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Rock and Worship Roadshow Video

The Roadshow 2010! from The Roadshow on Vimeo.

Winter Camp Slideshow 'A Beautiful Mess'

We are starting sign-ups for The Rock and Worship Roadshow!  Saturday, March 27, 2-10PM @ the Rose Garden $10 + Spending Money

So check out the details at the site and sign up this Sunday. 

Here's our Slideshow from Camp:

A Life Lesson from Michael Gentle

Ways we can show and express God's Love:

Romans 12: 9-21

We also learned a little while back how, "Love" is the fruit of the Spirit,
and that joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness
and self-control are manifestations of Love.

These are all ways that we can express our love for Jesus, and show His Love
to others. But, these things don't always come easy or naturally to us. But
there is One who can help us. The Holy Spirit!

When I was 24, a friend invited me to his church group, and shortly after, I
accepted Jesus as my savior, which radically changed my life. At the time, I
was definitely not a mature Christian, God still had a lot to teach me, and
many life lessons were to come and still are.  At the time, I was hanging
out with a small group of Christian friends who were not really walking with
the Lord. They did stupid, immature things.  I wanted to fit in, impress
them, and make them laugh, so I also did immature and stupid things.

But, a short while later, I attended this awesome Christian event. It was
kind of like a retreat. It was a powerful experience for me. The Holy Spirit
met me there. I knew at that time I wanted to become a better Christian.
Also, there were people in my church group who were Godly examples, and I
desired to be more like that. I wanted to be more like Jesus.  So, that day
I surrendered to God some of the things that I knew needed to go, and that
day I began to walk closer with Jesus.

Winter Camp Registration Complete!

Awesome.  That's all I can say about Chris Garrison's talk to us yesterday.  Thank you so much for sharing from Luke 7.  I know I was touched by the powerful message of Jesus' love towards us even as messy as we are.

The great news is we have maxed out our total.  Unfortunately that means we have a waiting list too.  I'll get back to all of you on that waiting list by Wed AM at the latest.  I will be talking to the other pastors and confirming their numbers.  Let's pray that some spots open up!  Let me know if you have any questions about the waiting list. 

BJ

Winter Camp February 26-28

Registration can be downloaded:

Download Registration form_grace chapel.

The 2009-2010 MR form is here.

Please remember you are not fully registered until the following has been turned in:

1. Medical Release Form,
2. Payment and
3. Registration

There are less than 10 spots left before our deadline this Sunday, February 21st. 

Please email me with any questions or concerns.

Please email me about a service scholarship if finances are an issue for your family.

Thanks,

BJ

Hi 2010, nice to meet you.

Happy New Year!

I'm looking forward to seeing you all again at Surge this Sunday.  We have an exciting couple months ahead and you can download our events from the newsletter page or right here:

  Download Surge Newsletter Jan_Feb 2010_events

You'll find this on the page 1 of the newsletter but I thought I'd share it here too.  Take a look at this list if you're thinking about a possible next step for yourself at Surge

Try these New Year resolutions!

1. Ask to share a life lesson at youth group.
2. Help welcome visitors to Surge
3. Join us at Potluck in the Park in January and February
4. Ask how you can serve “behind the scenes”
5. Start something new and exciting at Surge
6. Develop a habit of reading your Bible
7. Talk to God about your life everyday
8. Ask people how you can pray for them
9. Serve your family more than you did last year
10.  Create something beautiful that glorifies God

Remember, there's a few ways to stay on top of our schedule, or "stay in the know":

Stay in the know!

1. Youth Event Hotline: 503-570-2988 ext 7777. This has all our upcoming events. Updated weekly!
2. Surge Blog. www.gosurge.org. Download this calendar of events and the full newsletter with more detailed information on events.
3. The Red Star. It's in the Boberg youth room and you’ll find all the info for upcoming events.
4.Regular email updates. Do we have your email? Send yours to BJ at bj@gracechapelonline.org!

See you soon!  Be prepared to eat some yummy pancakes!

BJ

Thanksgiving and Charlie Brown!

Hi Surge!  This Sunday is Sunday Morning Cartoons! 

• Pancakes!
• November Birthdays Celebrated!
• Games!
• Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Special!

I bet you didn't know this won a prime time emmy!  It's going to be a fun time this Sunday as we take a break from normal Surge Challenge and enjoy a Thanksgiving celebration.

By the way, you can let us know what you're thankful to God for this Thanksgiving.  This thread is open for your "thanksgiving comments!"

Remember, no Surge the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and no Surge Challenge the Sunday after Thanksgiving!

BJ

Twitter, Facebook, changes to the Website?

Yes, yes and yes.

I'm going to do my best to catch you on all these social media sites!  Parents and students please join us on our new facebook page and follow us on twitter?  Where to start?  Just look on the right hand column of our updated website!  

So much fun.  Facebook will be the place where you'll find recent pics and videos.  

How's everybody doing?

A couple things to remember:

Not this Sunday, but next Sunday we are bring Sunday Morning Cartoons to Surge Challenge!  

Tuesday, 11/24/09, and Sunday, 11/29/09there is no Surge and Surge Challenge due to Thanksgiving Break.

See you tomorrow at Surge! 

See you at Surge tomorrow!

Surge Small Groups are on tomorrow!

If you are not meeting tomorrow with your small group  tomorrow, you will be in "large" group with BJ. Here are the groups that are meeting tomorrow:

- Jered's 8th grade boys 
- Josh's 8th grade boys
- Larissa's 7th grade girls
- Mrs. D' and Bres 6th grade girls (Randi, Amanda, Megan M., Gabrielle, Riley, and Olivia)
- Josh E 6th Grade Boys

Games, Worship and Small Groups.  See you at Surge!

BJ

161 cans!

Which is about 10 cans per student!

I'm really glad that we were able to help out the Wilsonviille Food Bank.  We made a guys group and a girls group.  Many of the houses we visited had cans ready for us thanks to the posters we put up around the neighborhood we targeted.  One house gave us a full bag of cans!  Everybody did a great job in their roles.  Some people talked and some people smiled.   We had practiced our "scripts" earlier in the evening and it was fun to see our students put those scripts into practice.  All in all, I think we served our community well and did it in a manner that was respectful.  My prayer for this event is that we are able to help some families in our community who aren't able to put food on their table.  

Great job everybody!