win a free mission experience!!!...
...but it's not going to be easy, or else it wouldn't be worth it. you
have from the time you read this, until june 8th at 6pm.
...as you hopefully have come to know, i enjoy giving free stuff. this
comes out of my knowledge that God's grace for us is free, and
thus we can be saved through faith in Jesus Christ. it also comes
because i think the church should have cool stuff. what better then
to go serve people for absolutely (or almost) nothing!
...below are the events that you may earn points for, with the
highest scorer in junior high and senior high winning $200 towards
their mission experiences. second place in each grade grouping
will earn $50 towards their mission experiences. this is done a lot
on the honor system, but notify david by paper, e-mail or voicemail
of your accomplishments (if you just tell him, he'll forget).
see who's winning
...the stuff
"to become great, one must truly humble themselves first"
faithfulness category (you know, to your church that you love)
- attendance at sunday school/sunday night (20 points)
[can only be counted for one sunday school session a week]
- attendance at a sunday or wednesday worship experience (25
points)
[sign in with appointed adult at entrance to chapel
celebration center or back of sanctuary]
- attendance of a church festivity or gathering outside of sunday
morning/sunday night youth activities or worship. (27 points)
[must have parent authentication]
- perform administrative or maintenance tasks as assigned by david
or youth summer staff (15 points per task...35 if it takes longer
than an hour)
(examples of tasks :: help with newsletter, inventory
youth closet, vacuum youth room, take out trash,
handling recycling of cans, etc.)
- recording a passage of scripture that you find meaningful and
writing a half page journal entry of how it affects the way you live
and follow Christ. (13 points per passage, max of 5)
- making or creating an art piece, photograph display or likewise to
temporarily decorate the youth hallway or youth rooms. (20 points)
- moving a mountain (one that is bigger than you...like a real one).
(1,000,000 points)
- finishing the prayer challenge (67 points)
[must do with parent or adult mentor]
- answering the weekly trivia question that will be at the top of the
weekly e-mail. (5 points for correct answer)
hopefullness category (Jesus is all about hope you know)
- submission of detailed plans for a sunday night activity, including
materials needed, plan for schedule and pulling it off, volunteers
needed, space needed, etc. (15 points, max 5)
- submission of an editorial to a newspaper concerning an article
that intrigued you. (45 points, max 5)
[copy me on the letter you send or e-mail that you send]
- attending a day of work with your mother/father/guardian and
helping them with their duties. (13 points)
[for non-paid workers/stay at home parents, anything you
normally volunteer in would work for this]
- find Jesus' ossuary (1,000,000 points)
- be the first to spot Jesus' second coming (do points really matter if
this happens?)
loving category (we are called to love in just about every verse of the
new testament you realize)
- participating in a service project (50 points per day)
[god squad counts for this]
- organizing and leading other youth and adults in a service project
(150 points per day)
- donating items to others in need. (5 points per item, unlimited)
- donating your favorite clothing item (50 points)
[must have parent's attestation]
- organizing a food, clothing, etc. drive and following through with it
until all of the collected items are delivered to whatever
agency/group you'd like to give to (not countryside). (150 points)
- giving every single person at a youth event a hug (12 points)
- visiting at a retirement home/hospice (60 points)
- establishing world peace. (1,000,000,000 points)
- ending world poverty (1,000,000,000 points)
- ending poverty in topeka (1,000,000,000 points)
****note :: leadership may award points in increments of 10 bonus points
for noticeably Christ-like behavior. This includes but is not limited to
actions that you cannot measure, such as being invitational and
welcoming to anyone and everyone, being a servant, being enthusiastic
and active, etc. this will be dolled out by any youth staff or volunteer
who has been given authority to do so...but that is a secret, so don't try
showing off...that's not the point.*****
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