MISSION Community Church

We will be at Dairy Queen from 9am to 12pm on April 10th doing a car wash to raise money for charity: water. They are an AMAZING non-profit organization that provides clean, safe drinking water for people in developing nations. We will send everything we make to them. Our first car wash raised over $1,200 for them!

Please come on out and support our efforts!

We will have signups in the coming weeks for those of you who would like to volunteer to wash the cars.

Here is the team that is headed to Mexico with us! We're going to build at least 3 houses, and hopefully leave behind a whole lot of love.

Kendall Arington

Donovan Carter

Domonique Carter

Jessica Dho

Rachael Dowd

Ben Dubord

Stephen Dubord

Olivia Gieske

Paisley Green

Elisa Han

Carson Harris

Aubrey Hennis

Trevor Knotts

Denver Lee

Kathryn Marquardt

Chloe Martin

Alexis Marx

Spencer McCalley

Megan McGonegle

Matthew McIntire

Savanna McIntosh

Grace Pierson

Kaitlyn Purinton

Rachael Rauschenbach

Gloria Rawlings

Caleb Robinson

Deborah Rogers

Josh Sheridan

Victoria Starr

Sammi Story

Josh Swift

Lauren Taylor

Britney Westman

And the leaders...

Ryan Guard

Travis Chavez

Bruce Story

Mary McGonegle

Dear parents,

This week we're concluding our small group series on the Law and the Prophets. The Messianic prophecy of Jesus in Isaiah 52 and 53 serves as our text for this lesson. We'll see that the Messiah would come in obscurity (Isaiah 53:2), no one would come to his defense (Isaiah 53:8a), and he would take the punishment for our sin (Isaiah 53:4-6).

I'd encourage you to take time this week to talk with your child about the four-week series we just finished. Here are some specific questions tied to this week's lesson:

• Why do you think God wanted the Messiah to be born in obscurity to an average" family?
• How does the hope of Jesus' return give you hope today?
• How can we as a family celebrate the hope we have in Jesus and our thankfulness that he paid the price for our sins?

I trust this has been a challenging and growing series for your teenager. Feel free to call or email me if you have any questions or any prayer requests at . Have a great day!

Wondering what's up this weekend?

the 5/6 Ministry will continue to meet in their usual room for the next few weeks. They'll make the move two doors down as soon as we get everyone else situated!

Junior High and High School will be meeting in the Student Center from now on. This weekend is more of a "tour" than an actual worship service. We're still purchasing all of the things we'll need to be ready by Grand Opening weekend on the 28th. The keyword for the next few weeks is FLEXIBILITY. The room will be a work in progress.

The College Ministry will begin meeting in the new Student Center as soon as we can get everything we need in there! Shouldn't be long at all.

Stay tuned!

Hello parents,

There's a new website that is becoming VERY popular, very quickly, and I wanted to warn you about it. The website is ChatRoulette.com, and it has the potential to do some serious damage in the life of your child. The site exists to create anonymous video chats between people. All that is needed is a web cam. When people log on they are immediately connected to a completely random person- it could be anyone of any age living anywhere and doing ANYTHING. While something like this has the capacity for good, it has already turned into something wicked. A CNN report that I read said that they witnessed several vulgar/inappropriate things in just a few minutes of being on the site. Pornographic activity, vulgarity, and everything else we'd love to keep from our kids' eyes.

My advice to you is to talk to your student about the concerns you have about this site. I would even consider blocking it on your home computers. Video chat isn't an evil thing in and of itself, but this website has too much potential for evil. There's no reason for any of our students to be on it at any time. 

Also, if your kids have an iPod Touch or an iPhone, please know that they have unlimited access to the web. They can access almost any website from their iPods and iPhones that they could on a regular computer. For your home computer, I would recommend downloading the X3 Watch software, which tracks the websites that a computer visits and sends an email to a selected person if any questionable or mature sites are visited. They also have an app for iPhones that tracks the same thing! If all of this is confusing to you please feel free to call Ryan, Josh or Spencer in the office and we'd be happy to sit down and show you how to utilize these things.

Huge congratulations to a young lady named Katelyn in our High School Ministry! She recited the entire book of Colossians tonight in front of me and her small group leader Nicole. We promised that we would send the first student to do that to camp, so she is on her way to Summer Camp this July!

I've done this contest FOUR times over the past four years, and she's the very first student to actually make it all the way through. Amazing.

She was the most excited about how powerful it is to have that much of God's word planted in her heart. She was already sharing stories about her favorite verses and how God has already been using them in her life. Amazing, amazing, amazing. 

We still have one more trip to give away! After hearing about what Katelyn did, we had an anonymous donor in the church offer to send another student to camp if they memorize Colossians! So, go get it. The first person to memorize the whole thing and recite it to me perfectly wins. If nobody makes it all the way we will give the prize to the person who can recite the most on June 6th.

Thank you, Katelyn! You've inspired us all :)

We ended our SCARRED series last week. This week we talked about the vision of the church, which is the same as the vision for the youth ministries. The room will change, the feel will change, but the vision and philosophy will stay the same. We will continue to seek justice, love mercy, and walk humbly.

I gave specific examples of ways we will seek justice in the future, and then gave the students an immediate opportunity to do so. I took a special offering for a single mom who recently lost her job, at the same time that her young daughter began experiencing significant health problems. The students gave about $250! That should certainly help.

I banned the word "hypocrite" from our students' vocabularies. I talked about the patience and humility of Jesus, and our responsibility to be transformed into his likeness.