What and Where?

We’re getting together on Friday, January 27th, to celebrate the winners from our Thrivemas party!  We’ll be meeting at BJ’s Restaurant from 6:00pm-8:00pm.  We’ll be hanging out, eating food, and building relationships.   EVERYONE is invited!

Price and Registration?

You can estimate $10-15 for a meal at BJ’s depending on what you get.  Even if you don’t want to spend the money on dinner, come anyways and grab a pizzookie for a few bucks and just hand out with us!

A permission form isn’t required, just meet us at BJ’s!  I’ll have plenty of seating reserved, but let me know if you plan on coming.  Call me or shoot me a txt!

Thrivemas 2011 is here!

We wait an entire year, just for another Thrivemas… the good news?  IT’S HERE!  And this year is a mystery.  Here’s what you need to know:

When:  December 14th, 2011 @ 6:30pm – 8:30pm

What to bring:

$5 cash
At least one pair of large, adult socks to donate to the Egan Warming Center.  (They are also in need of gloves!)
And something to eat or drink!

Got questions?  Leave a comment!

UPDATE!

Our event was AWESOME.  And we want to share it with you!  Here is the audio (I know, lame it’s not video, but we’ll have that next time!) of Dr. Cyndi Romine’s talk, as well as the audio for the worship session led by students from Christ Center and Willamette Christian Center!

Awaken Justice

This is an event designed for you (middle school and high school students) to learn how to not just protect yourself, but to fight for your friends lives.  To be modern abolitionists, pursuing justice for those who are being oppressed.  Youth from all over Lane County will be gathering together, make sure you are a part of this movement!  An expert in this arena, Dr. Cyndi Romine from CalledToRescue, will be training us, and you don’t want to miss it!

Schedule and Location

This training event is from 6:30pm-8:00pm, with an special showing of the Baht Documentary from 8:15-9:00pm.  Doors open at 6:15pm.

Santa Clara Church (Map It!)
175 Santa Clara Ave.
Eugene, OR   97404

Baht

After being trained, you’ll have an opportunity to watch an incredible documentary on sex trafficking in Cambodia called Baht.  It’s an option to allow you to connect with this issue not just locally, but globally.  It a personal look at the life of Sophea, a girl who was deceptively sold into sex trafficking.  This film is not rated, and it is intense.  A simple permission form is required, and you can download it here:  Check out the trailer for the film:

More Info

Have a question or comment?  Drop it below.  This event is hosted by Thrive Youth Ministry, and you can contact Luke McFadden for more info as well:  Office # -> 541.689.2127

Youth Leader Info:

Here is a ZIP file that contains the video, 11×17″ poster, and postcard sized info-cards with the permission form on the back.  Please help to spread the word in Eugene/Springfield about this issue.  Hang up the posters in your youth rooms, at school, and starbucks!  Print up the info cards and have your youth pass them out to their friends.  Feel free to use this video to promote this event, but if you are going to share it socially, please use this link:  http://vimeo.com/31551993  so we can track it’s effectiveness.

I’m incredibly excited to have Lesley from Rapha House with us next week (10/26).  Can’t wait to hear heart for healing, and her stories from Cambodia.

UPDATE.  This trip has been “postponed”, which is a nice way of saying cancelled with the intent to try again at a later date.

We had our first brief meeting this past Sunday.  I wanted to get all of the information online for those who weren’t able to attend.  Comment with questions.

Cambodia Mission Trip Important Dates and Information

All dates are approximate, as our date of departure and return will be set when the plane tickets are purchased (6 months out).

Mission Trip Dates.  August 12th – 24th.  Application Deadline:  December 1st.

Cost:  $2600 (subject to airfare price fluctuation)

Payment Deadlines

December 1st - $200 Deposit

May 4th – $1300 total due (included deposit)

July 6th – $2600 total due (include deposit and previous payments)

Additional Costs

Passport and immunizations.  Tetanus/Diptheria is required.  CDC recommends Hep A, Hep B, Typhoid and MMR.  It is also recommended to discuss your trip with your physician, asking about prescriptions for traveler’s diarrhea and malaria.  The passport process can take up to 6 months, and paying for a rush passport is expensive.  I would apply for your passport no later that February 1st.

Travel Insurance is not provided with the cost of the trip.  I’m planning on providing that, in addition to the transportation costs to LAX.

Trip Meetings

There will be several mandatory training and information meetings, these will be put on the calendar once everyone has signed up, and I’ve had a chance to see what day/time works  best for everyone.

Rapha Movie Nights

November 6th – Movie and Prayer Night

January 22nd - Movie and Prayer Night

May 6th – Movie and Prayer Night

Fundraising

Fundraising will be one of the most important aspects of this trip, outside of personal preparation through prayer.  With the current budget situation of the church, I’m unable to estimate how much we’ll be able to contribute towards the cost of the trip at this time.  I’m discussing with the Elders what some options for fundraising within the church can be, but a majority of the funding will need to come from outside of the church.

The church will have an account for each person going on the trip, and so all donations can be given and made out to the church.  The church will send the amount due at the appropriate time.

We’ll be hanging out from 6-9pm, we’ll be watching an AWESOME movie, and playing AWESOME games.

This weeks movie will be picked by the youth (with my approval), I’ll post what we choose on Facebook. Our game was is brand new, and created by the youth! Come to learn about a game where no faces are smashed.

Parents: I research each movie I show, and I won’t show a movie that I think is beyond the level of the youth present without your permission. For example, our Baht Documentary required a permission form for anyone under 18. I try to pick and allow movies that will foster conversation and critical thinking. I check several review sites, one of which is: http://www.commonsensemedia.org/

City Wide Youth Worship and Prayer Night

This is going to be awesome.  You don’t want to miss it!  School is almost here, and this is an awesome opportunity to get together with other churches in the area on top of the Butte to worship and pray for our schools this year.

We are leaving from the church at 6:30pm, so be there by 6:15pm unless you want to be left behind!  We’ll be back around 9-9:30pm.

If you want to go, LET ME KNOW, as space is limited.  You’ll need a permission form.

Tamolitch Pool.  Water Falls.  Hiking.  Awesome.  We’re headed up the McKensie River to do some hiking!

We are leaving from the church at 9:00am, and returning around 4:00pm.

Cost is $8 to cover gas.  BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH!

A permission form is REQUIRED.  The Permission Form references the 2011 Medical Information and Treatment Form, which needs to be filled out once per year, so make sure to fill one out if you haven’t yet.

The hike to Tamolitch is 4.2 miles round trip, and only has 200′ of elevation gain, so it’s a great, easy hike.  The water in Tamolitch Pool is WICKED cold, around 35F, so people can swim in it, but not for very long!

What?

9:00am       Leave from the church office
10:00am     Hike around Sahalie Falls
11:30pm      Hike to Tamolitch Pool
12:00pm     Lunch! and Hang out.
2:30pm        Hike back to Van
3:00pm        Head Home
4:00pm        Return to Church Office

Who can come?

Space is limited, I’ll take the first 18 youth who let me know they are going.  Call, email, facebook, or text me!

What to Bring

Water bottle
Sunscreen
$8 for gas
Appropriate clothing
Beef Jerky for Luke.