Crazy Love… Can’t have a Divided Heart

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James 4:1-6 (Pastor Phil Kooistra)

“Crazy Love… Can’t Have a Divided Heart” (Pastor Phil Koositra) from Crossroads Ministry on Vimeo.

Community Retreat 2009

Register Online for Community Retreat 2009 (Deadline is Sept. 13)

Would you like to be a part of Community? What is it? Small groups of Christian friends who wish to grow in faith with the Lord, meet each week during the school year for fellowship, accountability and encouragement Sept. 25-27 is the weekend we will kick-off our small groups meetings with our annual Retreat.

Don’t miss out on our annual Community Retreat!  The Community Retreat is an awesome time for you to get connected to our ministry.  You will get a chance to deepen friendships and to see what a small group is like.  Our theme this year is “CRAZY LOVE”.  Our desire is that you would develop a “Crazy Love” for  Jesus this year.

† Friday, Sept. 25– Meet @ IBC Family Life Center at 7:00 p.m.  Registration starts at 6:45 p.m. (students will find out your group/host home).  Host Homes at 9:00 p.m.

† Saturday, Sept. 26-AM hours will be at Host Homes, afternoon games then back to the Host Homes.  Church at Upper Room, 6:00 p.m., back to Host Homes.

† Sunday, Sept. 27-Meet at FLC for Encounter, 9:50 a.m. Community ends at 11:00 a.m. (after Encounter). Pick up at Family Life Center.

What to Bring: sleeping bag, pillow, towel, shower stuff, deodorant, & your Bible!  A Student Ministry Notebook (3 Ring) will be given to everyone this year

What to Do:   Take your registrations to either Fuel, Renu, or Encounter. You may also take your Registration to the Church Office or Register online

Registration Deadline is Sunday, Sept. 13th to get in on our T-shirt order.

See You At The Pole

Meet at your schools flagpole at 8:15 a.m…..See You at the Pole is a student led prayer time around your Schools flag pole. Join other students as you pray for your school, teachers, classmates, and ask God to work at PAHS this year. Starts @ 8:15 a.m. 1 hour before School

Parent Meeting Notes

If you missed the Parent Meeting on September 21 you can find hand out below

IBC Student Ministry Parent Meeting

September 19, 2009

Thank you so much for coming.  I would love the opportunity to get to know each of you better and serve you and your families in whatever ways possible.

IBC Student Ministry is built upon . . .

Purpose: Our ministry exists to glorify God by assisting parents in evangelizing and equipping students through the Word of God to present each one complete in Christ.

Web Page:  We just finished our new website that can be found at http://ibcstudentministries.org This website includes upcoming calendar information for both H.S. and M.S., A description of our programs, Forms to download (including recent flyers and Medical Release forms), SMS subscription, and a host of weblinks for parents to check out.  You can also access all of our sermons on this site.  Be sure to check out the “Parents” page for a parent friendly run down of the site.

NETMA:  If you check your e-mail then you should be on our NETMA list.  NETMA will make sure that you are up to date on all of the latest information in the student ministry as well as help you to get to know Pastor Phil a little better.  Sign up today!  You can also do this by subscribing to the News and Alerts on the website.

Text Message List:  Unfortunately our txt message service decided they wanted to charge for their service so we have been looking for a replacement for sometime.  It seems the easiest way is through our new website at http://ibcstudentministries.org Look on the Right side colum about half way down the page and you will see “Subscribe to SMS”  Fill in the information, enter the validation code you will get in a txt, and you will be subscribed.  You can also set SMS alerts for our Facebook fan pages or twitter pages.

Resources:

Internet Filtering

1. www.familyconnect.com
2. www.covenanteyes.com

Ipod Touch protection

1. Go into parent controls and set up a code
2. Turn off Safari browser and youtube
3. Download http://www.mobicip.com/ as the browser

Movie and Music Content

1. http://www.screenit.com
2. http://www.pluggedinonline.com/
3. http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/

Book that I highly recommend on a Biblical model of parenting.

Age of Opportunity, Paul Tripp

Teach Them Diligently, Lou Priolo

Shepherding a Child’s Heart, Tedd Tripp

Successful Christian Parenting, John MacArthur

Growing Up Christian , Karl Graustein

“Disciplines of a Godly Family”  by Kent and Barbra Hughes

New Book Recommendation…

“Big truths for Young Hearts” by Bruce A. Ware

“A theologically rich resource to aid parents in training their children. Anyone who wants to help children grow in their love for Jesus and understanding of the Bible needs this book.”
Mark Driscoll, Pastor of Mars Hill Church, Seattle; President of Acts 29 and The Resurgence

“Imagine a respected theologian devoting himself to training a new generation of pastors and scholars in the seminary classroom. Now imagine him driving home at night to teach that profound theology in simple terms to his children at their bedsides. Now imagine this father compiling those bedside conversations into a book available to all pastors, parents, and children alike. Imagine no more. My friend Dr. Bruce Ware has done it.”
C. J. Mahaney, Sovereign Grace Ministries

Parent Blog: The Parent blog has now been integrated with the new website and you can find the articles at http://ibcstudentministries.org/?cat=8

Current Teaching:

Sunday Encounter M.S./H.S.:  1 Thessalonians

Wednesday Night FUEL (MS): Armor of God and then Luke

Wednesday Night RENU (H.S.) Proverbs

Teaching Team:

High School

• Pastor Phil, Brad Teel, Kevin Denton, Rob Mason

Middle School

• Thad Smith, Joe Gladfelter, Brad Teel, Phil Kooistra, Lex Morgan
  

Facebook: if you are unaware of our facebook groups you can find them at…

Student ministries Fan Page: http://facebook.com/ibcsm

High School Ministry:  http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2357232416 & http://facebook/ibccrossroads

Middle School Ministry:  http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19622449447 &  http://facebook/ibcmiddleschool

Independent Bible Church Group:  http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19622449447 & http://www.facebook.com/indbible

Videos: You can find our videos (including sermons from Crossroads) at the following places.

All videos can be found at:  http://vimeo.com/ibccrossroads
Crossroads Group page is at :  http://vimeo.com/groups/ibccrossroads
Sunday sermons at:  http://vimeo.com/ibcsmsermons

Feeds: For those of you who use RSS Feeds below are the following feeds for Student Ministry.

Podcast for latest sermons is podcast link (Recently updated)

Rss Feed for sermons is http://feeds.feedburner.com/SermonsFromCrossroadsMinistryInPortAnglesWa

Events and Updates High School:  http://ibcstudentministries.org/?cat=65,68&feed=rss2

Middle School:  http://ibcstudentministries.org/?cat=66,67&feed=rss2

Devotional Blog: http://marvelatgod.wordpress.com/feed/

Parent Blog: http://ibcstudentministries.org/?cat=8&feed=rss2

Opportunities

1. Office Help:  Kim Sutton is looking for help with office work including data entry, phone calls, mailings, copies, and other general office work.  If you are able please contact her at sma@indbible.org or the church office 452-3351

2. Community Retreat:  We have secured all of the homes needed, but we could use help with preparing food or donations for some of our homes for Community Retreat.  We are also looking for scholarship help for Community Retreat.

3. Barn Bash:  If you would like to help with set up, food prep, games, or general assistance for the Barn Bash please contact Phil or Kim.

4. 5^th Quarter:  If you can help with the food for 5^th quarter please contact kim at sma@indbible.org

Calendar

Pick up the tentative calendar of the school year.

Or view it at google calendar.

1st Thessalonians 2:1-6 (Joe Gladfelter)

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1 Thessalonians 2:1-6 (Joe Gladfelter)

Text Message Updates

To receive text message updates from Student Ministries fill out the subscription form on the right sidebar under the section “Subscribe to SMS”

Parent Meeting

Join us for our Parent Meeting Sunday Sept. 20th @ 10 in the Fellowship hall in the Family Life Center. We will talk about fall activities, current teaching, technology and social networking, and hand out calendars for the year.

1st Thessalonians 1 (Kevin Denton)

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1st Thessalonians 1 (Kevin Denton)

Intro to Proverbs (Pastor Phil Kooistra)

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Proverbs 1:1-7

Introduction to 1st Thessalonians

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1st Thessalonians Introduction