GROUP NITE II

Our 2nd group night of 2014 is this week...there will be video trivia, games, and more GUYS vs GIRLS competition before we break up into our small groups
Bring a friend or 4 and we'll see you Wednesday (5:43-7:15)

SKI NITE 2014

Will there be snow? Only if there is a freak storm and the roof of the church caves in
BUT
We will have a SKI NITE!!!
Be sure to dress for a night on the slopes (yes, there will be points awarded for ski outfits), bring a friend or 5 (yes, there will be points awarded for new people), and be ready to have a very YETI night
5:43-7:15
BTY - the video for video trivia will start at exactly 5:45 (yes, there will be points awarded for correct answers in the video trivia section of the night)

PS - Have you turned in you Winter Retreat Registration yet?

2014 IS HERE!!!

2014 is here which mean Middle School Youth Group is back!!!
Wednesday 5:43-7:15
Now that youth group is back I hope you're ready for an epic, 2 month long, guys vs girls, competition!
This week it all begins...bring a friend or 4 and let's go for it!

Christmas Eve Eve Tonight!

Traveling during Christmas Eve or planning on having lots of family arrive the next few days and might not make it to a Christmas Eve service?

TONIGHT, we have our first ever Christmas Eve Eve service at our regularly scheduled Monday Night 7pm service!  It'll be a small and laid back feel with acoustic worship in our new gathering place.  There'll also be activities for the kids so you can bring the whole family.  Hope to see you tonight!

Otherwise, we have three Candlelight Services Tuesday night for Christmas Eve:

5pm will be very family oriented and would be a great service to bring the kids to!
8pm will be our traditional worship style with the choir and brass musicians!
9:30pm will be our acoustic style much like the Monday Night service.

Lots of options, I'm (Jen) most excited for our new Monday Night and 9:30 services, consider trying something new with us!

Youth Group will start back up on January 8!

Ugly Sweater Addendum!

Forgot to mention that we'll be having an "Ugly Christmas Sweater" contest. So break out your best stuff (and it doesn't have to be a sweater, could just be a festive outfit)!

LAST YOUTH GROUP of the year! As well as for Jen and the Martin's!

Tomorrow will be our Christmas Themed Mass Hangout!  A perfect time to bring some friends to have some fun at church, just games and hangout time on the menu!

It will also be Jen's last Youth Group (he will be resigning from his position, but not the church, on December 31).  And Brad and Lauren Martin have a baby on the way due in January!  So they will literally have their hands full in the new year, so make sure to come by to wish them luck and some last minute baby name ideas!

Though Youth Group will be done after tomorrow until it picks back up with Pastor Mike Stelle on January 8 (same time, 5:43-7:15pm) there are plenty of happenings at church this month!

Our Advent services are in full swing on Sundays (8:30am and 10am) and Monday nights (7-8pm).  We will also have four Services for Christmas Eve starting with our Monday night Christmas Eve Eve service (Dec 12/7pm) and 3 Christmas Eve Services: 5pm Family, 8pm Traditional and 9:30 Acoustic (all Candlelight Services).

So bring your family and friends this Christmas!

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Camas Meadows Winter Retreat Registration will be available soon!  So keep and eye out for them at church and posted on our website: www.hccfuel.com!

It'll be for Jan. 31 - Feb. 2!

Poinsettias and Merry Jesus-mas!

Poinsettias have arrived!

If you sold any for this mission trip fundraiser, you will need to come pick them up today or tomorrow to deliver them!  Please remember that these flowers don't do well in the cold so as you plan your deliveries, don't leave them on doorsteps (call ahead to make sure people are home) and do not leave them in cars/garages for long periods of time.  They will be in Room 101 in the Education Wing.

Half of our Nez Mission Trip spots are filled!  If you're considering on going to Idaho with us this year, grab a form (by clicking here) and ask Jen/Mike any questions you may have!  Registration will end and our first Team Meeting will be January 26!

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This Wednesday we will be having our Merry Jesus-mas night.  We'll play some games and talk about Christmas and what it's all about.

Next week (12/11) will be our last youth group of the year.  It'll be a Mass Hangout - Christmas style!  Be sure to invite (and transport!) your friends these next few weeks.

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Registration for our Camas Meadows Winter Retreat (Jan. 31 - Feb. 2) will be out soon so keep watch!

A few accidental omissions for tomorrow!

During our Thanksgiving Eve service an offering will be taken for Covenant World Relief to provide emergency food to the Philippines island province of Leyte following the destruction caused by Typhoon Haiyan.  You can read more about that here: http://www.covchurch.org/news/2013/11/12/cwr-partners-delivering-relief/

We are also having a Tree-lighting/service-project/potluck-dinner event this Sunday night from 5-7pm to kick off the Advent Season!  Wednesday will be the last day to drop off items for the stocking stuffer service project!  These stockings will go to the foster kids at A Place Called Hope for Christmas. We are still looking for toddler items as well as things for boys and individually wrapped snack foods.  If you don't know what to give, you can also leave a donation as we will be buying anything we'll need more of.  

Finally, a letter went out to the congregation last week about my (Jen Easton) resignation for at the end of this year.  To read the letter click here.  And please don't hesitate to follow up with me on any questions you may have.  Thank you.

No Youth Group BUT We do have the Thanksgiving Eve Service!

There will be no youth group this week because we are having our annual Thanksgiving Eve service from 7-8pm!  It's a quick and wonderful time for everyone to gather together and spend a moment reflecting on the many ways that God has taken care of us this past year.

So bring your friends and family over to not just celebrate our Lord but to stop and thank Him! 

Afterwards will be our annual "Unofficial Movie Night!"  It's unofficial because we are not buying you tickets, providing transportation or having you sign medical release forms. We're just letting you know that after the T-Eve Service, a bunch of us will be going to the 9:05 Frozen movie at the GH Galaxy theater! 

It's opening night for that movie so consider buying your tickets ahead of time. Often we have groups between 60-100+ associated in some way to Harbor Cov, it's crazy fun!

We'll pick up Youth Group again on December 4 with "Merry Jesus-mas" and our last one of the year on December 11 for our Mass Christmas Hangout!

Thankfulness and No YG Next Week!

Tomorrow we will dive into the idea of Thankfulness.

What are you thankful for?

Next week (11/27) we won't be having Youth Group because our church will be having our annual Thanksgiving Eve Service from 7-8pm.  We would love to have our students come and bring their friends and family for this short time to stop and remember the past year and all of God's faithfulness.

Afterwards we that there will be something that has been dubbed, "The Unofficial Movie Night" where for over a decade the youth group has gathered together to watch the current family friendly movie together.  We will post the movie time as soon as they are posted, it is recommended to buy tickets early, some years we have over 100 people associated with Harbor Covenant there (students, their families, friends and past students)!

It's called unofficial because we don't have you sign a medical release, we don't organize rides or buy you tickets!

This year we will be seeing the movie Frozen!

A Night on Your Relationship with Your Parents AND POINSETTIA FORMS ARE DUE!

This Wednesday instead of doing a Group Nite, we will kick off by playing some games and then finish the night with Jen talking about families and a wake up call on our relationship with our parents.  Don't miss it!

THIS WEDNESDAY is also when our Poinsettia Fund Raising forms are due!  We've been encouraging our students to sell poinsettias for our Summer Mission Trip to The Nez.

Extra forms are located at church, here: (Click Here!) and on our www.hccfuel.com website.  From that link you can download them to your computer (they are in pdf format) and print them.

Mike's Jr High Life!

This Wednesday Mike Stelle, our Associate Pastor of Youth and Young Adults will be in Middle School land!
In addition to some crazy games and some amazing prizes Mike will be looking back at his Middle School years:

YES - there will be pictures
YES - there will be stories
YES - it will be funny
YES - Mike used to have hair

For more details you'll just have to show up!
Bring a friend or five!

Group Nite! Prizes for Clever Halloween Costumes!

We're back from our Fall Retreat at Camp of the Cascades!  

Consider dusting off an old (or new!) costume for our costume contest Wednesday night!

Then we'll recap a bit on all that happened on the retreat, play some games and finish the night in our guy/girl small groups with our last lesson in the 3 part series on living a missional life!

Lots to cover to finish out our October so come and bring a friend!

Next week Jen will be out of town but our Associate Pastor Mike Stelle will be filling in with some crazy games and going through what Jr High was like for him!

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Summer Mission Trip registration forms have been reprinted and available at church as well as posted online (www.hccfuel.com) for those that have been asking!

Mass Hangout Tomorrow! Fall Retreat Info!

Mass Hangout!  Our first of the school year.  This night is designed to be a relaxed, game focused night so that it would be easy to invite new people to check out the group and meet the leaders.

So who are you bringing?  

Parents, consider offering to transport your students friends to eliminate as many obstacles as possible.  Maybe offer to pick them up if the other family would drop off after?  Get creative!

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TODAY (TUESDAY) is the last day to sign up for the Fall Retreat!  Contact Jen Easton  today if you are interested or planning to sign up!

This weekend those signed up for our Fall Retreat to Camp of the Cascades will be meeting at church on Friday at 5PM at our main entrance.  We will return by 12pm Sunday.

What to pack:
(We will only be gone for 2 nights so please don't overpack!)

• A Sack Dinner! (Our first meal there will be Breakfast on Saturday)
• Clothes
• Warm Jacket
• Sleeping Bag/Pillow (you will not need a sleeping pad)
• Bible/Journal/Pen
• Towel/Soap/Shampoo/Toothbrush/Etc
• Flashlight
• Good shoes to walk around in
• Money for extra activies (see below)/snacks (all optional)
• Prizes for best Super Hero themed costume!

There will be plenty of free fun activities for everyone to do but these below will be available for those that would like to pay extra to signup for.

• Climbing Wall - $3
• Zip Line - $5
• Paintball - $10 (please bring clothes for)
• Trail Rides - $12

What NOT to bring:

• Cell Phones (can be left with a leader)
• iPod/MP3 Players/Anything-with-a-headphone-plug (they're anti-social)
• Weapons/Alcohol/Drugs
• Bad Attitudes
• Ziggurats 

Please contact Jen at church with any questions!

Group Nite! Fall Retreat Registration Due Soon!

For our second Group Nite of the school year, we are going to continue looking at what it means to live a Missional Life.  This week’s lesson was built around Matthew 9:35-36. This passage is one of several places in the Gospels where Jesus is described as having great compassion toward hurting people. The compassion was often felt toward large groups of people; many of these people were physically sick, and all of them needed spiritual healing, too.

So come out tonight, bring a friend and after running around a bit we will be breaking into our guy and girl small groups and going through the lesson with them.

Also, THIS is the last week to turn in Fall Retreat registrations and this will be our last Wednesday night to turn them in as well!  Next Wednesday will be too late!  So get your forms in.  They can be found at church and online (www.hccfuel.com). Drop them off at the lock box outside of room 106 in the Education wing or if it's after hours, in our mailbox located behind the church by the portables.

Here's a quick video from last year!




NEXT WEEK is our first Mass Hangout of the schoolyear!  This night is built for inviting your friends so plan ahead on who you want to invite.  Also remember to talk to your parents about possibly needing to give rides for your friends to try to eliminate as many obstacles as possible for them!

Pizza & Praise Tonight! (Bring $3 for a Pizza Dinner)

Come tonight with $3 to share a Pizza dinner with all your friends followed by Praising our God through song!

Next week we will continue our Group Nite series!

If you haven't signed up for our Fall Retreat that is at the end of this month, forms are at church or can be printed from our website (www.hccfuel.com).  Contact Jen with any questions!  There is also a way to sign up for both the Fall Retreat and our Summer Mission Trip (The Nez).

See you tonight!

Group Nite!

It's our first Group Nite of the school year!

We'll kick off with some games and finish the night by splitting up into guys and girl groups to go over our 3 part series on what it means to have a "missional lifestyle".  We do this because we realize that having a small group is important and we desire to give our students a taste of that.  And we also know that even though the information is the same, guys and girls (and even grades) process them differently and we want to provide a place to do that!

This Wednesday we will be going over Romans 3:9-28 which talks about how we all are in need of salvation and how when we experience true forgiveness, how that should change how we live our lives.

And just a friendly reminder, our Fall Retreat is THIS month from Oct. 25-27 and the "$10 Discount" deadline is Oct. 11th!

Fall Retreat Registration

And we also have Registration out for our Summer Mission Trip to Idaho!  It's out early so that we can be helping students with year round fundraisers including the Poinsettia one they can be doing right now!

There is also a way for them to sign up for both trips, have your student bring home the sheet explaining how or contact Jen Easton soon!

The Nez Summer Mission Trip Registration

Also click here for the 2014 Medical Release Form and the Scholarship Form!

Lifeline Tonight! 5:43-7:15pm

Tonight we will kick off with some crazy games and end the night hearing about Director Jen Easton's life in Middle School as well as from some of our awesome volunteers.  What was their relationship with God like for them then?

Middle School is tough.  Many adults are willing to say that they'd like to go back to a period in their life, often their 20's or college or for some even high school.  But you'll never hear anyone say that they'd like to go back to when they were in middle school!  So is it an awkward time for everyone?  And how do you do more than just survive it?

We'll see you tonight!

We also have registration for our Fall Retreat to Camp of the Cascades (Oct. 25-27) as well as for our Summer Mission trip to The Nez in Idaho (July 13-19) available!  They will also be uploaded to our website (www.hccfuel.com) later this week.

PAC NITE TOMORROW!

It's back! Our annual Fall youth group kick-off is THIS Wednesday (9/18), are you ready? 

Who are you inviting?
Who are you bringing?

For the last 16 years we've started our Middle School youth group by packing students into things!

How many students can fit into a hula hoop? In a fridge box? A car? On a couch? And of course our infamous Maytag Relay (and much more!).

Come for a ridiculous amount of fun and don't forget to bring your friends!

Our youth groups are every Wednesday from 5:43-7:15pm for current 6-8th graders.

Summer Dessert! 6:30-8pm!

Fall is here and school has started which can only mean one thing - the Summer Dessert!

This Wednesday night (9/11) from 6:30-8pm come for some ice cream and time spent looking back at all that God did this past summer as well as looking forward to all that is going to be happening this school year!

This night is not only for Middle School and High Schoolers but for the whole family and every one of your friends so make sure you invite everyone!

Our first Middle School Youth Group will be next week, Pac Nite returns for a fun night of squeezing you and your friends into hula hoops, maytag boxes, closets, you name it!