VALUE......DO I HAVE ANY?

The topic this week was all about treasures and value. What treasure? What value? Do I have any of either? Where do I get it?

This all came together with the Parable of the Treasure and the Pearl. It seems that when we read over these parables, we assume that the treasure is Jesus and we can sell everything we have to purchase the treasure. Sweet! or......NOT! That is not the theme of the new covenant at all. Instead, trying looking at this with Jesus' eyes and wisdom and maybe we will see that WE are the treasure. WE have value to Jesus....so much so that He gave up everything HE had to come down here and purchase us with His blood. Pretty cool, huh!!!!

On the flip side, we also looked at the value of camp and the treasure we need to find to purchase that. So.....a car wash is in the planning. And so is a dinner and Karaoke night of some sort. The Planning Committee will meet Tuesday at 5:45....come on over if you want to help plan. AND THEN.....Ground Zero is going to be at Etowah High School this Tuesday to watch our fellow "GROUNDERS' perform in a concert. I hope everyone can come. If you are not in the planning meeting, just meet us at the Etowah Auditorium at 6:45.

Have a great week!

A FUND RAISING BRAIN STORM!

As camp approaches, we are looking for new ways to raise some money for those who need it. Lots of ideas flew by and are on the plate. One of our favorites is the "Recliner Revolution" in which we raffle off the opportunity to spend your Sunday morning at church in a recliner or sofa instead of the hard unforgiving chairs that are now there.

Many other ideas have come up, and we are selling note pad/stationary which are always a great thing to have...so sell on! The car wash idea is still out there....we could do it now, but because of water restrictions, we would have to finish by 10:00 a.m. Now that kind of puts a "drip" on a car wash. We will watch and wait for a better opportunity...it may even be after camp.
I will be making a list of the other ideas and seeing which one everyone is willing to do.

After we finished with money (do you ever finish with that?) we also discussed a possible Asylum for this summer. Anyone who is interested in that, please talk to Ms. Tracy or Sam and let us know....if you need more info on that, we can help you with that as well.

We then did an activity describing our relationship with God in conjunction with a candy bar. Each teen was given some type of candy (sweetarts, 100,000 bar, etc) and then shared how that candy can somehow describe how they think of God, or God them. It was a great thing and lots of fun!

Brochures for camp are going out this week, and we will need to know definitely who will be going...and don't forget the T-SHIRT competition. Send in your entry by May 26th in order to be chosen the official "T-shirt for camp".

In addition to our prayer request time, I have been specifically praying for some of you and will be watching to see if God has impacted your world a little more lately! As always, WATCH FOR GOD in your world.....let us know what you see!