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New Coffeehouse and T-Shirts

This Sunday, we'll be opening up our new coffeehouse. Nancy Mikulencak will be with us every Sunday Night to serve in the snack bar/coffeehouse. In addition to the coffee and special drinks, she'll also have baked goodies, candy, popcorn, chips, etc. You guys should bring a little extra $$. We are not trying to make money so prices will be very reasonable, but the first $$ we make will go to pay for Derbie (Our Compassion International Child) after that, it'll go into the regular youth budget.

Also, next Sunday, February 1st, we'll begin taking orders for our new U-TURN T-shirt designs. There are more to come, but here's the first design. It will be available in a few different colors too.

Gatlin Elms Coffeehouse Concert

We'll have an amazing night of music with the Gatlin Elms Band on Feb 15! Join us in the youth center from 5-7pm and bring some friends! We'll have all your favorite coffees/snacks, some great music, and a perfect atmosphere for just chillaxing with friends.

After winning a local contest, the Gatlin Elms Band opened up for the legendary band Foreigner this past year. They also fill in for the Robbie Seay Band at his church here in Houston. You can check out their music on their myspace page.

New Small Group Ministry

We kicked off our new small group ministry with a big breakfast  in our newly rearranged youth center yesterday! Breakfast tacos, pancakes, cinnamon rolls, fruit, juice, and milk all accompanied a time for us to meet with our groups and new teachers. It was a great day!

Here's the breakdown:

7-8th grade girls - Serena Andrews & Liz Walzel

7-8th grade guys - Mike Pelton

9-10th grade girls - Linda Neumann

9-10th grade guys - Josh Johnson

11-12th grade girls - Robin Pelton

11-12th grade guys - Bruce Neumann

Alternates/Substitutes - Mr. Kim Bowers, Steve Leshikar, Tonya Ilseng, Kelly Colosimo

Next Sunday we'll launch into the new (Christ) curriculum written by the guys over at Student Life Bible Study. We'll be focusing our attention on the works of Christ during this year and then in the next two years we'll cover the Old Testament and the letters of Paul. During the 6 years our students attend youth Sunday School, they'll go through the entire Bible twice!!

Check out this video about the Bible!

Click on the picture to play or right click and select "Save as" to download. It's a pretty big file so it may take a few minutes.

Don't Waste Your Life

We just started a new series on Sunday nights last night called "Don't Waste Your Life." It was the number one choice on our last survey for things to study. Anyway, it's based on a book by John Piper called surprisingly, "Don't Waste Your Life." If you're interested you can download the book for free here: Don't Waste Your Life. You can also check out their website @ www.dontwasteyourlife.com or even order a t-shirt here: T-Shirts 

Anyway, it's gonna be a great series. We'll talk about what it means to "waste" your life, but also how we can live the "unwasted" life.

Last night we discussed an old saying found on a plaque:

"Only one life,
'Twill soon be past.
Only what's done
for Christ will last."

Do something for Christ today. Do it right now. Each moment of each day. This is the "unwasted" life.