Archive for the ‘Gatherings’ Category
What Our K–5th Graders Are Up To In February…
It’s a great time to be an UpStreet kid at Buckhead Church! All through February, we’re learning about the Big Idea of PRAYER—having a conversation with God. We launched our Big Idea on February 5 in UpStreet (our Sunday environment for elementary-aged kids) and at KidStuf Live (our monthly interactive production for parents and kids).
It’s all part of our strategy to partner with parents and make it easy to talk about God’s big ideas at home. We believe that what happens at home is more important than what happens at church. Be sure to check out our ParentStuf app for a simple, free, and easy way to talk about prayer with your kids!
That’s not all! On February 4, over 350 of our UpStreet kids went bowling with their small group leaders at an event we call KidVenture. KidVenture happens twice a year, and it’s designed to give UpStreet kids and their small group leaders a chance to connect relationally while doing something fun. It’s amazing how sharing an experience bonds people, breaks down barriers, and raises the quality of small group conversations on Sundays. It was a great event because our kids and leaders got to connect in a whole new way—as you can see from the pictures!
Divorce Recovery: Unwrapping Christmas
Last year the Care Ministry introduced Unwrapping Christmas, and we are pleased to announce that it will be back again this year at North Point Community Church on December 1, at 7:00 p.m.
We’ve been offering our Oasis divorce recovery program for years, but we felt like we needed to do something extra for our divorced and separated attendees around the holidays. Our goals were to provide spiritual and emotional encouragement, to help attendees understand that there were other people in their community going through similar difficult times, and to provide practical advice to guide them as they tried to establish their “new normal” around the holidays.
Last year’s event was a huge success, but this year, Unwrapping Christmas is going to be even better! Nationally acclaimed speaker Bill Butterworth, author of New Life After Divorce, will share the inspirational story of his own divorce experience. We’ll also have Chinua Hawk onstage performing. Like last year, we’ll send out a daily email to attendees after the event for the entire month of December to uplift, encourage, assist, and challenge them. We had some incredible responses from these daily posts last year and expect the same this time around.
If you or anyone you know is divorced or separated—especially if this will be the first Christmas in this season of life, please go to www.northpoint.org/unwrappingchristmas to learn more. Tickets are $15 at the website above, and we encourage those who purchase tickets to invite another separated or divorced person to attend with them for free.
Mike Glogorski ::: Care Ministry ::: Buckhead Church
Worship…Middle School Style!
Whew! How long has it been since you’ve done a cartwheel, slid down an inflatable slide, launched water balloons, balanced with your group of friends on one hand, eaten a barrage of grab bag baby food, completed a water bucket challenge, raced to answer trivia questions, danced until you were dizzy, played kickball, wrestled an inflatable alligator in the water Olympics, eaten at the world’s longest dinner table, joined a massive wave, and had a flour bomb war—all in one day?
This nonstop fun set the stage for Frequency 2011. Last month, we loaded up buses and headed to Covington’s FFA Camp with hundreds of 7th and 8th-grade Transit students. We spent the weekend celebrating God’s love and learning how to live a worship-centered life.
Because worship doesn’t look the same in every individual’s 
life, we challenged students to discover what resonates within them to grow a deeper, more personal connection to God. Hundreds of students stepped nearer to an enduring faith of their own. It was an amazing weekend of laughter, prayer, fun, community—and worship!
The Transit Team ::: Buckhead Church
High School Students & Aliens!!??
Tucked away in the north Georgia Mountains, beautiful Sharp Top Cove sets the stage for a weekend retreat that students will never forget. We call it Vertical Reality, but don’t let the rustic scenery fool you—this is not your average mountain camp! Stocked with a pool, gym, lake, beach volleyball court, zip line, and high ropes course, there is more than enough to keep a high school student entertained. And if those activities weren’t enough, some of the students created their own fun called “owling” and “planking.” Hopefully, the pictures below can help explain.
This year at Vertical Reality, students learned how to “Live Like an Alien.” This sounds like something straight out of a science-fiction movie, but the weekend’s content encouraged students to live like no one else—to live like someone not of this world. Philippians 1:27 (NLT) says, “Above all, you must live as citizens of heaven…” We challenged students to live like they were not citizens of this world, but citizens of heaven. The results were overwhelming as we witnessed unity, growth, and life-change within so many of our Buckhead Church InsideOut groups.
It was an incredible weekend and one that will be talked about for a while.
Shannon White ::: High School Ministry ::: Buckhead Church
Night of Worship – October 20!
Every few months, we gather for a Night of Worship. On October 20 at 7:30 p.m., we’ll spend some extended time singing and celebrate communion together. We love these nights because it’s a chance for us to step away from daily routines, take a deep breath, and spend time focusing our hearts on the One who gives us life. Here is a message from worship leader Seth Condrey on what to expect:
Night of Worship – 10/20/2011 from buckheadchurch on Vimeo.
We hope you’ll join us next Thursday to experience worship, rest, and rejuvenation!
CHILDCARE: We will not be offering childcare for Night of Worship in order to give those that create our preschool environment a chance to simply attend a service. Because of that, we ask that you make personal arrangements for childcare.
ONLINE STREAMING: Due to the fact that our Sunday services are now streamed from the North Point campus, it is much more difficult for us to offer a service online due to technical limitations. At some point in the future, we may be able to offer this feature more easily, but, as for now, we are unable to stream the service online. We’ve got a seat for you, though!
