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Alaska Team Portrait Fundraiser- Billy Blakey

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For the past six years, Northpoint has sent a team of high-school and college-aged students to Port Alsworth, Alaska to staff the Tanalian Bible Camp for a week.  The ministry of the camp is to students from the remote villages surrounding Port Alsworth who have little opportunity to hear the gospel other than their week at this camp.  We’re pleased to continue this ministry this year and would love to ask for your support in helping us get there!

To help raise funds for the trip, we’ll be having an Alaska Portrait Fundraiser the weekend  of April 15th-17th.  We have a number of professional photographers serving on the team who are donating their services for this event.  If you need family portraits, graduate portraits, headshots, or even the perfect Facebook profile pic, we’d love to invite you to join us!  The sitting fee to have your portraits taken will be by donation and all proceeds will go to the Alaska mission trip.  If you decide to donate $50 or more for your sitting fee, we’ll provide to you a DVD with the full-resolution digital files of your portraits as our thank-you for supporting the trip.  Prints of the images and digital files (for those who donate less than $50 for the sitting fee) will be available online for purchase and the proceeds will go directly to the trip as well.

You can sign up for a slot to be photographed within the time frames of Friday, the 15th from 6-9pm, Saturday (16th) from 9-12am and 1-5pm, and Sunday (the 17th) from 1-6pm.  Slots are going fast and are on a first-come, first-served basis.  To schedule your sitting please contact the church office at 951.734.1335, or you can sign up for an available time at the Student Ministry table on Sundays in the foyer!

Pure People- New SH Series

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Starting on September 14th, our first Tuesday gathering back on-campus, we will begin a 6 week series called “Pure People”.  I’m really excited about this series because I want our Sr. High students to be known as pure people in their schools and in their neighborhoods.  This goes way beyond sexual purity, but most definitely includes it.  We will be looking at parts of 1 Peter 1-2 and also 1 Thessalonians 4 to see God’s call for His people to be pure in mind, in love for one another, and in relationships.  This has everything to do with our mission too.  Our purity will directly affect our ability to be a light in a dark world.

I’m really looking forward to this and can’t wait to think through this with the Sr. High community!

-ism…New Series Starts This Tuesday!

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Join the Sr. High community this Tuesday night for Hot Summer Nights and a new teaching series called “-ism”.  We will be examining the major “-isms” you will encounter and what the Gospel has to say about those -isms.  Everyone has an -ism.  This is the worldview you use to explain the world around you.  Some people’s -ism is that there is now explanation for the world around us…but they still have an -ism.  We we will focusing specifically on major worldviews that you will encounter as you seek to be a light in your schools this semester…Mormonism, Catholicism, Atheism, and Postmodernism.

I hope you will join us for this new series!

Videos from SH River Camp

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SH River Camp, Days 1-2 from Northpoint on Vimeo.

SH River Camp Days 3-4 from Northpoint on Vimeo.

Evening Worship Time, Day 1

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Thank you all for your continued prayer. Today was a great day. Here’s a shot of the group while Aaron Bacon (our speaker) preaches God’s Word.

We’re Here!!

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Here and having a great time!

Here’s everyone geting into teams.

On Our Way!

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We’re on our way to SH River Camp! Pray for a safe week and for God to work in great ways!

Summer Camp Tomorrow

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Friends,

I can’t wait for Summer Camp Tomorrow!

I will be posting updates here with pics throughout the week. Check back.

Also, you can go to facebook for some videos I will post.

Please pray that God works in big ways!

Here’s my pre-camp game face…

Beware of the Mountaintop!

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(another great blog from our brother Jay Hobbs!)
Well, it’s June again, and that means but one thing in the life of Student Ministries–Summer Camp!
Nothing like the combination of camp-dirt and milk-chug, along with the nightly camp fire and daily time of sitting under the Word in both individual and community-wide meetings.
But this blog is written as a warning to would-be campers, especially those at our beloved Northpoint Church, nestled in the heart of that center of the universe known as Corona.
The warning is this: Beware the Mountaintop.
Maybe it’s a dated expression by now, but I remember like it was yesterday my old pastor, Jim Holmes, talking about a phenomenon he called a “Mountaintop Experience.” Now, Pastor Holmes was about 80 years old when I knew him, and he’s since gone home to be with the Lord, but his expression has stuck with me ever since I was a little boy.
When Pastor Holmes talked about the Mountaintop Experience, he meant that ‘spiritual’ high that has always been so common among believers when we’ve been surrounded by God’s Word and God’s People for a weekend.
The problem with the Mountaintop is that it’s all-too-often an illusion because it’s all-too-often based on emotion, not on Truth.
There’s a great story about my favorite musician of all time, Rich Mullins. He had a great line for people who would come up to him after his concerts to share about how the Holy Spirit had moved in their hearts during one of his songs. Rich would look at them and say, “No, that’s actually when the kick drum and the bass came in. It’s easy to mistake energy and emotion for worship.”
When you go up to Summer Camp at the end of this week, dear Northpoint Student, pray to the Lord that you would not mistake emotion for worship, experience for obedience.
How do you know when you’re really worshipping? It’s when you’re obeying difficult commands of Jesus, like loving your enemy. Or, more to the point, it’s when you come down off the mountain and obey your parents with a genuine heart.
Another way to tell whether or not you’ve actually encountered the Living God up at camp is to ask yourself this question: “Do I want to be part of the community of believers (at Northpoint) week-in and week-out?”
You see, emotional experiences destroy real community, because they hold community to an unrealistic standard. We believers are at the same time fallen sinners and beloved saints, so real community means that we’ll bump into each other’s sin and interact with each other even on our off-days.
The Mountaintop Experience expects my brother to be on his game all the time, and so when I see him struggling with pride and selfishness, I reject him because he’s getting in the way of me and Jesus. I shout at my brother from my lofty Mountaintop perch, along with the Rolling Stones, “Hey, you, get offa my cloud!”
Friends, let’s come down off the mountain after this summer camp and love each other more deeply with the type of love that “bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things”. After all, that is the kind of Son-sending love that God has shown us.
“Nothing is easier than to stimulate the glow of fellowship in a few days of life together, but nothing is more fatal to the sound, sober brotherly fellowship of everyday life … It is not the experience of Christian brotherhood, but solid and certain faith in brotherhood that holds us together.” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Life Together)

Elephant in the Room

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Friends!

I was so encouraged by our time yesterday!  It was great to see you all taking God’s Word seriously and planning out how you will “Redeem your Summer!”.  I’m looking forward to seeing how God will work this Summer in each of your lives!  Don’t forget to help each other and hold each other accountable to what you have made as goals.  Also…the most important thing is to continue in prayer…you can’t redeem your summer without God working in you to do so.

I’m also very excited about tomorrow night!  Tomorrow night, our BIG Tuesday Summer Kick-Off, a good time will be had by all!  We will have some sweet competition…that may involve water balloons.  We will have a sweet time of worship together.  And we get to hear from our Lead Pastor, John Sloan.  Pastor John will be coming to teach the Word and will specifically talking about “The Elephant in the Room: What does God Think About Homosexuality?”

I know that more and more you are being faced with this issue…in your schools, on tv, with friends, etc…and we need to know what God thinks and how God calls His church to respond.

I know this may not be your typical “summer kick-off” message, but I really believe it will be helpful for all of us…helping us know what God thinks and helping us know how to respond with both love and truth.

Please join us for our BIG Tuesday Summer Kick-Off!  7-9pm in the Student Ministries Room @ Northpoint!

See you then,

Ken

Northpoint Evangelical Free Church 988 West Ontario Avenue Corona, CA 92882 951.734.1335 (Sundays 9:00, & 10:45)