Update on the Cookout

Hey everyone! I just wanted to give everyone an update and reminder on the cookout. Below is the general time schedule for the event. This is not exact, but I wanted give you an idea of how things were going to happen. If you have any questions please let me know and I will be happy to help you. Have a great day and we will see you tomorrow at WInona Lake Park. - Evo

Cookout Begins	6:00 pm
Food Served	6:15 pm
Summer/Fall Preview	6:30 pm
Discussion	-
Games / Social Time	7:00 pm

Forgot one thing...

Hey! Sorry for another email so quickly, but I realized that I had left something out. If you are planning on attending the SGL Cookout I would like for you to RSVP to either myself or Jenn ASAP. We need to pull together a number for food failry quickly. This is important and we need everyone to be there that can make it. If you have any questions please let me know. Have a great day! - Evo

What's going on...

Hey everyone! I hope each of you are having a great week. There are a few things that we have going on right now that I thought you would like to know about.

• ONE on June 10th - We are going to be having ONE on June 10th. Any of you are welcome to come. It begins at 7:00 pm and will end at 8:30 pm.
  
• Pizza Party - On June 10th prior to ONE we are hosting a Pizza Party for our incoming 7th graders at the Main Campus in 041/042. This party is to let them know about Impact and get them excited about participating in the fall. I am in need of a little help with crowd control and would love to have any of you come and help out. The party is suppose to begin at 5:30 pm, but we would need to be ready to go no later than 5:15 pm. There will be pizza (obviously), games and give-a-ways. If you would like to help out just let me know and I get you more details.
• Big Stuf Meeting - Also on June 10th at 5:30 pm Scott will be hosting a make-up meeting for all students who couldn't attend the previous Big Stuff Meeting. That meeting will take place in the Club 56 room.
  
• SGL Cookout - This is so exciting! Mo, Jen and I have some great stuff laid out for the summer and fall and we want to share that information with you and get some feedback. In order to collect that information we need to get everyone together. Since summer is upon us we thought it would be a great opportunity for a Cookout. Here are the details...
  
  • What: SGL Cookout (It will be a full cookout just so you know)
    
  • When: 6:00 pm on June 13th
    
  • Where: Winona Lake Park

That is all I have for you right now. Thanks for taking the time to read this. If you have any questions please let me know and I will be happy to help. Have a great day! - Evo

Want to be a Camp Counselor?

Hey! We are needing in the neighborhood of 40 to 50 volunteers to pull off our Summer Camps. Please fill out this survey or go on the right-hand side of this blog in the section titled "Surveys & Evaluations" and click on the item titled "Camp Counselor Interest Survey." If you have any questions please feel free to shoot me can email. Have a great day!

February Virtual Training

Hey small group leaders!

I must say first that I miss all of you. I had a great time in Florida last week and I missed being with you all at the training event. Just yesterday I was looking at your photo's on our wall ... and I was praying for you and thought to myself, "self...I am blessed to get to work with these people." Thanks for all that you do with this ministry.

I am writing to let you know that we have produced and uploaded another "virtual training" for you to view. I want to personally ask you to please go and view these two new video's. I know that sounds a little weird, but these two video's will set the tone for our remaining 12 weeks we have left in the school year. In the second video especially, I tried to share my heart and look at what I think God wants for and from all of us right now. Since we won't be together again this week, it is very important to me that you watch these video's. If you watch both of them, your investment will be 13 minutes. I don't want you to watch them because they include me talking to the camera...I need you to watch them because the mission of being Christ to these students demands that we be on the same page together.

Have a great day and a great weekend. I welcome your comments after you watch these two video's. It really is a pleasure serving with all of you! Have a great weekend. See you on the 18th.

In Christ,

Scott

p.s. Evan, you rock!

Yeah for Training!!!

Hey everyone! I just wanted to drop you all a note and remind you about our training tomorrow night. It starts at 7:00 pm in the Club 56 room at the main campus. You can expect to be done around 9:00 pm. Child care will be provided for those who need it. There will be food served, so you can expect to be fed in more ways than one. If you have any questions please let me know and I will be happy to help you in any way that I can. Have a great day and I will see you all tomorrow. - Evo

Amazing

Hey everyone! I hope this finds each of you well and in great spirits. This past weekend was amazing. The response to our non-band worship has been very positive and I know I am excited about doing more of it in the future. If any of you would like to give us feedback about our non-band worship night I know we would welcome it. We are always trying to improve and better ourselves and your feedback has a huge impact on that. Here are a few things that you need to know about this coming weekend.

1) Teaching Details - This coming weekend Scott will be out of town so I will be finishing our series "Listen." I know that I feel a huge responsibility to continue to teach our students what it means to engage God in their daily lives. Our students are so busy and sometimes out of control that their relationship with God suffers. This coming weekend at One we are going to talk about the next s tep and put the question in front of them of "What are you going do?"

2) Prayer Request - This weekend has the potential to be a huge starting point for many of our students. Some of them will be affirmed and some of them will be challenged. I would like to ask each of you to specifically pray for each student in your group that this weekend would be a source of encouragement and empowerment. I would also ask for you to pray for me in my preparation and act of teaching this weekend. This will be something that I have not done in awhile and I am little nervous. I would really appreciate your prayers for both of these things.

3) Wired for Worship Blog Experience - We are still have slots available for people to write for our Wired for Worship Blog experience and we would love to have everyone who wants to participate get involved. If you would like more details on this o pportunity please let me know and I will be happy to give you some more information.

That is all I have for now. Later this week you will be getting small group questions for this coming Sunday. If there is anything I can help you with or pray for you about please let me know and I will do what I can. Thank you, thank you, thank you for investing in the lives of these students. I feel highly honored to work with such a great group of people. All of you are amazing! Have a great day! - Evo

What an investment

Hey everyone! I hope you are all having a great Monday so far. Last night was great. Scott and I appreciate so much how each of you personally invests in the lives of your students. You may not see the wheels turning, but just know that good things are happening. Here are just a few things that you need to know about.

1) SGL Training - As you all know, we have SGL Training on the 31st of this month. We would like for you to RSVP for the training. We have some great stuff planned and we want to make sure we know who is going to be there. You can RSVP by shooting an email to either Scott or me. If you send me an email and it is bounced back to you please forward that rejection email to Scott so we can pass it along to our tech team for analysis.

2) Mid-Year SGL Survey - It is back up and ready. Please take just two minutes a nd fill out the survey. You can get to it by going to the right-hand side of this blog where there is a section titled "Surveys & Evaluations." In that section you should click the item titled "Mid-Year SGL Survey." Thank you for taking the time to give us feedback and I apologize that there have been so many issues with this survey.

3) Setup & Tear down Help - This coming Sunday we are in need of four to five people to help us with the setup and tear down for our "Non-Band Worship." We will need for the setup team to arrive around 5:30 pm and then for the tear down team to stick around after small groups until around 9:45 pm. We will try and make tear down go as quickly as possible. Anyone that would like to help can simply respond to this email and let me know you will be here. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.

4) Wired for Worship Blog Experience - The last two weekends you have heard about our upcoming blog experience for our students. We would love to have any of you who are interested involved in the writing experience for the blog. If you would like to be involved please email me and tell me what Psalm you would like to write and we will place you on the calendar. All you need is between 200 and 300 words for your entry. If you have any quesitons please let me know and I will be happy to help.

5) Seven Checkpoint Devotionals - This past Sunday Scott told all of our students about an online devotional that they could engage in that is based on the Seven Checkpoints. We would like to make this available to you so you can walk along side any of your students who might be interested in these devotions. You can get to the devotions by going to the "helpful links" section on the rigth-hand side of this blog and clicking on "7 Checkpoint Devos." That should take you to the main page where you will want to then click on the option that says "Login Page." If you are in need of the username and password please shoot me an email and I will be happy to give it to you.

Wow! Thank you for taking the time to make it to the end. That was a lot of information and I hope that it was helpful to you in role as a small group leader. Please if you have any questions let me know and I will be happy to help. Later this week you will get another email with the questions for this coming weekend. Thanks again for taking the time to invest in the lives of student. Have a great week! - Evo

Another Great Weekend!

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for being there last night. It was a great start to our series "Listen." I heard from quite a few of you that your small groups time went well. It is my hope this that this series will help our students to make space where they can slow down and engage our creator on a personal level.

Our students have so many demands on their lives and they are crying out for someone to swoop in and save them from this fast paced world. You, as a Small Group Leader (SGL) have the opportunity to swoop in and be save them. I know that sounds like a huge burden, but it is so simple and so light weight. All you have to do is care for them... that's it... It is as easy as "Hey, how is your day going?" Just care for them, that is all they want. Thank you so much for the time you put into the lives of these students. You are changing the w orld one student at a time through the care and friendships you build with them.


Here are two things that you need to know about...
1) SGL Survey - We have posted a survey for you to fill out and you can get to by going to the right hand side of this blog to the section titled "Survey's & Evalations." In that section click the item titled "Mid-Year SLG Survey." We have only had two people fill this out this survey and I promise that it will only take a minute or two to fill it out. This will really help us to see how we are doing in our training and support of you as a SGL.

2) Later this week I will be out of the office for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. If you email or call me it might take me a day or two to get back with you, but I will get back with you. Scott will be sending out the Small Group Questions later this w eek. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

That is it! Sorry that there are a lot of words to read in this message. If you have any question or concerns please let me know and I will help in any way that I can. Have a great week!

Till All Have Heard,
Evan

We're Back!

Hey everyone! I hope that each of you had a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year. It feels like it has been forever since we have been together. I am to looking forward to seeing you all this coming Sunday for One and small groups. Here are a few things that you need to know about the upcoming weeks.

1) New Series - This coming Sunday we will be begin a four week teaching series. Please encourage your students to be there all four weeks of this series. We are going to be looking at the subject of Spiritual Disciplines.

2) New Calendar - There have been several changes to calendar and this Sunday we will be giving you a new updated calendar so you can be informed about what is happening.

3) SGL Training - We have a training coming up on January 31st. This training will be held at the main campus.

4) Virtual Training - Just before C hristmas we released another addition of our virtual training. You can see that training by going to the right-hand side of this blog and there is section labeled "Virtual Trainings" and click on "Virtual Trainings #2." That will jump you into the blog entry that contains the virtual training videos at the bottom.

5) Mid-Year Evaluations - We have posted a survey that we would like for you to fill out. This is a nameless survey that will help us to see how we are doing with our support and training. It is fairly short and hopefully won't take any time at all. You can get to the survey by going again to the right-hand side of this blog and there is a section titled "Survey's & Evaluations" and you should click the item that says "Mid-Year SGL Survey." If this online survey doesn't work for you please let me know and I can p rovide paper copies this coming Sunday at our meeting.

Congratulations you made it to the end! You will be receiving another email later this week with the schedule and small group questions for this Sunday. Please if you have any questions or there is anyway that I can help you please let me know. Have a great week! - Evo