Laura Pulliam, DCE | Lpulliam@mtcsa.org | 210.824.8748 JANUARY 2016

December Picture

of the Month

Fiesta De

Navidad!

SUN 01 9:45am Education Hour

FRI 06 6:00pm Depart for Winter Retreat

SUN 08 9:45am Education hour (no high school class due to retreat)

3:00pm (Approx.) Return from Winter Retreat

SUN 15 9:45am Education Hour

12:00-4:30pm SNL SERVE + EDU

SUN 22 YOUTH SUNDAY

8:00am Early service helpers report to Laura (narthex)

9:45am Education Hour

10:40am Late service helpers report to Laura (narthex)

SUN 29 9:45am Education Hour

12:00 Change into clothes/shoes for serving

Lunch at Chipotle

1:00 Serve at CAM downtown

3:30 Prep for Youth Sunday & assignment of

leadership roles

4:30 Depart in peace!

This is a Sunday where Mount Calvary highlights the involvement of MS

& HS youth in the life of our church ! Help with greeting, reading,

children’s message, ushering… everyone can get involved!

Registered Students: The packet you

received in the mail includes all the

important details for this trip!

Register for the [UN]PLUGGED trip by New Year’s Day!

There are certain things you need to stay alive.

Oxygen.

Water.

Food.

There are certain things that are

really nice to have. Some guy named

Abraham Maslow even put all of this

into a cool pyramid chart called a

hierarchy of needs. Someone

else added “wifi” but I think we’d all

agree. Thank you, random person.

But isn’t there more to life than that? As Christians, you and I know what that

thing is. C.S. Lewis puts it so well in Mere Christianity I’ll just let him do the

talking: “I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world

can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another

world.” We desire a relationship with the Creator and Redeemer of the universe.

I’m not going to convince you in a half-page article to change all your priorities.

You have your own pyramid chart. The whole concept of this illustration is that

the needs on the bottom must be met before we can start meeting higher-up

needs. If you were going to write in your own section, much as wifi person did,

where would you add “Relationship with God”? Think about it for a minute.

We’re all busy. We really do need food and water. We really do want to foster

relationships with loved ones. And we have the desire to achieve. The world is

going to over-complicate your schedule. Parents reading this, you know firsthand

that your child’s schedule is way more complicated than yours ever was at that

age! It’s only getting crazier.

My philosophy on discipleship, and especially youth discipleship, is that it

shouldn’t be over-complicated. To grow as a disciple, you really only need four

things: worship, education, fun (fellowship), and service. You’ll notice that most

Student Ministry functions include one of these super simple decoding tags:

WORSHIP, EDU(cation), FUN, SERVE. That’s because I want you to know exactly

which function(s) of discipleship is being developed with each one. And why it’s

worth the space on your pyramid.

MTC Student Ministries JANUARY 2017

Sign up now for Mount Calvary’s

high school summer trip!

Austin, TX

July 16-21, 2017

YES! Count me in for the high school summer trip July 16-21.

I plan to pay the trip cost of $140

I plan to regularly attend a Bible class during the

Education Hour (2 or more times per month)

Student’s Name:______________________________________________________

Parent/Guardian Signature:_________________________________________

To Be Continued: February Newsletter