, diversity (we don't want all girls for example, or three people from one family) and will be determined by the Youth Committee. Stay posted for more details or contact Josh (jgribble@averett.edu) if you have any questions.

Water Wars

Well, like it or not the summer is almost over (except for Hannah who has already started school) so we had better enjoy our last glorious moments of summer fun. There is no better way to do that than some good old fashioned water wars. The battles will begin promptly at 6:30 if some youth show up at 5:30 to fill up balloons and prepare. Otherwise battles will begin, uh, whenever we are ready. Please wear swimsuits (keep them modest ladies) and be ready to party like its the last day of summer (even though that isn't till the next day).

When: Wednesday, Aug 2 @6:30
Where: In the field behind church

Lakehouse

We will be going up to the Smith's lakehouse this saturday. It should be a lot of fun swimming, skiing/tubing or just hanging out at the lake. Lunch will be provided. Please bring $5 to help cover the cost of food/gas.

When: This Saturday, Jul 29. 10:00 @ church.
Where: Meet at church- will be going to the Smiths Lakehouse
How Much: $5

The Update

Ok, so a bits gone on and I thought I'd let yall who couldn't make it in on it all.

Movie Night- This was a bit of a shocker. So far we have watched Glory Road, and End of the Spear. Last week was a bit of a surprize since many were expecting the light hearted teen angst-filled geekfest of a comedy, Napoleon Dynamite only to find the serious story about Missionaries (and even babies) getting killed. Granted, it probably also was happier in the sense that it show the bleak reality of human nature but how love, compassion and forgiveness could transcend violence and pointed to a type of life that has a meaning that Napoleon Dyn. himself is so desparately lacking. Anyway, the idea last night was a comedy and several folks brought movies in. Two of the big comedies I thought would have a good chance of being voted on were Pink Panther and School of Rock. However, in a shocking twist of events the dark horse romatic comedy Dave somehow emerged teh victor after a couple of rounds of elimination voting. I'll admit I was surprized as were the perplexed proponents of Shool of Rock and they were vocal about their dissent. However, an hour later I observed that they were glued to the TV, laughing at all the jokes, holding back tears at the sad parts and yes, staring with that hard to describe look girls have during chickflicks during the romantic parts.

Guild Wars- This has been the week that Guild Wars has exploded. We are continuing to work on the youth blog and have begun to establish a bit of a schedule getting online and... fellowshiping. A couple highlights include the addition of Woody as our newest member and the continued progress of Kevin as he has marched his way into Tyria. Our next scheduled game where we all try to get on is this sunday afternoon, possibly around 2:00.

Youth Interning- Thanks for your help guys, we are moving into a great year thanks to your effort. Youth are the backbone of any youth group (that shouldn't be hard to figure out with the name and all but sometimes us guys in our twenties aren't as smart as we could be) and you guys are continuing to make the FBC Youth group great. I was in a staff meeting with Darrell and Glen and I proclaimed- "This is going to be a great year for our youth and children's ministry." I wasn't just saying that, usually I am not one to predict too great of results because I don't want to raise expectations higher than I can meet. Here at FBC I have seen yall in action and I am convinced that I can make that big promise because yall have big hearts and are going to make this a fantastic year full of wonderfulness (yeah, I think thats a Taylor Expression). In other words, its going to be so dang much fun.

Frisbee Golf

A lot of people have been asking me, "what the heck is Frisbee Golf?" Well, thats a dang good question and I finally can give a good answer. The player (such as the super hot Korean holding the blue disc to the left) attempts to throw the disc from the starting location to the basket in the fewest throws, just like golf. The basket, hole three in the pic, has chains so that when you throw the disc into the chains it (hopefully) drops and falls into the basket. Like golf it involves the use of specialized equipment such as discs designed for driving, flying strait, curving a certain dirrection or for putting. My brothers and I like sports and enjoy competing with one another. We find Frisbee golf to be a pleasant challenge. My mother, on the other hand, enjoys going for strolls and hanging out with friends and thus loves Frisbee Golf for different reasons than us. All in all, you must try it to really understand and I bet you a dollar (or less) that you'll love it.

Ps. This was posted by Josh so yall wouldn't think Kasey and Hannah are the only one doing any work around here.

This Week's Plan (July 16-22)

Wednesday~2:00-6:30~youth interning*
Wednesday~6:30-8:30~movie night (feel free to bring a comedy to choose from)
Saturday~8:30am-?pm~frisbee golf and secret place in Atlanta(lunch provided)

You guys should definitely come! It will be so dang much fun! We need ideas on what movie to watch on Wednesday.

Youth Interning is a super cool way to kill the summer boredom. Rather than sitting on the couch at home twiddling your thumbs, you can show up at the church and hang out with other youth and even make a positive contribution to the world. Last week at youth interning we created a graffitti wall, made a trip to walmart, made various signs, updated the blog and maybe some other stuff I forgot. Also there may have been a lot of time spent in talking with eachother and using the internet and in general goofing around. I have a children's event today (July 19) so I wont be back to the office till closer to 2:00, so that is a better time to come by if you want.



written by Hannah and Kasey & Josh