Goodbye Koinonia . . .

LOG Weekend

November 16-18
LOG is a Christian retreat that offers a way for students to help themselves and each other live their lives as a part of a Christian community. It introduces and reinforces the fullness that a Christian life can be, in a way that is geared towards high school students.

Team applications are due by noon on Sunday, September 23rd.

Participant applications are available October 2nd and are due A.S.A.P. as this retreat fills fast.

Team Meeting #1 is 10/2 from 7-9 pm in Walnut Creek.
Team Meeting #2 is 10/16 from 5-10 pm in Novato.
Team Overnight begins at 4 pm 10/27 to 11 am 10/28 in Walnut Creek.
Team Mtg. #3 is 10/30 from 7-9 in Walnut Creek.
Team Mtg. #4 is 11/13 from 5-10 in Novato.

Parents Get Acquainted Dessert

Sunday, September 16th at 6:30 pm.

For the parents of Saint Matthew’s Teen Ministry (Middle and High School).

Smit’s & Trae’s House
2024 Quiet Place Dr. in Walnut Creek.

Our Children shouldn’t be the only ones having fun!

Please bring a dessert to share and get the opportunity to get to know each other better. Youth Pastor, David Dykes will also share his plans for the Middle & High School Ministries for the coming school year.

Hope to see you on Sunday night!

New Impact Series

Join us in Impact beginning this Sunday for the New Series - Road Rules for the Real World. Week one we'll be looking at how to handle stress in our lives. This year Impact will be in the Worship Center from 9:30 - 10:40 am. We'll still have donuts but you'll have to come and find out where we're serving them up. Hope that you can join us!

Impact

Resumes Sunday, September 16th from 9:30-10:40 a.m. in the Worship Center at church. Registration forms are available in the church offices and at the Welcome Center at church.
Impact is our large group meeting for Middle Schoolers and High Schoolers that’s designed to be inviting, have a friendly, fun, challenging, and exciting atmosphere. This morning program shatters the “church is boring” stereotype and will help you celebrate life. It is filled with laughter, antics, videos, singing, dramas, a message and small groups that challenge teenagers towards spiritual maturity.

Student Leadership

“. . . I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.” Ephesians 4:1

Jesus expected leaders to serve.

Jesus gave his disciples an image of leadership that we use as our standard for Student Leadership within our High School Ministry.

“Jesus called them [the disciples] together and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Matthew 20:25-28

Jesus shattered what most people think leadership style is all about: being in charge. He goes even further to define true leadership as serving others. “Serving others” is how we define ministry. This type of servant-leadership is not attractive to most people. It goes in direct opposition to the attitude of running to the car to ride in the front seat or being first in line to eat or telling everyone what to do.

We’re not looking to fill our leadership team with the cute, fun and popular. We’re looking for people who love Jesus and are willing to make ‘servant-leadership’ the standard their lives reflect.

If you’re in 10th-12th grades and would like to be this kind of leader, pick up a student leadership application and turn it in by Sunday, September 9th.

Fall Houseboat Trip

September 7-9
Join us for our 8th annual Houseboat Trip on the Sacramento River Delta. We leave Friday afternoon at 3:30 pm. On Saturday we'll spend the day swimming, skiing and banana boating on the water. We'll return to church by 4 pm on Sunday.

The cost is $75 for incoming 9th graders, $85 for 10th-12th graders. Registration and forms (2007-08 Teen Authorization form and Sonshine’s Houseboat form) are due now.

ABS - Area Bible Studies

The ABS (Area Bible Study) resumes Thursday, September 6th from 7-9 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall at church. Registration forms are available in the church offices and at the Welcome Center at church.
Because of High Schoolers need for fellowship and relationships with other Christians; we meet midweek for in-depth Bible study and small group time. Each week we study the Bible and then break into smaller groups for discussion, prayer and accountability.