Worship Night and Parent Meeting

There will be a student worship night tonight form 6:30-8:00  at the Foundry.  We set up prayer stations all over the foundry and tonight we are praying for our schools and how we are going to be lights to them.  It is a really great time. 

Monday night any parents of High Schooler's interested in having there student participate in Leap should come to the meeting Monday 6:30-7:15 at the Foundry.  Leap is an amazing opportunity for your student!

Also, Men, I am teaching Mpact Saturday morning 8:00-9:30 breakfast provided!  I am teaching on how to use the Bible as Dad's and husbands.

Art of the Heart

Hey Everyone!  We are kicking off a relationship series tonight called "The Art of the Heart".  Our main focus is how to have healthy relationships, how to choose the right person to date, when to date when not to date, how to break up well, and how to start a relationship on the right foot.  We will talk about sex, pornography, and other assorted things but it wont be the "main thing".  Please join me in praying for this series and the implications it can have on our students.

Questions you can ask:  (If you dare)

What kind of guy/ girl are you interested in?
If your student doesn't shut down or run away from you make sure you listen well.  Dont react overly positive or negatively.  Dating can easily become a way of pleasing or acting out against parents.  Also your student may not answer right away, but actually think about this one and come back to you.  Be ready for it, but don't hold your breath.  Dating is to often seen as something that has to be done behind the backs of parents this is dangerous! (That my friends is really where babies come from)  


What are the attitudes about sex at school, friends, and what is their thoughts?
What do they think is expected of them in a relationship?


Tips:
Do  Ask plenty of clarification questions and rephrase things with "What I hear you saying is"  
Do  Turn your cell phone off when having this conversation or better yet purposefully ignore a phone call or text because of your conversation with them.  The will feel valued and important.  Don't tell them to turns theirs off.  It will make them defensive and the conversation won't happen.  If they get pulled away fine but dont let it be you.  They will see that you are genuinely interested in this area of their life and be more likely to open up later.

Grace and peace

Jarad

This Wednesday Night

This week we will be talking about an interesting issue that teens face.  We will be talking about paranormal activity.  Basically Ghost Stories. I wanted to make you aware of this topic.  I will be showing a skit from a Christian crew called Skit Guys as part of the teaching.  It is mildly scary, but hey Ghost Busters was scary for me.  With Halloween coming up I thought it would be a great time to discuss this topic.  

The Scripture for the Night will be Acts 19

I am including some discussion question for you to ask.  PS.  In this instance the answer is the sunday school one.  Jesus is the answer.  The name of Jesus is powerful, prayer is powerful!  Jesus is more powerful than anything you and your family come up against weither it is medical, psychological, or spiritual.

I will be talking about how much of the things we are scared of we make up.  

The things on TV are fake

Sometimes what we are dealing with are medical or psychological problems that people have.  

But from time to time there might be a spiritual condition that needs to be addressed.  My goal for the night will be to address all three of these.

1. How did this video make you feel? Were you scared?

2. Why do many humans love to be scared?

3. Do you believe spirits and demons exist today?

4. Do you believe witchcraft, warlocks, Ouija boards, and séances are gateways for demons to work? Why or why not?

5. If there is a spiritual realm, how can you connect more closely with God in your daily life?

6. Have you ever felt supernaturally “attacked”? If so, describe your situation.

7. How does prayer help in your daily walk with God?

8. Have you ever been in a situation that just “felt” wrong—perhaps even a bit evil? If so, how did you respond?

9. Can Satan grip humans’ lives in ways that leaves them paralyzed with fear or paranoia?

10. If demons clearly believed in Jesus’ authority, how does it make you feel when we deny Christ and his word and his authority?

Lisa Easton

So excited about this weekend. Lisa Easton and Family will be leading us in worship.  Her new Album is also coming out this weekend!  We are so blessed to have help with worship at Fusion and BridgePointe.

Our Dream Team Rocks and Rolls

Today I am reminded how blessed I am to have so many dedicated people give so selflessly to the Student Ministry at BridgePointe.  I have begun referring to them as the Dream Team because honestly thats what they are.  I am a starting my third fall here at BridgePointe.  I think of all the stress, the late nights, the worry of "if this is going to work?" of that first year and then I look at the ministry now.   How it runs so amazingly well. With people stepping up into roles that we have dreamed together about.  Adults investing into young people knowing there names, birthdays, and truly care about their lives.  I am so blessed to be able to work with these men and women of God.  It is one of their birthday's today. This reminded me of how blessed I am to have such talented people to gain wisdom, knowledge, and insight from.  Thank you for caring and investing in the Kingdom of God.

Im going to use this word and I don't want to...

For the past couple of weeks things have, as the great theologian Ron Burgandy said, "Boy, that escalated quickly".  Student Life is experiencing something I have only dreamed about, something that I am hesitant to even talk about.  The word is Revival.  There has been such an outpouring of the Spirit in our times together.  It is unlike anything I have ever seen and to be honest I have hardly ever read about it.  The prayer time of our student's is powerful.  This past Wednesday I watched as our students led worship, led in praying for each other, and led in stepping out in faith.  I am amazed at how God is using them.    I am scared of using the word Revival.  It makes me seem outlandish or crazy, but for this moment, for these students, something special is happening and am so excited to be apart of it.  It is a revival in there lives and I pray that it takes hold in their families, school, and in this community.  Please join with me in prayer and fasting for this movement in the lives.

Something is happening

So in the last couple of weeks we split the Student Ministry into Fuel (Middle School) and Fusion (High School).  The biggest complaint I have heard is from a middle schooler saying they wanted to be fed during the middle of the week too!  (Btw that is awesome)  I love it when students want more Jesus!  In my time here at BridgePointe I have never had a student say I wish we had more games, its always we want more worship, more praying, more Bible Stuff!  These are complaints I will gladly deal with.

In the last couple of weeks we have had an outpouring of the Holy Spirit at our times together.  Things are happening, lives are being changed and the presence of God is being felt in the room with us.  God is honoring the longing of our hearts to see God move and to feel Him with us is.  I am blown away at the way God is meeting us.  I am always thinking about how can we come up with the next cool thing and then I realized I don't have to.  Nothing can compete with the presence of God.  No Xbox, no TV show, no sport, nothing can compete when God decides to show off.

So please join me in praying that God would continue to show Himself at Fuel and Fusion because something is happening here and I want to be apart of it and I think you do as well.