If you weren’t able to make it, please download the Orientation Handout so that you can be aware of what we covered and how you can get involved.

Thank you,

– Jesse P.

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AGENDA:

1. Worship
2. Discipleship Groups
3. Music Leadership and Training
4. Mentoring for Single Moms
5. Bible Memory Club
6. Parent Leadership Group
7. Student Council
8. Mission:X

Don’t miss it. RSVP here.

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We are looking for 6 or 7 high school students interested in accepting this leadership and service challenge by being part of the Student Council, and providing leadership for various Deluge activities throughout the year. If you are interested in being part of this group, please talk to your parents and then fill out a questionnaire we have prepared to help us assemble this group. You can download the questionnaire here.

A great need of any generation is men and women who will rise up to the challenge of leadership and allow God to use them to make a difference in the lives of others. High school is a time when God often begins to form the character in us and provide learning experiences that will prepare us for the challenges and fruitfulness he has for us in the future. Serving on the Student Council will be a context in which this leadership development can occur.

If you are interested in serving in this way, please fill out the questionnaire and turn it into me or Lisa on Sunday, or at Deluge later this month. Thanks!

– Jesse P.

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We’ve done this once before, and we’re doing it again this weekend. The difference is we’re adding a Deluge prayer meeting before Deluge. I’m inviting all of Deluge to come and join us at 6pm Saturday to pray for our church, the young adults in our church, and of course the Deluge meeting that night. I’ve also invited people in the church who are in the prayer chain to come out to Deluge as well.

For more information you can go to the I Am Metro Life Church website and join our facebook group and join the prayer chain. Then come out at 6pm on Saturday to pray for Deluge. We’ll go from there to our regular Deluge meeting at 7pm.

Weekend Overview

• Prayer Chain, 8am Saturday to 8am Sunday: Pray for one hour. Go to our Facebook page, find the 24 logo, RSVP and write on the event wall which hour you’re praying for.
• Prayer meeting before Deluge, 6pm Saturday: Regardless of when you’re praying, come out and join our Deluge prayer meeting Saturday night. Then our normal Deluge will meet at 7pm.
• Prayer meeting before Sunday Celebration, 9am Sunday: The prayer chain will conclude with us gathering at 9am Sunday morning to pray together before the Sunday meeting.

Thanks for praying. I’ll see you this weekend.

– Jesse Phillips

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Youth Ministry Orientation Night

Have you been part of Deluge or Metro Youth in the past? Maybe you’re entering 6th or 9th grade. Perhaps you’re already in middle or high school and haven’t jumped into Metro Youth or Deluge yet. We’re planning an orientation to kick off the 2010-2011 school year. We’ll have a time of worship, announcement of things that are coming up this year, and then you’ll get to meet with the folks in your grade for your first discipleship group of the new year. It all starts at 7:30, Wednesday August 25th.

Please know that even though we’ll be welcoming the incoming 6th and 9th graders, that’s only part of what we’re doing, so this meeting is intended for all middle school and high school students and parents. It’s also a great opportunity to invite people who have not participated in Deluge or Metro Youth to learn what we’re all about.

If you have any questions, please click reply and send them to me. Thanks!

– Jesse P.

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This poem by Kevin Hartnett, taken from Josh Harris’ website, was too good to pass up. Please read it and allow your heart to be affected by the suffering of Jesus Christ on account of our sin. Enjoy this wonderful Easter weekend.

- Jesse Phillips

How awesome is that day to me-
O day of hallowed history!
Set time in God’s determined plan
To sacrifice the Son of Man.
What famous work that day was done
By Jesus Christ, His Perfect Son!
The Second Adam, sent to save,
Humbly obeying to the grave!

How savage is that day to me-
O day of pure brutality!
When Christ, the Son of God Most High,
Was fiercely whipped and hung to die.
And O the horror of my sin,
Seen there in His appalling skin!
For God struck down- as meant for me-
The sinless One, at Calvary.

How precious is that day to me-
O day of purchased liberty!
In Him, a freeman now I live;
My sins, through death, did God forgive.
No wrath at length looms o’er my head,
But lovingkindness there instead.
His righteousness, my guilt replaced,
And Love, this ransomed soul embraced!

O awesome, savage, precious day-
‘Tis God the Savior on display!
What peerless, holy, gracious Mind
Would fashion such a Grand Design?

By Kevin Hartnett, September 2001

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Let me get this straight. Paul is admitting that if something that never happens (i.e. people randomly being raised from the dead) didn’t happen just this once (Jesus Christ not-so-randomly being raised), then we can chuck this whole Christianity thing out the window with the rest of the world’s false religions.

If you put it that way, it kind of makes what we’re celebrating this Sunday fairly important. And don’t worry. Christ was raised from the dead, so we have nothing to worry about.

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