Don’t miss VOTA, Superchick, and Barlow Girl in concert Friday night 7pm@ the YMCA arena! Tickets are $15 online in advance, $20 @ the door. Click here for more details & to order tickets.
This is the final week to bring in items for our Christmas bags we’re sending to orphanages in Peru & Ecuador. We’re partnering with ChildReach Ministries this month to help gather items so that hundreds of orphans will get Christmas packages this year. Bring your gifts to FUSE* on Wednesday or to church on Sunday, our final day of collection. Here’s what we still need:
Hot Wheels cars
small toy balls (bouncy balls)
hair accessories
small Beanie Babies
toothbrushes
travel size toothpaste
Dear parents,
One of the biggest challenges for teenagers is developing a healthy self-identity. This week, using the life of King David, our small groups start a two-week series that challenges our teenagers to develop IDENTITY based on God’s standards, not culture’s standards.
Our culture says we should identify ourselves by our physical, intellectual, and social abilities. But God is more concerned with our inner being-our hearts. Abilities and skills and talents matter, of course, but Christians can cultivate lives of character, and identities that reflect God’s heart.
This week, find time to talk with your teenager about his/her identity. Here are some possible questions you could use:
- How do you define “inner beauty” or “inner strength”?
- What do you think it means to be a person “after God’s own heart”?
- What plans do you believe God has for your life?
Read Psalm 139:13-16 together. Talk about your own experiences in discovering God’s plan and purposes for your life. Emphasize how you appreciate all of your teenager’s gifts and talents and skills, but ultimately what matters is the condition of their heart.
Thanks for your love for your teenager. Have a blessed week!
