Student Ministries Blog
Pay It Forward
This is your chance to pay it forward. You've had opportunities to be blessed, and now it is your turn to be the blessing. On Saturday, August 15th, we will have a day of service. You can sign up for any of our 3 different projects listed below:
- Brittany House Convalescent Home-
Leader- Chris Castile
Students will minister to the elderly through crafts, games, music, etc.
Meet at Church at 10:30 am in the East Lot, and return at 12:30pm
- Children's wing of Long Beach Memorial Hospital-
Leader- Erin Lawrence
Students will visit children in the hospital and do a puppet show for them. Note: You must have experience with puppets to do this project.
Meet at church at 8:30am and return at 12:30 pm.
- Dream Center- Food Distribution Outreach
Leader- Paula Reed & Brian Nastase
Students will partner with the Dream Center in L.A. to distribute food to the homeless and the needy in L.A.
Meet at the church at 9am and return at 3pm.
If you would like to sign up for any of these projects, please contact Brian at bnastase@fbcol.org.
SK8 Competition
Beach Break
HSM- Drive-In Movie
HSM Guest Speakers
Megan Fate, AKA "Spirit Girl". Megan graduated from Westmont College in 2006 with a
Bachelor's degree in Communication Studies.
She spent the past 2 summers working as a lead counselor/recreation leader at Hume Lake Christian Camps, where she organized athletic tournaments and day-to-day recreational activities for 1,000 students each week.
Fate is currently working on a Master's degree in organizational leadership at Azusa Pacific. She currently resides in Long Beach.
Craig Hendrickson. Since 2006, Craig has served with CRM as the founder and team leader of Urban Mosaic.
His professional and ministry experience includes six years as a pastor in Long Beach, CA and Vancouver, B.C.; four years as the Singles Minister at Mt. Calvary Christian Center, an African-American church in the inner-city of Seattle, WA; two years as a human relations trainer with the Los Angeles City Fire Department; and eleven years as a player in the Canadian Football League, where he also served as a team chapel leader for nine years and as the National Player Representative with Athletes in Action for four years.
Craig received his MDiv from Regent College, and his ThM in Missiology at the Fuller School of Intercultural Studies. He is currently working on his PhD in Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. Craig and his wife Mary have a daughter named Amaya.
Love, Sex, and Relationship Series
To help me with assessing needs for this series, I have created 2 surveys. These surveys are just for High School students, and I need as many as possible to fill this out to get good info. They are completely anonymous. You will have to enter your email address, but this is just to insure that each person does the survey only once. I will not see any email addresses in my report. Please go to these links to fill out these surveys.
thanks,
Brian Nastase
http://www.polldaddy.com/s/A0F00FA225D5D97A/
http://www.polldaddy.com/s/EE7B8D59E61EEF6B/
10 reasons you should come rock climbing on January 25th.
9. You love Spiderman, and this might be the best time to wear your new Spidey underoos (underneath your clothes of course) that you got for Christmas.
8. You could really use some good exercise after all that Holiday food.
7. You can hang on the wall and practice your monkey noises.
6. You tried climbing at camp once, and thought it was a lot of fun!
5. You've never been climbing before, and always wanted to.
4. You've never been climbing before, because you were afraid of embarrassing yourself, but realize there will be lots of others there embarrassing themselves too.
3. You've got nothing better to do on a Sunday afternoon.
2. Worst case scenario... you aren't good at climbing, but you get to hang out with your friends.
1. You can challenge your friends to races, prove your dominance over members of the opposite sex, or just go to be an encourager.
Brian's top 5 Christmas movies
2. "The Christmas Story"- ("You'll shoot your eye out kid", a classic)
3. "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation"- (There is nothing quite like a Christmas with the Griswolds)
4. "Scrooged"- (I love "A Christmas Carol", and this retelling with a twist is hilarious)
5. "Home Alone"- ("Ahhhh")
Okay, before you yell at me, because I didn't put up some of the other classics like "Miracle on 34th Street", or "It's a Wonderful Life"; I didn't put those on the list because I haven't ever seen them.
Other Honorable mentions- "The Nightmare before Christmas" , "How the Grinch stole Christmas", "The Muppet Christmas Carol", and "A Christmas Carol". They are all great but this is my top 5 list not my top 10.