MAKE A DIFFERENCE WEDNESDAY

Wow What a Wednesday night. The WILD Youth Teens came together at the ROTC gym to bag up 2000 items of food to feed the needy. This was a Wesley House project that we partnered with. The food items will be distributed to the needy in Crawford County on Thursday and Friday. This project was one of our “Make a Difference” Projects. I am so proud of our teens as they worked hard to make a difference. To see more images please click here.

HOUSE OF BOUNCE

WILD youth made the trip to Joplin MO to the House of Bounce and then to Woody's Smoke house for dinner. It was a great evening of Bouncing. To view Images of this event please Click Here.

YOUTH CONVENTION

It was a great weekend at Youth Convention. We had 31 make the tip to Wichita KS. We had a great time Friday afternoon hanging out at the Best Western. We had teens swimming, playing games, and hanging out with friends. Dinner was at the Cinnamon deli.

The evening service at convention was amazing. God moved in a very powerful way. Lives were being transformed. We had breakthroughs in the lives of our own teens. It was amazing to see teens hungry for God at the altars. The rest of the night was a blur. That’s right the teens had a blast I was ready for bed.

Saturday was different at youth convention. We put serving into action. We had a mini missions project with 1400 teens serving and loving strangers. We had 700 people from the surrounding community that showed up to the church. We loved on them by giving them free food, organized games for the kids, did face painting, gave away 10 bikes, and Convoy of Hope was on site and gave away 2000 bags of Groceries. It was a great event. 150 people got prayed for a 9 of them gave their lives to Christ. How awesome is that.

Saturday afternoon was a blast. There were tons of giveaways for the teens and a great celebration worship service. The afternoon ended with a God size challenge.

Every year we give towards a Speed the Light project. This year the project was to raise funds to help purchase a Convoy of Hope Trailer. Kansas had promised to raise $10,000 as one of their projects for 2011. We were going to kick start this project at convention by taking a speed the light offering. God worked a miracle and the teens experienced it. We raised $10,100 in one offering on Saturday evening. How amazing is that. Over all we had a great time at convention. We went expecting and experienced GOD.


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MAKE A DIFFERENCE WEDNESDAY IMAGES

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MAKE A DIFFERENCE WEDNESDAY

50 gift cards – Purchased

30 Gallons of hot Chocolate – Ordered

Live music – Booked

Cups and Tables – Loaded

Making a Difference in People lives – Priceless

Are you READY? Have you been in PRAYER? Let’s come EXPECTING.

6:45pm – Wal Mart south entrance.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE WEDNESDAY

Hi WILD Teens. Hope you are all having a great Monday. Hope you are getting your “Hands Dirty” by serving and loving people. Do not forget your challenge this week to show kindness to a person you would normally not hang out with.

This is also a reminder that this Wednesday is our Make a Difference Wednesday. With what you guys gave and the youth fund matching we are able to hand out 50 $5 gift cards. This is great news.

Please be in prayer for this Wednesday. Let’s ask God to use us to make an impact in someone’s life for his glory. Lets ask his to over flow in us so that people we touch see HIM through us. Let us make this more than JUST a Gift card giving outreach. Lets make it an outreach were seed are planted. YOU ARE NOT TOO YOUNG TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Come expecting to “Make A Difference”

YOUTH CONVENTION INFO SHEET

Hi Guys. Here is important info about Youth Convention.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE WEDNESDAY- INFO

Here is the information for Make a Difference Wednesday.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE WEDNESDAY

Make a difference Wednesday is a WILD youth community outreach project. With this project teens and sponsors will be walking thru wal mart randomly handing out five-dollar wal mart gift cards to individuals and blessing them. We will also have a team of teens outside wal mart handing out hot chocolate to customers walking in and out of wal mart. We will be challenging every teen to give something in a form of a sacrifice to make a difference in someone else’s live in the next two weeks during our Wednesday night youth services. The church will match what come in from this special offering and use these funds to purchase the gift cards. We will be at wal mart on Wednesday the 3rd of November from 7pm to 8pm. LET’S MAKE A DIFFERENCE by shining Christ love thru our actions.

GET DIRTY

WILD Youth will be kicking off a new series this Wednesday - GET DIRTY

From the beginning, serving has involved getting dirty. God Himself got His hands dirty when He created man. Jesus got His hands dirty cleansing lepers and healing the sick. If we want to get involved in the life of Jesus, it means we expect to Get Dirty. It may be dangerous and will for sure be fun. It is impossible to serve from a safe distance. Let’s roll up our sleeves, dive into the lives of those who need Jesus and wash some dirty feet!

Fields of Faith

WILD youth will be meeting at the PSU football field this Wednesday night for the FCA Fields of Faith youth rally. The rally is from 7pm to 8:45pm. Fortress will be leading worship at this Rally.

Parents will need to drop off their Teens in front of the PSU Library at 6:40pm

They can pick up their Teens at 8:45pm at the same location.

This is a FREE Event.

For more info please contact Anthony N @ 704-3903

SEE YOU AT THE FLAG POLE

It was an exciting morning as Teens gathered around their flag pole to pray for their school. We had about 20+ teens that showed up at Pittsburg High School for this years "See You At The Pole".

SECTION 8 Rally - INFO

THE BIG T - Message Series

WILD Youth will be starting a new 3 week series called the BIG T. In this series we will be looking at Temptation and how to navigate and walk away from Temptation. Today’s generation is constantly being hammered with all forms of temptation and this would be a great series for all teens. I encourage all parents that have teens to get their teens to Youth Service on Wednesday at 7pm.

WILD COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT

The WILD youth Ministry was involved in two Community Service project this last Wednesday. The purpose of this was to put into action what we have been discussing the last 4 weeks on POURING out Christ love on others in the form of serving, sharing and giving.

We cleaned windows, floors, and water fountains at the Pittsburg High School. We also helped the Vie Medical Clinic clean up some construction debris on an expansion project they are working on. We ended our evening by spending time in pray in the hall ways of the High School praying for our schools. It was a great evening. To view images please click here.

THE POUR - GOD'S LOVE ON OUR COMMUNITY

This Wednesday WILD youth ministry will be involved in 2 Community Service projects to put into action what we have been discussing at Wednesday night services. For the last 4 weeks we have been discussing the topic of POURING our self out on others through Sharing, Serving and Giving. This is what Jesus did when He walked the earth.

Project 1 – Pittsburg High School (Painting Class Rooms)

Project 2 – Vie Medical Clinic (Cleaning up construction debris)

Date – Wednesday the 25th
Time – 6:30pm to 8:15pm
Location – Pittsburg High School (drop off & pick up point)

PLEASE BE WILLLING TO SERVE.

MY APOLOGIES

Dear Family Life Assembly of God,

I would like to take a moment and explain what happened this past Wednesday. During my message, at youth service, I used an inappropriate word to make a point. This caught me off guard and should not have been used.

Let me be vey clear using this word was not a planned statement this was a spur of the moment spontaneous slip of the tongue. This is not who I am and it is not the kind of language I use on a daily basis.

I have diligently worked hard for the last 8 years to earn your trust and I am sorry if I may have let you down in the area of trust or respect. It is so important as a leader for me to keep my guard up at all times and I let it slide in this one case.

I am truly sorry for this and I promise that I will work hard at not letting this happen in the future. I am sorry if this caused any of you teens to be distracted or be miss lead in any way. This was not my intent. My only intent was to catch attention. I would like to convey my apologies to any that might have been offended and I would kindly ask you for your forgiveness.

I would like to keep our forces on all the good that God has been doing in this ministry and do not let this one incident cause any Glory be taken away from HIS workings.


Thanking You

Your Youth Leader
Anthony Navaratnam

An Opportunity to SERVE & POUR Christ love on the COMMUNITY

WILD RETREAT 2010 - PHOTOS

YEA! We have all the photos uploaded from the 2010 Youth Retreat. Some awesome images. Check it out by Clicking Here. The video for the retreat to follow.

Avi Sharma's Thoughts - Youth Retreat

The Friday before we went I prayed to God to change something in my life and He did. He told me I was wrong, he told me I needed help. He told me don't be alone. So I'm not alone and I've started over. This retreat changed my life. The best was meeting some awesome people.

Michelle McClure's Thoughts - WILD RETREAT

I had a blast at the retreat. All the games we played and the swimming was so much fun. Also there was an awesome concert by FORTRESS! The evening services were really good. They really showed me what God did to Sacrifice for us, which made me realize that I need to give up more of my time for HIM.

Veronica Schooley's Thoughts - WILD RETREAT

During this past weekend at the Wild Retreat, I experienced the Holy Spirit moving through everyone especially when we all had the opportunity to write down our sins on a piece of paper and then nail them up on the cross and ask for forgiveness. During this weekend what stood out to me was that once we go to God and ask for forgiveness and throw away our baggage we all need to forget about our sins and leave them at the cross and not turn back to them because we are forgiven by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Austin Napier's Thoughts - WILD RETREAT

At the 2010 Youth Retreat, I experienced new closeness with my friends in WILD. We played games, we worshiped and we prayed together. My favorite thing was the worship! My brother and my sister also went and it was nice to hang out together with other teens and be friends without parents. Made us feel more like each others friends instead of just brothers and sister. The retreat helped me with my relationship with God, because I was away from TV and stuff and was able to focus more on Him.

WILD YOUTH RETREAT

WOW! What a weekend it was at the James River Retreat center where the WILD Youth Ministries had their back to school youth retreat. It was a weekend filled with fun and excitement. We had some amazing games, great food, awesome fellowship, rocking worship and life chaging times at the alter. More on the retreat to come.

The WILD retreat has officially kicked off. We are on the road after a late start. We have already had a few challenges with our bus. Thank God for giving us people who know how to work on buses we are back on the road. We have 64 making the trip. It is going to be a great weekend. I am excited to see what God has in store for us this weekend.

WILD RETREAT

This Friday 60+ teens and sponsors will be making the trip to the James River Retreat center at Huggins MO. This will be our second Back To School Retreat. This year’s theme is “BREAKTHROUGH”. I am excited to see what God has in store for us this weekend. We have a great weekend planned. Hope all you teens are excited as I am about this weekend. Lets come with HIGH Expectations of GOD to move and speak into our lives. I would like to ask all parents to keep us in your prayers this weekend. Stay tuned for updates and photographs.

THE POUR - WILD YOUTH

The Loop is going to pour! That’s right! Over the next four weeks we are going to learn what it means to pour out our lives onto others as God pours His life into us. Plan on being there this wednesday when the series kicks off.

YOUR BIBLE vs YOUR CELL PHONE

This will definitely make one think!



Ever wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone?

What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?

What if we flipped through it several times a day?

What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?

What if we used it to receive messages from the text?

What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?

What if we gave it to Kids as gifts?

What if we used it when we traveled?

What if we used it in case of emergency?

This is something to make you go.....hmm...where is my Bible?

Oh, and one more thing.

Unlike our cell phone, we don't have to worry about our Bible being
disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill.

Makes you stop and think 'where are my priorities?

And no dropped calls!

When Jesus died on the cross, he was thinking of you!

WOW!! How Cool.

WILD - LAZER TAG

It was a great afternoon of fun when the WILD Teens took the road to Joplin MO for an afternoon of Lazer Tag.

• 35 made the trip
• Played 3 exciting games of Laze Tag
• Spent money of items we did not need at the North Park Mall
• Ate unhealthy food at the food court.
• Most importantly built some great relationships between each other.

This was a great event. Our next WILD event is the YOUTH RETREAT. I am excited to see what God has planned for our retreat.

WILD - LAZER CITY ROAD TRIP

This Saturday WILD youth ministries will be traveling to Joplin for a fun afternoon of Lazer Tag. We would love for all you Teens to come join us for a great afternoon of fun. We will be heading to the Joplin Mall after Lazer City and have dinner at the food court.

WILD MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMP

Middle school camp kicks off Monday morning. Hope all you middle schoolers are ready for camp. I am confident that God is going to do great thinks in each of your lives. I ask that you go expecting. I ask that all Teens that are not going to camp and all parents to keep our Teens that are going to camp in your prayers. Here are some ways that you could be praying for them.


Pray for …………

- The Teens that are struggling with real life challenges that are tearing them up from the inside out that they may be honest and give them to God

- The Teens to go with the expectation to hear from God and for Him to touch their lives

- The Teens to leave their past at the alter and to move forward in God’s grace and mercy

- The Teens to be filled with a renewed spirit.

- The Teens that are seeking the baptism of the Holy Sprite with the evidence of speaking in tongues

- The Teens to be OVERFLOWING with Gods spirit and seeking His presence

- The Teens passion for God to be contagious when they get back from camp and permeate all aspects of their lives

- The Teens to keep the MOMENTUM they received at camp and to build more Momentum when they get back

The Teens to ignite a spark in their youth group and their surroundings

MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMP

Middle school camp is 5 days away. please be praying for our middle school teens that will be attending camp. Here is a link for all parents who's teens will be attending middle school camp.

YOUTH CAMP 2010

Just got back for High School Camp "OVERFLOW". WOW what a week it was. God did some amazing thinks in the lives of our Teens. Lives were changed and hearts were softened. We had a great time with all the games and activities that were planned. The Guys team ended up winning the super team cup. The Girls team took second place. The most important think was that we had 6 teens that were refilled with the holy spirit and 3 teens heard Gods calling on their lives. This is what camp is all about.

to view videos from camp please click here.

YOUTH CAMP

The High School Teens will be heading to Youth Camp Monday morning. Plese keep the Teens in your prayers.

YOUTH CAMP

The camp season is around the corner. The high school Teen will be heading to camp this upcoming week and middle school in two weeks. I ask that you keep our Teens in your prayers.

NEW - WWW.WILDYM.COM

WILD youth is excited to announce the launch of their new website. Please visit www.wildym.com and check out all the great information, photos and videos. This has been developed as a tool for you to learn more about what happens at WILD youth and also use it to promote WILD youth to your friends and family. I would like to thank Josh T for all his hard work in making this site a great success.

HOW YOU CAN PRAY FOR OUR TEENS AS THEY GET READY FOR CAMP -

Pray for …………

- The Teens that are struggling with real life challenges that are tearing them up from the inside out that they may be honest and give them to God
- The Teens to go with the expectation to hear from God and for Him to touch their lives
- The Teens to leave their past at the alter and to move forward in God’s grace and mercy
- The Teens to be filled with a renewed spirit
- The Teens that are seeking the baptism of the Holy Sprite with the evidence of speaking in tongues.
- The Teens to be OVERFLOWING with Gods spirit and seeking His presence
- The Teens passion for God to be contagious when they get back from camp and permeate all aspects of their lives
- The Teens to keep the MOMENTUM they received at camp and to build more Momentum when they get back
- The Teens to ignite a spark in their youth group and their surroundings

Food For Thought

Is prayer your steering wheel or is it your spare wheel?

WILD AIRSOFT

It was an crazy evening of Airsoft. We had about 30+ teens show up. The weather was hot and sticky. The teens were crazy and WILD. We ran out of Hot dog buns but had plenty of dogs. I was at the ER till 11pm with Matt Hess who had a war wound. That tree stump had no mercy on his leg. We had to wait about four hours for a doctor to show up and stitch his leg. Over all it was a great evening with Teens connecting with other Teens. For more Images Click Here.

WILD AIRSOFT - INFO

MEET THE GRADUATES

WILD Youth high school graduates.

Teens HUNGRY for GOD!

What a night at WILD youth. The Teens were hungry to draw closer to GOD.

WILD YOUTH AIRSOFT FEST

WILD AIRSOFT FEST

Date: May 22nd
Time: 5 to 8:45pm
Venue: Meet at the church (4:45pm)
Activities include: Airsoft • Bonfire • Hot Dogs
Cost: Free
Items to Bring: Your Airsoft gun and a FRIEND

WhO IS JESUS ?

Tonight we will be learning about being Intimate With Jesus. Its going to be an exciting night. PLease come expecting.

TAKING A BOLD STAND FOR GOD

It was a great Wednesday night at WILD YOUTH. We started our six week series on "Who JESUS Is". It was exciting to see one person give his live to Christ and about 15 Teens make a decision to take a bold stand for Christ in their school and community. God is moving in a great way in the hearts and lives of our Teens.

WHO IS JESUS ?

WILD Youth will be kicking off a six week series "Who is JESUS?". Come find out for yourself. Also bring a friend that does not know who Jesus is. Its going to be a great 6 weeks. Lets spread the light.

CAMP REGISTRATION DEADLINES

Camp season is around the corner and it is time to stat turning in the application forms for High School and Middle School Camp. Here are the deadlines for turning in CAMP APPLICATIONS for both camps.

HIGH SCHOOL - MAY 9th ($30 Deposit)
MIDDLE SCHOOL - MAY 16th ($30 Deposit)

If you have any questions please contact Anthony Navaratnam - 704-3903

WILD LOCK IN 2010

What a night it was at the WILD LockIn. It was WILD and crazy. We had 50 plus teens that attended this event. We had a great night at the YMCA and then back at the church. I needed two days to catch up on my sleep. For images of the LockIn click Here.

DOUGHNUTS AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS

Had a great time this morning hanging out with Pittsburg Middle School teens. Unite One youth ministries handed out 300 free doughnuts to the middle school teens. The teens enjoyed the doughnuts. Gave us a chance to love on them.

WILD LOCK IN - INFO SHEET

FIVE NEW SALVATIONS!!

-Josh Troester

Last night at WILD Youth (4/14/2010) it was for sure a “WILD” night. Our Youth Pastor, Anthony was MIA because of a two-day hospital visit regarding some chest pains. After some not-so-fun test, Anthony was released with no life threatening issues. Praise God!

As 7 o’clock dawned a group of teenagers that numbered about 20 walked through the door. It appeared as if it was going to be a smaller group than normal, until about 20 MORE walked through at 7:05. Forty students plus ten adults packed into FLAG’s main auditorium in expectations of fun, great music, and God’s Word.

After Pastor Tyler did announcements and introduced visitors, we headed outside to play flag football. In a not-so-smart move, I decided to play after just having mouth surgery the day before, thinking that, “flag football is not a contact sport.” After taking two elbows to the face, I had to retreat to the bathroom as one of my stitches had come loose and caused a lot of bleeding. After I got back into the auditorium it was time to worship where The Hicey’s and Matt Compton tore it up on stage for worship.

With a painful mouth, but much excitement and anticipation I shared a message entitled, “A Faith to Die For.” I talked about the unreasonable request that God made to Abraham to sacrifice is only son Issac, how Abraham followed without questioning, and how God came through in the end. I paralleled this act to the very similar situation involving God and Jesus… a father giving up His Son willingly, and a Son giving up His life willingly… only this time no one stopped it, and there was no alternate sacrifice given. At the close of the service an invitation to those that had never accepted Christ was given. Five young people raised their hands and prayed a prayer along with the rest of the room to accept Christ for the very first time.

We celebrated briefly afterwards by applause and yelling, but trust me, Heaven was so much more excited. To those five teens: congratulations on your new decision to follow Christ. It’s only the first step… though a big one, to a great fulfilled life of serving our Creator. To everyone else: continue to bring your friends, continue to minister to them by being Christ to them, and help them find more and more of Christ each and everyday.

FINE ARTS - SATURDAY

The Greatness continues. Ashley and Aaron Rocked today. They both received "EXCELLENT" Scores. This afternoon the Hisey twins will take the stage and Dolphin is still waiting on her score for Graphics Design. Stay tuned for more updates.

FINE ARTS - FRIDAY

Friday night was great at fine arts. 2 for 2. Ashlee & Baylee take "superiour with invite to nationals". Way to go WILD youth. Stay tuned for more from Saturday. For Images Click

WILD LOCK IN

WILD Lock in - April 23rd & 24th.
Location - YMCA & FLAG Church
Cost - $10
Activities - Basketball, Flag football, Swimming, Racquetball, Ping pong, Video games, Movies and lots more fun.
Food - Pizza, Snacks, Doughnut's

For more info check out poster.

BRING YOUR FRIENDS!

FINE ARTS 2010

A team of 10 will be heading to Wichita KS for Fine Arts on Friday. We have 5 teens that will be competing. The categories that they will be competing in are Song writing, Solo, Shortsermon & Graphics design. This is going to be a great weekend.

GREAT WORSHIP EXPERIENCE AT WILD YOUTH WEDNESDAY NIGHT

We had a blast last Wednesday night. God is good. 8 Teens gave their life to God.

LOADING PHONE BOOKS

WOW what a team. We had a total of35 teens and parents show up to help distribute phone books to raise funds for "Speed the Light". We distributed 7000 books in less that 8 hours. We had a blast raising money to save life. The photo you see is us enoying lunch at Wendy's

PHONE BOOK DISTRIBUTION

WILD youth will be kicking off the phone book distribution project tomorrow. This is our biggest fundraiser for missions giving and funds for teens to go to youth camp.

WILD YOUTH DINER - TSAL

Had a great night at youth last night. We had 57 teens and a total of 69 attend. The dinner was great. The awsome part of the night was when 8 teens gave their life to Christ. God is good. Fortress did a great Job leading worship.

To Save a Life

The Movie "To Save A Life" Opens in Pittsburg KS one of the 400 theaters in the nation January 22nd. The first 1000 students get to watch the movie for FREE. Get more info at click here