What's Happenin' at Collision

This Week at Collision

This week our students sponsored the Wednesday night meal to get credit for the fundraiser. 

Family Ideas for Serving Others at Christmas

I found this article online by Jim Burns, check it out for some good resources.

It’s recorded in Matthew’s Gospel, (Matt. 10:8) that Jesus said, “Freely you have received; freely
give.” Though our lives may not always be everything we hope for them to be, God has richly
blessed each one of us. One of the ways we can demonstrate that we are grateful to God for his
many blessings is to help others.
Christmastime provides an opportunity for your family to roll up your sleeves and get involved in
helping to meet the needs of others in your community – showing them the light and love of Christ.
Here are some family ideas for reaching out and helping others during the Christmas season:
1. Donate your family’s time to help out at a food kitchen or a food bank.
2. Take your family to visit someone you know who lives at a nursing home, who lives alone, or is
confined at home because of poor health.
3. Invite neighbors who don’t have plans to join your family for Christmas dinner.
4. Provide some (or all) of the Christmas dinner groceries for a needy family in your community.
Take the family along to make the delivery.
5. Have your family gather winter clothes and coats that don’t fit any longer, or are no longer
wanted or needed – and distribute them to homeless people in your area – or deliver them to a local
shelter.
6. Make some bag lunches and take your family into the community to distribute them to homeless
people in your area. (Make sure ahead of time that your local authorities allow this type of
distribution.)
7. Make more Christmas treats than you need for your holiday meals. As a family, deliver extras to
the neighbors or to a needy family in your area.
8. Find an elderly person in your area that could use some help at the grocery store. Better yet,
invite them to your home for a special holiday meal.
9. Find a family in your area that could use some help to take care of fall yard cleanup, basic repair
or weatherization around their home. Buy the needed materials and get to work as a family!
10. Invite a neighbor’s family over to your home for a simple, fun family game night.

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 Hey parents, did you know you can make convenient payments through our app?  A lot of our parents are using this feature to pay down trip balances as we speak (eh hmm TCTC) and are finding it to be a great option to pay while they are thinking about it.  Instead of remembering the check book and getting a check signed and turning it into Nathan and oops I forgot to and now the check is in my pants pocket and now they are in the washing machine and the check is ruined and I have ink stains on my slacks.......not that anyone here has done that.  The transaction goes through PayPal so you know you can trust it and all transactions are 100% secure.  Nathan receives an email when it posts. And you can even put a little note in there for what it's for.  It's a great option.

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What's Happenin' at Collision

we   we will usa good  these clips to look at different aspects of the Christmas storya story sorry astory they've w they relate to our liveselow is a brief summary of what we have been talking about recently.  Most of the time we teach through a series for several weeks at a time that way students that miss can get caught back up quickly, and so we can dissect a topic more fully than just a one night deal. Use the overview and questions for both you and your teen to answer and have a dialog that continues outside the church walls and into your homes.  Use this opportunity to see what God is teaching your student and also allow your student to see what God is teaching/taught you.

This Week at Collision

Series Overview

So last week, we told the students that we'd have Will Ferrell with us this week... In a way that is true.... We never said on what form he would be with us... Oops. 

So this week we are taking a look at three different clips from the movie Elf.  Wewill use these clips to look at different aspects of the Christmas story and how they relate to our live.  

Intentional Interaction

This might be a good night just to see if your teen learned anything new about a sorry they've heard dozens of times. 

What's Happenin' @ Collision

Below is a brief summary of what we have been talking about recently.  Most of the time we teach through a series for several weeks at a time that way students that miss can get caught back up quickly, and so we can dissect a topic more fully than just a one night deal. Use the overview and questions for both you and your teen to answer and have a dialog that continues outside the church walls and into your homes.  Use this opportunity to see what God is teaching your student and also allow your student to see what God is teaching/taught you.

This Week at Collision

Series Overview

Kairos is about time. Not the tick-tock kind of time we are used to living in. Kairos is the beautiful kind
of time where God breaks in and changes everything. These are moments when something special happens.
They are moments that interrupt our status quo. They are moments when the trajectory of our journeys
change forever.
 
When God breaks in, we must take the change He creates — whatever it may be. We must accept both
the work of Christ and the way of Christ. We must trust in what God is doing instead of trying to do it
ourselves. And then we must step out in faith and believe that God’s goodness will come in time.
 
In this series, we will set aside tick-tock time to engage God intentionally and expect him to break into our lives in timeless ways. We’ll be inspired and disturbed. We’ll be encouraged and challenged.

We’ll be loved and changed. The moment is upon us. Don’t you think it’s about time?

Week 4 (2014-12-03)

Tonight was our last night in this series and we looked at why they aren't living a fulfilled life...a life characterized by what Christ said was "life to the fullest".  One of the biggest problems is when we try to live with the kingdom in our future yet still holding on to our past sins, either in practice or in memory.  Tonight your teen was challenged to step out of that habit and let Christ lead them in the future without guild and old sin habits. 

Intentional Interaction

What areas of your life do you think you are holding on to past mistakes (sin).