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March Events
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CROSSROADS
3rd-
Tune-Up 9-10:30 am
Crossroads 5-7 pm
8th- Breakaway Check-in 4:30pm
10th-
No Tune Up
Breakaway returns 3pm. Brief Parent/Student meeting in TFCE Main Sanctuary upon return.
No Crossroads Sun eve.
17th-Tune-Up 9-10:30 am
Crossroads 5-7 pm
24th-No Youth Events
31st- Happy Easter! No Youth Events
CORNERSTONE
3rd- Cornerstone: 6:30-8:45pm
8th-10th- Work Crew Weekend: Please arrive at 5:30pm March 8th at Little Falls Presbyterian (6025 Little Falls Rd. Arlington, VA 22207) if you are serving on work crew. Bus will return at 5:30 Sunday March 10th.
10th- NO YOUTH EVENTS
17th- Cornerstone: 6:30-8:45pm
23rd-30th- Senior Florida Trip!
24th- NO YOUTH EVENTS
31st- Happy Easter! No Youth Events!
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PARENTS NEEDED:
Can you HELP with BREAKAWAY CHECK-IN?
Fri, March 8
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We're in need of 15 parents to help check in 300 students for Middle School Breakaway on March 8. We need you from 3:30 to 5:15pm in the Fellowship Hall at The Falls Church Episcopal. If you are able to volunteer for this, please email Betsy Christian betsy@tfcanglican.org ASAP. It's a fun way to help!!!
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YOUTH FAMILY DINNER NEEDS YOU!
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Can you provide SALAD & BREAD, or DESSERT on a Tuesday night? Many openings remain March-May.
Each Tuesday night our 80+ volunteer leaders known as the Youth Family gather for dinner, fellowship, teaching, and training. Salad/bread or dessert to be dropped off at Youth Ministry office, 150 S. Washington St, Suite 100, Falls Church, 22046, by 6pm on scheduled Tuesday or at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church between 6-6:30pm on your scheduled Tuesday.
ID: 84713
Code: cook
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Crossroads Tune-Up
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Tune Up meets every Sunday morning from 9-10:30 am in either the cafeteria at Bishop O'Connell High School or the Black Box Room at Kenmore Middle School (depending on where TFCA worships on Sunday). Bring $$ for breakfast (optional). We begin as a large group and then split by gender for time in the Word.
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SUMMER 2013!!!
Save the Dates!
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Crossroads (Middle School)
FUSION Camp -
June 24-28 (1 week)for rising 6th-8th graders
Rehoboth Beach Trip - July 17
Mission Trip to WV -
July 22-27
Cornerstone(High School)
Fun in the Son/Ocean City, MD-
June 30-July 4
Rehoboth Beach Trip - July 17
Mission Trip to WV - July 22-27
Serving as a Leader for Children's Ministry camp(s)- contact Rheta Guse for details and application.
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Crossroads Grate Patrol
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Want to help serve the homeless breakfast in DC? Our next Grate Patrol opportunity is Saturday morning, April 20. Please email
Eric Garner to participate. Drop off is at 4:50 am in the back parking lot of the 150 S. Washington Street, Falls Church, 22046. Pick up at 10am.
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Cornerstone Dinner Servers Sign Up
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We need 3-4 parents each Sunday night to help serve Cornerstone dinner from 6-7:15 pm at Cherrydale Baptist Church, 3910 Lorcom Lane, Arlington. It entails helping setting up and serving food (like pizza, Chipotle, or subs). If you are interested, please email Preston Hansen.
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Crossroads Dinner Servers Sign Up!
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Arrive at Cherrydale Baptist @ 4:30 pm and leave by approx. 6pm. Help to set-up purchased food (like pizza or Chipotle) for the students. Collect $5 from each student who is eating. Work with approx 2-3 other adult volunteers. (You are sent an email during the week before with detailed instructions.) If you are interested, email Heather Campbell.
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NEED A COOL FLEECE?
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Cornerstone/Crossroads Fleeces are the way to go! Many of you have seen our Youth Family rocking these stylish LLBean Fitness Fleece Pullovers. Now is your chance to get one!(So stop trying to steal Prestons!) First round of fleeces are out there, maybe your friend has one already! Click here
to submit your order!
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West Virginia
Mission Trip
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This is an opportunity to dedicate a few days of your summer to serving low-income families, the disabled, and the elderly. TFCA Youth will be partnering with Son Servants and a local agency, Panther Christian Outreach to do projects such as scraping and painting, repairs, yard work, and building wheelchair ramps.
The cost of $695 includes a place to stay, food during our service days, and transportation to and from WV. Students must attend the car wash on May 11 in order to be eligible for financial assistance. The Youth Staff will also help provide opportunities to raise money through the car wash and other fundraising opportunities.
Registration and a$200 non-refundable deposit are by April 15th.The remaining cost of $495 will be due through fundraising or through your own payment
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8th Grade Weekend is May 3-5!!! Cost: $185
The best way to prepare for high school is to attend 8th Grade Weekend on May 3-5 at Concord Retreat Center. Get ready for paintball, hiking, group games, a bonfire, and more! We talk about what high school is like, how to grow in your relationship with Jesus, and have lots of fun together! Don't miss out on this great weekend! Sign up now! For a registration form, please click here or for online registration. For questions, email Betsy betsy@tfcanglican.org.
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Greetings!
"Breakaway is the greatest weekend ever!" shouted the high school senior as he was heading over to the Spring Center at Rockbridge. "Why do you say that?" I shouted louder than he did. "Because I can be myself and not be around all that fakeness at school!" Kids need authentic relationships, real relationships. How do we provide that at Cornerstone and Crossroads? Are we setting up an environment of trust and care that the kids can relate to, with wholeness and health, all centered in Jesus Christ? I hope we do this. Many would say we do.
How can we move towards this environment more and more? I think that the Youth Family (adult leaders) that call and invest time in students are part of it. I think a core or critical mass of kids that desire to build healthy community is too. I also think a local church that embraces it's young people is a big part too. The Church is the eyes, touch, heart, words of Jesus.
My advice to parents is to get their kids connected to a healthy Christ centered peer group the second they become teenagers. The 5th graders that connect in the summer before middle school begins have the best chance. The 11th graders that try to connect for the first time have a harder time. Making connections early is a good investment. I'm looking forward to teaching a parents class sometime soon where I'll share how connections can form. I see some things form my place I'd love to share.
A weekend like Breakaway is equal to a year of Sunday morning classes. Somehow it just connects and transforms some kids! We have some graded retreat weekends coming up that also make a big difference to youth in their spiritual lives.
When a teenager is driving for the first time, the transitions from the backroads to the highway is one of the tense times for these new drivers. That is true in transitions of adolescence too. Moving into middle school for our 5th to 6th graders can be helped with our Fusion Summer Camp. In addition, I hear all the time from college students that the Senior Florida Trip has been priceless in preparing seniors for life after high school. Junior Weekend gets students ready for the second half of high school and helps them develop leadership skills. 8th Grade Weekend helps unify students as a class and move up together into high school. I know these retreats and Fusion make a difference. I'd encourage you to make them a priority in your family.
I want to let you know about a few things that are developing in the Youth Ministry Office at TFCA. One is our Nehemiah Venture and the other is our Sticky Faith Initiative. The Nehemiah Venture will kick off this summer with a handful of first year college grads that will invest a year with the Youth Staff and Crossroads and Cornerstone to be trained and developed to be effective youth directors for our church plants. We are interviewing a few candidates this week to begin this summer to walk with us thorough the process of building up youth and building a ministry that can be transferred to other church settings. In the Scripture, Nehemiah rebuilt the wall to protect Jerusalem in 52 days. We hope to train up these young people to be ready to disciple young people and build up teams of youth ministers to rebuild the youth ministry wall, so to speak. We will need some host families and some support to make this happen.
The Sticky Faith Initiative is a result of a 7 year study of young people who have been active in youth miniseries in America but demonstrate a high dropout rate after high school. Over 50% of young people who grow up in youth groups like ours, turn from their faith, pulling away from a faith commuinity. Dr. Kara Powell of the Fuller Youth Institute has initiated cohorts to help churches address this issue more effectively. We plan on implementing some of the findings here at The Falls Church Anglican. One striking observation we have found is that if a teenager is connecting with an intergenerational congregation, he or she is far more likely to continue the faith than if he or she is just connecting to their youth group.
Both these new developments are worth keeping an eye on. If you would like to support either of them, please let me know.
 Jim Byrne
301.704.2732
jim@tfcanglican.org
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Middle School Breakaway CLOSED
MARCH 8-10, 2013
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Middle School Breakaway is March 8-10!!!! Please arrive at The Falls Church Episcopal Fellowship Hall 115 E Fairfax St at 4:30pm on Friday, March 8 for check-in. Remember to pack a bag dinner.The buses will not wait for you and they will not be stopping.
We'll return to the church around 3pm on Sunday. Parents, please plan to stay for a short parent/student meeting in the main sanctuary at TFCE upon the students' return.
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SENIOR FLORIDA TRIP
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Class of 2013 it is finally your turn!
Still accepting a few more registrations but $35 late fee now applies.
Time to hit the sand, catch some sun, and ride the waves with all your friends! The Seniors are rollin' to Florida for the best spring break trip ever! This trip will change your life, blow your mind, and rock your world. Get ready for college by learning how to succeed spiritually, mentally, and emotionally during awesome times led by Jim Byrne and staff. Topics: Developing a Spiritual Plan for College, Finding a Church and Fellowship, Time Management, Handling Challenges of College, Living with Roommates,Taking Personal Responsibility. Create memories with your friends at the beach, on a roller coaster, or at the pool! The cost of $599 includes: ocean front hotel, transportation, a day at Islands of Adventure, breakfast for five days and one dinner. You will have to pay for your other meals- traveling, at the beach, and at Islands of Adventure.
Registration with a deposit of $200 and $35 late fee. Full payment due March 18. To register online go to Cornerstone Website.
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Serve the City
Middle School Spring Break Mission
March 26-28, Daily
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Are you in middle school? Do you want to help those in need over your Spring Break? If so, consider coming on our Serve The City mini-mission trip March 26-28. Each morning (you go home at 5:30pm each night) we'll meet at the Youth Office at 7:30am, have a devotion, and then partner with a ministry in DC or Northern Virginia. Activities include organizing and preparing meals for the homeless, spending time with the elderly, and other various service projects. Spots are limited (15) so please apply ASAP. The deadline to sign up is March 16.
Download an application now:
SERVE THE CITY APPLICATION or Email Eric Garner
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Junior Weekend
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Serving Opportunities
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Help Model Service for a Student
How do students learn to be Christlike in a way that will impact them over the long haul? Having relationships with adults in the church is a major contributing factor in an adolescents propensity of pursuing Christ beyond high school. Would you help by serving on Sunday morning alongside a student? The following number of people are needed each Sunday for each responsibility. Could you or your small group help one Sunday a month? Once a semester? If you can help send an email. We'd love to pair you up with some students to tackle a task!!
Worship Set-Up, 6:00-8:00 AM,6 people
Facilities and Signs Set-Up, 7:30-8:30 AM, 4 people
Volunteer Station Set-Up,7:30-8:45 AM, 2 people
Children's Ministry Set-Up,7:45-8:30 AM, 6 people
9:00 AM Parking,8:30-9:15 AM, 6 people
11:00 AM Parking,10:30-11:15 AM,6 people
Worship Take-Down, 12:30-1:30 PM, 6 people
Facilities and Signs Take-Down, 12:30-1:30 PM, 6 people
Children's Ministry Take-Down, 12:30-1:30 PM, 6 people
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