Come to Breakaway this next Tuesday to eat some dinner, have some fun, and be challenged as we say “so long” to our 8th graders and “hello” to summer!

Our leaders will be working the grill and cooking you hot dogs and burgers, so make sure you come hungry!

We’re going to summer camp at Hume Lake from July 27th-August 2nd!

Click on the link below to get all the forms and info you need.

Hume Lake Info. Packet

Prices:

May – $425

June – $455

July – $475

Partial scholarships are available. Fill out this form and send it into the office to apply.
Questions? Call Bobbi @ 940-2600.

This past Tuesday night was absolutely incredible!

We took time out and asked some questions about something that we do at Breakaway – musical worship.

We answered some “why” questions and took a deeper look at some of the songs we sing.  We also set up some things around the auditorium to use as creative ways to worship God.

It was so cool for me to have a guest band come and lead us and to see a bunch of our students connecting with God in different ways…spending time on your knees in prayer, lifting your hands and giving yourselves to God through the songs, writing out your prayers, painting to express your worship, reading through sections of the Bible, and more.

My question for you all is this:

What was your favorite part of the night and why?

The competition’s over and the points have been added up!

 The winner of our team competition is ALL!

1. All  5,331,000

2.Cheer  5,144,000

3. Tide  4,121,000

4. Surf  3,987,000

Great job this year everybody!

All team members: you will be getting details in the mail in the next few days about your trip to Boomers on next Tuesday!

Why do we sing at church?

What do the songs really mean?

What if I hate singing?

Join us this Tuesday night at 7:00 as a guest worship band leads us in understanding the answers to these questions.

Alright, I showed everyone at Breakaway this past week how to leave a comment on our page.

We know that a whole bunch of people are checking the page out, but not many people are interacting with it.  That’s pretty typical with a lot of blogs, but I want to change that.

So here’s the deal:  Leave a comment – say “hi” – tell me how your week is going – tell me what you’re most looking forward to during this summer – say whatever you want…just leave a comment, your name, and your favorite candy bar.

I’ll bring you your favorite candy bar next Tuesday.

Simple.

{To leave a comment, click on the title of the post, scroll down and start typing}

check them out!!!

Students and Parents:
We’ve been trying to shift more and more from old-fashioned mail to e-mail…

The more we do this, the more we are relying on having up-to-date contact information for everyone (such as e-mail addresses and cell phone numbers).

If you want to make sure you’re getting all of the latest e-mails and updates, please fill out this form, and then e-mail it to me and we’ll make sure we get it in our database.

Toodles!

I like to earn things – I don’t want you to give me any freebies…

I’ve been listening to a lot of new music lately and it’s really been refreshing to me.  Sometimes something as seemingly insignificant as music can change the way you think about life.   It can make you think about ideas and concepts that, for one reason or another, you have chosen to ignore.

One song (which I added to the playlist at the bottom of the page) that has done this for me is called “How He Loves”.

The song has reminded me of several things:

1. I stand before God empty-handed; there is nothing that I can give him that did not come from him in the first place
2. There are times when I treat God like trash
3. The only thing I deserve from God is to be punished and ignored
4. Yet, God not only offers forgiveness to me, but he loves me passionately and pursues me daily

Above, I have no problem remembering 1-3.  Number 4 is the one that I tend to forget.
We need to be reminded of the amazing love of God.
How even though we have nothing to offer him, he is madly in love with us.  Though we have earned and deserve nothing good, he gives us more than we could dream of.

I don’t care who you are or what you’ve done;  understand this:
God is passionately in love with you and values you more than you could ever imagine.  You can never do enough “good stuff” to earn his love – you don’t deserve it (we deserve the exact opposite) – YET, he has done everything he could possibly do to display that love.  All we need to do is accept it.

Please, remember God’s love for you.

God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

1 John 4.9-10

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8.38-39

1st:     All        4,509,000

2nd:  Cheer  4,355,000

3rd:   Surf        3,581,000

4th:   Tide       3,275,000