Dear Parents, this Blog is for YOU! I will update you on things coming up for your kids right here!

Parenting Life Group - Every Sunday Night at 6:00 PM 

We are getting parents and youth leaders together to discuss how the church and the family can work together to disciple middle and high school students.  For more information on this, please contact Edward.

Click the following link: http://www.orangeparents.org/ to find out more about what we are discussing.

Super Bowl - Sunday, February 5 (2-5 pm) 

We are getting together to play some Coed Flag Football and we need your help!  We are asking as many parents as can, to join us and provide the food for the day by tailgating the Flag Football Event.  If you can help us, please let Edward know using the contact info at the bottom of this page…

Disciple Now Spring Retreat, March 2-4 

Our annual Spring Retreat where the youth will be staying in homes around our area for a weekend of teaching and building relationships. This is an inexpensive retreat, but we need your help to make things run smoothly and efficiently. A brochure can be found online at www.thecrossroadsfamily.com. Click the Ministries Tab, then the title to the right of the D-Now Pure Life Logo. Brochures are also available at the Welcome Center.

The theme of this weekend is a True Love Waits theme.  We will be teaching and discussing an age-appropriate study about living a life of purity. We will be separating the youth into groups by gender and by grade. Each different group will stay in separate homes. Each home will teach and discuss the material appropriate for the age and gender in the home. Contact Edward for more information regarding the teaching materials for this retreat..

In order for this to be a great weekend, we need your help making it happen...

Host Homes: We need some families to allow us to use your home to host a small group of youth. Our goal is no more than 8 per home.

Meals: We need some parents to provide Breakfast and Lunch for the Host Homes on Saturday morning.

Transportation: We need some parents to assist in transporting youth from their host homes on Saturday, to the church and into Covington and Social Circle for our Scavenger Hunt afternoon activity, then back to the church for a Corporate Worship Time and Commitment Ceremony, then back to the Host Homes that evening. Then to help us transport them to the church Sunday AM.

Commitment Ceremony: There will be a ceremony at the end of our worship on Saturday evening where the youth will be asked to make a commitment to remain pure until they are married. Each youth will receive a silicon band from the youth leaders at this time. We would also like to invite all the parents, who wish to take some time following the ceremony, to give a gift to your child to remember the commitment they make. There will be dessert and coffee provided for all the youth and parents for a fellowship afterwards. A great and inexpensive place to find a gift for your son or daughter is www.c28.com. But you must plan ahead to make sure your gift arrives on time.

Summer Camp, May 28-June 1 

We will be returning to the Christian Retreat Center in Panama City Beach this year for our Summer Camp.  Their website is www.surfsideretreat.org. We are now gathering vendors to be placed on our Discount Cards that the youth will sell to raise the funds needed for this retreat.  The estimated price per person is $285. That means, if your son or daughter sells 29 cards, they go for free.  More information regarding this camp will be coming in the months to come.

Please feel free to contact me at any time regarding the above or any other matter you would like to discuss: Edward Wilkerson, edward@thecrossroadsfamily.com, 404.456.9063