No Youth Group this Sunday

Upset
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This Sunday there will be no Youth Group, Youth meetings will resume Sunday January 6th. Have a wonderful new Year!!

Are you being Fathered

Are you being Fathered
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Did you know that God Fathers us? Many of us may have heard God called Father before but how many of us have really thought about God actually Fathering us? This week we will learn about God as our Father and seek to understand that "The Dad we want is found in the God we have." Come out this Sunday from 6pm to 8pm for find out more.

Christmas Bonfire

Christmas Bonfire
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December 23rd we are having a Bonfire and game night at South Potomac Church. There will be hotdogs, marshmallows and smores. Inside we will be playing some active games. Hope to see you there!

The Cup Coffeehouse

The Cup Coffeehouse
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Movie and Game Night December 21st

Youth Group this Sunday

Ready for Battle
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Youth Group this Sunday from 6pm to 8pm. We will continue our Christmas Series "Great Expectations" This weeks message we will look at how Superhero's relate to God and our everyday lives. You won't want to miss it. Can't wait to see you there!

BONFIRE

Santa in Paradise
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Bonfire December 23rd at South Potomac Church From 6pm to 9pm. Food, Smores and more.

the REAL Mars

the REAL Mars
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Youth Group this Sunday from 6pm to 8pm. We will be starting our Christmas Series called "Great Expectations" this week as well as snacks and games. Hope to see you there!

In the stillness...in the quiet place...You are there

In the stillness...in the quiet place...You are there
Originally uploaded by YouDooAllous

Absent Note

Originally uploaded by The Underground Awakening

Going along with this theme there will not NO YOUTH GROUP Sunday November 18th due to Safe Nights. Have a wonderful thanksgiving...we will be having youth group the following Sunday November 25th.

DODGEBALL THIS SUNDAY!!

Hey everyone,

This Sunday instead of our regular Sunday Night youth meeting we will be playing dodgeball in the worship center of South Potomac Church. We are meeting at our regular time 6pm to 8pm. Hope to see you there.

Homeless Walk

Homeless Walk
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Homeless walk to raise money for Safe Nights. If you are interested in participating please email me or call john.watson@southpotomac.org 301 753 4075

Underground Lock-In Photos are here

Photos from this weekends High School Lock-In have been posted check out this website to see them http://www.flickr.com/photos/theundergroundawakening/

Danni

Danni
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Just one photo from the Underground Lock-In this weekend...click on this photo to check out the rest of them.

SPC Youth Brochure

SPC Youth Brochure
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The outside of the brochure - it's meant to be a tri-fold brochure

SPC Youth Brochure

SPC Youth Brochure
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The Youth Brochure - it's meant to be a tri-fold brochure

Awakening Lock-In Pictures

Pictures from the AWAKENING LOCK-IN are up. Check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/theundergroundawakening/
to see the pictures of the weekend

Blindfolded Roll

Blindfolded Roll
Originally uploaded by The Underground Awakening

The Awakening Lock-In

**LOST**

Hey Guys and Girls,
Someoene seemed to miss place a Digital Camera last sunday at youth group :( And would really like it back! It had several memories on it and they need it back. If anyone has any information reguarding it or can return it to John that would be awesome, no questions asked, but it would be a great blessing if it was returned.
Thanks!! And have a great week!

you could be famous

Hey High schoolers Tom put a movie of you on You Tube check it out at youtube.com the movies called "spc youth games" thanks

The Awakening Lock In

The Awakening Lock In
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The Underground Lock In

The Underground Lock In
Originally uploaded by The Underground Awakening

the Awakening Pictures

Pictures from the awakening concert are finally up. Check out this website http://www.flickr.com/photos/theundergroundawakening/
to see pictures of the awakening festival and for information on the upcoming lock ins for the middle school and high school groups.

The Awakening Music Festival

The Awakening Festival is this Saturday the 15th. We will be meeting at 12:30pm and leaving at 1pm for the concert. We will be going in a bus. If you have not already paid the cost is $13 and if you are able to give a few extra dollars to offset the cost of renting a bus for the day that would be appreciated. Thanks I look forward to seeing you all this weekend.

http://www.awakeningfest.com/Awakening2007/

SUMMER SCHEDULE!!!

Hey ready for the last month and a half of summer!?!? Well the leaders sure are!
Here's whats going on for the smokin middle schoolers and the blazin high schoolers...

Middle Schoolers
July 20...7-9 pm
Mini Golf

High Schoolers
July 28...7-9 pm
Mini Golf

Middle School
July 29...after church
Cobb Island Picnic @ Roger Miller's

High and Middle School
Augest 3...7-9 pm
Ice cream, meet and greet the new youth pastor, social

High and Middle School
Augest 7...7-9pm
Laser Tag @ Hyperspace Fun Center in Hollywood, MD

Middle and High School
Augest 14th..7-9 pm
Sports and Skating night @ Capitol Clubhouse

Everyone
Augest 18-evening
Fireborne performance @ My Brothers Place (Waldorf)

Middle and High School
Augest 24...
Pool Party @ Smallwood swim club

The new guy on the block :)

Hey All!!!

Your girl Lydia here to tell you that we have a new face on board!! His name is John Watson and he is our new youth pastor.

John graduated from Liberty University in Virginia, with a degree in Bible Studies. He is very active outside and with youth. His hobbies include...... Boating, deep sea fishing, photography, and hiking. He has lead small groups at Thomas Road for their middle school and is ready to work with the great youth of SPC!.......at least I hope so :) Let's do our best to welcome here with open arms and get ready for a great time with him!

One Life Mission #1 - Operation Neighborhood

This is your LAST DAY to ask your neighbors if they have anything we can take off their hands for our Burn Yard Sale tomorrow! A portion of the yard sale profits will go towards our "One Life accounts" for AIDS orphans in Africa.

Ways you can be a part of Mission #1:
1. Ask your neighbors today if they have anything to donate to our yard sale...Most importantly, learn your neighbor's names!
2. Bring Yard Sale stuff to SPC by 8pm tonight (Friday, May 25th).
3. Come help us sort and price the stuff tonight between 5-8pm.
4. Anytime after 4pm today, pick up a sign to advertise the yard sale in your neighborhood.
5. Come help out at the Yard Sale tomorrow between 8-2pm!

One Life -- for AIDS Orphans in Africa

The Burn has kicked off the One Life Revolution - a campaign to raise prayer, money, and awareness for the AIDS crisis in Africa. If you didn't receive your own One Life packet at the last Burn, be there this Sunday night, May 27th. Or email Jenelle. freshgreenbeans@yahoo.com

Local Mission Trip: Sat, April 14th

Our FIRST EVER BURN Mission trip will be on Saturday, April 14th! THE BURN will spend a whole day helping to BEAUTIFY Camp St. Charles, and get it ready for campers. Camp St. Charles a Christian camp at the furthest end of Chuck County, in Rock Point.

We'll be doing all sorts of things to clean up the camp...possibly painting, possibly cleaning, possibly gardening, and probably more.

We'll carpool down from SPC at 9:00am and we'll be back at 4:00pm. Meals will be provided. Wear old clothes and come ready to sweat for Jesus! And comment here if you're thinking of coming.

Click here to read more about Camp St. Charles. Click here to see a map of where it is.

What is THE VISION?

So this guy comes up to me and says "what's the vision? What's the big idea?" I open my mouth and words come out like this…
The vision?
The vision is JESUS – obsessively, dangerously, undeniably Jesus.
The vision is an army of young people.
You see bones? I see an army. And they are FREE from materialism.
They laugh at 9-5 little prisons.
They could eat caviar on Monday and crusts on Tuesday.
They wouldn't even notice.
They know the meaning of the Matrix, the way the west was won.
They are mobile like the wind, they belong to the nations. They need no passport.. People write their addresses in pencil and wonder at their strange existence.
They are free yet they are slaves of the hurting and dirty and dying.
What is the vision ?
The vision is holiness that hurts the eyes. It makes children laugh and adults angry. It gave up the game of minimum integrity long ago to reach for the stars. It scorns the good and strains for the best. It is dangerously pure.
Light flickers from every secret motive, every private conversation.
It loves people away from their suicide leaps, their Satan games.
This is an army that will lay down its life for the cause.
A million times a day its soldiers
choose to loose
that they might one day win
the great 'Well done' of faithful sons and daughters.
Such heroes are as radical on Monday morning as Sunday night. They don't need fame from names. Instead they grin quietly upwards and hear the crowds chanting again and again: "COME ON!"
And this is the sound of the underground
The whisper of history in the making
Foundations shaking
Revolutionaries dreaming once again
Mystery is scheming in whispers
Conspiracy is breathing…
This is the sound of the underground
And the army is discipl(in)ed.
Young people who beat their bodies into submission.
Every soldier would take a bullet for his comrade at arms.
The tattoo on their back boasts "for me to live is Christ and to die is gain".
Sacrifice fuels the fire of victory in their upward eyes. Winners. Martyrs. Who can stop them ?
Can hormones hold them back?
Can failure succeed? Can fear scare them or death kill them ?
And the generation prays
like a dying man
with groans beyond talking,
with warrior cries, sulphuric tears and
with great barrow loads of laughter!
Waiting. Watching: 24 – 7 – 365.
Whatever it takes they will give: Breaking the rules. Shaking mediocrity from its cosy little hide. Laying down their rights and their precious little wrongs, laughing at labels, fasting essentials. The advertisers cannot mould them. Hollywood cannot hold them. Peer-pressure is powerless to shake their resolve at late night parties before the cockerel cries.
They are incredibly cool, dangerously attractive inside.
On the outside? They hardly care. They wear clothes like costumes to communicate and celebrate but never to hide.
Would they surrender their image or their popularity?
They would lay down their very lives - swap seats with the man on death row - guilty as hell. A throne for an electric chair.
With blood and sweat and many tears, with sleepless nights and fruitless days,
they pray as if it all depends on God and live as if it all depends on them.
Their DNA chooses JESUS. (He breathes out, they breathe in.)
Their subconscious sings. They had a blood transfusion with Jesus.
Their words make demons scream in shopping centres.
Don't you hear them coming?
Herald the weirdo's! Summon the losers and the freaks. Here come the frightened and forgotten with fire in their eyes. They walk tall and trees applaud, skyscrapers bow, mountains are dwarfed by these children of another dimension. Their prayers summon the hounds of heaven and invoke the ancient dream of Eden.
And this vision will be. It will come to pass; it will come easily; it will come soon.
How do I know? Because this is the longing of creation itself, the groaning of the Spirit, the very dream of God. My tomorrow is his today. My distant hope is his 3D. And my feeble, whispered, faithless prayer invokes a thunderous, resounding, bone-shaking great 'Amen!' from countless angels, from hero's of the faith, from Christ himself. And he is the original dreamer, the ultimate winner.
Guaranteed.