Vintage

Our high school group is committed to growing in God's word, helping each other through the good and bad times of the high school experience, and learning how to solidly live out our Christian faith as we become more and more independent of those who have raised us. We hope to live our lives with the purpose God has for us for the improvement of the community as we use the gifts God has given each of us individually.

While we are on a break for Summer from our regular sessions, there is no need to take a break from sharing highs and lows; Reading a verse of Scripture, seeking God’s wisdom; Reflecting on how God’s relates to your highs and lows; Confessing and Absolving one another by saying “I’m sorry” and “I forgive you”; Praying for the joys and pains in one another’s lives by bringing your highs and lows to God; praising and thanking God for the good of the day and inviting the Holy Spirit’s power to sustain your family members through the lows and then blessing one another.

Sneak Peak for September:So, what's a Lutheran?  We will find out in a fun way.  Learning at church on Wednesdays in art, music, skits, stories, cartoons and Bible Study.  Then take it home every night with the interactive family Home Huddle Journal, Living Lutheran.  We will go from the birth of the Reformation with Martin Luther through the Apostle's Creed and our own Lutheran Life in baptism, communion, worship, and confessing our faith.

Sermon Reports:  Remember if you have not completed your 15 yet, you need to do so by August!   You can find the balnk forms in the box by the nursery and turn the completed one in to the file folder.

 Registration Night for all parents and youth - Wednesday September 3 at 7pm

We will resume our sessions Wednesday September 10 at 6pm with Living Lutheran.

All 6th Grade parents and youth are invited to Surviving Adolescence a three week class to help parents and youth strengthen their relationships with one another and with God so they have the tools they need for the adolescent journey.  Wednesdays, August 13-27, 2008 at 7pm

  Faith incubation doesn't happen in a vacuum. It doesn't happen over night. It must be nurtured over time. Faith Stepping Stones is a process that bonds parents and children into the body of Christ at eight crucial moments in parenting and leads them to incubate faith every night in every home. It provides faith-based parenting education from cradle to graduation through a series of eight short-courses. Each course brings parents and children together for fun and learning, and ends at the altar with a special blessing service.

      Through this process, parents and children develop nightly faith practices that includes blessing, prayer, scripture reading, sharing of Highs & Lows, faith dialogue, and a nightly "I'm sorry" before turning out the lights on the day. This "every night in every home" ritual blesses the child, gifts the family, and calls parents to their promise while incubating faith.

•    Stone 1: Raising a Healthy Baby: Three (3) sessions on physical, emotional and spiritual needs of infants and their parents. Parents are also taught how to do a nightly blessing as a family faith practice.

•    Stone 2: Raising a Healthy Preschooler: Three (3) sessions on physical, emotional and spiritual needs of preschoolers and their parents. Parents are taught to add prayer to the nightly blessing as a faith practice.

•    Stone 3: Entry Into School: Three (3) sessions on physical, emotional and spiritual needs of kindergarteners and their parents. Parents are taught to share Highs & Lows with their children, and add it to their nightly prayers and blessing.

•    Stone 4: My Bible: Eight (8) sessions highlighting 120 key verses in young readers’ Bibles. Youth and parents commit to read a Bible verse nightly, and continue with Highs & Lows, prayer and blessing nightly.

•    Stone 5: Livin’ Forgiven: Three (3) sessions from Passover to Lord’s Supper, with nightly confession and absolution added to the faith practices of Bible reading, Highs & Lows, prayer and blessing.

•    Stone 6: Surviving Adolescence: Three (3) sessions on "Surviving Adolescence" where youth and parents learn and commit to the art of theological reflection (i.e. setting the Bible verse and the Highs & Lows of the day together to ask "What is God saying to us today?"), and adding this to the previous faith practices of confession/absolution, Bible reading, Highs & Lows, prayer and blessing continue.

•    Stone 7: Confirmation As Ordination: Three (3) sessions where youth and parents look at their confession, their confirmation, and their call.

•    Stone 8: Graduation Blessing: Three (3) sessions spread over the fall, winter, and spring where seniors and their parents look back God’s blessings, look to the moment, and look to the future of their new callings.