Restoring the Capacity for Intimacy through Relationship with God and One Another

During the month of June we’ll take a break from our trek through Revelation for a 4-week series called “Letting Go: Restoring the Capacity for Intimacy through Relationship with God and One Another.” This important series is a way for us, as the body of Christ, to foster an environment of restorative human relationships to provide health and safety through gospel-centered community. You see, often in Christian communities, we discourage the rebellious and ungodly qualities in one another (which we should obviously discourage!) but… at the same time, we fail to encourage the Christlike qualities in one another. We too easily become a works-based community where people end up feeling used and burdened by impossible weights. When we maintain vibrant connection with God, primarily, and one another, secondarily, the Holy Spirit brings restoration and healing to our lives. We want to become a loving and gracious community of faith where, instead of self-righteous weights that are burdensome and that burn us out, we are renewed and strengthened to whole and healthy living. Then we can learn to “let go” of the weights that hinder us. Here’s the plan (so far):

• Sun, Jun 2 — “Restoring the Capacity for Intimacy”
• Sun, Jun 9 — “Letting Go… of Pain & Hurt”
• Sun, Jun 16 — “Letting Go… of Anger & Bitterness”
• Sun, Jun 25 — “Letting Go… of Worry & Regret”

The Scope and Sequence is posted every quarter for our children’s curriculum. This document gives parents an overview of the lessons, memory verses, and main points for each of our programs. A great way to use this resource is to print it out and post it in your home where it can be used to review/reiterate the week’s Bible story and memory verse. Would you like to learn a little more about how our curriculum works? Check out the video below for a quick 2 minute overview of how our Sunday School curriculum works.

Here’s a similar video that explains how our Children’s Worship program works and fits with Sunday School.

Finally, here’a video overview of our midweek curriculum for Kid’s Club. All of our programs work together!

This year our VBS will focus on the 3C’s for our kids. We will study one “C” each day and show kids how to apply what they learn to their daily lives. Each session will be enhanced with games, crafts, songs, scripture and snacks.

We will be collecting the following NEW items for a donation to Barnyard Blessings for kids of all ages: socks, underwear, pajamas; gift cards for Walmart or Target.

For a donation to Church World Services your children will be packing 100 school kits. Each kit will contain spiral notebooks, rounded tip school scissors, a 24 count box of crayons, and #2 pencils.

Please bring your items to the church PRIOR to VBS if possible, so that we will know what items will need to be purchased in order to complete our projects.

It will be a time of fun learning, especially designed for FCC.  Join us in the fellowship hall at 5:30p for a light meal. Activities will take place from 6-8p. To volunteer, sign up on the connection card on Sunday Morning, or contact Kim Clark, Children’s Minister. To register online click here.

We want the children to learn at an early age how to communicate the Gospel through giving to others. By helping Barnyard Blessings and Church World Services, we are showing the importance of serving locally and internationally. We appreciate your service by providing the items needed because this will benefit not only the children receiving the clothes and school supplies, but also the children learning to give to those in need as Jesus taught us. This is a great way for the children to apply what they learn each day at VBS.

• May 22 — FCC Youth Room. Studying the background and context of Ephesians and chapter 1.
• May 29 — Hardin Park. A brief review from last week and continuing into Ephesians 2.
• June 5 — Not meeting (VBS week)
• June 12 — Bowlin’s House. For directions contact the church office.

Mission Trip to Rogersville, TN. Jun 16-21 for high school students.

We want to be intentional about balancing our focus on foreign and local mission work — Both bring God honor! So after our last mission trip to Puerto Rico it’s time for us to emphasize local mission work. This summer we’ll head over to Rogersville, TN to serve through home repair, visiting nursing homes, and helping at the local Boys and Girls club. We’re partnering with the youth ministry at Boones Creek Christian Church for this trip and are looking forward to serving together. At the end of our trip we’ll take a fun day and drive up to Kings Island theme park in Cincinnati, OH. This trip is for rising 9th grade students through graduated seniors and will cost $150. Sign up at the ONEEIGHTY bulletin board.

July 21-26

MOVE is a summer conference event for high school students (rising 9th grade through graduating seniors) – July 21-26 at Lee University. We originally attended this conference every other year (2010, 2012, etc.) but, we decided that this event was way too good to be skipped. So we will now be attending MOVE every year!

The cost is $305 and includes conference registration, lodging, transportation, food, and our group activity on Friday.

REGISTER NOW!

You can register for MOVE by completing the “MOVE 2013” form on our website.

June 30 – July 4

MIX is a summer conference event for middle school students (rising 6th graders are invited) – June 30 – July 4 at Milligan College. This will be the first year our group has attended this event and we are super excited! We believe that this event will be a powerful experience for our middle school students. MIX is designed specifically for middle school students. Here’s a snippet from the MIX website:

Junior high students are at a unique moment in their lives. They’re growing and learning differently than any other age group. They’re still young enough to need to play, but they’re old enough to start grabbing onto some core ideals that will stay with them the rest of their lives

A lot of times junior high students have more pressures on them to perform and more demands on their attention than any other age group. They’re expected to be older than they actually are. At MIX we want to give these students the chance to have fun and enjoy spending time with their peers, while also challenging them with age-appropriate ideals that will help them embrace Christ’s call on their lives to be Kingdom Workers. MIX is their chance to be exactly who they are – to play, listen and learn as themselves.

If you have any questions about MIX please contact Tommy Staggs or one of our middle school youth leaders (Tammy Bowlin, Russell Clark, John Hamilton, or Nathan Dickerson). (For more info about MIX or their parent organization Christ In Youth please visit www.ciy.com/mix.)

REGISTER NOW!

You can register for MIX by completing the “MIX 2013” form on our website.

The weekly take home pages provides Discussion Starters, Talk Topics and Daily Challenges so that families can talk about God to be stronger and spiritually healthier.

Adult Week 9

The weekly take home pages provides Discussion Starters, Talk Topics and Daily Challenges so that families can talk about God to be stronger and spiritually healthier.

Adult Week 8

The weekly take home pages provides Discussion Starters, Talk Topics and Daily Challenges so that families can talk about God to be stronger and spiritually healthier.

Adults Week 7