Planning Underway for July Mission Trip

Plans are starting to take shape for a mission trip opportunity at Casa Aleluya (Mike and Dottie Clark's children's home) in Guatemala! Up to this point, there have only been rumors of plans and possibilities, but now we have work being done and the ball is rolling. I can tell you that the cost per person at the facility we would be staying at would be $35 per day (which includes all meals, rooming, transportation from airport and back to airport, as well as transportation to Antigua for "an off day of touring"). I'm also working with a reliable travel agent to get us the best possible flight setup for the trip with the lowest cost. On your part, if you are interested in accompanying us on this wonderful trip/opportunity/experience, you'll need to start the process of getting a passport if you don't already have one. Immunizations are not required, but the decision to get them will be strictly up to you. Starting this week in the ROC, students will be able to sign up for the trip. I hope that you are as excited about this opportunity as I am, and I hope you will be "all in" as next summer approaches.

T-Shirt Designs

Here are the Doe River Gorge shirts I designed for our spring break trip!! 

If you've signed up, I need you to turn in your $100 deposit by Wednesday night! There are still a few spots left... don't wait too late!!

The Final Teaser for This Year's Turkey Hunt!

2013 Turkey Hunt Teaser #2 - Frantic from FBC Hamburg Youth on Vimeo.

SPRING BREAK TRIP ANNOUNCED!!!

This year we're going to head back to Doe River Gorge in the Hampton, TN area.  We last journeyed there in 2009, and I have to say that it was one of my favorite trips/places to go.  

The total cost of the trip (per person) is $300 before any fundraisers that we do.  It's highly possible for the cost to come all the way down to just the amount of the deposit required from each participant ($100).  This $100 will need to be turned in immediately so that we can mail in our group deposit and secure our retreat.  

The retreat is unique in that we will have the entire complex to ourselves.  We stay in a multi-story lodge (boys separate from girls) and the bottom floor of the lodge has a meeting room for us to have group worship times each night.  

Each day will be filled with team-building activities and challenges such as technical tree climbing, paintball, and rappelling.  Our group will be split into two smaller groups and we will be assigned to trained professionals to encourage us and help keep us safe at each activity.

The students will be signing up for this trip at the ROC starting this week, so please click on & download the following documents (release form & what to bring list) and print them out.  

• RELEASE FORM
• WHAT TO BRING

Once we get everyone signed up, I will host a meeting after church to discuss the trip and go over everything you'll need to know!  Please also consider chaperoning the trip... It really is a lot of fun! You'll make lots of memories and get lots of really cool pictures!

Autumn Night on the Farm

What a great night we had out at the Old Milo Tree Farms for our Autumn Night on the Farm this year!  We planned for 30-35 youth and we ended up with 57 youth!

I really appreciate all of the planning that went into it and all of the parents that provided food for the evening.  A big thanks goes to Brad & Lonni Davis for hosting us and making us feel welcome and showing us a good time!

See You at the Pole

See You at the Pole 2013 was a great success! The official number of participants at the high school is 81, while the early number at the middle school was 68, but that's not the final official count.  The leadership at the poles was outstanding and everything ran smoothly at both locations.  

Jacob Hollis brought his guitar and he and Audrey Fitts and Selby Tucker led the group in some well-known praise songs.  There's nothing cooler to me than hearing teenagers lift up Jesus Christ in song first thing in the morning!

Kelbe Callaway and Makenzie Pierce led the students in prayer and Scripture reading as the students encircled the flagpole to pray.  I think more than ever before, these students seemed comfortable standing in a united front against any scheme of the enemy.

After the large group met together, the students broke into smaller groups to pray individually and specifically about certain things/people.  They ended the event by coming back together, linking arms around each other, swaying back and forth, and singing Light the Fire... 

What an awesome experience! 

GLOW NIGHT

Despite the extremely wet weather this past Friday night, we carried on with our plans for our glow-in-the-dark themed 5th Quarter called GLOW NIGHT.  

The turnout was not so great, but we sort of invented a new game that ended up being extremely fun.  We blacked out all of the windows, in the gym and had a few black lights going while we split up into teams.  We formed two glow teams...Blue & Pink, and played Ultimate Frisbee with a glow-in-the-dark frisbee.  Each team member wore his/her team's color in glow stick necklaces, bracelets and regular glow necklaces.  We took skinny green glow necklaces and placed them on the boundary lines for the Ultimate Frisbee field in sort of a dotted line fashion.  Not long after we set this up, we realized how much it all looked like the movie TRON.  Thus, the game of TRON Frisbee was created!  So much fun...nobody wanted to go home!

We will definitely be doing this again!