Tuesday, October 7, 2008

T-Shirt Sale Extended

CREW T-SHIRTS ARE STILL FOR SALE!! We have extended the deadline due to the Hurricanes, but please place your order asap. Shirts are $9, and will have your name on the shirt. Fill out and turn in your order form today!

Check Back Tomorrow for Pictures!

I have a few pictures that I am putting together from this past month. Check back tomorrow for those updates!

October Birthdays

Oct. 1: Chase Williams
Oct. 31st: Justin Ebarb

Happy Birthday guys.

Jennings Main Street Candy Walk

The CREW Youth Ministries will be helping participate in the Jennings Main Street Candy Walk again this year. If you would like to help us on 10.29.08, please let Student Pastor Nate know, and make arrangements to be there. We will be dressing in 'Hillbilly' costumes, so come out, do some outreach and have some fun.

Chicot State Park Camping Trip

We will, once again, be joining XLR8 Youth Ministries from Landmark UPC in Lafayette, on their annual camping trip to Chicot State Park. Price will be $20 a person for Friday night and Saturday, while $10 for just Saturday. We will be leaving Friday 10.24.08 and returning home Saturday 10.25.08. See Student Pastor Nate for more information and to sign up if you want to go.

Boys Paintball 10.17.08 through 10.18.08

Boy's paintball camp out will be Friday 10.17 through Saturday 10.18. We will have RSVP handouts this weekend for everyone to sign up. So break out your paintball stuff, get it cleaned up, guns working, and lets go have a great camp out, CREW style!

Newsletters are out! If you haven't been around to get one, make sure to send me an email, text, call, something and I'll make sure that I get you one right away. They are also avalible in the foyer of the church.

The Mask

Halloween is one of the most celebrated holidays that we have here in America. Why is that though? Do people even know what they are celebrating? Who’s getting the glory from this ‘holiday’?
I think one of the reasons its so ‘celebrated’ is because people love to play dress up. Remember that as a kid? Sure you do. Boys you probably wore high heals and played dress up, while we know the girls loved to be a ‘princess’ even if just for a few moments. Something happens when the mask goes on. You can hid from reality and be who you really are inside.
With God the mask have to come off. So many times we go through things that we don’t
understand and that hurt; mainly because God wants us broken and ply-able in his hands. Take off the mask and enjoy Gods presence in your life. He will help you become the person you want to be.

New Youth Schedule

Sometimes things just have to be changed up a bit, it brings a freshness to the group. So we are going to do just that by changing up our schedule. Our youth services have been rocking and cells are a little down, so starting after our social this month we will be moving to 3 youth services per month (first 3 Mondays of each month) and one cell to review what we have discussed the whole month at the end of each month. Hope you guys enjoy the change. We have a ton of more things that we will be adding such as food for sale, videos, and much much more!

The Masquerade Ball

The masquerade ball started where all your little rich blue bloods could go and just go crazy. They could just do anything that came to there mind and not have to be held responsible or
disgrace the family name. They had no identity.
So many times in our lives we try to go through life with a mask on, trying to fit in with different crowd and different people. In all reality those we are trying to be like are trying to be someone else.
So who are we really trying to be or act like. I can tell you one thing if you look to Christ and try and imitate him, you can never go wrong. He is never looking at anyone else and he is always true to what he says. The bible says he will never leave us or forsake us. That means no matter what, he is right there. Now how many of our friends will do that?

~Brandon Pugh




October '08 - Fall is here!

This is one of my favorite times of the whole year. Things start to cool off, weather is GREAT, festivals are here...and FOOTBALL! Any who, back on track, fall is such a wonderful time and with the Holidays quickly approaching it allows for times of reflection. Life is short– ENJOY it and live with no regrets, for God & yourself!
He’s Never Going to Stop Doing Good To You! Jer. 32:40

CREW Youth Ministries is now TWITTERING! Sign up TODAY!

That's right, the CREW Youth Ministries are now part of the rising fad of 'twittering'.
Some of you may have just said "what he say?", much like I did when I first heard of twittering. Twittering is a fairly new term for a new type of blogging that is taking place on the internet, this isn't just your run of the meal blogging though. What makes this blogging special is the fact that It is done through the internet or your phone with a text message. The reason that the CREW has a twitter account is because our young people, guest, and even parents can sign up for this account, become a 'follower', enter your cell phone number and receive text messages every time we update this blog. We will start using this as one of our main ways to stay in touch with CREW members with updates such as service times, cancellations, up coming events, ect.
Our twitter account is: http://twitter.com/JWCJennings
You must sign up for your own twitter account to become a follower if our twitter account. It takes less than 5 mins and can be done here: http://twitter.com
Sign up today as we use this new technology to make it easier to stay in touch with your youth group!
~Nate
Connect-Equip-Lead-Give Opportunity