MT08 Prayer Team

On behalf of the MT08 team I would like to thank everyone who partnered with us and committed to pray for a student. We need to constantly be reminded that our success is rooted not in our own strength but in the one who created us. Phil 4:13 says it like this: "For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength."

-Todd

MT08 Team Cleaning Frosty!

Frosty needed a face lift, so the Mission Trip Team came to the rescue. We all met at the Campi's house at 10am. Frosty was disgusting on the inside and out. Ryan suggested that we start on the inside because it was so hot. While Todd and us (Caroline and Lauren #1) were on our hands and knees scrubbing the inside, Dan C and Ryan were in the hot sun washing the outside. The nastiest thing found was the melted ice cream sandwich stuck to the floor. Finally we finished and were able to cool off and have a drink. Thanks Lifepointe for your financial support of our trip. Check out the pictures posted! 

- Caroline and Lauren #1

           

MT08 Update - 11 Days Left

I had a great time with you guys on Sunday. I hope that you got the importance of our spiritual preparation for our trip and want to encourage you to spend some time with God in the coming days. 

Here is a small quiet time that you can go through if you need something to jump start you.

1. Make sure you can dedicate about 10 minutes to this before you start. If you need to wait a little bit to come back to it, thats ok.

2. Check out this video. Watch the entire thing. Click HERE.

3. This is a verse that is often over used but how about reading it again and thinking about what kind of relationship that God offers you in light of the video. Click HERE to see the verse.

4. Re-read it again or use another translation and meditate for a few minutes on what it is saying. Spend time listening to God.

5. Thank God for the free gift He offers you. Pray for God to work in your heart to remove anything that is keeping Him from you. Pray that God will work through this trip and put Himself at the the center of your life.

6. Email me and let me know if this moved you.

Now lets talk about the physical preparation. I need 2 groups to help prepare for our trip.

1. On Friday at 10:00 lets meet at the Campi's to wash Frosty as a thank you to the church for donating money from the church mission fund to help offset our trip.

2. Next Tuesday at noon we will meet for lunch and then go shopping for the trip.

Let me know where you can help. 

-Todd

MT08 Training Day

We had a great time on Sunday night getting ready for the trip. There was a time of spiritual preparation in which we discussed a few verses (Mt 20:26-28, Mt 22:36-40 & Rom 5:8) as well as prayed in small groups for specific items of the trip. We also got into the details of the trip and discussed the itinerary including the worship services and street missions. Sommer led us through the VBS materials and we broke into teams to practice skits and iron out the details. 

Our post meeting plan to have ice cream at Goodberrys was thwarted by a late evening thunderstorm so we scooted on over to Bojangles instead. Thanks to everyone who took time out of their evening to join us and to Sommer for all her hard work with the VBS curriculum.

-Todd

Welcome

Thanks for stopping by the new blog for the Lifepointe Youth. I set this up to help those who are not going on the mission trip to stay in touch with those that are going. Keep your eye on it over the next few weeks and we will keep you up to date on what we are doing. - Todd