February 21, 2006
Contents
1. 180 News
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Birthdays
5. Forgettable Fact
6. Potent Quotables
7. Parting Shot
1. 180 NEWS
30 Hour Famine
This is the week! The Great Famine of '06 begins at 12 noon this Friday! You have 3 days left to get as many sponsors as you can. Will we reach our $5,000 goal? We will not know by Friday night!
Here are some important things to remember:
• Make lunch on Friday your last meal.
• Meet at the church at 7:00 PM - We will conclude at 7:00 PM on Saturday.
• Please make sure you have a completed 2006 Release Form on file, or bring one with you. If needed you may download one here.
• Bring with you a sleeping bag/pillow, change of clothes, personal items.
• Bring juice to drink (Please no carbonated beverages.)
• Bring donation envelope with all money collected and accounted for.
• Bring Bible
• Please leave all electronic devices (except cameras) at home.
Mexico Outreach 2006
It's only February but it's already time to begin thinking about our mission trip to Mexico! The application packets will be officially released along with all the details this weekend at the 30 Hour Famine, but you the reader of the 180 Newsletter get a headstart!
All the information along with complete application downloads are now available at our new Mexico Outreach web site! Get everything you need to know at this new site. There is also a link to the site on the sidebar of this blog.
Reality Unlimited
High Schoolers you want to be sure to be with us this Wednesday night for a special presentation given by Reality Unlimited.
Over the past 4 weeks we have been discussing some pretty big and important issues such as the effects of alcohol, partying, drug use, and sex. This week we have the priviledge of having a special speaker come to us from Reality Unlimited, a group sponsored by Pregnancy Resouce Centers of Portland, and is committed to communicating to teens in a very entertaining and fun way, the dangers of sex outside of God's plan for it.
Please plan to come early as we plan to kick things off right at 7:00 PM.
Letter From Oscar
This last week we received a letter from Oscar, one of our Compassion Children in Boliva. Here is what he said...
Dear Friends: I greet you with the peace and the love of our Lord Jesus Christ. I thank you a lot for the gift of Christmas. Every day I thank to God to have you, because with your help I can have foods in the CDI, materials to study and the most important thing is that I learn much of the word of God. I and my family wish you a Merry Christmas and that next year be of may blessings. I say goodbye praying for you and with all my love. Oscar
Click here to learn more about our Compassion Children, and the difference our sponsorship makes in their lives.
2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
The Lord came and stood there, calling as at the other times, "Samuel! Samuel!"Then Samuel said, "Speak, for your servant is listening." [1 Samuel 3:10]
Sometimes a good friend doesn't have to say anything and you know exactly what they're thinking. Have you ever seen friends who are hurting and you think, "I should have listened better and been more attuned to what they were going through?" God wants to know us in this way. Our friendships develop because we listen to each other. Why can we not apply this same listening skill to God? We can hurt our relationships with our best friends simply by hearing, but not listening. We can do the same to our relationship with God. When He speaks, we need to do more than hear-we need to listen. By listening, we will begin to hear God, like a true friend, and do what he wants without having to be told over and over again.
OZ (Oswald Chambers) says: What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes, but I do not hear Him.
JUST BETWEEN YOU AND GOD
Find that deeper friendship you seek with God-that in-tune, don't-even-have-to-say-it friendship. God has been waiting. He's been talking all this time. Pray that you can find the right channel and let it all in.
God is talking. Listen.
God is. Are you still listening?
Taken from "Everything Counts" by Steven Case , copyright 2003, Youth Specialties/Zondervan. Used by permission. Order the book here.
3. SURF REPORT
~ Planarity
A game for smart people
~ MSN Games
Free online games from MSN
4. BIRTHDAYS
Not only are we celebrating the birthdays of our nation's presidents this week, but also Brittney Stevens and Zach Boyle! We wish you two the BEST! You are in good company!
5. FORGETTABLE FACT
In Italy, it is illegal to make coffins out of anything except nutshells or wood.
6. POTENT QUOTABLES
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
- Martin Luther
Testimony is showing your scars and telling how Jesus healed you.
- Warren Walden
===========our|sponsor===========
0% COMFORT, 100% HOPE
Devotions are comforting. A nice little thought in the morning, or something soothing just before sleep.
"Everything Counts" (adapted from Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost for His Highest") dumps the pleasantries of religion and leads you to real faith.
Order here.
Also available in your local Christian bookstore.
=================================
7. PARTING SHOT
When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.
copyright 2006 :: Youth Specialties
1. 180 News
2. Something for Your Heart
3. Surf Report
4. Birthdays
5. Forgettable Fact
6. Potent Quotables
7. Parting Shot
1. 180 NEWS
30 Hour Famine
This is the week! The Great Famine of '06 begins at 12 noon this Friday! You have 3 days left to get as many sponsors as you can. Will we reach our $5,000 goal? We will not know by Friday night!
Here are some important things to remember:
• Make lunch on Friday your last meal.
• Meet at the church at 7:00 PM - We will conclude at 7:00 PM on Saturday.
• Please make sure you have a completed 2006 Release Form on file, or bring one with you. If needed you may download one here.
• Bring with you a sleeping bag/pillow, change of clothes, personal items.
• Bring juice to drink (Please no carbonated beverages.)
• Bring donation envelope with all money collected and accounted for.
• Bring Bible
• Please leave all electronic devices (except cameras) at home.
Shots from last year
Mexico Outreach 2006
It's only February but it's already time to begin thinking about our mission trip to Mexico! The application packets will be officially released along with all the details this weekend at the 30 Hour Famine, but you the reader of the 180 Newsletter get a headstart!
All the information along with complete application downloads are now available at our new Mexico Outreach web site! Get everything you need to know at this new site. There is also a link to the site on the sidebar of this blog.
Reality Unlimited
High Schoolers you want to be sure to be with us this Wednesday night for a special presentation given by Reality Unlimited.
Over the past 4 weeks we have been discussing some pretty big and important issues such as the effects of alcohol, partying, drug use, and sex. This week we have the priviledge of having a special speaker come to us from Reality Unlimited, a group sponsored by Pregnancy Resouce Centers of Portland, and is committed to communicating to teens in a very entertaining and fun way, the dangers of sex outside of God's plan for it.
Please plan to come early as we plan to kick things off right at 7:00 PM.
Letter From Oscar
This last week we received a letter from Oscar, one of our Compassion Children in Boliva. Here is what he said...
Dear Friends: I greet you with the peace and the love of our Lord Jesus Christ. I thank you a lot for the gift of Christmas. Every day I thank to God to have you, because with your help I can have foods in the CDI, materials to study and the most important thing is that I learn much of the word of God. I and my family wish you a Merry Christmas and that next year be of may blessings. I say goodbye praying for you and with all my love. Oscar
Click here to learn more about our Compassion Children, and the difference our sponsorship makes in their lives.
2. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
The Lord came and stood there, calling as at the other times, "Samuel! Samuel!"Then Samuel said, "Speak, for your servant is listening." [1 Samuel 3:10]
Sometimes a good friend doesn't have to say anything and you know exactly what they're thinking. Have you ever seen friends who are hurting and you think, "I should have listened better and been more attuned to what they were going through?" God wants to know us in this way. Our friendships develop because we listen to each other. Why can we not apply this same listening skill to God? We can hurt our relationships with our best friends simply by hearing, but not listening. We can do the same to our relationship with God. When He speaks, we need to do more than hear-we need to listen. By listening, we will begin to hear God, like a true friend, and do what he wants without having to be told over and over again.
OZ (Oswald Chambers) says: What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes, but I do not hear Him.
JUST BETWEEN YOU AND GOD
Find that deeper friendship you seek with God-that in-tune, don't-even-have-to-say-it friendship. God has been waiting. He's been talking all this time. Pray that you can find the right channel and let it all in.
God is talking. Listen.
God is. Are you still listening?
Taken from "Everything Counts" by Steven Case , copyright 2003, Youth Specialties/Zondervan. Used by permission. Order the book here.
3. SURF REPORT
~ Planarity
A game for smart people
~ MSN Games
Free online games from MSN
4. BIRTHDAYS
Not only are we celebrating the birthdays of our nation's presidents this week, but also Brittney Stevens and Zach Boyle! We wish you two the BEST! You are in good company!
5. FORGETTABLE FACT
In Italy, it is illegal to make coffins out of anything except nutshells or wood.
6. POTENT QUOTABLES
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
- Martin Luther
Testimony is showing your scars and telling how Jesus healed you.
- Warren Walden
===========our|sponsor===========
0% COMFORT, 100% HOPE
Devotions are comforting. A nice little thought in the morning, or something soothing just before sleep.
"Everything Counts" (adapted from Oswald Chambers' "My Utmost for His Highest") dumps the pleasantries of religion and leads you to real faith.
Order here.
Also available in your local Christian bookstore.
=================================
7. PARTING SHOT
When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.
copyright 2006 :: Youth Specialties
