WEEKLY DISCIPLESHIP GROUPS { Sunday, 9:00 A.M.-10:15 A.M. }
Students experience real relationships through Sunday morning small groups. These groups are designed to take students deeper in their relationship with Christ.
RUSH HOUR { Wednesday, 6:00 P.M.-7:15 P.M. }
Rush Hour is a high-energy service designed for 5th and 6th grade students to come together and worship God, featuring live music, crazy games, and biblical truth.
*Parent Drop Off/Pick Up at each location
What to bring: A smile & lunch $
For more information contact:
Anna Witt [email protected] 404-564-3149
Join Mark, Anna, volunteers and your friends for a wonderful opportunity to live out your faith as you serve and love others in our city in the name of Jesus! We will partner with two Atlanta-based ministries (Resource Service Ministries and My Sister’s House) for day service projects and we will enjoy a time of fellowship at Stone Mountain Park on Wednesday evening.
Important Information
Resource Service Ministries is a ministry that works with elderly widows. My Sister’s House provides shelter for homeless women and their children. Participants will be involved in scraping & painting a home, doing yard work with RSM and they will assist children in learning and sorting clothes for My Sister’s House.
On Wednesday we will return to the Church for dinner and Hour of Power. Immediately after Hour of Power we will depart to Stone Mountain to attend the Laser show. We will return to COTA and stay overnight.
Who can participate in the Atlanta Missions Project?
Current 5th and 6th grade students (2010-2011 school year)
Total Cost = $80.00 (Includes breakfast, transportation, Wednesday night dinner and Stone Mountain Laser Show)
Lunch is not included on a daily basis. Students will need to pack a lunch for each day.
After registration you will be emailed a release form, your balance, packing list and complete schedule.
Questions? Contact the STS Office at (404) 591-2470 or [email protected]
All STS (5th-12th grade) guys and dads are welcome to join the staff guys for a few days of outdoor fun.
Come join the STS leaders for a guys retreat at Pinewood Plantation near Albany, GA. We will be fishing on a private lake, trap shooting on a lighted range and enjoying the South Georgia outdoors. We will look at Biblical manhood while allowing plenty of free time to play and relax. This is designed to be a father/son retreat. Students who are not able to bring a father are encouraged to bring another male leader from their life.
Bed space is limited so sign up fast!
Your $75 includes meals and a limited number of shells and clays.
Please bring your fishing poles. All adults that are interested in bringing a shotgun please inform the STS staff.
*For trip firearms policy, contact the STS office*
Questions? Call the STS Office: (404) 591-2470
Crosswalk Spring Retreat
At WhiteWater Express in Ocoee, TNJoin Mark, Anna and the adult volunteers for one amazing trip. We will be going to Whitewater Express’s camp at the Ocoee River in Tennessee. We will have great worship, challenging teaching with the theme “For God’s Fame” and a weekend full of great fun activities like paintball, horseback riding, ropes course, mountain-biking, giant swing and of course, white water rafting the Nantahala River! This is a great trip to bring friends on too!
Cost = $130.00 / student (includes food, transportation, activities, materials, and t-shirt)
After registering, you’ll be sent a release form, packing list, and arrival/departure times.
**Online registration is no longer available for this event**
If you have questions, please call the STS Office at (404) 591-2470
Snow…Snow… and more Snow… that is pretty much all we have heard about this past week. And if you are like me, you are probably pretty tired of the snow. But the interesting thing is that the snow, which is actually still on the ground in many areas, accumulated only for a couple hours Sunday night, but it is still on the ground! So where does this snow come from? Well, the simple answer is it comes from the sky, but who is in control of this snow?
“10 The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen. 11 He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them. 12 At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them” Job 37:10-12
God is in control of the snow; every snow flake! To do an illustration of this, I took some time Sunday in CROSSWALK to make my own snow and see how good I was at creating snow. For this experiment, I purchased a retro snow cone maker, and two bags of ice from the gas station. I then began to create snow with the snow cone maker as fast as I could! After about 45 minutes of snow making, and the silly faces from everyone that walked by, I accumulated a little square of about 2 inches of snow… Not very much…
After this I asked two students to make snow men out of my snow. The picture to the left is the result. As you can see, it was hard to make a nice snow man with the snow I made: the snow began to melt because of the room temperature, it was little softer than I would have liked, and I wanted more to make a larger snow man! To compare these 
snow men to a real snow man, this picture to the right shows a snow man Megan and I found after only an hour of snow. Big difference!
There is one simple lesson I learned from this experiment: Man cannot control the weather. As much as we try to manipulate the roads to make them melt, create more rain when we need it, stop a storm in its tracks, it is impossible for us to control the weather. But as we see from the bible verse above, God is in control and He is sovereign over His creation — no snow flake can fall without His activity and design. As I thought of this, it reminded me of humans in general, and how hard we often try with good works to save ourselves. We create these tiny snow men and think that we are good enough, when in fact God wants to work something far larger by saving us in His sovereign grace; He alone is the one that seeks and finds us. As an example of this, if you are a 5th and 6th grader, I want you to find the hidden snow man on the STS website. The hidden snow man will have something hidden on his stomach. Look around on the STS website and see if you can find him, when you do, email me a description of the image that is on his stomach to [email protected], and the first girl and boy to complete this task will get the candy bar of their choice Sunday morning! Hurry up and start looking for the snow man!
5th – 12th grade Moms and Daughters,
You are invited to join the ladies of STS on Saturday, December 4th
for a special Mother-Daughter day.
A tea-lunch will begin at 11:00 am before The Nutcracker matinee at the Fox Theatre.
Cost is $30.00 a person which includes lunch and the show.
Tickets are limited!
We’re very excited to announce the 1st annual pig and a blanket night on August 21 at 6:00 p.m. on The Church of the Apostles lawn. All student ministry families are invited to join the STS staff for a night of family fun and bar-b-que on the church lawn.
We’ll provide the pig, drinks, games, and live blegrass band. You just need to bring your blanket or lawn chair, your favorite side dish, and a friend!
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