Forgotten Virtues

Hey there everyone, we are in a new series called forgotten virtues. We are going to be talking about Loyalty this coming Wednesday, as I am sitting here praying and preparing for the message it brings me back to how we can need to be loyal to each other, but more importantly God.

We are going to be talking about how disloyalty begins with a divided heart. We can't love our stuff, and God at the same time. It doesn't work! We are going to discuss a very difficult verse in James 4:8-9. Tough verse I am dealing with today.

We hope to see you here this Wednesday night for some awesome games, great worship time, a special prayer time, and some great discussion on loyalty.

Here are a couple things you guys need to be aware of for the month of November.

1. 3dyc Registrations are all due this Wednesday night with Money!
2. There is no youth group on November 23rd! Enjoy time with your family preparing for Turkey day.
3. We are having small group outings on November 30th, because that is the first night of Pass it forward. That night the small group leader might want to take his/her group to work at pass it forward or they might go do something else, but the youth room/sanctuary will be in use for pass it forward.

Those are the main things coming up in November! I hope you guys have a great day!

P.A.

Awesome sauce = giant maze

Hey there everyone I hope things are going well for you on this Tuesday. I know things are going well for me, yesterday put in a good long day getting things set up here at the church for the harvest party that is going down TOMORROW!

WHOAA!

So here are the details you will need to know!

What: Harvest Party
Where: Crystal Valley Missionary Church
When: This Wednesday night, October26th, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
What to bring: Bring a dessert to share, FRIENDS!
What to expect: We are creating a giant blacked out Maze through out most of the church. We will have lots of other games you can play while you are here, our Famous Octaball will be out, we are going to create some 6 square boxes, and we will have Angry birds set out so you can practice your angry bird shots. During this time we will be having groups of 5 students at a time go through the maze! We will have food, music, and tons of games you can play while you are! Its going to be a great time.

If you have any questions please feel free to email me at Cvmcadam@gmail.com

Also we are going to be parking in the gravel part of the parking lot, because the main doors will be blackout, we will be going in the old boys and girls club entrance for this week!

There is a chance for rain tomorrow so we are going to bring it inside for that reason, so bring a friend and a dessert to share!

Hope to see you tomorrow!

P.A.

Harvest Party is in 3 days!

Hey there everyone, I am so pumped for this coming Wednesday night, we have our 5th annual harvest Party! This is one of our biggest Wednesday's of the year, and I am super pumped. This year we are turning our church into a massive maze! and I so stinking pumped for that.

Here are the Details!

What: Harvest Party
Where: Crystal Valley Missionary Church
When: This Wednesday night, October26th, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
What to bring: Bring a dessert to share, FRIENDS!
What to expect: We are creating a giant blacked out Maze through out most of the church. We will have lots of other games you can play while you are here, our Famous Octaball will be out, we are going to create some 6 square boxes, and we will have Angry birds set out so you can practice your angry bird shots. During this time we will be having groups of 5 students at a time go through the maze! We will have food, music, and tons of games you can play while you are! Its going to be a great time.

If you have any questions please feel free to email me at Cvmcadam@gmail.com

We are hoping to be outside for this event so please make sure you dress for the occasion! That is going to be super important! We will notify everyone on this Blogspot on Wednesday morning if we are going to be outside or not! So check here early and often for that information.

I hope you have a wonderful week, I know we will be setting up most of the week for Wednesday night so please keep the REFUGE staff in your prayers!

P.A.

Friday Round up!

Hey there everyone! I hope things are going well for you, this coming week we have one of our biggest nights of the year. And I am super pumped about it. So I wanted to give you guys a little bit more information.

What: Harvest Party
Where: Crystal Valley Missionary Church
When: This Wednesday night, October26th, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
What to bring: Bring a dessert to share, FRIENDS!
What to expect: We are creating a giant blacked out Maze through out most of the church. As of right now we are planning on being inside because it looks like rain. We will have lots of other games you can play while you are here, our Famous Octaball will be out, we are going to create some 6 square boxes, and we will have Angry birds set out so you can practice your angry bird shots. During this time we will be having groups of 5 students at a time go through the maze! We will have food, music, and tons of games you can play while you are! Its going to be a great time.

If you have any questions please feel free to email me at Cvmcadam@gmail.com

Another reminder that 3dyc registrations and money are due November 2nd! Don't miss out on this amazing event. Parents meeting will be November 16th for this event.

Here is a little funny video for you to enjoy! Have a great weekend.



P.A.

REFUGE recap

Hey there everyone, I hope your Thursday is going well. I know mine is going ok, lots of awesome things going down for our REFUGE students. Here is a couple things that we did last night.

1. Had some great funny video's we watched! Love watching people fall, and funny pranks we can do for Thanksgiving.

2. We had a game that flopped horribly! Which is fine we had a good laugh and then we went on our way, but then we busted out the goods with ANGRY BIRDS LIVE! We had a bunch of boxes, and a water balloon launcher and we launched angry birds at the green pigs! It was awesome, we had each small group send 3 students up each to try to knock them over! It was a blast.

3. Then we got to dance around in worship, and then ended our worship time with some let it rain, one of my favorite worship songs!

4. Then we talked about how we can tell people about Jesus without looking weird. A lot of good things we talked about but here are the 3 main points I want you to all walk away with.
1. We don't accidentally tell people about Jesus, we have to be purposeful with our evangelism.
2. We have to know scripture! It helps so much when we can point people to Jesus through the Bible!
3. You can make a difference! Don't ever forget that you can make a difference in someone's life! Be bold, Be Unstoppable!

I hope you all have a fantastic day, there are some amazing things coming up for REFUGE students. The big one is next week with our HARVEST PARTY! The party is at crystal valley at 6:30pm! Bring a ton of friends. We hope to see you all here!

P.A.

Couple things to know for tonight!

Hey there everyone this post is going to be a little shorter than normal because today is a super busy day.

1. Tonight we are going to be doing a little bit longer teaching time with small groups sprinkled in there, so be aware of that tonight, I promise you it won't be boring, but you will learn a ton of information tonight about how to talk with your friends about Jesus and not look weird!

2. The cafe will be open tonight and we have NACHOS! So be prepared!

3. 3dyc registrations are available, also Esther will be here tonight with all the totals from the Auction, so if you need to know how much you owe for 3dyc find Esther so she can let you know!

4. Next week is the Harvest Party! We are turning our entire church into a Blacked out, Black lit maze through out the entire church so don't miss out!

Alright everyone thats what we have for you today.

Refuge starts at 6:30pm tonight At Crystal Valley Missionary Church. Hope we see you there.

P.A.

How to talk with your friends without looking weird!

Hey there everyone, I hope your Tuesday is fantastic! I know mine started out with a workout, and then got some good time in the Bible reading through Romans! So stinking powerful, LOVE IT!

Tomorrow night is going to be a little different. We are going to be doing an extended teaching night on how to talk with your friends about Jesus. Because in 8 days we are going to be turning our church in a massive blacked out maze, and using it as analogy to talk to students about Jesus and how He has saved us from the darkness because of our sin, and He rescued us and wants an intimate relationship with us. It's going to be so awesome, but the issue is if we don't how to talk with our friends about Christ then we are missing some amazing opportunities to point people to Jesus!

So tomorrow night at REFUGE, we are still going to play some awesome games, we are still going to rock worship out, but we are going to take some extended teaching time to inform and train you guys how to talk with your friends about Jesus without looking weird! We will be in our small groups, and you will be able to talk with them during the time so it won't be a lecture but it will be interactive.

We hope to see everyone there, because I believe that October 26th can be a night where we see students walk from darkness into the light!

Hope to see you tomorrow night!

P.A.

Talking to your Friends about Jesus

Hey there everyone, I hope your Monday is going awesomely! Mine started out early and will end late, but I am excited that I will be with people all day today working on our Harvest Party, and getting ready for this Wednesday night!

This coming Wednesday night is our first ever teaching night. We are going to be talking about how to talk with your friends without looking weird. We are going to take a little bit longer on our teaching time and give you some practical tools to invite and talk with your friends about Jesus!
We will still be doing games, and worship, and we will be having small groups in a little different way. We will still have all the elements that make up our REFUGE, but they will look just a little different this Wednesday night.

Here are a couple things you need to be aware of:
1. 3dyc registration forms are due November 2nd, and that is with the money! If you were auctioned off take that amount of money off from 150$ and that is how much you owe. We will have everyone who was Auctioned off and for what on Wednesday night if you have any Questions.

2. Harvest Party October 26th! We are turning our church into a blackout Maze! It's going to be awesome, so invite your friends and get ready to have a ton of fun. If we get over 200 people here that night, I will wax my eye brows off, and hopefully we can get Gareth to cut his hair into a mullet! That Harvest Party is here at Crystal Valley, and we will be outside that night so please dress warm!

If you have any questions about anything please contact Pastor Adam at cvmcadam@gmail.com

P.A.

Youth Group Recap

Hey there everyone I am sorry I didn't update yesterday, I was swamped with getting the last minute details done. Also I had an important meeting for our harvest Party yesterday where we laid out the design for our Maze that we are going to be building in 2 weeks!

So if you couldn't make it last night, we missed you! So here is what you missed.

We read through the first 5 verses of Mark 6. Where Jesus went back to his hometown of Nazareth and was greeted without honor. Jesus couldn't do any miracles except for a few because He wasn't honored and they didn't have any faith. So we asked the question, Are you valuing your relationship with Christ? Is He able to do things in your life because you are honoring Him?

Then we explored who we are supposed to honor. Then we talked about how do we honor our parents, and those who teach the word of God. So we got to pray for our small group leaders, and honor them with pie.

Then we gave a challenge to the students to try to out due one another in loving on their small group leader this week.

So Students love on your small group leader this week!

I hope you have a fantastic day today!

2 Reminders:

1. Harvest Party October 26th! 6:30pm - 9pm! Don't Miss out!
2. 3dyc Registration sheets are out, They are due November 2nd!

Youth Group EVE!

Hey there everyone, I hope your Tuesday is going swimmingly! Mine has started out with a good work out, then a great devotion time looking out over a golf course with a ton of fog on it. It was pretty stinking cool, there is a picture of it in my facebook! So Check it out there.

Tomorrow night is going to be stinking awesome. We have some great games we are going to play, 2 of them are brand new! We have some new worship songs we are going to be introducing, and we are starting a new Series called Forgotten Virtues! It's going to be a great night. So don't miss out.

Also, we have our New REFUGE CAFE! We will be having Taco's available again for you guys to eat, also chips, candy, pop, water, and hopefully this week some NACHOS! So bring some money so you can get some food before youth group.

Hopefully we will see you all here Wednesday night. God has some amazing things in store for you on Wednesday night!

Also remember October 26th, the Harvest Party and Blacked out Maze! Get over 200 people here and you get to wax my eye brows, and possibly get to cut Gareths hair into a mullet!

Have a great Tuesday!

P.A.

Student Auction was GREAT!

Thank you to all those who helped out with the Student Auction! Thank you Thank you Thank you.

And to those who came and supported the students by buying them on Auction, plus bid in the silent Auction thank you so much, you are all my hero's because you are supporting students who are going to hear and learn about Jesus Christ in way that students can understand, comprehend, and relate to! So Thank you again from the bottom of my heart.

We raised just around $5000.00 last night! And all of that money is going to be distributed to students! So Thank you again.

Now to the next item on our Agenda!

October 26th we are going to be doing a Black lite and blacked out Maze through out the church! This is our Annual Harvest Party we have, and its going to be great. We are going to be having a Bon fire, food, and tons of awesome fun! So make sure students you put down on your calendars October 26th, because its going to be so stinking awesome!

Also we made the bet that if you get 200 students to this event, you can wax my eyebrows! And Possibly but Gareths Hair into a Mullet! So get talking with students, because this night is going to be stinking awesome.

We hope to see you this coming Wednesday night!

Lots of fun stuff planned, we kick off a new series called Forgotten Virtues!

Have a great week everyone!

P.A.

Welcome to the best Sunday EVER

Hey there everyone, hope your Thursday is going great. I am extremely tired, but excited for what is going to be going down this coming Sunday night.

Last night we took time to work on our auction that is coming up this Sunday night. All the students got signed up for what they are going to be Auctioned off for, and the small groups started making their baskets! It's going to be a great night on Sunday.

So here are the details:

WHEN: Sunday Night 5:30pm - 7:30pm
WHAT TO BRING: A Dessert to Share
WHAT TO EXPECT: Worship and Testimonies, and Silent & Student Auction.
WHERE: Crystal Valley Missionary Church

We hope everyone can join us and help raise money for some great students to have an amazing experience with Christ at 3dyc!

P.A.

The Auction to beat all Auctions!

Hey there everyone I hope your day is going fantastic!

A couple things to make you aware of before this coming Sunday night.

1. Tomorrow night Refuge is kicking off our own cafe! We will have some nacho's, pop, chips, candy, and some Tacos! Bring some money and help students raise money for a missions trip!

2. Student Auction is going down on Sunday at 5:30pm, we will have some of the things out on sunday morning for people to bid on as well, but come back for the Auction that night to help the students raise money to for 3dyc! We will be having worship, testimonies and a lot of fun. We hope to see you here on Sunday.

3. Students come ready to have a ton of fun this Wednesday night we are playing some games we have never played before, but we are also bringing back a favorite! We hope to see you all there.

We are still accepting donations for the silent Auction. If you can think of any items that you have that you would want to put into the silent Auction please contact me at cvmcadam@gmail.com

Hope you have a great Tuesday!

P.A.

Student Auction

Hey there everyone I hope you are all having a great day. I know I am super pumped about this coming week. Here are a couple things you can do to help out for the student auction that is coming up this Sunday night at 5:30pm!

1. If you have a donation we would love to Auction it off. We are still looking for a few more donations, if you are interested please email me at cvmcadam@gmail.com. We have every small group making a themed basket that is going into the silent Auction. If you are interested in donating an item please feel free to email me.

2. Come and bid on a silent Auction item and Students. We have lots of students that are going to be auctioned off and wanting to raise money to go on our 3dyc trip in December. Come on out and bid on a student or a couple of students. All proceeds are going straight to the students trip to 3dyc!

We really hope you will consider coming out and supporting Refuge students in going to 3dyc.

If you want to check out the website for 3dyc you can click here.

We have been seeing some amazing things going on at the Refuge this year and this is going to be a great night to add to an already amazing year. Please come out and support these students.

Have an amazing week!

P.A.