Crossroads Missions: Appalachia Kentucky

August 1-7th,2010

Crossroads Mission

A Reason to Celebrate Him

Louie is the founder of the Passion Movement for college students, and is the pastor of Passion City Church here in Atlanta, GA. This sermon snippet focuses on the beautiful reality that God holds everything--including us--together. Literally.

Laminin...All the more reason to worship our Lord during this Holiday Season. This season, worship Him, for He is the reason to celebrate Christmas!

IMPACT: Greenwood Shopping Mall Invasion

Sat., Dec. 5th (8:30am-?)
Join us for a day at the Greenwood Park Mall for a great day of shopping and fun!
Bring $$$ for 3meals, shopping, a coat and gloves, your shopping list, and invite a friend.
Sign up by Sun., Nov.29th

You'll have a great day of shopping with stores like American Eagle, Ann Taylor Loft, Hollister, Fossil, The Disney Store, Build-a-Bear Workshop, Sephora, Victoria's Secret and Waldenbooks, plus over 120 specialty shops. Greenwood Park Mall has something for everyone! Still looking for that special gift? Stop by one of our anchor stores like Dick's Sporting Goods, JCPenney, Macy's, Sears or Von Maur for a great selection of quality merchandise. Ready for a break? Try a pretzel from Auntie Anne's Pretzels or maybe a gourmet cookie from Blondie's. We will visit your favorite fast food restaurants located in our Food Court for lunch.

ACC Student Ministry Open Source Discussion

Following are a list of 5 Open Source discussion questions that will be posed to our IMPACT Students on Sunday evening.

Open Source is a collaborative tool to help foster creative group discussions for a common purpose of benefiting a program or movement. The Open Source format is also designed to help discover creative solutions to real issues/problems... In our case, to stimulate student leadership involvement in the planning and programming process of our student ministry.

A "Discussion Starter" will pose the question and take specific notes of the conversation at each individual discussion circle. Participants are not limited to the specific question posed at that circle, but are encouraged to allow creativity to freely flow.

Participants will rotate in and out of each group discussion at will until they have participated in all five circles of discussions. At the completion of the individual discussion circles, the Discussion Starter will share notes with the entire group where specific plans, strategies, and targets will be established.

Open Source Discussion Circles:

Circle 1. What is a youth group and what does it look like? (Think Big; Dream Big!!!) Is it important to you and your spiritual walk? Why or why not?

Circle 2. What are we not doing that we should start doing to resemble your view of youth group? What are we doing that has gotten stale that we should stop doing?

Circle 3. With the gifts and talents God has given to you, where should you be serving in youth group? What new ministry could or should you start? What will it take for you to begin? What resources are needed?

Circle 4. If you could choose the next message series for IMPACT, what would it be? Why?

Circle 5. What specifically needs to happen for us to see new friends at youth group each week?

"The Root of the Vine"

Expand and enrich your Christian faith by reading "The Root of the Vine".

Dana Simons was raised in the Jewish faith and shares practical "how-to" information to help you reconnect to the rich heritage of your Christian faith. She also serves with our student ministry at Agape Christian Church.

You will love the book and Dana's passionate heart as she unfolds how Jesus was a Torah observant Jew and how many of us today do not know the rich traditions of our faith found in the Jewish holidays, Jewish worship and Jewish prayer.

Learn how to pray, worship and celebrate as Jesus did!
For more details or to purchase click "The Root of the Vine."

Wacky Pic of the Evening!!!

The possibilities of creativity and wackyness are endless when you turn a few students loose with a cell phone cam. Last evening the students had a great time snapping pics of one another during an IMPACT activity where they played Cell Phone Scavenger Hunt.

It was a great time with many laughs... esp. when we viewed a few in Powerpoint. The first group to e-mail all the assigned pics back to me received CD's.

Fun... thanks Youth Specialties and Tim Schmoyer for the idea!

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Ten Ways To Kill Vision In Your Church

from Perry Noble

#1 – Pray really small prayers…seriously, don’t ask God for ANYTHING big. He DID put an interstate highway through a sea, demolished the walls of Jericho and brought the dead back to life…but I’m sure He doesn’t do things like that anymore! :-)

#2 – Celebrate the past WAY more than you anticipate the future, thus becoming a museum and not a movement!

#3 – Allow those who have never actually done anything for Jesus dictate to you what they believe you can and can’t do for Him!

#4 – Listen and repond to every critic.

#5 – Wait until everything makes perfect sense before you make a decision.

#6 – Spend more time on blogs than you do in your Bible.

#7 – Become more agenda driven than GOSPEL driven!

#8 – Actually believe that EVERYONE must be 100% happy with every detail.

#9 – Vote!

#10 – Become angry/jealous over what God is doing at other places and become hyper focused on all of their problems, thus overlooking your own!

Bennie Weenies

To Save A Life

Jake is devastated at what Roger has done. And something in him changes. In seeking answers in his own life, one question plagues him the most… Could I have saved him? He is now deeply compelled to reach out to the students who are on the fringe of acceptability by the school’s upper crust. But he finds reaching out to the undesirable threatens his world. He may lose his own friends, his scholarship, his dreams and even his reputation to do it.

I am looking forward to attending a pre-screening at Evansville at my friend Ben Taylor's Church. If you are a leader of teens, and would like to attend, let me know or contact Ben.

Pastoring Men
What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why It Matters Now More than Ever

No man fails on purpose, but most men are under a lot of pressure. When a man fails it sets powerful forces of bondage and brokenness in motion. It can take several generations to break the cycle.

As America staggers beneath the load of a 100 major problems like divorce, fatherlessness, poverty, pornography, adultery, abortion, disrespect for authority, ethical failures, and truancy—where have the men gone? What has happened to our men?

At the root of virtually every problem is the failure of a man, ironically a man who got up this morning wishing that his life would make a difference. A man for whom Christ died.

This is an excerpt from the Moody Published book Pastoring Men by Patrick Morley. For more information on this book and how to disciple men, please visit http://www.maninthemirror.org/

Hillsong United "LIVE": We're All In This Together

NCM Fathom is partnering with the popular Australian musical group, Hillsong United, for a special in-theatre event for only one night. Hillsong United was originally a youth movement ministry that began in the Hillsong Church out of Australia.

They now have emerged as a very popular international musical group with a very diverse, youthful following across the world. They support social justice movement, with huge emphasis on their music (Christian Contemporary) paving the path for support around poverty, natural disaster relief, equality, human rights and health issues affecting the world.

The event will include a Live introduction from Australia, followed by pre-captured content about their worldwide journey over the past several years and will conclude with Live value added content including acoustic songs by the band and dialogue with the youth ministry in Australia.

Cost is $15 at Showplace 12 in Terre Haute, IN.

Doug Fields: Pursuing New Opportunities

Doug Fields announced his departure from Saddleback Church yesterday – you can read about it in the letter he wrote to our church family. Here’s an excerpt:

What am I going to do? Well, there’s not another specific job” that I’m departing to, but I am leaving staff to pursue some incredible opportunities to express my writing and teaching gifts. What I’m really doing is what I’ve taught you to do-listen for God’s whisper and obey it! Several people have said, You’re crazy to leave a secure Saddleback Church job during this unstable market.” Humanly speaking, they’re right… following God doesn’t always make sense, but I know I need to do the right thing: listen and obey.

Post by Josh Griffin

See You At the Pole 2009

Plan to attend See You at the Pole 2009 at your school. Your Administrators, Teachers, Staff, Class and Friends are depending on you to lift them up in prayer. Don't let them down!

Michael Jackson Remix

Michael Jackson remix @ Yahoo! Video

Checkout this amazing Remix of the top hits of Michael Jackson. These guys are the bomb! Awesome harmony. Enjoy!

The 2010 Online Missions Trip

January 31 to February 13, 2010

Begin planning now for the Online Missions Trip. This 2-week campaign is designed to empower us, students and leaders alike, to use social media to share Christ with our friends who don’t yet know Him.

During these two weeks you will be engaging in spiritual conversations with unsaved friends about your faith in Christ online by making posts and talking with friends on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, World of Warcraft and other such social hangouts online. You are encouraged to upload videos, post photos, create links, update your status to share what God’s doing in your life, writing notes, sending messages, develop blogs, create intentional events to invite friends to, and anything else that will result in a conversation about your relationship with Christ.

Last year, 3,000 youth leaders and teenagers from every continent except Antarctica intentionally used social media online to share Christ with unsaved friends. Plan to join this evangelistic effort today by marking your calendars, developing a creative plan, and joining the Online Missions Trip on Facebook for encouragement and ideas. Also, checkout On-line Missions Trip at studentministry.org.

Kids Need More Than Sports For Positive Growth

If you want your children to flourish, get them involved in extracurricular activities other than sports, new research suggests. Children in fifth, sixth and seventh grades who took part in both sports and after-school activities such as Boys & Girls Clubs, 4-H or Scouts had the highest scores for "positive development" and the lowest scores for risky and problem behavior, according to a study from Tufts University, published recently in Developmental Psychology.

"Positive development" includes measures of competence, confidence, character, connection and caring, the study authors explained. The new study found that those students who only took part in sports had lower scores on characteristics of "positive development" and higher scores on bullying, substance use and depression than students who also took part in youth development activities.

Source: U.S. News & World Report

Homeword Culture Update

God's Chisel

The Skit Guys, Tommy and Eddie drive the Gospel message home using Ephesians 2:10 in this creatively crafted skit. May the message take root in our your life as you view it with an open mind and heart. May God's Spirit (The Chisel) transform us into the beings He created us to be!

Gospel Journey Maui Promo

We will be offering the Gospel Journey Maui Study as a "Connection" Group Elective for adults at Agape Christian Church in the near future. Stay tuned to the Discipleship Posts on http://www.agapechristianchurch.com. If you have questions about the content or discussion, feel free to talk to any IMPACT Student.

Mobilizing Teenagers to Share the Gospel with Every Teenager They Know

Free Youth Ministry Resources
The Purpose of doing what I do!