2 important events!

Hey there everyone I hope your extremely hot Tuesday is going well. I know it is for me, lots of awesome things coming tomorrow night at youth group but I want to to tell you about 2 events coming up that you don't want to miss.

1. Tomorrow night: We our having a worship experience like none other! We have got THEE Rick Thompson helping lead worship, and we have Scott Griffey coming in to help us with leading us through our worship and prayer time. We have about 8 different prayer/worship stations you guys are going to be able to do during our worship time. We are going to have games, and time to hang out but before and after the worship time, so you don't want to miss out on this amazing worship experience!

2. June 10th-11th: This is the day we are going to be helping raise money and awareness to stop human trafficking. Check out this blog post for more information on the exact details! I promise you will not want to miss out on what we have planned! It only costs $20 to go and that includes everything! EVERYTHING for $20! You can't get better than that. So please go out and talk with family and friends to raise money for this event! This is an opportunity to help people all around the world! Don't miss out

Praying for boldness and power for every single one of the students and leaders today!

P.A.

Worship Experience

Hey there everyone! I hope you are having a great memorial day. I know for me I got to golf this morning, and then I am spending sometime with my family tonight. So I know my memorial day is great.

This Wednesday night we are going to be having a worship experience. I am super pumped to have a time where we are all spending most of the night experiencing different aspects of who Christ is. We are going to talk through the Joy part of our relationship with Christ (remember to write 5 things you are thankful for) then we are going talk about what it means to have a relationship with God and how worship can enhance that relationship. Then we are going to have some stations people can go to and do a couple different things to worship Christ. These are like any stations you have seen before, we have duct tape, nails, nets and much more for you to check out this Wednesday night.

So come this Wednesday night, I promise you won't want to miss out on what God is going to do.
This is our 2nd to last night for youth until the summer. So come and hang out with us, we are going to have tons of fun!

We hope to see you here.

Oh Also we have a super fun game we are going play! So make sure you are here @ 6:30pm

P.A.

I quit Comparing

Hey there everyone, I hope you had a great night last night at youth group. I tell you what that was a ton of fun, I love being able to worship with you guys, have a ton of fun with you guys and then be able to encourage you with some Scriptures about not comparing ourselves to others. I really really hope that we can watch how much we compare ourselves to others and how many times we put others down. Work hard at striving after Christ. God has some amazing things in store for our youth group, but more importantly for you personally if you quit comparing yourselves to others, and start striving after Christ. Amazing things can happen!

I just want to continue to tell you about June 10th -11th with our Hello Summer event. Last night we showed you some faces of the students we will be helping over seas. Next week we are having someone who has worked with human traffickers coming and telling her story! Guys I can't push this enough, I think we need to get behind this cause because its such a powerful one!

Go out and hit the streets or ask friends and families to support you to fast for 30 hours! Its super easy! We can make a difference in so many people's lives. So I am challenging each and everyone of you to go and raise 50$ If our youth group does that we can easily raise over $6000.

I think we can do it! Do Work Big Dawgs!

P.A.

Powerful storms

Hey there everyone, I hope you having a great day! I know my day is filled with finishing up the final details for tonight, with printing, video editing, and much more. But I was stopped in my tracks by these powerful storms rolling through our area. Our God is a God of Power! So insane to me. I love that I get to serve a God who can make the thunder makes the walls shake, and scare the crap out of me when its the cracking thunder that you are not ready for.

Tonight at 6:30 we are going to have a ton of fun tonight. I hope you guys can join us to worship the God who creates massive storms, and can create insanely intimate worship experiences!

We are finishing up our "I quit" Series tonight. So come and discuss with us some great ways to stop comparing ourselves to others.

Hope to see you here tonight!

P.A.

The Tuesday of Business

Hey there everyone. I hope your day is going great so far, I know its 9am but still there are a lot of things that could of already been un-fun :) But I hope you are having a fun day so far.

So here is the Down Low for tomorrow nights youth group.

Starts at 6:30pm
The fun actually starts happening around 6pm, so if you want to show up then that would be great!
We are going to be talking about our June 10-11th Hello Summer Event, and next Wednesdays special guests!
Then we are going to be playing some great games with Ted and Wes
Then the Worship team is going to bring the Power with Worship!
Then we are going to discuss comparing ourselves with others and how that breaks the heart of God.
Then we are going to break into small groups and hang out!

Pretty Awesome night! I hope you will join us tomorrow night for youth group!

Have a great day today!

P.A.

June 10-11th

Hey there everyone, I want to dedicate this entire blog entry to our awesome event that is coming up on June 10th - 11th.

We have an awesome opportunity this summer to help support an awesome organization called Tiny Hands. www.tinyhandsinternational.com you can check out their website here.

Most of the students have picked up fundraiser sheets on Wednesday nights, but for those who can't make it to Wednesday nights because of sports, we have them on Sunday morning as well.

We want to raise around 6000 dollars to help build a safe house and staff that for an entire year! We are so stinking excited to be able to do something to help women and children all over the world!

So here are the details that you need to know:

Where: Sugar Grove Church
When: June 10th @ 2pm - June 11th @ Noon.
How Much: $20 - Helps off set the cost of going to Paiges Crossing. http://www.paigescrossing.com/ (Check out Paiges Crossing here)
What are we doing:
2pm - Constructing Card board city
3pm - Head to Colombia City
9pm - Return to Sugar Grove
10pm - Open gym, games, dodgeball
11pm - Starting movie
12pm - Lights out
8am - Wake up
8:30am - Head over to other Service Project - TBD
11:30am - Return to Sugar Grove and clean up
12:00pm - Breaking the Fast with a Pasta Meal.

We hope all Junior High and High school students can join us to help us raise money for Tiny Hands!

Help us contribute to ending slavery in the world. Check out this video below with some stats about Human Trafficking.



P.A.

Movie night tonight

Hey there everyone I hope your day is going well, I know for our northridge students you are all having good days since you don't have school!

So tonight we are having our 1st Summer movie night, I am super excited for tonight. We have a big popcorn machine coming so we can make hot fresh popcorn. You are more then welcome to bring your own snacks or meals. We have water here but if you want to bring pop or juice or whatever you would like to drink (Don't be that guy when it comes to drinks) Also invite your friends if you want to, we want this to be open to everyone!

Also we are looking for some people to bring some couches that you can sit on and be comfy!

So you can bring whatever you can fit through the doors! The Movie is going to start right at 8pm. If you want to come earlier and hang out with us you are more then welcome to, we will open doors at 7pm so people can start setting up their spot to watch the movie.

Hope to see you here tonight!

P.A.

Living a life of fear

Hey there everyone, I hope your day is going well. I know mine is going well I am super busy today getting things ready for this Friday night for our Movie night, starts at 8pm, and then for our really insane busy day on Sunday with like 10 different things going on. The great thing is I love that our church has so many awesome things for our students to be a part of.

Last night was awesome, as I was reading over some of the things you guys were putting on the cross last night, man I was super proud of you guys for digging deep and really taking time to have a reality check about fear.

God is doing some awesome work in our students lives, and I super pumped about what He is going to do in these next couple weeks.

Here are some things that are coming up that you can be a part of.

1. This Friday night we are having a movie night at the church starts at 8pm, We are watching Tangled, and we will provide the popcorn. You guys can bring any other snacks you want! Also we are asking you guys to bring couches, bean bags, anything that will make this night comfy for you guys to watch this movie. I was asked if we could fit a car in the doors so they could watch it in their cars, and I said no but it would be fun to try. So this Friday 8pm!

2. Sunday night Doug Edlund is taking students to the Faith Mission in Elkhart to help serve 2 meals. We are leaving at 4pm from the church so if you guys want to go please get a hold of doug. Also they have asked us to bring cereal because they are low on cereal and we want to be able to give them as much cereal as we can. So if you are coming Friday night you can drop off a box of cereal.

3. June 10th-11th we are going to be doing a 30 hour famine to raise money and awareness about human trafficking. This event cost 20$ because we are going to be taking everyone over to Paiges crossing which has go karts, putt putt, arcade, driving range, and lots more. We are going to have so much stinking fun while we are there your head might explode. When we get back we are going to be making cardboard city, where you will have the opportunity to build a cardboard house and sleep in it that night, the next morning we are going to be getting up and heading over for another service project before coming back to Sugar Grove where we will break the fast with a meal. Going to be super fun!

So what we need our students to do is to start raising money for this event. We have handed out the last 2 weeks sheets with all the information about the event and why we are raising money, if you student hasn't brought that home please see Pastor Adam on Sunday and we can get you a sheet.

Hope you guys have a great day! if you have any questions about any of the events coming up please email Pastor Adam at cvmcadam@gmail.com

P.A.

The Power of acknowledging fears

Hey there everyone, Welcome to the best day of the week! Because its youth group day, also known as Wednesday. :)

Tonight we are continuing with our I Quit series and we are talking about fear tonight. I am stinking pumped about tonight, I think this is going to be a really awesome night for a lot of people. Because we are going to be talking about getting down to the core of some of our issues with Christ.

So come tonight ready to have a ton of fun, worship God in a whole new way, and then be invited to bump your relationship with Christ to the next level!

A Couple of reminders for those who can't make it tonight because of sports.

1. Friday - Movie night at 8pm. Bring your own snacks, Couches, and Recliners. We will provide the popcorn.
2. June 10th - 11th - Hello Summer! We are raising money for Tiny hands that night by not eating for 30 hours. YIKES! But its for a great cause. So make sure you get your fund-raising sheets Sunday morning, or you can text me and I can bring them to your house if you want.

Those are the things you need to know for tonight! I can't wait to see you guys tonight, we are going to have a lot of fun, but more importantly we are going to worship God tonight!

P.A.

Cereal Boxes

Hey there everyone, I have 1 thing I want to bring to your attention.

This Coming Sunday we are taking a team over to the Faith Mission in Elkhart. They are in need of Cereal, because they want to be able to serve breakfast to more people who are homeless and in need of food.

So this is what we are asking from you guys,

This Wednesday night (Tomorrow) We are asking everyone to bring 1 box of cereal to youth group. Then this coming Sunday night we can bless the faith mission.

So tonight or tomorrow right before you come to youth group stop by dollar general and get a box or 2 of cereal. Then on Sunday night we will drop them off.

This is a great and easy way to make an impact for a lot of people. Hope you can get on board.

P.A.

Monday Monday

Hey there everyone I hope you are having a lovely day so far. I know my day has started off with an early meeting followed by some prayer time with the staff and now I am putting together the small group questions and email our awesome staff! I absolutely love working with students and adults who love working with students. So here are a couple things you need to be aware of for this coming Wednesday night.

1. We are still doing our tiny hands fundraiser on June 10th - 11th. So we have the sheets to hand out so you can start raising money for the tiny hands missionary we are going to support named Jon Andrews. If we can raise over 6000 dollars we can build a safe house and staff it for an entire year! So lets get out there and get support everyone.

2. We are still handing out life books to people, if you want to take some this coming Wednesday you are more then welcome too. We are wanting to hand out all of the books we have! I think we can do it. We need to get excited about getting the Word of God in peoples hands, especially because the way they have designed this book, it works perfectly for those in Junior high and High school!

3. This coming Friday night we are having a movie night here at the church! We will be showing a sweet movie that I will announce tomorrow on this blog, This is a Bring your own couch event! We are going to open up the sanctuary so you can bring you own couch, bean bags, reclining chair, anything you want to sit on. Also you can bring your own snacks and drinks! We will provide popcorn. So bring whatever and whomever you would like to this movie event. It starts at 8pm and will be over by 10pm. Hope to see you here

Hope you guys have a great week.

P.A.

Such a fun night last night

Hey there everyone, I hope things are going well for you on this Thursday. I know I wicked tired from last night, because last night was so stinking fun!

We talked about complaining last night and we gave a 2 fold challenge.

1. Memorize Philippians 2:14 for next week.
2. When you catch yourself complaining just stop talking and see how little you talk during the day.

It's a pretty intense challenge. So I hope those who were there last night had a great time and was challenged to do some great things for God through the life book, Tiny hands, and through baptism.

This post will be a little bit shorter because I have a bunch of things to finish up today! So I hope to see you guys Sunday and next Wednesday.

P.A.

Awesomeness = Youth Group

Hey there everyone, I hope you are having a great day I know I am super excited about tonight, because we are talking about our Hello Summer Event in June, we are handing out lifebooks tonight, and we get to come together and worship and learn together.

So tonight be ready to have your socks blown off! We might be playing a game called "Spin that wheel" Or "Attack of the Fish" or maybe both of them I am not sure :)

But more importantly we are going to be getting to worshiping our God tonight and we get to look at the Bible and see what happens when we complain and how we can curb our complaining and turn that into praise and joy.

So tonight be at Crystal Valley at 6:30pm, because I promise you, you will not be disappointed tonight!

P.A.

Information download

Hey there everyone, as promised I am going to give you a couple things that we are working on for this summer and the next couple weeks as we end school so here....we....go!

1. Lifebook - We have 450 lifebooks, We are going to be handing these outs to students all over the northridge campus. If you want more information on what the lifebook is all about check out this website. http://thelifebook.com/index.php This past week we handed out books to all the students that were at youth group, and we challenged them to read it over this week because we don't want them handing things out that they hadn't read or could get behind. So if you are looking for a life book to read we have them available at youth group on Wednesday nights. We are excited to start handing these books out, it also helps that we are in a competition with Sugar Grove church to see who can pass out the most life books! So lets go CVMC!

2. Hello Summer - June 10th - 11th we are doing a over night youth event, where we are going to raise money for Jon Andrews who is a missionary for Tiny Hands international who help stop human trafficking. We are going to be doing a 30 hour famine, where we wont eat from Friday morning to Saturday Lunch. We have so many fun things planned for that night and day. We are going to be taking a trip over to Paiges Crossing here is the website to check it out http://www.paigescrossing.com/ then we are coming back that night and making card board city where we are going to sleep outside in card board boxes, while watching a movie that night. Then we are going to wake up and head over to Feed the Children where we are going to help pack boxes for those who need food. Then we will come back to Sugar Grove and have a meal all together breaking the fast.

So this Wednesday night we are going to be handing out the papers for you guys to start heading out and collecting pledges for Jon. People will be sponsoring you not to eat for 30 hours, and 100% of the money goes to Tiny Hands international . We are so excited to help out with this organization.

3. Senior sunday - Senior Sunday is June 5th, and we are going to be celebrating their journey through High school during the 2nd Service. We want to honor as many as we can so please stop by the Welcome Center and pick up the Graduation forms that are there. All the instructions are all on the paper.

IF you guys have any questions about any of the upcoming events please get a hold of me through Email at cvmcadam@gmail.com I would love to answer any questions you have.

Hope you have a great day, See you Wednesday night

P.A.

Little Blogging break

Hey there everyone, Sorry I was on a little blogging break this past week. I was gone in Michigan for 2 days, and then was planning and prepping things all week for this summer and fall.

So this week we are continuing on with this message series I Quit. This coming Wednesday night we are going to be talking about complaining. So many times we find ourselves complaining a ton but do we realize how it affects our relationship with Christ?

We are going to go through the bible and look at sometimes where people have complained about what God was taking them through and the consequences that take place when they complain.

So this coming Wednesday night come on out to CVMC for youth group, we only have a couple left before we break for the summer! So don't miss out on these times to hang out with everyone and worship.

I believe God has some pretty awesome things planned for us this Wednesday night, so I think you should come on out and check it out!

We have so many awesome things coming up this summer that you will not want to miss tomorrow's post because we will outline some cool initiatives for this summer.

Have a great day everyone.

P.A.

Big Stinking announcement

Hey there everyone, every year we do an event called "Hello Summer" Its normally a all nighter, and we just go and have a tons of fun, well this time we are going to be adding an element to this night.

This year on June 10th -11th we are going to be doing a 30 hour famine with our Hello Summer event. We are going to be raising money for our Missionary Friend JON ANDREWS who is in the thick of sex trafficking and works with an organization called Tiny Hands International. He is going full time and so we want to support him and the cause he is helping with.

So Next Week we are going to explain all the details to you, but just so you know this is what that event will look like.

Your last meal will be Friday morning Breakfast, we will meet around 2 in the afternoon and we will have some fun things planned for you.

Then we will be going to a place called Paiges crossing in Colombia City. It has Go karts, putt putt, arcade, and a ton more. Its going to be super fun.

We will come back from that and you will sleep at the church that night.

The next morning we will wake up and we have a service project we will be doing with another organization, and then we will eat lunch all together around noon on Saturday.

You guys will go out and raise money for Jon, People can donate a set amount to your cause, or can sponsor you per hour. Its whatever they want. So next week we will hand out all the papers you will need to go and get signatures and money donated.

This is one of the things we planned up at the Big Chill with all of you, one thing every one wanted to was Help Jon Andrews and raise money for Sex Trafficking. I think this is a great way to help out a ton of people all over the world.

I think we can raise a couple thousand dollars for Jon and Tiny Hands.

Can't wait to see you Next Wednesday!

P.A.