Category Archives: Youth Ministry
Hello Christmas
Each year we get our students a special gift around this time to tell them Merry Christmas and that we love them. Typically it’s a clothing item or bracelet with our mside youth logo on it. This year I wanted to give the students a Christmas gift with a bigger purpose.
A few months ago I came across Hello-Somebody. They are a Texas-based ministry whose mission it is to, “feed and educate children, by providing an avenue of knowledge, in order to break the cycle of poverty and hunger within their generation.” This is the kind of God-sized mission that gets me fired up. Hello-Somebody has only been in existence since 2009 and is run by a handful of people – yet they’ve fed over a million people and are now helping sponsor boys in Rwanda through Africa New Life.
Hello-Somebody sells watches, shirts, and hoodies to help support the work that they’re doing around the world. These $25 watches are not only awesome looking, they’re also very practical. The purchase of each watch helps feed over 100 meals to a child. If you want to buy more for your friends for Christmas you can even sponsor a child in Rwanda. The purchase of 70 watches sponsors a boy for a year’s worth of schooling and food.
Check out Hello Somebody and get a watch. If you didn’t make it to the Christmas party on Wednesday, come by and get a watch from me or order one online today.
December Parent Link
The newsiest edition of the Parent Link newsletter is available now for download from our youth page on www.msidechurch.org. The December newsletter tackles the issue of helping your teens become servants. Check it out today and be sure to make note of all the upcoming December events at Morningside for teenagers.
An mside student has an app for that
One of our eleventh grade students at Morningside has created three iPhone apps. Aaron Ross is a 17-year-old student at Morningside and attends Spartanburg High School. He just finished three applications that can be downloaded from the iTunes app store for your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The apps include two free games: Scramble -A-Word and Choose Well – Puzzle Games and most recently a free music app called freeTunes. The music app is legit. It allows users to search for and download virtually any song for free. The app works much like iTunes. The only difference is there is no charge for the music. It’s totally awesome and completely legal. Check his work out in the Apple App Store today. Help him out and encourage his creativity by spending a $1 and buying a copy today! I hope his next app will be an mside youth ministry app. Look for it soon.
