Jesus: The True Story


Small Group Discussion Notes
Week 1 // His Birth    (December 4th)
Week 2 // His Life    (December 11th)
Week 3 // His Resurrection    (December 18th)

This month's faith skill:
Worship with Your Life
Seeds
Pray. Grow. Change.

Small Group Discussion Notes
Week 1 // Pray. Grow. Change.    (November 27th)

This month's faith skill:
Dialogue with God
Who Are You?


Small Group Discussion Notes
Week 1 // Who Defines You?    (October 16th)
Week 2 // Protect Your Identity    (October 23rd)

This month's faith skill:
Personalize Scripture
Supernatural
The Miracles of Jesus

Small Group Discussion Notes
Week 1 // Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man    (July 24th)
Week 2 // Jesus Calms the Storm    (July 31st)

This month's faith skill:
A Life... Interrupted


Small Group Discussion Notes
Week 1 // A Life Interrupted    (June 5th)
Week 2 // Responding with Action    (June 12th)
Week 3 // Leading the Way    (June 19th)

This month's faith skill:
Worship With Your Life
Reach


Small Group Discussion Notes
Week 1 // Talk With Your Ears    (May 15th)
Week 2 // Know the Basics    (May 22nd)
Week 3 // Knock Knock    (May 29th)

This month's faith skill:
Share Your Grace Story
It's God's World
...We Just Live In It

Small Group Discussion Notes
Week 1 // It's God's World    (February 6th)
Week 2 // Become a Cheerful Giver    (February 13th)
Week 3 // Trusted a Little, Trusted a Lot    (February 20th)

This month's faith skill:
Navigate the Bible
Family Matters


Small Group Discussion Notes
Week 1 // Practicing Self-Control    (January 9th)
Week 2 // Getting Along with Parents    (January 16th)

This month's faith skill:
Share Your Grace Story
Dangerous People
Daniel // Esther // Peter

Small Group Discussion Notes
Week 1 // Daniel    (December 12th)
Week 2 // Esther    (December 19th)
Week 3 // Peter    (January 2nd)

This month's faith skill:
Worship With Your Life
Better Together
The First Church, One of Many Pieces, A New Command

Small Group Discussion Notes
Week 1 // The First Church    (November 21st)
Week 2 // One of Many Pieces    (November 28th)
Week 3 // A New Command    (December 5th)

This month's faith skill:
Dialogue With God
IDentity
Discovering Who God Created Me To Be

Small Group Discussion Notes
Week 1 // Who I Am    (October 10th)
Week 2 // Who I Am Not    (October 17th)
Week 3 // What I'm Created To Do    (October 24th)

This month's faith skill:
Personalize Scripture
God's Big Story
Understanding the story of God, and how we fit into it.

Small Group Discussion Notes
Week 1 // Creation    (September 12th)
Week 2 // The Fall    (September 19th)
Week 3 // Redemption    (September 26th)
Week 4 // New Creation    (October 3rd)

This month's faith skill:
Navigating the Bible
Greater Than
God Made Us To Be Great, Not Good

Small Group Discussion Notes
Week 1 // Becoming    (August 22nd)
Week 2 // Doing > Desiring    (August 29th)
Week 3 // WE > ME    (September 5th)

This month's faith skill:
Dialogue With God



5th & 6th Grade Lasertron Party
February 26th, 2012
5:30pm - 8:30pm
$30 Registration due by February 12
Includes Lasertag & Cybersport, 20 arcade tokens, pizza/hot dog, and pop.
Click here to download the registration form


EVENT GUIDE // Parent + Small Group Leader Breakfast
We are serious about the partnership between Small Group Leaders and Parents; this event is a great way to help those connections happen. If you are a youth pastor or work with students, and you would like to use this resource for your ministry...go ahead! Tweak it. Customize it. Take off our logo & info and put yours in there instead. Make it your own! We've included tons of files in this kit, everything you'll need to pull this event off yourself!
Click here to download the .zip file


EVENT GUIDE // Daughters + Dads Date Night
We believe that the influence of parents in the lives of their children far outweighs the influence that a youth pastor, youth ministry, or youth leader could ever have. So with that in mind, we want to elevate the family, empower parents, and help moms and dads cultivate quality relationships with their children. This event was one way for us to help dads make this happen. In this Event Kit you'll find everything thing you need to pull this event off as a family or as an entire ministry. We've not only included a guide to walk you through each step of the planning and prep, but we've also included all of the editable files so you can customize the night any way you'd like.
Click here to download the .zip file


Make Your Own Giant Angry Birds Game
We recently played "Giant Angry Birds" and posted a highlight video of the game you can watch it here. Since we've posted the video we've been getting a lot of questions about how we did it so we created this resource to help answer some of those questions.
Click here to download the instructions


Small Group Leader Notebook
Our Small Group Leader Notebook is a collection of practical tools and resources that we created and give to all of our volunteers. All of these resources are available to any youth pastor or ministry that might want to use them free of cost. Feel free to edit and change anything, put your logo on them and make them work for your specific ministry context. Each of the .pdf and editable Adobe Illustrator files are included in each download:

VOLUNTEER HANDBOOK
This Volunteer Handbook explains the key principles, philosophy, and strategy of our middle school ministry. This is required reading for all of our volunteers.
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WHAT TO DO IF... HANDBOOK
This is the volunteer's guide to handling just about everything you'll ever encounter while serving in middle school ministry.
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SMALL GROUP LEADER GOALS
This is a list of realistic goals that we are challenging all of our Small Group Leaders to accomplish during the first half of this school year.
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EVENT SCHEDULE
This Event Schedule includes all Student, Parent, and Volunteer events coming up in SHINE! this school year.
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QUIET TIME SHEETS
These Quiet Time Sheets are just an option for you to use as your daily quiet time with God. This is just an example of what the sheets look like, we update and print a new sheet every week and make them available to all of our students and volunteers.
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STUDENT PROFILE SHEETS
Our Small Group Leaders use these sheets to keep a short bio of all of their students and parents.
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The 5 Faith Skills
By the time a student leaves middle school, we believe that there are 5 basic skills that small group leaders & parents can teach them that will help them take ownership of their faith and make it personal. We focus on one faith skill each month at SHINE! This resource is the guide to each Faith Skill that we give our small group leaders with their discussion notes every week.
Click here for the printable .pdf file


*Recommended Book* // Parenting Beyond Your Capacity
This school year we are asking all of our volunteers to read this book and we are recommending it to the parents of all of our students. We believe that if our small group leaders and parents can partner together, we can have a greater impact in the lives of middle school students. Copies of this book are available in the Game Room to borrow and below there is a link where you can buy it on amazon.com.

Click here to buy on amazon.com


Orange Parents Blog
Together, Reggie Joiner and Carey Nieuwhof wrote the book Parenting Beyond your Capacity, to remind parents that they don't have to parent alone. Please join Reggie, Carey, and others as they continue the conversation in this blog and expand on the concepts of their book.

Click here to read the blog
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