Silly Bandz

Last week I got my first 2 Silly Bandz!

I really don't understand what students love about Silly Bandz. They are just silly, and are rubber bands.

Any ways, I went out and bought a 5 packs to give away at H2O last week, and I still have 3 packs left.

Silly Bandz Give Away!

Wednesday, July 21 2010, I will be giving away 2 packages of Silly Bandz.

1. to the winner of the game.
2. and one to the person who brings the most friends.

Be at H2O this Wednesday for your chance to win some silly bands, and to meet some awesome students!

See you there!!!

H2O Student Update!!!

Last night at H2O we had an awesome night…

We covered our second part of our six part series on Campus Missionaries… LIVE.
There were 3 Students who accepted Jesus as their Lord God and Savior, and all 16 students committed themselves to LIVE their Lives to set the example and to please God.

Announcements:

1. Kids Summer Block Party this Saturday Meet at the Church at 9am sharp
2. The Pen Florida District Youth Director, Al Force, has challenged H2O to give $1000 dollars to Speed the Light (STL) this year. With our first ever STL offering we took last month we raised an amazing $61.72. That is 6.2% of our goal. Our Speed The Light offering will be in 2 weeks (July 28th). Each student is challenged to bring $5 or more to help reach the Goal of $1000!
3. H2O student Ministries is in the RED!!! This is bad, very bad. We owe Sunset Chapel $381.40. This money was used to get Sunday School Curriculum, Prizes, Food, helping students get to camp and other events, along with other supplies for H2O. If you can help out, so we can pay the church back that would be great. PARENTS: All donations are Tax Deductible :D. This is why it is so important for you to give in the offering each week. The more money we have in the H2O fund, the more we can go and do Bigger, Better, and Funner things.
4. Musicians: If you or someone you know plays and instrument, and would be interested in playing in the youth band please contact Pastor Adam.

SHOUT OUTS!!!

MAX-

Thanks for visiting us last night. It was nice to meet you, and we hope that you will come back next week.

ANDREW-

Get Well Soon!!! We missed you this week.

ALISSA, RAQUEL, & MRS. NEYDA-

Thank you for bringing the food this week! From what I understand it was good. While I was talking to a parent the students ate all of it, so i didn't get any. Oh well… maybe next time. Thanks!!!

Campus Missionaries! LIVE

Last night we covered the 2nd part of our 6 part series on Campus Missions. There are 5 things that every Christian must do, and those 5 things lead us to become Campus Missionaries. Those 5 things are to Pray Live Serve Tell and Give. Last night we talked about LIVE… we all need to LIVE our lives to please God and to set the example for those around us.

Last week we talked about how we need to have a TAG time (Time Alone with God) where we pray to God and read His word. But, spending time alone with God praying and reading the Bible isn’t good enough. Don’t get me wrong here, Prayer and reading the Bible are awesome and very important things to do. But, we have to put what we learn from our TAG time into practice… we must LIVE!

If we have true faith in Jesus then we are obligated to take action in and with our own lives. We must LIVE our lives as an example. Every aspect of our lives should set the example: our speech, our life, our love, our faith, and our purity are all part of the way we live. We should LIVE our lives to set the example to everyone we come in contact with, and we must LIVE our lives to please God.

1Timothy 4:12
“Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.”

Paul assigned Timothy to be a minister to the Church of the Ephesians. 1 Timothy was a letter written to Timothy to encourage him and to give him some instructions on how to minister to the Ephesians.

While encouraging Timothy, Paul stressed how important it was for Timothy to LIVE a life pleaseing to God, reguardless of how old he was. Paul knew that people were looking at Timothy as an example on how to LIVE even though he was very young compaired to Paul and the people of the Ephesian church.

There are 5 areas of our lives that Paul mentions here. They are Speech, Life, Love, Faith, and Purity. These can be divided up into 2 Groups: outwardly observable public traits and inner non-observable traits.

Group 1, the outwardly observable public traits consists of speech and life.

• Speech is our verbal expression or the way we say things.

Colossians 3:8
“…rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.”

• Life is our behavior in general. we must live our lives in a way that is pleaseing to God.

Colosians 3:12-14
“As God’s chosen people holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Bear with each other and forgive what ever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all theses virtues put on love, wich binds them all together in perfect unity.”

Group 2 are the inner non-observable traits. This consists of Love, Faith, and Purity.

• Love is talking about a love for both God and Others.

Matt 22:37-39
“Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

• Faith. Paul wasn’t talking about right or wrong beliefs, but instead he was talking about an attitude of faithfullness or trustworthiness.

Luke 16:10
“Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.”

• Purity is talking about both sexual purity and integrity of the heart.

Colossians 3:5
“Put to death, therefore, what ever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed which is idolatry.

Titus 2:7-8
“In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned; so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.”

There is no reason or excuse for you not setting an example of the way you LIVE your life. Not even your age.

We are all like Timothy, because people are watching us. Think about who could be watching you… Your parents, your brothers and sisters, your grandparents, your friends, your teammates, your teachers, your school mates, and even people that consider you an enemy. Now, through social networking, people are watching you that you have never met in your life.

You are being watched wheather you want to be or not. The people that are watching you are dicecting every little thing about your life. The way you talk, the way you act, the way you respond to things, your devotion to God, whether or not you LIVE the life in public the same as when your by yourself, and everything you say or comment about on Facebook or what ever social networking site you use. You are being watched!

That is why it is so important that you LIVE your life to set and example, and LIVE to please God.

Statistics say that the average (does not include celebrities, politicians, or pastors) person will influence over 10,000 people in their life time. Because of your influence on people, you must LIVE your life as an example. You must do what Luke 9:23 says and pick up your cross everyday to follow Jesus. When you LIVE your life as an example you will show people what Jesus is truly like. You won't be like the Hypocritical Christians that go to church on Sundays and act all holy then their lives like the devil the rest of the week doing stuff they should not be doing.

By LIVING a life pleasing to God, and not conforming to this word, you will have a huge influence on people around you. You will have hope, joy, and love in your life nomatter how tough life gets, and people around you will see that.


As Christians, we are to strive to become more and more like Jesus everyday through the way we LIVE. The way we LIVE our lives, our character, our speech, and our behavior must come from the time we spend with God everyday. When we LIVE our lives to please God we will be different from those around us. We will have an influence on people around us. People will see that we are different, and will ask us about what makes us so different.

We must LIVE our Lives as an example, and to please God!

Campus Missionaries! PRAY

Last night we started our six week series talking about being Campus Missionaries.
In order to be a Campus Missionary there are 5 characteristics that we need to have in our lives. These 5 Characteristics are to Pray Live Serve Tell Give.

Colossians 4:2-6
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.  And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.  Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should.  Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity.  Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Paul wrote this letter to refute false teachings that threatened the Colossian Church. He also wrote it to encourage them to stay focused on Jesus through some practical instructions. Paul wanted the Colossians to have a strong passion for prayer, because he wanted them to be alert to spiritual war fair, and to what God was doing around them. He wanted them to pray for both themselves, and for others so that the Gospel of Jesus would be spread all over the world.

These verses also apply to us today…

Verse 2 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thanful.

We need to have a strong passion and determination for prayer and the word of God. We need to be spiritualy awake and alert. We must be alert to the things that will distract us from prayer and reading the bible, be alert to what God is doing in and around us, and be alert to what Satan is doing.

Verse 3 And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ… 

God may open doors. God doesn’t want us to sit and wait until he gives us a shign before we serve him. Instead we should pray that God opens doors of opportunities for us and help us see those open doors so we can go through them.

Verse 4 and 5 Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should. Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most out of every opportunity.

We should pray for the boldness to step through the doors, trusting that God will help us make the most our of every opportunity, and accomplish all that He indends for us to do.
 
Verse 6 Let your conversations be always full of Grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Our speach should be worthy of being identified with Jesus. It should be an example for everyone that hears it and should always speak the truth in Love. It should give people a thirst and an appetite for God.

We must all devote ourselves to prayer and reading Gods word.

When you do what Paul says you need to do, and truly devote yourself to prayer and reading God’s word your life will change.

You will grow closer to God and will feel his presents in your life, Combat the things that distract you, you will find God’s direction for your life, the effectiveness of your life, service, and witness for God will be much greater.

When you devote yourself to praying for other people you will see lives changed. People will come to know Jesus as their Lord God and Savior, you’ll see people healed from all kinds of sicknesses, you’ll see families brought back together, and you’ll see doors and opportunities open up for them.

When you pray for Gods will in your life, God will open doors you never knew existed, people will start seeing that there is something different about you that they want, and you’ll beable to talk to people about Jesus and what he has done for you.

When you devote your life to prayer and reading God’s word you’ll see mountains move and seas parted.

Everyday we need to have our own personal TAG (Time Alone with God). We need to pray and read our Bibles. When you do I promise you that it will change your life. There may not be an immediate change, but over time, when you look back to see where you have come from and notice everything that changed as a result of your devotion to prayer and reading God’s word.

If we truly devote our selves to prayer then we will be in tune to what God’s plan and desires are for us. Through Prayer God will prepare us to serve His plan for our lives, and will help us to communicate the Gospel. As you spend more time with God, your faith will grow. The Holy Spirit will help you to step out boldly in faith to share the Gospel with your friends, family, and co-workers.

Not only does prayer help prepare us, it also prepares people to receive Jesus as their Savior. It is not our presentation of the Gospel that brings people, it is the Holy Spirit who works in response to our prayers. It is through the Holy Spirit that shows people the truth and turn their hearts to God. When God’s people pray, the path will be made for people to find and receive the one true King, the Savior of all man kind... Jesus.

Kids Summer Outreaches

This Summer we have an Awesome opportunity to reach out to the kids of Miami. H2O and Kids Inc are partnering together to impact and change the lives of people in their own communities by reaching out to their kids.

We are throwing 6 block parties this summer (June 26, July 10,17, 24, 31, and August 7), and we need your help. We need people to run the Cotton Candy, Snow Cone, and Popcorn machines, we need people to do face painting and balloon animals, we need people to go door to door to invite people and hand out fliers, and we need people to help set up and tear down.

During this block party we are inviting people to come and check out Sunset Chapel. Every kid that comes to Kids Inc on Sunday mornings will have an extra ticket placed in the drawing for a Nintendo Wii & the Sports resort package.

If you would like to participate in this Awesome opportunity or have any questions then please call the church office at 305.271.4094 and let us know.

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!