Centreville Presbyterian Church
Middle School e-letter
March 8, 2010

Contents
Announcements 

1. Something for Your Heart
2. Surf Report
3. Forgettable Fact 
4. Potent Quotables
5. Uh, That's Funny??

A note from Nicole Welcome to the e-letter via the CPC website.  We hope bringing everyone to the website will be helpful.  It allows quick access to information referenced in the e-letter as well as allowing you the opportunity to browse other areas of the CPC website.  Please feel free to add comments or to email me directly by using the link to the left! 

Announcements  
MS LASER TAG::TOMORROW::MARCH 10.  Register NOW!  If you want to come with us, it's not to late.  We'll meet at 7pm tomorrow at Shadowland Adventure Center.  E-mail me if you haven't registered but plan on coming!

Confirmation::This past Sunday we finished talking about the 10 Commandments.  If you missed class, please contact me ASAP so that we can schedule your make-up time.

 “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown”.  An wonderful family show is about to play at CPC!  On March 18-21, the cast and crew of the production will open the doors.  Check out the details here on the website.  Go to “Connect” above and then click on Community Theatre.  Tickets are available in the church office or here on the website. 

 Sunday Morning Ministry. Sunday School continues the study this month, "Becoming."  It is about becoming more like Christ, sort of like Saul did when he became Paul.  Please join us! MS Sunday school meets on Sunday mornings at 9:45.  Join the class immediately following the 8:15 Worship Service.

Famine for Thirty Hours.  On April 23-24, we will be going without food for thirty hours.  WHY??  To raise money for the orphans in Zambia!  Through pledges from friends and family, our ministry hopes to collect money to help at least 64 children go to school for an entire year ... $6,400!!  To serve our local community, we will spend Saturday (4/24) working in Manassas with other ministries in a variety of locations.  Pledge cards and info flyers will be available in the coming days.  Parents... be sure to join us for dinner on Saturday evening (6 p.m.) to break our fast and to hear of our ministry adventures!

 THE GREAT ESCAPE 2010!!  Registrations are now open for The Great Escape!  TGE is a conference for middle school students where speakers and musicians will share about Jesus Christ.  We’ll also experience small groups, morning and evening programs of worship, songs and teaching, plus contests, huge-group games, exciting events and more!! Cost is at a special early bird rate right now, $325.  For more information including dates and locations, click here.

Blessings,

Nicole Paullin
Director of Middle School Ministry
www.centrevillepres.com
703-830-0098  ext. 18

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1. SOMETHING FOR YOUR HEART
"The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time. You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing. The LORD is righteous in all his ways and loving toward all he has made." (Psalm 145:15-17) 

 Without God, nobody eats. Without God, nobody sleeps, breathes, has sex, or comes home to their kids at the end of the day. Without God, we have nothing.

Truthfully, we take God for granted because He meets our needs and grants our desires for sustenance (and so much more) so consistently that we mostly don't even think to ask HIm for those things -- until we're running dangerously low.

But every meal, every pleasant moment, every good thing is a gift from Him to us, because He is "loving toward all He has made." Do we always get exactly what we want all the time? No. What tyrants we would be! But every good thing we get that we do want is something He has given to us.

Will you praise the God who gives you everything today?

Think: Why do you think we so often forget that every good thing we have and enjoy in our lives is a gift from God? And when we do remember, why do you think we forget that He gives them to us because He loves us?

Pray: Praise God that He is righteous in all His ways and loving toward all He has made.

Do: Another potential memory verse for your list: James 1:17.

A Daily Devotional from PlanetWisdom.com, copyright 2010 Youth Specialties. Used by permission.

2. SURF REPORT
The 10 Most Redeeming Films of 2009

Review of Wisdom On... Making Good Decisions by Mark Matlock

3. FORGETTABLE FACT
Only female bees work

4. POTENT QUOTABLES
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
~ Booker T. Washington

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
~ Plato

5. UH, THAT'S FUNNY?
What do you get if you cross an elephant and a kangaroo? 
Big holes all over Australia!