VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL

August 20-24 from 9 – Noon Children ages 3 through 4th grade welcome. Older students and adults are needed to volunteer! Let’s make this a blast for our kids!!!!!!! Contact Linda Owens if interested in helping! Planning Meeting: Get on board for the adventure! Those interested in organizing this event will meet Sunday, May 12 at 10:15 in the Cave.

APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT 2012

Appalachia Service Project 2012 Kentucky July 7-15th Time to get ready! We have received our assignment, we have begun to organized and in less than four months we will be on our way to Kentucky! This will be our eleventh summer taking youth and adults to the Central Appalachia Region to repair homes and we couldn’t be more excited. This summer we hope to travel with 84 senior high youth and adults leaders (which makes it by far our biggest trip ever!). What does it take to make that happen? YOU. That’s right, it takes you the congregation to make homes warmer, safer and drier for Appalachian families and it takes you to make this life-changing opportunity available to our senior high youth. We expect that it will take $56,000 to supply the materials needed to repair up to 12 homes and transport, house, feed our crew of 84. That is a lot of money! Some of course comes from those who participate in the trip through registration fees of $150 per person. That is a great deal if you are sending one youth, but many of our participants travel with siblings and parents who can be expected to contribute up to $600 to participate. In addition we rely on the local community through our car wash events and stock sale to members outside our walls. Telling the story of ASP is a great way to introduce our church to the larger community. Still the biggest burden in on the church and its members to make this trip happen. This year we will host a four week STOCK BLITZ of our congregation. Rather than for months being faced weekly with the pleading eyes of any number of youth group members asking for an ASP donations, we will run our stock sale and an informational campaign for four weeks beginning April 14th and ending May 6th. For those four weeks only you will have the opportunity to invest in ASP through our annual stock sale. We will not ask after that! In addition we have planned creative ways to share the ministry of ASP with you to celebrate what we have done in the past and to dream of what we hope to accomplish in the future. ASP Fundraising Events Car Washes from 9 AM-2 PM April 14 May 12 June 23 Coffeehouse & Silent Auction on April 29 from 4-7 PM Church Carnival & Dunk Tank June 24 after church

YOUTH SCOOP - APRIL 2012

Open Cave: Junior and Senior High youth will meet every Tuesday Night in April for Open Cave from 5-8 PM. Open Cave includes dinner, hang out time and a One Life Bible Study and meeting from 7-8 PM. Youth Group Calendar … April 8: Easter Sunday: No Youth Group April 15: ASP Orientation 1-3:30 in the PFC April 22: Good Sex, 5-7 PM for 8th grade through Senior High April 29: ASP Coffeehouse & Silent Auction from 4-7 PM Confirmation: The confirmation class will continue to meet Sundays from 3:30– 5:00 PM (except Easter Sunday, April 8 and Coffeehouse Sunday, April 29). Confirmation Sunday will be May 27th at the 10 AM service. Confirmands and their families will meet with the session on Saturday, May 26th for the reading of statements of faith and a reception celebration at 3 PM. A.W.O.L.: A Work of Love is week long junior high summer camp that focuses on mission work locally. All students who have completed the 5th grade through grade 8 are welcome to join us. The dates are June 25th through 29th from 9:30 AM until 3 PM. Registrations will be available soon. Camp Johnsonburg Open Houses will be held April 14th and May 6th This is a great way to introduce camp to your kids! Summer program brochures are available outside Linda’s office. Camp Johnsonburg is in Johnsonburg, NJ. All youth from BBPC are eligible for church camperships. This means that families will register their son or daughter, pay the entire camp fee, report their registration to the church Mission Commission and after summer will receive from the Mission Commission a small, partial rebate. The amount received depends on the number of youth who attend camp.