We want to provide an opportunity for the ministries of the Church to come together for fellowship and of course PLAY KICKBALL!

Immediately after Church on Sunday, March 18th we’ll meet at Brinkley Park for lunch, and then start the Kickball Tournament.

Join us for lunch at the park immediately following church. The concession stands will be open for purchases, as this is a way we can support the park for letting us use the fields.

5th-12th Grade “Bass & Blast” (Father & Son Retreat)

HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS!

KICKBALL TOURNAMENT

7th-12th Grade Girl’s Retreat

5th-12th Grade “Bass & Blast” (Father & Son Retreat)

5th-6th Grade Spring Retreat

Speaker: Brian Skaggs

We’ve got tickets to see the Harlem Globetrotters at Philips Arena on Saturday, March 17th.

All STS – age kids are invited to join us!

Once you register, we’ll send you info on how to get your tickets, where to meet the group, etc…

Reserve your ticket here!

 All STS guys (5th-12th grade) and dads are welcome to join the staff guys for three days of outdoor fun.

 Sunday, March 4 – Wednesday, March 7, 2012

(Private School Spring Break)

Location: Pinewood Plantation, Albany, GA

Signup deadline: March 1^st

Sign up Here

Sunday, April 1 – Wednesday, April 4, 2012

(Public School Spring Break)

Location: To Be Determined

Signup deadline: March 29^th

Sign up Here

All 7th—12th grade girls are invited to join the STS Staff Ladies for a discipleship weekend in Charleston, South Carolina!

We’re excited not just about spending a weekend in such a beautiful location, but also about getting time to dig into God’s Word with you.

“Okay…” I said, buying a moment to collect my thoughts.  “That’s a pretty big decision.  Before you do that can we meet?  I just want to hear how you came to that decision.”  Thankfully, she agreed.  For the next five weeks we met to discuss her wrestling with faith.  I discovered that she was having doubts about her doubts, but her boyfriend, who was an atheist, had had her tied up in knots, logically.  So we just started from the beginning.  I let her talk.  I let her ask questions.  I tried to offer her answers where there were answers.  I really didn’t know if we were making any progress.

The first scene repeated itself some weeks later.  There she was, just before I entered the sanctuary, but this time she handed me a note, smiled and walked away.  I didn’t know what it would say.  Was she fully renouncing Christ?  I opened it cautiously…nervously.  The ruled pages contained two words, centered on the page:  “I believe”.  That student is now in her mid twenties and her faith is still active and it is her own.

After that experience, I realized there was something that I wasn’t doing in my area of ministry.  I wasn’t addressing doubt.  Teenagers have questions and my teaching of “doctrine” (while all well and good) did not also make time for addressing their doubts.

The 12^th Grade Apologetics Series here at the Church of The Apostles is designed as an attempt to ask some of those questions.  As seniors transition into college, new ideas will be encountered, faith will be tested.  The Apologetics Series begins the conversation that I feel is necessary for every student to, at some point, begin to have.  That conversation is between the student and the teacher, the student and their spiritual mentors, the student and his or her parents, but ultimately (and most importantly) between the student and Christ.  There are four weeks remaining for the apologetics class.  If you are a senior in high school and you would like to begin that conversation, make plans to join us on Sundays at 9:15 AM in the Den.  If you’d like more information (or you just have a question) you can contact me at zcarden@apostles.org or on facebook at www.facebook.com/zack.carden

~Zack Carden, College & Transition Pastor

Speaker: Brian Skaggs

We will be taking a team of at least 30 to the Lake Atitlan region of Guatemala from June 23^rd to June 30^th. The application and a deposit of $125.00 (to reserve a plane ticket) are due on Thursday, March 1^st. We will be working with an organization called IMPACTO, a ministry that works throughout Central and South America. Guatemala is one of the poorest countries in Central America and provides a great opportunity to serve. IMPACTO provides numerous ministries in Guatemala including constructing homes, doing Vacation Bible Schools, shoe distributions, as well as many other services provided for the poor and lost of Guatemala. Their mission is: “To bring salvation, hope, healing, and peace of Christ to the Spanish-speaking world.”

2012 Guatemala Info

2012 Guatemala Application

 We will be taking a team of 20 students and adults to the Matopo Hills region of Zimbabwe. The dates are from July 15^th to July 26^th. We will be staying at and working with Morning Star Foundation as well as YoungLife Zimbabwe to do work with local schools as well as the orphans and widows of the Matopo Hills Region. The application and a deposit of $150.00 (to reserve a plane ticket) are due on Sunday, March 11^th.

 2012 Zimbabwe Info

2012 Zimbabwe Application

Space is limited on each of these trips so it is important that you act quickly.

If you have any questions, please call Bill Sandman (404) 564-3144 or Brian Skaggs (404) 591-1977.

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Speaker: Brian Skaggs