Weekend Teaching Series: Q (week 1 of 3)

Sermon in a Sentence: Any reasonable quest for truth should start with Christianity.
Service Length: 76 minutes

Understandable Message: This weekend we kicked off our series focusing on apologetics. We brought in Sean McDowell, a local high school teacher and background in Apolgetics (you might know his dad), to help ask questions and help our students to know why they believe what they believe. This weekend focused on the quest for truth, and we had made a big push for everyone to pray about/bring a friend with them to this series. Sean is turning his talk into a resource that will eventually be released on his website.

Volunteer/Student Involvement: Our stage design volunteers/students helped create some cool new light-up boxes to give the stage a fresh look for the month – the boxes have various color lights in them and can be stacked in different ways each week. Students led us in music, the choir was on this weekend, and cameras, lights, sound and control room were all managed by the 18-and-unders. Lots of student greeters (thanks to the choir sharing duties) and still light on the adult volunteers in the room, especially at the 6:30pm Saturday night service.

Element of Fun/Positive Environment: This weekend we opened by using PollEverywhere in a new way – we posted a picture on the screen, and asked students to text in their captions for it. It worked REALLY well! We have some funny students – it was a nice new use of the system and good clean (moderated) Valentine’s Day fun. The choir sang the GLEE cast version of “Somebody to Love” and we also had a couple guys jump up and play a crowd game called Hate to Love Me, funny questions about love and Valentine’s Day that everyone seemed to enjoy as we got things warmed up.

Music Playlist: Somebody to Love, Tear Down the Walls, Rise & Sing

Favorite Moment: At the end of the service, we had a couple students come up and talk about an accident involving a couple of students from one of our largest high schools. They talked about the spiritual movement that is happening on campus, and invited people to pray after the service as a group for one of the students that is in a coma. So many came out to pray … good stuff.

Up Next: Q: (week 2 of 3)