Middle School Moments

Hey everyone that survived 2010!

Welcome to 2011! We want to continue this year with praying over our Youth Ministry. Please continue to lift our requests up to God. I know he will bless this.

GIVE THANKS!
~ We have been making strides with our welcoming atmosphere. Our coffee bar got started on Christmas weekend. Yeah! We now have coffee, tea, and hot chocolate for the teens on Sunday morning. Surprisingly, there are a lot of teens and volunteers that drink tea.

~ I have gotten to have quite a few conversations with people and students about volunteering in the middle school room. That is totally God and you folks lifting that up in your prayers. Now we just need to ask that these conversations move to people giving their time to service these students.

~ We just want to say thanks to God for a great year of ministry in 2010. There are so many blessings to be thankful for. This email that goes out definitely helps me recognize all the good things rather than always focusing on what’s next. Let’s ask God to do the same for 2011, but lets also get more people added to this ever growing list of individuals praying for the youth ministry of the vineyard.

GOD, WE ASK…
- We need God to deal with some negative attitudes that I have seen as of late in our high school and middle school room. I wouldn’t say it is anything destructive or really bad, but it is something that I have noticed over the past two months. Let’s ask God to work in the hearts of the teens. We want to pray that they recognize the need to love one another and that this weekend ministry is a great place to build closer relationships.

- We want to ask God to bless the youth community groups that are meeting during the week. High School did not take much of a break over the holidays, but the Middle School will be starting back up next week. We just ask that God continue to bring growth in those kids lives.

- Details, details, details. Now that the new year is upon us, we have a lot of things to get organized. Some of the big things are our yearly conference and summer trips. The sooner we get that information out to everyone, the better. We just ask God’s hand to be on that and help us get all that together quickly.

I give thanks to all of you for praying. Seriously! It makes a huge difference.