Hello from LA!

Mike, Heather, Rachel and I are just finishing our weekend at the
National Youth Workers Conference. We received lots of encouragement
and ideas on how to better focus our ministry. Wonder where God will
take us this year!

Onto this Wednesday, we have Staff Q&A night from 5:43-7:15pm! We've
been collecting questions for the last few weeks for our youth staff
to be answering amongst playing a bunch of games. So gear up for some
fun and laughs and don't forget to bring your friends!

Also it's not too late to ask some questions, you can email or
Facebook me today and tomorrow if you'd like your question to make the
list. And remember, these questions can be about anything and we'll
answer them as honestly as we can! See you then!

Also remember that this is the last week to sign up for the Fall
Retreat (It's at the end of October) to get the discounted early fee,
and as always scholarships are available.

Today!

Today we are having our, "What's in a Name?" night. We'll play some games and talk about why we call our Middle School Youth Group, "Fuel." So make sure you're here from 5:43-7:15pm tonight for some fun!

Also remember to be coming up with questions to ask for next weeks Volunteer Staff Q&A Night! You ask us any question you want and we'll answer it as honestly as we can! And don't forget about Fall Retreat registration forms! You can pick them up here (and online soon) and drop them off in the drop box outside the Youth Pod (room 106).

We've been having some computer issues around the church but I managed to get the videos of our summer trips up online:

HCC Fuel at are Gleanings Mission Trip 2009 from Jen Easton on Vimeo.

Fuel at Camp Spalding 2009 from Jen Easton on Vimeo.

You might notice that they're on Vimeo and not on Youtube and that is because they kept muting the videos because of the music - but here they are in all their glory!

And the pictures are located here at our picture site (www.hcc.smugmug.com):

Gleanings For the Hungry Mission Trip

Camp Spalding Summer Camp (Coming Soon!)

Pac Nite XII!!!

That's right folks!

Our annual Pac Nite is back and it's 12 years old!

This is how we kick off every year! So come on down this Wednesday from 5:43-7:15pm to have a blast!

Bring your friends because it'll be guys against girls as we battle to see how much of you we can cram into and onto things! How many middle schoolers can fit into a hula hoop? How about a fridge box? Ever hear of our infamous Maytag Relay? Ever hear of a game show called "hole in the wall?"

But why guess when you can just come and find out! But bring your friends or they may never forgive you for leaving them out!

Then next week we'll play some games and talk about why we call our Middle School youth group, "Fuel."

See you Wednesday!

Parent Meeting

So we are having a Parent Meeting at 6:30pm today at the church.

We hope you can make it!

One of the things we will be talking about is how everyone can enter their email address in the box on the right and have all of these posts emailed to them. What's great about that is that you won't have to keep checking back to see if we've updated and only need to check your email inbox!

The only catch will be that you will receive an email asking you to confirm that you wanted to subscribe. So please keep on the lookout for that email and click on the link inside!

And we have our first youth group this Wednesday night from 5:43 - 7:15pm, it's our annual Pac Nite XII where we pack our students into things! Simple, and fun so make sure they bring friends!