Hey ya'll! What an exciting winter: 2 months of "Worldliness", V-Day dessert buffet and our Wednesday "creation" discussions as well as our Thursday "Transformational Servant Leadership" training continue! Best of all, we've had teens make decisions to trust God's leading in their lives, jettison worldly baggage, commit to mission trips and ministry incentives and even clean out their closets! Praise Jesus! If you'd like to get in on all the excitement; just give Andy a call (507) 202-2422, e-mail pastorandy@hefc.net or find him on facebook!

     28 APR: our last "creation" session together and we're inviting you to bring a friend and join us for "Expelled" the movie. We'll start at 7 pm in the "Upper Room" with refreshments and the film and then stick around a while for the Q & A open forum. This is a family friendly place to openly discuss all kinds of perspectives on creation, open theism, theistic evolution, your biology class and much more!

Lots of exciting events coming soon to a family near you! All summer we'll be meeting off and on in our youth family's homes - that means bonfires, big-screen TVs, serious snackage (like s-mores), basketball, volleyball and Frisbees!

     Also once a month we're going to be featuring a movie that comes highly recommended from Andy: April 28 (Expelled - with an open Q & A forum following), May (Faith Like Potatoes), June (Amazing Grace), July (Time Changer), August (Facing the Giants - our school-year kick-off for our Fall sermon series, "Is God Your Personal Trainer?"), September (the last movie of the season relevant to our series, "Chariots of Fire"). You know you're gonna watch movies, eat popcorn and have fun this summer anyway - why not pick a family that really "needs to get out more" and do it together! APR-JUN will all be on Wednesday nights - check our blog, newsletters, and "Upper Room" listings for dates and times!

     Don't get confused!! We still have student ministry opportunities for students to come out and help with service projects this Spring, Summer and Fall. These will be different than the rent-a-teen incentive for BUMP. When you contact Andy Wallman to set up a job with him just indicate whether or not it's a paid job and he'll set you up with either a BUMPer or members of the youth group will come out to serve. It's all to the praise of His glory anyway so don't wait - give us a chance to serve you this summer!

     18 APR: Parents, students (and those interested in leadership): it's time, once again, for our semi-annual parent/student/leader luncheon. April 18^th we meet right after our Sunday morning gathering (around 12:00 noon) for a bit of prayer, fellowship and good food. Immediately following, we cover up-coming events, introductions, some updates from our teachers and leadership and open the floor for questions and prayer requests. The whole thing usually lasts only about an hour and a half. Please come and support Hope student ministries.

     Finally, please help us with coordinating our needs for our new youth intern, Andrew Voigt. He's going to be working closely with a few of our students that are interested and have been training in student ministry this past year - including Kainah Carroll and Josh Schwenk. Andrew is coming from the new pastoral ministries program at Northwestern College, St. Paul, and is looking for paid work while he's here helping Hope Student Ministries. Also, we'd like to "farm" him out to folks who are interested in having him stay in their homes for a few weeks at a time. He's only here from the 1^st week of June till the middle of August so grab him while you can. Contact Andy Wallman.

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Biblical Virtue to Pray for our Kids - During this Resurrection season let us pray that our children will experience salvation.  "Lord, let salvation spring up within my children, that they may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory" (Is 45:8, 2 Tim 2:10

    AWANA is in the home stretch but we're not slowing down.  With closing ceremonies scheduled for April 26 we press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called us.  I am amazed as I look back over the year at the number of verses that have been learned and the number of visitors we have had the privilege of welcoming into God's house.  As always we really appreciate all the prayers offered for this ministry.  Please pray specifically for our AWANA leaders as Satan continues to attack, attempting to deceive or distract us from spreading the gospel.  We also ask you to pray for families as we continue to see an erosion in respect for Gods sovereignty being modeled and taught within the family.  We know God answers prayer.  We have seen many examples of God's faithfulness this year and received many answers to prayer.  As we head into the final weeks of club for this year we want to pause and offer praise to God for all that he has done, for all that he has provided, and for all that he is going to do. 

April 10        10:00 am - 12:00 Practice runs for Grand Prix

April 10        6:00 pm - 8:00 Grand Prix Race

 

April 19        Last Awana night to say verses

April 26        6:30 pm Awana Closing Ceremonies for the

                    whole family

 

In service,  Roger Glenn  Director of TNT

 

  

Vacation Bible School 

Here are a few dates to remember:

**On Wednesday March 31^st  at 6:30pm we will be having a VBS meeting for the Station Coordinators/Room Leaders.

**On Wednesday May 19^th at 6:30pm we will be having a meeting for ALL VBS LEADERS/WORKERS.

**On Sunday May 3^rd we will begin registration for both the Rockin' Rainforest VBS program (elementary age kids entering 1^st  through 6^th grade), and the Jumpin' Jungle pre-school VBS program (3yrs and potty-trained through entering Kindergarten). Registration fees will be $10 per child with a family max of $25, plus an additional $5 per child if you wish to purchase an optional SonQuest Rainforest t-shirt.