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Greetings my Spongey Friends. The call to all of us this summer is to Sponge-it-UP. Every good sponge soaks and wrings out, right? So goes the life of a follower of Jesus Christ. Let's make this a summer like no other. You only get one "Summer of 2021" and the challenge is to be intentional in your efforts to grow closer to God, that "...He may increase, and you may decrease..." (John 3:30 para). Be INTENTIONAL in growing together in community with others, and intentionally serve, share, and love people in the name of Jesus.
If any of these things stand out to you, talk to your parents, and email the person involved.
If you have any events to add to this list, email toddjohn13@protonmail.com!
Soaking it Up!
Bible Study via Until Unity, by Francis Chan <--- Click Link for more Info
Sundays beginning June 13th @ 7:00-9pm
Led by Todd Johnson, for youth and an adult or two if they want.
Contact: toddjohn13@protonmail.com
Fellowship, prayer, Bible Study, Campfire Worship.
Unity is not "total agreement" or "unanimous decision". It's so much richer than that. Come find out what the Bible says about Unity!
Mature Youth finishing 8th grade and above.
DBS Bible Study & Accountability to Read your Bible this Summer!
Dates TBD
If you want to stay in the word this summer, you can join a rag tag band of brothers and sisters in Christ who want to grow closer to Jesus through studying his Word. Meet throughout the summer, but be prepared to help keep each other accountable by text message, too. Want to commit to staying in the Word all summer, join up and email toddjohn13@protonmail.com.
Student Leader Needed
Summer Ultimate Frisbee Club.
Days/Times TBD
Details are emerging, but if you would like to be apart of this, Message Conner Schilaty at cnschilaty@gmail.com
Hiking at Oxbow
There is an opportunity to hike at 10am when PATH ends. If you are interested in staying connected with PATH Peeps, we can meet at various parks "Off the Beaten PATH" throughout the summer. Soak up those Christ centered friendships!
Wringing it Out!
Copper Hill, TN Outreach
DEADLINE is May 2nd
Dates Sunday to Saturday - July 4-10
Travel Info: We will depart Calvary Evangelical Free Church at 6am on Sunday July 4th. We will return to Rochester before midnight on the 10th.
7th Grade and Above
Cost ~$400
DEADLINE to Solidify Interest is May 2.
Current Number Attending: 8 with 15 considering.
We will SHOW Christ's love to the poor and marginalized in the Mountains of TN. We will also have FUN at the camp when we are done with a full day's work. This trip has been fully vetted, and it is a GO. An information session will appear here at some point. Inquiries email toddjohn13@protonmail.com.
For a very broad overview, visit - https://www.teameffort.org/copperhill-tn
Students will work 9-4 M, T, W and then work 9-1 on Thursday. Thursday afternoon-Friday evening and all other evenings students are free to enjoy the "church camp" atmosphere. Evening worship and teaching for one hour every night at 8pm.
Please consider bringing friends who have never met the Lord. If they are ready, they will meet him here.
Border Outreach - Brownsville TX
This Trip is currently Full - Please Pray for our Waymaker to make a way into the hearts of those crossing the border, in respite centers. Please lift up our team in prayer!
Dates ~ May 30-June 6, possibly additional trips to follow.
Cost ~$400
This opportunity is emerging. There is a big need at the border to share the love of Jesus. We have a known association, established missionaries, and local churches asking for help.
Mature Youth 10th Grade+ only
Sleep in a church, hand out water, supplies, sanitation kits, New Testaments, and share the Gospel with a translator.
This is a "Do Hard Things" trip. Mature believing youth with a passion to love in the hard places.
We are praying for a pipeline into unaccompanied minor centers that are the center of American news at this moment. But at this time there are no inroads due to high security clearance.
This trip is not plug and play, has some risk, and will need to be supported at home in prayer...It s limited to 8 people, including up to 2 adults.
All the questions have been asked. "How could people from MN make a dent, when there are so many churches in TX?" "How could we be useful when we don't speak Spanish?" "Mature youth can help share the Gospel as people cross the border? Really?" All have been confirmed by established missionaries under the Texas Baptists. More information here: https://www.texasbaptists.org/ministries/river-ministry-and-mexico-missions
What we will do "exactly" is emerging.
Child Evangelism Fellowship & Backyard Bible Clubs
Training: May 20 6-9pm & May 21 9a-3pm at Living Hope Community Church in Chatfield. For youth OR to register your home: Sign Up Here
Imagine yourself in a team of 3, ready to deploy to three area houses in a day. Your goal will be to operate a 2 hour long event at this home that resembles a VBS. There is music, games, food, and Bible teachings. Three of you operate the Backyard Bible club from 9-11, and then travel to another home to do the club from 11:30-1:30. Then the last home at 2-4. You close the day in worship and prayer, lifting up those you have reached with the Gospel. THEN.........you GET UP.......and do it again!!! For five days. It's like a Mobile VBS.
Child Evangelism Fellowship will train you on how this works. It is very plug and play, and they are seeing massive response here in Minnesota. They are also seeing the "Teen Missionaries" grow like crazy and many become missionaries after high school.
They help with EVERYTHING! They train the host homes, and the Teen leaders. They help with flyer distribution and strategy, and support you in prayer.
Dates of training will be over a Friday Evening, Saturday all day in May at a local church. If you have an interest in this, email toddjohn13@protonmail.com
There is a great harvest going on through this ministry, with many unchurched children coming to know Jesus! We need people to PRAY, to HOST, and to SERVE.
You can volunteer for just one week, or multiple weeks. Imagine if just 9 PATH Peeps did one week of this. You could reach nearly 100-200 kids for Christ in just one week. And the goal is not churched kids!
Host Training: TBD
Email toddjohn13@protonmail.com if you want to be apart of this or if you have questions.
More info can be found here: https://www.cefonline.com/
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Greetings my Spongey Friends. The call to all of us this summer is to Sponge-it-UP. Every good sponge soaks and wrings out, right? So goes the life of a follower of Jesus Christ. Let's make this a summer like no other. You only get one "Summer of 2021" and the challenge is to be intentional in your efforts to grow closer to God, that "...He may increase, and you may decrease..." (John 3:30 para). Be INTENTIONAL in growing together in community with others, and intentionally serve, share, and love people in the name of Jesus.
If any of these things stand out to you, talk to your parents, and email the person involved.
If you have any events to add to this list, email toddjohn13@protonmail.com!
Soaking it Up!
Bible Study via Until Unity, by Francis Chan <--- Click Link for more Info
Sundays beginning June 13th @ 7:00-9pm
Led by Todd Johnson, for youth and an adult or two if they want.
Contact: toddjohn13@protonmail.com
Fellowship, prayer, Bible Study, Campfire Worship.
Unity is not "total agreement" or "unanimous decision". It's so much richer than that. Come find out what the Bible says about Unity!
Mature Youth finishing 8th grade and above.
DBS Bible Study & Accountability to Read your Bible this Summer!
Dates TBD
If you want to stay in the word this summer, you can join a rag tag band of brothers and sisters in Christ who want to grow closer to Jesus through studying his Word. Meet throughout the summer, but be prepared to help keep each other accountable by text message, too. Want to commit to staying in the Word all summer, join up and email toddjohn13@protonmail.com.
Student Leader Needed
Summer Ultimate Frisbee Club.
Days/Times TBD
Details are emerging, but if you would like to be apart of this, Message Conner Schilaty at cnschilaty@gmail.com
Hiking at Oxbow
There is an opportunity to hike at 10am when PATH ends. If you are interested in staying connected with PATH Peeps, we can meet at various parks "Off the Beaten PATH" throughout the summer. Soak up those Christ centered friendships!
Wringing it Out!
Copper Hill, TN Outreach
DEADLINE is May 2nd
Dates Sunday to Saturday - July 4-10
Travel Info: We will depart Calvary Evangelical Free Church at 6am on Sunday July 4th. We will return to Rochester before midnight on the 10th.
7th Grade and Above
Cost ~$400
DEADLINE to Solidify Interest is May 2.
Current Number Attending: 8 with 15 considering.
We will SHOW Christ's love to the poor and marginalized in the Mountains of TN. We will also have FUN at the camp when we are done with a full day's work. This trip has been fully vetted, and it is a GO. An information session will appear here at some point. Inquiries email toddjohn13@protonmail.com.
For a very broad overview, visit - https://www.teameffort.org/copperhill-tn
Students will work 9-4 M, T, W and then work 9-1 on Thursday. Thursday afternoon-Friday evening and all other evenings students are free to enjoy the "church camp" atmosphere. Evening worship and teaching for one hour every night at 8pm.
Please consider bringing friends who have never met the Lord. If they are ready, they will meet him here.
Border Outreach - Brownsville TX
This Trip is currently Full - Please Pray for our Waymaker to make a way into the hearts of those crossing the border, in respite centers. Please lift up our team in prayer!
Dates ~ May 30-June 6, possibly additional trips to follow.
Cost ~$400
This opportunity is emerging. There is a big need at the border to share the love of Jesus. We have a known association, established missionaries, and local churches asking for help.
Mature Youth 10th Grade+ only
Sleep in a church, hand out water, supplies, sanitation kits, New Testaments, and share the Gospel with a translator.
This is a "Do Hard Things" trip. Mature believing youth with a passion to love in the hard places.
We are praying for a pipeline into unaccompanied minor centers that are the center of American news at this moment. But at this time there are no inroads due to high security clearance.
This trip is not plug and play, has some risk, and will need to be supported at home in prayer...It s limited to 8 people, including up to 2 adults.
All the questions have been asked. "How could people from MN make a dent, when there are so many churches in TX?" "How could we be useful when we don't speak Spanish?" "Mature youth can help share the Gospel as people cross the border? Really?" All have been confirmed by established missionaries under the Texas Baptists. More information here: https://www.texasbaptists.org/ministries/river-ministry-and-mexico-missions
What we will do "exactly" is emerging.
Child Evangelism Fellowship & Backyard Bible Clubs
Training: May 20 6-9pm & May 21 9a-3pm at Living Hope Community Church in Chatfield. For youth OR to register your home: Sign Up Here
Imagine yourself in a team of 3, ready to deploy to three area houses in a day. Your goal will be to operate a 2 hour long event at this home that resembles a VBS. There is music, games, food, and Bible teachings. Three of you operate the Backyard Bible club from 9-11, and then travel to another home to do the club from 11:30-1:30. Then the last home at 2-4. You close the day in worship and prayer, lifting up those you have reached with the Gospel. THEN.........you GET UP.......and do it again!!! For five days. It's like a Mobile VBS.
Child Evangelism Fellowship will train you on how this works. It is very plug and play, and they are seeing massive response here in Minnesota. They are also seeing the "Teen Missionaries" grow like crazy and many become missionaries after high school.
They help with EVERYTHING! They train the host homes, and the Teen leaders. They help with flyer distribution and strategy, and support you in prayer.
Dates of training will be over a Friday Evening, Saturday all day in May at a local church. If you have an interest in this, email toddjohn13@protonmail.com
There is a great harvest going on through this ministry, with many unchurched children coming to know Jesus! We need people to PRAY, to HOST, and to SERVE.
You can volunteer for just one week, or multiple weeks. Imagine if just 9 PATH Peeps did one week of this. You could reach nearly 100-200 kids for Christ in just one week. And the goal is not churched kids!
Host Training: TBD
Email toddjohn13@protonmail.com if you want to be apart of this or if you have questions.
More info can be found here: https://www.cefonline.com/
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