Samir at the boardwalk in Santa Cruz

2012 California State Youth Conference

Sunday bible class changing locations

The Sunday School class for High School and Middle School which meets across the street from the church will change locations starting this Sunday will now meet in Rorex Hall.

We look forward to seeing you in joining our "Community" this Sunday.

We hope you can make it to the CSYC Southern Cali rally this Sunday...L.O.V.E. from SouthSide LA, Adoration from Riverside and the LA Mass Choir will bless us...as well as the new drama group from Normandie, Light of Life...Don't forget to come early and get your Fatburger from the Fatmobile...$10.00 with drink and chips...Fatmobile arrives at 11:30 and will stay until 2:30...Program begins at 2:30pm. Everyone is invited.

Youth Conference preparation letter

 This letter is give you a reminder of what you should remember as you prepare for youth conference in a couple of weeks. I look forward to going on this spiritual journey with you.

• Arrive at Rorex Hall at 7:00am on Friday.
• Bring only two pieces of luggage (one carry on and one piece to load under the bus). Bring luggage you can carry. Remember everyone carries their own luggage. Your butler stayed at home this weekend.
• Bring enough clothes for the entire weekend.
• Bring some spending money. We are going to lunch before arriving at the Conference site. Also, there is a snack bar at the conference site. We are also going to the boardwalk for the Sunday activity. You will need money for snacks.
• Bring your bible.
• Bring your GREAT attitude with you when you arrive and keep it all weekend.
• Update: Please, leave you cell phone at home. If you need to call your parents, the youth workers have their phones. This way there is no temptation to use it during the conference.
• Update: There will be no need for headphones at the conference. Don’t bring any.
• Update: The pre-conference exercise is posted on the youth blog for your completion. The web address is “ccocyouth.blogspot.com”.  You can also access the blog from the church website under youth ministry. The exercise is due April 1^st.
• Please check the youth blog regularly for updates to youth news.

If you have any questions or concerns, please give me a call.


Horace
323-250-CCOC

Youth Conference Attendee Pre-Conference Exercise

Please give this exercise considerable thought. Do not rush. Please do not give me the answer you think I “want” to hear. This is for you. To help you think about your relationship with God as you head into your yearly spiritual retreat, called the youth conference. Please call me if you have any questions…Horace 310-469-8101

Please return this exercise back to me by April 1st.

How is your relationship w/ God right now?

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   1                     2                 3               4              5

How would you like it to be?

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   1                     2                 3               4              5

What gets in the way of it being the way you would like it to be?

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What could you do to improve it?

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Name_______________________      Date__________

April Service Activity

The Crenshaw Youth Group is having their April service activity to benefit the Good Samaritans women's shelter in Los Angeles. We are asking for donations of diapers, pull ups, and underwear for boys and girls ages 4-8 years. Please send to Crenshaw Church of Christ or put in plastic bins at foyer and exit of the building. Contact Horace or Chevonne for more details at (323)250-Ccoc.

Horace Johnson, Jr,
310-469-8101

Conference Call notes

Here are some of the things we discussed in our conference call last week. If you have any suggestions or comments, just post them here in the comments section or let me know.

Trying to improve how we serve the youth here at Cren Coc

Use everyone’s talents the way they want to be used

Serve the all youth at Crenshaw. Grades 1-college

·         Identify all youth who attend Crenshaw

o   Complete info/contact sheet

§  Name, phone, address, school, grade, parent info

o   Need someone to create form

Add to the youth worker team, including the parents and current teachers

·         Identify possible youth workers

Sunday school class will be middle and high school

·         Use multiple teachers in one or two week assignments

·         Everyone remains fresh

·         The students are exposed to different people and gives them more opportunities to be served by different people

·         Sunday school curriculum for 2^nd quarter focused on teaching the class about community. “Community of Young Belivers”. Acts 4:23-28

·         Wednesday curriculum could focus on Love. Showing the class what it means to start a “Love Revolution”. What it means and looks like to put people in front of your own needs.

·         Need suggestions from everyone. We will only be as strong as our joint efforts are.

·         Want to know what you want to do

o   Teaching

o   Administration (roster, attendance at events, creating documents)

o   Publicity (creating flyers)

o   Mentorship

o   Programs / events

o   Educational resources (learning center, tutoring, tours)

o   Transportation

o   Health and wellness (seminars, resources, counseling)

o   Outreach ministry (serve community, other schools, international (example: hats to 3^rd world country, raise money to send to Africa), book bag program (give to kids in need))

o   Family ministry (parent resources, assistance, anything that can help them be a better parent)

Kids Camp 2012

Kid’s Camp 2012

After a short break, Kid’s Camp has returned to Forest
Home’s Mill Creek Canyon. We’re encouraging all 1st
through 6th graders to sign up for an exciting, spirit led
and fun filled experience. This year’s theme is - Follow The
Leader, taken from Eph. 5:1.
Date: Friday, June 1, 2012 - Sunday June 3,
2012
Registration: $160.00
Contact: Horace Johnson (323)250-CCoc
 Eric Barnes (818) 674-2801

Friday Nite Bowling

We are going bowling this week at Palos Verdes Lanes. The cost is $20 per person. This includes shoes. We will meet at the church at 7pm. We will return by 11pm. Please arrange to be picked up at the church at that time. If you have any questions, contact Horace.

Give thanks to the Lord

When time is pressing don't cancel your time with God. Use this quiet time suggestion to meditate on the Lord. It is simple, yet powerful:

• Read the Passage
• Sing a song of praise in response
• Pray for the Father to instill the principle in your life

Principle: Give Thanks to the Lord.
Passage: Psalm 105:1-4
Praise: "Thank You Lord" by Dennis Jernigan
Prayer: Father, I thank you for remembering me on the cross. Thank you for taking my sin debt away. Thank you for being faithful even in the midst of my unfaithfulness.

Spending time with God

He knelt down on his knees…and prayed
as was his custom since early days.
Daniel 6:10

In one region of Africa, the first converts to Christianity were very diligent about praying. In fact, the believers each had their own special place outside the village where they went to pray in solitude. The villagers reached these “prayer rooms” by using their own private footpaths through the brush. When grass began to grow over one of these trials, it was evident that the person to whom it belonged was not praying very much.

Because these new Christians were concerned for each other’s spiritual welfare, a unique custom sprang up. Whenever anyone noticed an overgrown “prayer path,” he or she would go to the person and lovingly warn, “Friend, there’s grass on your path!”

Have you met with the Lord yet today? Do you regularly come to “the throne of grace” to “obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need? (Hebrew 4:16). Is there “grass on your path”?

No day is well spent without spending time with God.

Application deadline for youth conference

The deadline to turn in the application for the youth conference is February 29.  Copies of the application can be picked up at the church office. If you have any questions please contact Horace at 323-250-CCOC

What is Anger - Be Angry and sin not

What is Anger?

 Anger is an emotional response to bad treatment. A response to something we don’t like or a perceived lack of respectful treatment

Bible examples of anger

·     Were they Angry?

·      Did they sin?

Job : Job 2:1ff / Cain : Genesis 4:2-13  / Peter /    Moses: Numbers 20:1-10

Is being angry a sin? - NO

Is it wrong? - It depends     

The question to answer is: how do we act when we are angry?

Psalms 4:4, Ephesians 4:26-31

What triggers it? Why are we angry?!!

Is it just things in general or does someone or something upset you?

Possible reasons for anger:

• Not able to do what u want
• Being accused of something
• Being disrespected
• Unhappy with circumstances
• Where I live
• Where I go to school
• Who I go to school with
• Parent’s behavior or decisions

How does it affect you?

• Unhappy with self
• Looking at possible underlying causes of anger:
• Sadness
• Confusion
• Frustration

Handling anger and angry situations - (Psalms 4:4-6)

• Positive solutions to handling anger in a more positive manner.
• Meditate
• Reflect
• Pray
• Respond, if necessary, in a controlled manner.
• Move forward - don't hold a grudge

       

When I say I am a Christian

When I say... "I am a Christian"
I'm not shouting "I'm clean livin'."
I'm whispering "I was lost,
Now I'm found and forgiven."

When I say... "I am a Christian"
I don't speak of this with pride.
I'm confessing that I stumble
and need Christ to be my guide.

When I say... "I am a Christian"
I'm not trying to be strong.
I'm professing that I'm weak
And need His strength to carry on.

When I say... "I am a Christian"
I'm not bragging of success.
I'm admitting I have failed
And need God to clean my mess.

When I say... "I am a Christian"
I'm not claiming to be perfect,
My flaws are far too visible
But, God believes I am worth it.

When I say... "I am a Christian"
I still feel the sting of pain.
I have my share of heartaches
So I call upon His name.

When I say... "I am a Christian"
I'm not holier than thou,
I'm just a simple sinner
Who received God's good grace, somehow!

~ by Maya Angelou

When you say you're a Christian...what do you say?

This is your life.

Are you who want to be?

Are you at least heading that way?

At worship at the park starting worship service.

Man Can They Eat!!

What do you want to most improve about your walk with God?

Please give to me or email your response to "horacejohnsonjr@gmail.com" by June 30th

School Supply Drive for the Bole School in Ethiopia

Who Is My Neighbor?


Luke 10:25-37

School Supply Drive for the Bole School in Ethiopia

Crenshaw Church of Christ Youth Ministry asks you to donate school supplies to benefit the Bole Church of Christ School in Ethiopia. We will ship the much needed items weekly. Items most needed include: pencils, pens, markers, paper, & folders.

The items to be donated can either be shipped to Crenshaw Church of Christ or deposited in the specially marked containers in both the front and rear entrances.



For more information, contact Horace Johnson at (310)469-8101

Eating with the Crew at Friday Night Live

“Give ‘em Hell!” Uh…Nope, Give ‘em Hope!!

I think one thing that is missing in our message to the youth is hope. With so much violence and sexual impurity in the schools, youth are freaking out. We need to make sure we are not condemning the people who are being saturated with the world’s devices, and not showing them the way they can cope and find victory. Instead, we have to show them the cross with all of its mercy, grace and hope.

The last thing our youth need is to walk into an environment where someone tells them they that if they don’t change they are going to hell! (MAYBE that’s one of the reasons why youth are people are dropping out of church like crazy!)

I say don’t “give ‘em hell” –but GIVE THEM HOPE! (I heard someone last week say last week that Hope is on the endangered species list…that people NEED hope, but they aren’t turning to the church for it!)

The life of Jesus gives us HOPE that God actually wants us in a relationship with Him.

The cross gives us HOPE that there is no condemnation for those in Christ.

The empty tomb gives us HOPE that He can conquer anything that we face.

Our youth need HOPE!

Don’t misunderstand…I’m not saying, “go easy and don’t call out sin!” The problem is that many youth workers want to call out the sin but not point to the Savior who paid for that sin and in whom is COMPLETE forgiveness and RESTORATION to a God that is desperate to reach people!

The message should be a message of HOPE…and with the world being as dark as it is the church should be shining brighter than EVER before!

We don’t shatter darkness by condemning people…but by pointing them to Christ, the One who shatters condemnation!



Give ‘em hope!

Service is the rent we pay for living.

Our love for God should lead us to help His children when they are in need.

For the young ladies in the group

Ladies Auxiliary for Christian Education

Presents:

MISS L.A.C.E. 2010

April 17, 2010

1:00-3:00pm

Book Club

Crenshaw Church of Christ

2719 W. Martin Luther King Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90008

Guest Speaker:

Keleigh Crigler Hadley

Christian, Wife, Mother, Writer

Preacher’s KIDS Secrets and Salvation

Daughter of Willard & Ellen Crigler

Refreshments will be served