Forest Grove Community Church's Jr. High

On Friday, November 6th we’re going to be making Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes through Samaritan’s Purse. Operation Christmas Child brings joy and hope to children living in desperate situations around the world through the distribution of gift-filled shoe boxes and the message of God’s unconditional love.

As DIVE groups, we will be filling these shoe boxes. Though we will be playing games to help us win things to put into our shoeboxes, we are encouraging each DIVE group to gather things of their own to put into them. For a list of what you can put inside your shoebox and more information about OCC, go to the Samaritan’s Purse website or join the Facebook Group: Operation Christmas Child Canada. We are also asking each youth to bring a toonie to help cover the cost of sending them.

After our shoeboxes are packed we will be sending them off with love and prayer during our Sunday morning service at 11 a.m. on November 22nd.

Please feel free to email me, Pastor Chan, at chandra@forestgrovecc.com if you have any further questions or would like to know more about how your family can get involved in this project.

This past weekend we had the opportunity to head to Redberry Bible camp for the entire weekend on our Jr. High fall retreat. The weather was perfect for a weekend to hang out in nature, learn about God, and spend time developing new friendships and strengthening old ones.

The weekend was FULL of fun times. We played some great wide games…like sardines, Mission Impossible, and, of course, our Weekend Team Challenge. Everything we did all weekend long was a competition for your team to get points to win the entire weekend challenge. On Saturday night we had our SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE skit show with undoubtedly some of the funniest skits that have ever been put on by Jr. Highs.

We had four chapels times together throughout the weekend. Our focus for the weekend was “EYE CONTACT”. We talked about why its important and how it can change us, how we can understand more of how God sees us through making eye contact with Him, the perspective He has designed us with to make eye contact with the world, and how we can stay in eye contact with Him together. We had time after each chapel time to break off into our cabin groups and chat about the things we were learning and the ways that it made sense in our lives.

One passage from the weekend that really stood out was Philipians 3:12-21. If you want to take at look at it, click here: (more…)

All you gotta do to pick a prize from the Red Box on Friday night is be the first to know the answer and email it in with your FULL NAME in the email. Good luck! Remember, you gotta be there to get your prize.

THIS WEEK’S RETREAT WEB QUESTION IS: What was the name of the protein that holds everything in our bodies together that is in the shape of the cross?

Send your answer to jrhighweb@gmail.com (remember to include your full name, so we know who to give the prize to!)