Mission Trip To Atlanta

On Saturday, November 18, we will be going to work on the restoration of Park Avenue Baptist Church in the historic Grant Park area of Atlanta. This church was formerly one of the big churches in Atlanta but dwindled down over the years to only 8 members (meeting in a big but deteriorating sanctuary). At that time they made some changes and "restarted" the church. They have grown a lot and are working on restoring their facilities.

Lunch will be provided, but bring money for dinner at a fun restaurant in Atlanta.

Date:Saturday, November 18
Time: From 8:00 AM to 9:00PM
Where: Meet at the church to go to Grant Park near downtown Atlanta
Cost: Bring money for dinner

Fall Festival

FBC will be holding a Fall Family Festival on Saturday, November 11. This will feature various games and activities (primarily aimed at younger children) and food. Youth will be sponsoring a blow-up obstacle course which should be a whole lot of fun. Come on out with your whole family to help and to join in the festivities.

Fifth Quarter

Come on out for some post-football fellowship on November 3rd.

I'm not married yet, but in Korea they take wedding photos before actually getting hitched. Check out our wedding (engagement) pics.

Lock-In Pics

Think you can handle the pictures? Check out some nice candid shots of the Youth Lock-In

Youth Council

Applications are in and we have this years Youth Council. There is still one open slot so a 10-12th grader could be added with a late application if someone is interested. Otherwise, the Youth Council for the 06-07 year is (in alphabetical order):

Brian Czarnowsky
Jennifer Martin
Jarod Rackley
Kevin Slaughter
Kasey Smith

I'm looking forward to a great year and appriciate yalls commitment and and dedication.

-Josh

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
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