Project #47

On Saturday, November 22, the 10th Grade Guys LIFE Group partnered with the United Way and Hands on Birmingham to serve at the Glenwood Autism Center in Birmingham. The Glenwood Autism Center treats and supports children, adolescents, and adults who are emotionally disturbed, mentally ill, and those diagnosed with autism. The guys were put in charge of painting "chalkboards" with animal characters for the families who reside in the Glenwood facility. A magical blue paint was applied by our "Blue Man Group" consisting of Alan, Collin, and Cameron; when the blue paint dries it becomes a surface that can be used as a chalkboard. We were encouraged to "be creative" with the animal color schemes-perhaps that was taken too far with a red and green zebra, powder blue bull, a red bear, and the retro "grape ape" (kids, check out youtube for this classic cartoon). There was of course an Auburn Tiger and an Alabama Elephant too--hopefully those end up in the correct homes.

The artists formerly know as the 10th Grade LIFE Group were Alan, Cameron, Drake, Jordan, Collin, and Gregg.

Gobble, Gobble, Gobble.....

Don't forget that there will be NO Worship at AREA 51 on Wednesday, November 26 due to the Thanksgiving Holidays!

Also we will not meet on December 3rd due to the Family Advent Service. Make plans to attend this awesome and special way to begin the Christmas season. The Family Advent service will be at the Main Campus and begins at 6:30 PM.

We will see you again at AREA 51 on Wednesday, December 10, at 6:30 PM. Were you will find out details on our "Big Honkin' AREA 51 Christmas Blowout!

Project #45 - Project Thai Christmas

The 11:00 Middle School Girls Class sponsored "Project Thai Christmas" The group was collected 107 Hot Wheels cars, 11 small baby dolls, 10 Barbie dolls, 75 pairs of girls' panties and 40 pairs of boys' briefs to be sent over to Global Children's Awareness, the ministry of missionaries Sarah and Jason Ricketts (former WWBC members) in Chiang Rai Thailand. The Ricketts sponsor Christmas parties for Thai and Burmese children and offer shoebox-type gift to each child including toys, clothing, toiletries and candy. Our role was to collect dolls and cars along with underwear to help out. Way to go girls! Thanks for doing your part for the Kingdom.

-Kathy Sulver

Project #44

Yeah! We are almost done! Project #44 happened Friday, October 31, working at Westwood's Fall Festival. The student's worked at the Tic Tac Toe booth. It was pretty obvious from the get go that we were going to have trouble getting 2 people at the same time to play a game of tic tac toe...but not to be discouraged Karima, Cameron, Savannah, Jonathan and Mrs. Janice made a quick plan to make it a 3 in a row game to win the neon green bracelets that said "not of this world".




We had students that worked in other areas of the fall festival too! Andrew and Stephen were setting up for some slimy experiments.





One of our students even got in to the spirit of things and dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow (aka: Ryan). Cheers to you Ryan!







There was even some of our LIFE Group leaders that dressed up; can you tell who the clown is? Fun was had by everyone! Thanks guys for participating!

Ecuador Mission Trip in Still On, Just Different!

A number of students have indicated interest so we thought we'd let you know that the mission trip to Ecuador in July is still on but has been changed slightly in light of student ministry changes. It is now a church-wide trip rather than being primarily a student trip. The trip will include soccer challenge evangelism, children’s ministry, community service, evangelism and discipleship.

For more information, please join us for an interest meeting on Sunday Nov. 16 at 12:30 in room 214. The important question is this: "Is God calling you to go?" If so, He will provide the finances. God has a way of providing the resources for what He calls us to do. At the meeting you will have some of the "how" questions answered.

Project 43

The Eighth grade girls life group was invited to the Kid's First Awareness Center on Oct. 29th for a very special occasion. Video Visions of Alabaster was filming a promotional video for the center. Mrs. Cindy Hawkins, Center Director, invited us to be a part of the video. We staged games, homework and teaching time with the kids and had a great time! As always the fellowship was sweet. Thanks to Whitney, Emily, Elizabeth, Tori, Morgan, Abbey, Gene', Andrew, Matthew, Hardy and Grace for supporting this project. Mrs. Hawkins intends to use the video for promotional purposes and grant applications in the near future. Expect to see the video on U-Tube very soon!

Martha