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January 31, 2011 • 3:39 pm 0

Camps, camps, and more camps!

If you’ve been hanging around Fellowship North lately, you know that there is a LOT going on with our middle and high school students. Camps are quickly approaching and we want to make sure you are in the loop! If you are interested in finding out more about the events below, contact Taido Chino or Bobby Harrison at 771.1117.

The New Year is here and we’re already marking up calendars here at Fellowship North. We have a big 2011 planned for our students with plenty of opportunities for them to grow in their relationship with God. This year may prove to be a little different than last, or even the last few, but we’re asking you to be open to some new ideas this New Year.

elevate – MIDDLE SCHOOL

LSD @ Castle Bluff – FEB 11-13

Love, Sex, and Dating Camp: It’s an incredible opportunity for students to hear what the Bible has to say about such a critical topic. Also, if you’ve never experienced the Bluff in the winter, you’re missing out!

crossing – HIGH SCHOOL

SNOWCAMP @ Copper Mountain – MARCH 20-26

Another year, another great trip to the mountains. This go-around we’re headed to one of Colorado’s finest. Better yet, we’re staying right on the mountain. First time? 4^th time? Doesn’t matter. You won’t want to miss it.

PEAK MINISTRIES – MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL

KIDS ACROSS AMERICA Camp – JUNE 17-24

First things first: there will be no DCAMP or HS Mission Trip this year, certainly not in the way that we normally think about those trips. But we still believe discipleship and mission are incredibly significant for our students. That is why we are headed to Kids Across America this summer.

A handful of our students and leaders have been to KAA camps in the past and come back with one thing in mind: we need to give all of our students the opportunity to experience this. Well here’s that opportunity.

KAA’s mission is “to build Christian leaders by encouraging, equipping, and empowering them.” Discipleship is woven right into their fabric. Our church’s mission is “to mobilize a racially-unified family of God, called out as the presence of Jesus in our world, to pursue His mission: all people reconciled to God.” KAA is a predominantly urban youth camp, with a focus largely towards inner-city students. By bringing our mostly suburban youth into this environment, we’re hoping to see God stretch and grow this generation into caring about one thing: loving God and loving people.

Discipleship and Mission will right at the forefront of what we do this summer. No doubt about it. It may look different than it has in the past, but we believe this could be 2011’s biggest strength. Join us in this new journey.

For more info on KAA, go to kidsacrossamerica.org

Forms for all camps will be available at fellowshipnorth.net

Filed under: colorado, mountains, peak ministries, senior high, student, Taido Chino, trip, unity

December 9, 2010 • 2:24 pm 0

it’s beginning to look a lot like…skiing?

by Sarabeth Jones

Many of you know that every year high school students have a chance to go skiing with Fellowship North during spring break. What you might not realize is that there is another ski trip – at the same time, to the same place – that is open to anyone who wants to go. That’s right! Two trips, both happening March 20-26, 2011.

Personally, I love the idea behind both of these trips. I first went skiing as a high school student, and it was a wonderful week. I learned how to ski, experienced the beauty of the Colorado mountains, and got to hang out with my friends. Best of all, I had an entire week to listen and learn about God from someone who really knew how to speak into a high school student’s life. Now that I’m grown and have 3 kids of my own, I have loved being a part of the Family Camp for the last 2 years. My children have learned to ski and love being in Colorado. Plus, Family Camp has fun activities geared just for us; we have so many great memories!

So why are we talking about spring break right now? Well, we thought we might could help you out with your Christmas shopping. If you’d like to give the gift of skiing to each other as a family, or to your high school student, here are the details:

Snowcamp (for 9-12 graders) and Family Camp (all ages) both have a base price of $595 per person ($560 for age 12 and under). The trips will both head to Copper Mountain, where they will stay in The Village at Copper Mountain, right at the foot of the slopes. Your cost covers transportation, 3 days of skiing, and meals while you’re there; you will need to buy meals on the trip out and back, and your cost could change depending on extras like snowboard rental or ski school. The trip also has a rest day built in so you’ll have some time to relax, hang out, eat, or shop.

Brochures with more information and sign up forms will be available on Sunday, December 19 (which gives you about a month to make the early sign up deadline of January 23), but if you have questions now, you can contact the trip leaders.

Snowcamp: email Taido Chino.
Family Camp: email Rhonda Bentley

See you on the slopes!

Filed under: colorado, peak ministries, senior high, Colorado, Copper Mountain, Family Camp, ski, snowboard, Snowcamp, the crossing

February 12, 2010 • 1:11 pm 0

Are you a compass?

The following was written by Barbara Scorza, our Director of Operations here at Fellowship North. She shares about the impact a mentor can have on a student.

Do You Have a Compass? Are You A Compass?

January is National Mentoring Month and the North Little Rock Mayor’s Youth Council (NLRMYC) honored eleven mentors at their Third Annual Compass Awards Ceremony.

What a fitting name for an award that recognizes mentors! A compass is an instrument that we rely on to determine direction and a mentor, sometimes unbeknownst to them, is a person that determines direction, through their words, actions and in some cases, just by listening and allowing the person to know they are worthy. I have heard time and time again from young people how having a mentor in their lives helped them in their decision-making, paving the way for them to live a life of purpose.

I had an opportunity to attend this event and listen to the words of eleven Council members as they read a personal tribute to their mentors and presented them with an award. I must admit, I went because Kenderick, my son, had nominated Mark Palmer, but hearing the words of each student was such a blessing.

This is the third year Jan Scholl, Director NLRMYC, has held this event. Council members were asked to choose adults who had set them on or kept them on the right path, and had played a large role in helping them to become who they are today.

It was a very moving event; we got to hear these students speak words of encouragement into the lives of their mentors, for all the encouraging words and lessons they had been speaking to them.

Mentor honorees were Mark Palmer, Eugene Turner, Sherry Ratliff, John David Pittman, Ed Scott, Jerry Butler, Amanda Ware, Shirley Lindsey, Christen Pitts, Betsy Jones, and Nancy Moore. Council members are Kenderick Scorza, Micah Turner, Shannon Holman, Connor Ratliff, Justin Klucher, Brisa Bartczak, Grant DePoyster, Winston Meyer, Justin Lindsey, Kaley Scott, and Daley Johnston.

These are the words Kenderick spoke about his mentor, Mark Palmer.

I’d like to introduce you to my friend and mentor, Mark Palmer. He started a small study group that consisted of several teenagers. Since the time was so early, the rest of the group stopped coming. I still wanted to meet, so at 8:00 in the morning, every Sunday, he comes and picks me up at my house. We go to a nearby restaurant and we discuss different topics about God in our time together before church.

Mark has had a very strong influence in my life. In our meetings, he has showed me that you must be humble in all that you do, and that has offered me help when I am in need.

He has also shown me that you must help others when you are able. One time, my mother and I and my church’s pastor were on our way to see a friend of ours who was in the hospital at the time. Out of the blue, my mother’s car broke down. We called him up, and he drove all the way to Texas from Arkansas to take us to see our friend, and even got his family to allow us to sleep in their home that night. That situation helps me continue the service I do for others.

I admire his love of helping others and that he’s willing to share his wisdom with those who ask. I would like to thank him for all that he does. He is a great man and is a walking example of the word “humble.”

Mark, you are a very, immensely important part of my life and I thank you once again for showing me what it is like to be an incredible individual.

Filed under: faith in action, peak ministries, senior high, student, unity

August 13, 2009 • 3:00 pm 0

talking it out at the crossing

[posted by Bobby Harrison]

We had our summer wrap-up at the crossing last night, and it inspired me to catch you all up on what’s been going on with this group. I was able to lead worship with both of our interns, Dazzmin and Andrew, and we also had the opportunity to let them share a bit. It’s been wonderful to put them in so many different types of leadership situations and see them lead. It’s been amazing all summer long to see so clearly how God has used them here at Fellowship North. Both of them have made a real impact on the students and within this ministry. We have certainly been blessed by and grateful for their work.

Also this summer we have been going through Talk It Out (Fellowship North’s racial unity group study) @ the Crossing. From Andrew and Dazzmin (two, clearly, very different perspectives – Andrew is a white male, Dazzmin is an african american female) to Harold (Nash) and Russell (Mason), we have been able to put several people up front that aren’t normally leading over in the Rafters. The students have been able to hear different voices and testimonies, but they have all been struck by the one singular truth that each person has laid out so clearly: that this church, that we as Christ followers, are called to be a racially unified body of Christ. There was push-back from some students early-on, maybe even resistance. But it was great to give them a venue to really talk about and wrestle with the vision of this church. We had white kids really beginning to slowly understand the privilege they live with, and black students opening up about a longing to feel accepted in and out of the church.

Last night, we decided to close out the summer by just giving students the chance to talk about how God has worked in their lives this summer. Out of 30-40 students, a good third of the group was probably African American. One by one, they each took the stage and shared how this church has really been a place they can trust, that they feel at home here, that for the first time in their lives, they have a church body that they feel is unified. Students who maybe had never spoken in public before spoke up about how God has really touched them through Fellowship North. Not just the crossing, but this church as a whole. Teenagers can be very perceptive, and they also have a great detector of phoniness. I think they really see something true and honest and sincere in what we’re doing here at FN and are beginning to rally behind this hope as well.

Taido and I both left with a real sense of hope. We both realize that this is still nowhere near where we want to be, but last night was a real slice of what this whole vision could look like. It was inspiring and I hope the story of it is inspiring for for you as well.

to mobilize a racially-unified family of God, called out as the presence of Jesus in our world, to pursue His mission: all people reconciled to God.

Filed under: peak ministries, senior high, talk it out

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