Pizza Hut ... Pizza Hut

We are meeting at Pizza Hut for dinner on Thursday night. We are meeting at the one on 116th and Allisonville Road. If you can bring $ 5 to help cover the cost of pizza and drinks that would be great. We need to be off campus this week due to the Great Banquet and Third Phase did not work out so we need an alternative plan and food and fellowship sounds great --- it will also provide a time for unity (one of our churches goals). Hope to see you there.

Third Phase

March 3rd and 17th Roots Students will be volunteering at Third Phase in Noblesville. Third Phase is Hamilton County’s largest shelter, food and clothing pantry. We will be working in the store sorting clothes, toys and games. Parents and siblings are welcome to join us.

We will meet at Third Phase at 6:30pm. Students should be picked up at 8:00pm. Third Phase is located at 15755 Allisonville Road in Noblesville (773-5100).

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Help Needed: MMUTB

Hashbrown and Ham Casserole (We need at least 15 of these)

2 lbs. frozen hash browns, Southern style (thawed)
1 stick melted butter
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 pt. sour cream
1/2 c. chopped onions
10 oz. pkg. shredded cheddar cheese
2 packages of cubed (not diced) ham

Mix all ingredients. Pour into 9 X 13 disposable aluminum pan. DO NOT BAKE…we will bake at the church.

Please bring to kitchen on Sunday, February 20th prior to the beginning of the 10:45 am service.

Please email Stacey Greathouse @ thesogmom@yahoo.com, if you will be bringing one.

Food Items

Six HUGE cans of green beans
Six HUGE bags of corn
150 rolls
Two big tubs of country crock

If you can bring the items, please email Stacey @ thesogmom@yahoo.com

Last month, we served 130 individuals. Our event is now held in a garage. We do not go out to them, they now come to us. However, many of them do live under the bridges of Indianapolis.

Kindness

We use 252 Curriculum for our Thursday Night Roots ministry. This month, we are taking a look at KINDNESS. Kindness is showing others they are valuable by how you treat them.

Please take 9 minutes out of your day and watch the video. The video will give you the highlights of what we will learn this month.



Where have you had kindness shown to you ?

When was a time that you or the family have shown kindness to someone else ?

Superstart

This past weekend, we took 10 students to SuperStart. We joined up with 2,000 other students and had a great time of worship and fellowship. The theme for the week was Joshua 1:9

"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”

We also learned 4 key words: know, grow, go and show. Below is a small sample of pictures from the weekend.

SuperStart Stage


Free Time


Wii Room


Our Group


Dinner Time (Toys)

First Communion Pictures

Photos from the First Communion Weekend

Roots Cancelled

Once again, Roots is cancelled. This time, it is due to the parking lot being ice. Here is a picture of my car that I took this morning (Thursday)in the church parking lot.

Jan. 20 --- CANCELLED

First Communion & Roots is CANCELLED for tonight. Next week, January 27th, we will have the following schedule:

4:00 - 6:00 First Communion (doubling up)

6:00 - 6:30 Meal Time

6:30 - 7:00 Acolyte Training

7:00 - 8:00 Roots

Hope to see you there. We will have our final lesson on DETERMINATION.

Determination

Determination

deciding it's worth it to finish what you've started

In January, we (at roots), will be taking a look at the virtue of determination. During our time together, we will be looking at Moses and Paul.

Come on out and join us from 6:30 to 8:00 on Thursday nights.

Laser Tag at X-Site

Here are a few photos from Laser Tag. We went to X-Site on Monday, December 6th:

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Roots: Pictures

Here are a few pictures from a recent Roots night. We finished up our series on Initiative.

Tonight: Cinema Grill !!

Just a reminder that Roots is going to Cinema Grill tomorrow night, Thursday November 18th.

Friends, siblings and parents are invited to join us!

Cost is $10 for Youth and $12 for Adults and includes pizza, popcorn, soda and the movie Mega Minds.

The Cinema Grill (movie/dinner theater) located at 86th and Ditch Road (1289 West 86th Street, 254-1995). Drop off for the movie is at 6:15pm at Cinema Grill. The movie starts at 6:45pm. Carpooling would be a good idea for this event.

Please remember that all youth and their guests must have a medical consent form on file in order to participate. I've attached the medical consent form to this email.

Questions? Call Lise Hayes at 797-4700

www.cinemagrillonline.net

Hope to see you there!

Serving: Nursing Home

On Thursday, November 4th, we took a group of students to the nursing home. It was a great time for them to get out and meet some of the "older" individuals in the nursing home. They did a great job fellowshipping with them and playing BINGO. I always feel "odd" snapping photos at us serving and in "their space". So, I limited it to 5 photos and w/o the flash. So, here are a few photos to show us out and about.

ACTS

Here is the "philosophy" of ministry that we will be using within our student ministry at Christ The Savior. The philosophy of ministry is "our tool" to help us (as a student ministry) reach the mission of our church: Reaching people to know, love and serve Christ.



If you have a ministry thought or suggestion that we can do in each one of these areas, please let us know.

Bingo: Harbour Manor

Harbour Manor is located at 1667 Sheridan Road in Noblesville. We are asking parents to drop their students off at 6:45. Our meeting time will be 7-8 pm. Parents, please pick the students up at that time. We will be visiting with the residents of the Manor and playing bingo with them. We hope to see you there.

ACTS: What Does It Mean ?

In the future, you will be hearing about ACTS. We are not trying to be "sacrilegious" but we will be using it (ACTS) as an acronym to describe a philosophy of ministry. We recognize that each student is at a different spot in their Christian walk and we want to gear ministry to each one of them. Here is a brief summary:

Attract

We want to attract students to Christ and to the ministry of Christ The Savior.

Connect

We want to connect students to God to to fellow students already connected to Christ The Savior.

Transform

We want students lives to transform into the likeness of Jesus Christ our Savior.

Send

We want to send students out to be the hands and feet of Christ so we can influence our community and impact our world.

No Roots

Remember, we will not have Roots on Thursday the 21st due to Fall Break. We will meet back up on Thursday the 28th for our lesson and Operational Christmas Child Night.

Intitative

Initiative: Seeing what needs to be done and doing it

For the month of October, we are going to be looking at this virtue and we will be taking a look at the Bible Story of Nehemiah. We hope that you will join us for this virtue. We will look at these virtues on the 7th, 14th, and the 28th. We will not meet on Oct. 21 (Fall Break).

October 7 - Get a Clue

Hay Ride and Cornmaze

Roots Annual Bon Fire, Hayride and Corn Maze!

Just a reminder that we will have our annual Roots Bon Fire, Hayride and Corn Maze THIS Friday, October 8th at Russell Farms in Noblesville.

Check-in will begin at 6:45pm in the parking lot at Russell Farms. Cost is $7 plus an empty shoebox to be used for Operation Christmas Child. Friends are welcome!

EVERYONE must have a current CTS Medical Consent form on file in order to participate. We don’t have very many on file yet this year. If you aren’t sure if you have completed one for your student this year, please complete the attached form and bring it with you Friday. Friends must also complete the Medical Consent form. Students will need to be picked up at 9:00pm.

As it stands today, we will most likely not be able to have a bon fire due to the Hamilton County fire ban. We will still be able take our hayride and enjoy the corn maze. Students should bring a flashlight with them for the maze.

Parent chaperons are still needed, so if you are free for the evening and would like to join us, please let me know.

Roots WILL meet Thursday October 7th.

And a final reminder that we will be collecting donation items for Operation Christmas Child beginning this Thursday and will be assembling boxes on Thursday October 28th. Parent volunteers are needed to assist on the 28th. Suggested donation items are…school supplies, small toys, hygiene items, hard candy and lollipops (please double bag all candy), mints, gum, t-shirts, socks, ball caps, sunglasses, hair clips, toy jewelry, watches, flashlights.

Taming the Tongue

On Thursday, September 23rd, 23 5th and 6th graders got together for a great night of fun and fellowship at the church while learning a great lesson about respect and taming the tongue. It is so much fun seeing the "high energy" of the 5th and 6th graders and yet at the same time seeing them connect with God.

We had fun as we played dodge ball to pen the evening. But, we got serious and watched a video about Operation Christmas Child and sang a worship song before going into our connection games (4 corners and will it float). We then had our lesson via Club Respect on Taming the Tongue. The students then broke up into small groups to talk among their grade/gender on how they are with taming the tongue.

Hope to see you next Thursday.