Letter from Steve

Hello parents,

                I trust that the new year finds you with a renewed eagerness and excitement to take on the challenges and tasks that 2013 has in store for us.  Here we are at the beginning of the New Year,  a time for new beginnings and renewed ideas. I would like to share with you some of the direction I feel God is leading us with Impact.

                Since the start of the new year I've been implementing Journey curriculum  into our Wednesday night Impact lessons, to familiarize students with the books of the Bible and the time line of events before beginning our lessons on Wednesday night, through the Way I'm Wired book.   As a seconded part of this teaching plan I am kicking off a Bible memory verse program, where students will be able to win prizes and get rewards and even discounts for upcoming events. This month's memory verse is the Impact key verse COLOSSIANS 2:6-7.  Students who memorize this verse before  the upcoming roller-skate sleep over (February 16th-17th) will get a Pac of 5 stick gum or Mentose candy and will enter a raffle to win a $15.00 iTunes gift card.    

Steve Shreve

Wishing all of you a Happy New Year on this 3rd day of 2013! We hope that you have a had a wonderful Christmas season with your families. We are looking forward to this new year of ministry with your Junior Higher!

We will be starting the year off with small groups resuming on Wednesday, January 9th from 7:00pm to 8:30! As for the roller skating sleep-over on the winter calendar I am reminding you all, that this event has been postponed, due to a collage group snow retreat planned for this weekend. Since all of our volunteer staff are collage age, we felt that this time away for them to connect with fellow believers is crucial to their spiritual growth. Thanks for your understanding and watch for this sleep-over to appear on the next calendar!

 

Note to parents:  Wednesday, Dec. 19th is the Impact's Christmas party!  There will be a $10.00 white elephant gift exchange at this event!  So please remember to have your son/daughter bring a gift pre-wrapped.  Please add a $5 gift card 

to any gag gifts.

Parents we have a change on our Winter Calendar!

We are moving our viewing of the Hobbit from Friday, December 14^th to Sunday, December 16^th.  We are leaving Hope Center at 10:15am after the Sunday morning youth service to the Pleasant Hill Movie Theater.   The movie is scheduled to begin at 10:45am and should get out at around 1:45pm.  Pick-up will be at Hope Center at around 2:15pm (more information on this to come).

The cost of the event is $15.00 and includes the movie and popcorn.  All students must be signed up and paid by Wednesday, December 12^th in order to go to the movie.  If you sign-up and pay early, by Wednesday, December 5^th the cost will by $12.00.

Parents if you want to Chaperone for this event call Steve!

 

The winter calendar has been published!  We have a lot of exciting, fun, holiday related events coming up.  Steve and I want to share with your our vision towards all of these events.  When you look at the calendar it screams FUN! FUN! FUN!  to your youth.  All this fun is important.  It builds a relationship of trust between your son/daughter and their youth leader, allowing conversations to open up so that God’s love and truth can be spoken into their lives through this unique youth leader/student relationship.

Please follow the blog as the calendar is published before the events.  Some details will change as each event is fully planned.  There will be flyers given to the students and on the Impact kiosk in the Generations Room at Hope Center for these events as the dates draw nearer.

Impact Winter Calendar