MOVIE NIGHT

Storm Movie Night: Friday, January 14th. 7 PM to 10 PM. GIRLS bring the munchie snacks, BOYS bring the drinks!

High School Winter Retreat

High School Winter Retreat is Coming!  Sign Up Now!  Price is only $65 if you act NOW!  Dates are Friday, January 28 through Sunday, January 30.  You DON'T want to miss this!

Youth Christmas Caroling 2010

FOOD DRIVE !

Steak Dinner Fundraiser !

HAYRACK RIDES

628 will meet in the Church Parking Lot this Sunday,

October 10th at 4:30 PM to go to the Shaff Farm for their Hayrack Ride and Bonfire. Bring your own drink!


STORM High School Youth Group will have their Hayrack Ride on Wednesday, October 13th. Meet in our Parking Lot at 5:30 PM. We will be heading out to the Rus Farm in Albany, IL. Bring your favorite drink.

EVERYONE INVITE A FRIEND. Hot Dogs and S'mores will be provided.

SYATP 2010

CANOE TRIP

Depending on river conditions, we plan to take our annual Canoe Trip on the Maquoketa River on Saturday, September 4.  As soon as more details become available, they will be posted here.  Save the Date:  Saturday, September 4th.

*The river has flooded and is experiencing sediment issues.  Will update ASAP.

"To Save A LIfe" Screening

If you missed the original screening of "To Save A Life" or you want to watch it again (and invite a friend), we will be attending a FREE showing of this movie at First Free Church in Moline on Saturday, September 11th.

*FREE but please bring some money so we can all enjoy a meal together at a local restaurant in Davenport. (Qdoba or Pancheros or Chic-fil-A).

We will depart the Church Parking Lot at 5 PM on that Saturday, in order to grab a bite to eat before the film.

ALL Students AND Parents are welcome to join us.

SEE YOU AT THE POLE

The annual See You At The Pole will take place on your school campus (around the Flag Pole) about 45-30 minutes prior to your school day starting. The day is Wednesday, September 22. This will be a time of prayer for your school, your friends, and your teachers. This is a powerful statement of your faith to your friends and teachers--and you may be surprised to find your other friends there too.

There will be an After Rally at Heritage Church in Rock Island. We will be departing from the Church Parking Lot at 5:30 PM that Wednesday evening. Plan to bring some money to eat out at Red Robin in Davenport on our way back.

628 Fall Retreat

628 Fall Retreat at Camp Shalom in Maquoketa begins Friday, September 24 and ends Sunday, September 26.  Cost is $48 per student.  This will be a great weekend of team-building and a fantastic way to kick-off the Fall.  Meet at the Church Parking Lot that Friday at 5:30 PM to load up and head out!  See Pastor John for more details.

"MOVING UP" Family Cook-Out

Our Annual "Moving Up" Family Cook-Out will be held on Friday, August 6 from 6PM to 8PM.  ALL families of students entering Sixth Grade to Twelfth Grade this fall are invited to come out to this event.  Please RSVP Pastor John or the Church Office a number of how many are planning to attend.  Please RSVP by Wednesday, August 4.

SIX FLAGS GREAT AMERICA

PRICE CUT! Now $60
We are planning a trip to Six Flags Great America in Chicagoland. The trip is planned for Monday, August 2. We will meet in the church parking lot at 6:30 AM and depart as soon as everyone is loaded into the Charter Bus. There are only 30 seats available on the Charter Bus. Bus tickets are $33 dollars each and Park tickets are $33 dollars each = bringing the total to $66 Now $60! dollars per person. This is cheaper than the $70 dollar ticket at the gate! We MUST sell the 30 seats. Sign up and bring your $33 deposit Pastor John by Wednesday, July 21. This trip is open to ANYONE in our church. You can invite your friends and Pastor John may also let area youth groups know about this trip in order to sell the 30 seats. Hurry! Limited Seating! What A Day of Fun!! You will need extra money for your food and drinks. We may even hold a Car Wash Fundraiser to offset some of the cost of the Bus. Total cost can be reduced based on the money earned from the Car Wash.

COSMIC BOWLING

It's time for Cosmic Bowling. This event is for BOTH 628 and Storm. It will be held on Saturday, July 10th from 9 PM to 11 PM. Bring $11 dollars to be on the safe side. Bring your friends. Let Pastor John know if you are going.

FREE LUNCH FRIDAY

The next Free Lunch Friday will be held on Friday, July 16th from noon to 2 PM outside the gym. Come on out, bring a friend, and enjoy some burgers and dogs. We will play Sand Volleyball and Ultimate Frisbee. Absolutely FREE Event.

SERVICE PROJECT

Come on out and lend a hand on Saturday, July 17th from 8 AM to 3 PM. The project house is located at 29th Ave North and North Second Street in Clinton. YOU MUST complete the Volunteer Sign-Up Sheet. See Pastor John for details. Free Lunch is provided.

FREE LumberKings Game

Attention All Youth: 628 & Storm! Free LumberKings Tickets for Friday, June 11th at 7 PM. See Pastor John for the tickets. Invite a friend. We will meet at the gate at 6:30 PM--bring your ticket that you get from Pastor John.

LIFE HURTS, God Heals...Continues

Tonight at Storm, as part of our Life Hurts, God Heals study--we will be viewing and discussing this powerful DVD talk by Louie Giglio--"Hope: When Life Hurts Most". What do you cling to or where do you turn when life seems to crumble down around you? Tonight, we will look to the cross.

You do not want to miss this session. Make sure you bring a friend.

INCREDIBLE PIZZA

Attention all 628 & Storm Students:

We will meet in the Church Parking Lot at 4:30 PM on this Sunday, May 23 to head down to Davenport to Incredible Pizza! We will return between 8 and 8:30 PM to our Church Parking Lot.

The cost is $15 for All-You-Can-Eat Buffet and a $10 game card. We can play Laser Tag, Mini-Bowling, Mini-Golf, or Bumper Cars plus a plethora of video arcade games! You can Invite Your Friends, because everyone wants to be invited somewhere and what a great event to invite them to. Let Pastor John know if you are attending.

Congrats Grads!!

Congratulations to the Class of 2010! Good Luck and Study Hard to our Grads:
Sherry N. * Matt J. * John H. * John M. * Natalie B. * Wendy VP. *
Graduation Sunday is Sunday, May 23.

Gorilla !!

A random Gorilla at the UNITE Retreat.

MOVIE NIGHT for 628 & Storm

Friday Evening, May 14th from 7pm to 9pm come on out to the Youth Room for Hot Dogs with all the fixin's, chips, and drinks as we watch the movie the "Blind Side". Bring a friend--even if you've seen the movie, it's worth seeing again.

Life Hurts, God Heals

Storm will begin a new study starting in June on Wednesday nights 7pm to 9pm. When life crumbles around you, where do you turn? When you've been wounded by a broken relationship, how do you handle it? This study will give you life tools to help you heal those hurts and help you as you struggle through this thing called "life". From May 12 to May 26, we will be walking through 3 weeks of lessons entitled "Scarred" in order to prepare us for "Life Hurts, God Heals". Make sure you and your friends come out to learn from these life lessons.

628 Fun Night

Come out and join us for a Middle School Fun Night. We plan on sharing this fun night with First United Methodist Church (Jeremy Penn's Group). This will be held Friday Evening, April 16th from 7 PM to 9 PM. Be sure to invite a friend!!

Passion 2011 Live Link

Passion 2011 Live Link. March 8. 7 PM to 9:30 PM at the McClungs' House. Hot Wings & Snacks.

The Passion 2011 Live Link will unite the 268 Generation around the world through the power of the internet. In addition to singing some of the new songs from Passion: Awakening, we’ll be praying together and talking about plans for Passion 2011.

All you need to be a part of the Passion 2011 Live Link is a internet connection! [A high speed connection will help.] You might be joining us all alone from your dorm, with a group of friends at your church or with your whole ministry group at an on-campus location. We have already heard from students who are planning to link in from their spring break mission project in Guatemala. So wherever/however you link with us, the whole idea is that you not miss this night!

Taco Bar Luncheon Fundraiser

Our students will be selling 10 tickets each to our Taco Bar Luncheon. The proceeds will assist our students in attending the Unite 2010 Retreat in April. The luncheon will be held at noon on Sunday, March 14th. Adults $6
Children aged 8 and under $3
Open to All. Please join us.

Winter Jam 2010 -- iWireless Center--Friday, March 12--$10--Doors Open at 6PM
We will be leaving the Church Parking Lot at 5:15 PM on that Friday.
You Don't Want to Miss This Concert! NewsBoys, Third Day, Tenth Avenue North, Fireflight, and more!

The Truth Project -- Storm High School Students

Storm High School Youth are about to embark on a challenging study--The Truth Project. What is Truth and how do you know that it's correct?

Focus on the Family says this about The Truth Project:

"In a recent study, the Barna Research Group revealed a stunning statistic that continues to reverberate throughout the evangelical world. Only 9 percent of professing Christians have a biblical worldview.

Because of this, today's believers live very similarly to non-believers. A personal sense of significance is rarely experienced, we spend our money and time on things that fail to satisfy and we begin to wonder what life's ultimate purpose really is. We are, in short, losing our bearings as a people and a nation.

To counter this slide within the body of Christ, we are launching one of the most ambitious and powerful projects in the history of our ministry—Focus on the Family's The Truth Project.

The Truth Project is a DVD-based small group curriculum comprised of 12 one-hour lessons taught by Dr. Del Tackett. This study is the starting point for looking at life from a biblical perspective. Each lesson discusses in great detail the relevance and importance of living the Christian worldview in daily life.

We believe this one project represents the possibility for exponential change within the body of Christ, as we expect that thousands will be transformed by this curriculum. As it has been throughout history, God continues to call ordinary people to make an eternal difference in our world."

Come out to Storm Youth Group, every Wednesday beginning at 7 PM. You won't want to miss out on this study! Bring your friends!

Annual Valentines Banquet

We need your help! All High School Youth--help us out for the Annual Valentines Banquet. We need you to serve tables and a two girls for child care. Servers need to wear a white top and khaki pants (a bit different this year). You will need to report to the church kitchen at 5:15 PM on Friday, February 12. This is a great way to serve our folks at the church! See you there!

Planet Wisdom

You do NOT want to miss this opportunity! We will
be attending Planet Wisdom, Live Via Satellite
on Friday, February 19 and Saturday, February 20. We will be heading down to First Free Church in Moline for this exciting event: The Last 14 Hours of Christ's Life.
We will be departing our church parking lot at 4:45 PM on Friday evening--we will be having a Pizza Party there & it starts at 5:30 PM--the actual conference starts at 7 PM (so, if you need to come late--no problem). On Saturday morning we will depart our parking lot at 7 AM to get down there by 8:30 AM. The cost is $15 per student to cover all of your food. This is for Middle School & High School students. Let Pastor John know before Friday, February 12 if you will be going.

TO SAVE A LIFE Movie

The movie grossed 1.5 million dollars this opening weekend (and it was shown only in 441 theaters--so you do the math). The theater in Moline had more ticket sales than the theater in Chicago!! The Moline theater has agreed to extend the showings through this upcoming weekend--So you can invite your friends out to see the movie--especially if they haven't seen it yet.

Don't know the warning signs of Suicide? Click Here

Did you know that suicide is the third leading cause of death among students aged 10 to 19?

BIG YOUTH WEEKEND AHEAD

This Saturday @ 7 PM: Pizza, Dodge Ball, & Rod Handley *FREE*
Invite your friends

This Sunday: "To Save A Life" Movie. Departing from church parking lot at 2:45 to go to Moline to catch the 4:15 PM showing. Tickets are $7 and Pastor John has advance ordered tickets.

PARENTS: Important New Study Released

Important new study released by the Kaiser Family Foundation on Media and Teens.

Click Here

4:15 PM showing in Moline on Sunday, January 24.
See Pastor John for details and read post below.

Our next big youth event is scheduled for Saturday, January 23 @ 7 PM. Nationally known author and speaker, Rod Handley, will be here to challenge our youth on Character, Integrity, and Accountability. We will be playing DodgeBall and eating Pizza beforehand. Invite a friend out to this event! This event is for Middle & High School Students!

TO SAVE A LIFE Movie

We will be buying tickets soon. We will be attending the 4:15 showing of this movie on Sunday, January 24, 2010. Meet in the Church Parking Lot at 2:45 PM in order to carpool to Moline. The movie will be playing at Great Escape Movie Theater in Moline (John Deere Exit). This movie is rated PG-13 for content. Middle School parents are encouraged to view this movie with their students. Parents of Middle School students--please see Pastor John regarding the content of this movie. Parents are encouraged to view this movie with their Middle School students. For more information, contact Pastor John.

PARENTS: Controversial New Study Claims Spanking Your Child Leads to Better Adulthood

I was spanked often!
Click Here for the Article

PARENT ADVICE: Help Your Teens Drive Safely

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POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER

Storm Youth Group will go on as planned. Be Careful while you travel.

IMPACT Video

IMPACT 2010

IMPACT Update #3

We had a good weekend and a great speaker who challenged us to live for God and swim against the stream of our culture (Live the Backward Life).

We served at a local Women and Children's shelter. We sorted through donated items and tried to tidy up a bit. We also stuffed ourselves at Spaghetti Works.
And the girls went wild over the Jeremy Sanoski Band.

IMPACT Update #2

This is the morning session of Day 2 of IMPACT. We had some awesome challenges put before us from Romans 12:1-2. The basic topic was purity. Offering ourselves and our bodies as living sacrifices in order to glorify God. The discussion questions were very relevant and thought-provoking. We had bagged lunches full of ham & swiss sandwiches, chips, & cookies. Next up--we go to a couple Break Out sessions of varying topics. This afternoon, we will do our service project and we are all looking forward to dinner this evening at Spaghetti Works! I plan on posting some video this evening of our day...stay tuned.

IMPACT Update #1

We made it to IMPACT a bit late. Sherry's new Tom Tom tried to take us to Minnesota--but we made it to our correct destination. We entered the fist session just as the Jeremy Sanoski Band was wrapping up the opening worship songs. Our speaker, Jarrod Jones, spoke from the passage Romans 8:14-16. We are adopted as God's children and we can have an initmate relationship with Him--one so close that we can refer to Him as "Abba, Daddy". We can be released from our chains of sin. We then got in our small groups to discuss our questions...and then we hung out talking and playing cards....Tomorrow is a full day...stay tuned!