No Church Services Tomorrow Due to Snow!

Due to the snow fall in Huntersville which is expected anywhere from 4-6 inches till tomorrow, all church services have been cancelled at First Baptist Church, Huntersville. Enjoy the snow and find ways to worship God for the birth of the Savior from your home. Merry Christmas!!

Form for Ugly Sweater Christmas Party

If you are needing a form for this Christmas party for Saturday, you can go to the church website (www.fbc-h.org) and under the tab GET CONNECTED open the YOUTH link, then FORM, and print out the general permission agreement and add this information:

...to accompany Youth Group of First Baptist Church, Huntersville
on a trip to The Green Uptown in Charlotte/Ugly Sweater Christmas Party
on Saturday, December 18th leave at 4:15 pm & ending at 9:00 pm...

Bring the form, $10 for skating, a wrapped white elephant gift and a mission offering for yourself and for each guest you bring and be at the church at 4:00pm sharp. You are then "Ret-to-Go"!

Help Needed with Youth Christmas Party

Parents, we need your help with food, snacks, chaperoning & transportation for the Ugly Sweater Christmas Party coming up next Saturday, December 18 for our students. It will run from 4-9pm. Please call Lisa Orr at 704-947-9567 if you are able to help with food & snacks. Call Marcus at 704-875-6581 if able to help with chaperoning &/or transportation to & from Charlotte as they go ice skating. Thanks!!

Youth Christmas Caroling - Dec. 11

This Saturday is our day for youth caroling and Christmas in Huntersville from 4:30-5:45pm. All youth are welcome whether musical or not. The schedule looks like this:
4:15 – meet in the church parking lot (get parents to sign permission slips/form on website)
4:30 – leave for caroling (nursing homes & shut-ins' homes)
5:45 – arrive back at church parking lot to enjoy “Christmas in Huntersville” downtown & supporting youth choir singing there at 6:15 pm.

Ugly Sweater Christmas Party/Ice Skating Fun - Dec 18

Hope you have your ugly sweater ready...cause the youth Christmas party is almost here! It is next Saturday, Dec. 18th from 4-9pm starting and ending at FBC-H. We will leave from the church parking lot (bus & personal vehicles) for a time of ice skating in Charlotte (On the Green) and return to the church (the Exchange) by 7:30pm for food, fashion show, crazy games & white elephant gifts. Ugly sweaters should be worn while skating and prizes will be offered throughout.
Lisa Orr will be coordinating our food & snacks for this fellowship so please (parents) contact her at 704-941-8322 to offer your support and dishes. Watch for more details forthcoming such as costs, white elephant gift details & preparation you may want to make for some of the crazy games. Hope to see yah there & remember friends are welcome!!

The Joy of Serving!

On Wednesday nights YOUth are needed to help clean up the dining hall, gym and kitchen by gathering salt & pepper shakers, silverware, chairs & tables, picking up trash and even doing some dishes in the kitchen around 6:00 pm. Let's pitch in and let our church know that youth are worth the investment and get to know some of our awesome senior adults while enjoying the bubbles!

Youth Sitters Needed - Dec 4

On Saturday, December 4, from 4:30-9:30 pm roughly 4 youth and an adult are needed to sit children of the Curtis Sunday School Class. They are having their progressive Christmas party from 5:00-9:00 pm and anticipate 10 children to watch. Donations will be collected & distributed equally to participating youth to go towards their summer camp or retreats. Please contact Marcus at mmims@fbc-h.org by Wednesday, Dec. 1st, if interested.

Thanksgiving Celebration - Wednesday, Nov. 17

Attention all youth & student leadership: On Wednesday, November 17, all students are encourage to come to the Exchange for a special worship celebration from 6:30-7:30pm. Everyone is welcome! Bring an item or talent you would like to offer to God in worship & thanksgiving. It may be a song, an instrumental selection, a skit, a poem or a piece of artwork you have been working on which you would like to share with the group. You may have a testimony of how you've see God at work recently in your life. Whatever it is...bring it Wednesday, November 17 for this informal time of praising our Lord together. At 6:10-6:30pm youth will have a time of mixers, announcements & prayer before the celebration begins. Hope to see yah there!

Wednesday Nights in November

Nov. 3 - Money Talks (HS-Pluer), Fat Boy Chronicles (MS-Marcus)
Nov. 10 - Money Talks (HS-Pluer), Fat Boy Chronicles (MS-Marcus)
Nov. 17 - Celebration (HS & MS-Exchange)
Nov. 24 - Thankgiving Break - No Reg. Activities

Friday NIte Lights! Tailgate, Bonfire & More

Youth of First Baptist Church, Huntersville will join Independence Hill Baptist youth for a Tailgate Fellowship this Friday night from 5-6:30pm before heading to various high school football games. There will be free food, prizes, a DJ & time to just hangout with friends. Everyone will then head to their various football games only to return at 10pm at IHBC for a bonfire fellowship with smores, games and more hangout time. Friends are welcome & encouraged!

Church transportation will pull out of our church parking lot at 4:45pm Friday to go to IHBC and return to FBCH by 12am following the bonfire fellowship. All youth riding the bus must have a general permission form (from our church website) to board the bus.

Parents - please designate on the form if you are picking them up early from the game or IHBC!
If older youth drive separate to the tailgate & bonfire, they cannot carry other youth with them that came from the church and are not FBCH's responsibility.

Remember to dress WARMLY! Bring some money to enter the football games (if it cost for students), snack money while at the football game and money for additional chances to win in various drawings if desired. First entries are free!

ADULTS, CAN YOU HELP ME WITH THIS?
1 - GRILL to add to our Tailgate Cooking
4 - adult chaperone(s)
6 - side dishes for hotdog/hamburger meal (ie. baked beans, pasta salad,slaw, etc)
2 - cornhole boards with bags
lots of can sodas

Contact Marcus at www.mmims@fbc-h.org for more information.

The Blast Retreat was a BLAST!!

Here are some pictures from our Blast Retreat this past weekend. Enjoy! Campers, don't forget what God showed you on this retreat about the relationships you have and the relationship(s) you need to have. Keep investing in your relationship with God (Keeping It Real) and you will indeed be a SURVIVOR-N-CHRIST!

Marcus would like copies of everyone's camp pictures. Please bring him a disk or thumb drive with copies of your Blast photos. Thank!

Fall Festival/Trunk-or-Treat this Wednesday!!

Attentional All Youth & Parents of Youth!
The YOUTH have been put in charge of this year's Fall Festival games that occurs tomorrow evening from 6-7:30 pm. Here are list of games they have decided to lead for the children. Please make sure that you are assigned to one of these activities and come prepared to lead it with enthusiasm. Our children and their parents are depending on YOU!
1) Face Painting
2) Bonfire with Smores - 12th graders
3) Treasure Hunt in the Hey
4) Fishing Game
5) Treat Walk
6) Corn Hole (Bean Bag Toss)
7) Possibly (Caricatures)
Email Marcus at mmims@fbc-h.org to get on the leadership list as soon as possible. Also, we still need lots of cars for Trunk-or-Treat. Remember to contact Beth Warner at 704-948-4107 & register your car (youth and adults)! Bring candies that are safe for children & remember it is a Scare-Free zone! Thanks and see yah tomorrow night!!

Live Auction for World Hunger this Sunday!!

Support FBC's efforts to reduce World Hunger by coming to the Live Auction this Sunday, October 17th from 5-8pm in the FBC Huntersville gym. The office is filling up with some really cool items for this auction. Bring your wallets, friends & their wallets & let's have a fun Sunday afternoon together. (50% of all W.H. proceeds go to Haiti, 25% Loaves & Fishes, 25% Angels & Sparrows)

Sunday's Schedule (10/17/10)
9:00am - morning worship service (sanctuary)
10:15am - sunday morning celebration (exchange)
10:35am - youth sunday school (classrooms)
12:00pm - youth council meeting (the cookout)
3:00pm - handbell 1 (s201)/drama (ed 204)/praise dance (ed 201)
4:00pm - youth choir-o.v.c. (sanctuary)
5:00pm - w.h. live auction (gym)

What Youth Camp/Mission Trip Will We Do Summer of 2011?

I want your voice to be heard! It's time to give your input on what youth camp/mission trip you think we should do this coming summer. Our youth council and I felt we needed to combine our summer youth camp experience (Caswell) with our summer mission trip this summer to help ease the budgets of families this year. This summer's options based on our church calendar are listed below. Please email your choices and rational behind your choices to mmims@fbc-h.org. This will help inform our decision. Thanks!

M-fuge: $280-$300; 600-1000 youth present; locations are Greenville, SC on July 18-23 & July 25-30 (or) Charleston, SC on July 18-23

World Changers: $260-$270; 200-250 youth present; locations are Sugar Hill, Ga on July 25-30 (or) Tabor City, NC on July 25-30

Passport Choices: $330-340; about 350 youth present; location is Wingate, NC on July 17-22 & July 24-29

Big Stuf: $370-380; about 1500 youth present; location is Panama City Beach, Fl on July 17-21 or July 23-27

Mt. Marketplace Mission: Webster Springs, WV; cost to-be-determined; FBC-H youth only group involved; dates would be similar to those offered above.

ALL of these choices are great opportunities for our youth to experience this summer. You have till Oct. 15 to respond so your voice is heard. Hope to hear from you-th & parents soon!

World Hunger Day was Amazing!

Here are some photos from our World Hunger Event (September 25th) on a beautiful day with a loving community rallying around a great cause. Praise be to God!

things to ponder

"Confession is probably the most neglected area in prayer today." --- Bill Hybels

"I've never been closer to God my whole life than when I was in pain!" (This is Craig Groeschel's grandma's response of what she thought about the seventy-two hours she was on the bathroom floor after her stroke till someone found her)

SEE YOU @ THE POLE Prayer Time & Rally!

Prayer Time
On the Wednesday morning of Sept. 22 students all over the nation will gather at their campus flagpoles to offer prayer for their leaders and their schools. To know more go to http://www.syatp.com/ . All youth are encouraged to find out what time youth will be gathering on their campus and join this special prayer time.

RALLY
That same evening our youth will join the youth from Independence Hill Baptist Church for a S.Y.A.T.P. Rally the Exchange from 6:15-7:30 pm. This will be a student led celebration with both music and testimony of how the students are taking a stand for Christ on their campuses. Pizza and drinks will be provided!

BLAST Retreat Information Letter!!

More Pics Wrapping Up August