Welcome
WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT:
Here is an overview of what we’re talking about. Listed below the summary is a “parent cue” to help you dialog with your child about the session. The question is intended not just to be asked by you, but to be responded to by BOTH of you. Use this opportunity to find out what God is teaching your child, and allow your child to see what God is teaching you as well.
The NeverEnding Story:
Series Overview
A manger. A baby. Shepherds. Stars. The Christmas story is one we look at with great reverence. The peaceful scene is recreated and plastered on everything from phone backgrounds to lawn decorations. But the Christmas story is more
than a just a story we look back on and remember. It’s ongoing. It’s active. It’s a story that required a response over 2,000 years ago, and one that requires a response today. It’s a story that invites us to participate in it even today—because the Christmas story is the neverending story.
Session One: invited to (12-14-11)
When a story is small and distant, it really doesn’t have much impact in our lives, does it? It solicits a nod, a smile, a “that’s nice.” But it doesn’t affect us. It doesn’t move us. It doesn’t shake us. And while many people, us included,
tend to approach the Christmas story, the story of Jesus’ birth, in a familiar, typical and remote sort of way, it’s not that kind of story. The Christmas story, at its very core demands a response—good or bad—from you, from me—from anyone who hears it.
Session One Parent Cue: How has the Christmas story become too familiar to you? Read the story together in Matthew 1-2 and in Luke 1-2:40. Did you notice anything in the story you may have
forgotten about or ignored in the past?
Session Two: participate in (12-21-11)
The Christmas story is more than just one we respond to individually, it’s one we participate in—and we’re not talking bathrobes and kids in sheep costumes. The participation the Christmas story calls for is more earth shaking than a quiet
stable and a clear sky with a bright star. This story shook the way the world operates when it started to unfold thousands of years ago. But it has the potential to do the same thing today when we become an active part of it. What would our world look like if we became a part of the vision God has for the world—a vision revealed with the birth of His Son, and rests on us now?
Session Two Parent Cue: What can we as a family do to respond to the Christmas story?
SUMMIT GROWTH TRACK OCT. 26th – NOV. 16th
Hey Everyone I’m excitted about the entire church going through the Summit Growth Track together, you are all a part of the Vision for Highland Church!! This will bring us together as a family as well as discover the gifts God has given you. Please plan to be there all four weeks, I’m looking forward to growing with you!! So excitted for ALL GOD is doing !!! Keep praying for the Source and invite your friends 
Pastor Traci and Source Leaders
NEW SERIES–FRIEND REQUEST
WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT:
Here is an overview of what we’re talking about. Listed below the summary is a “parent cue” to help you dialog with your child about the session. The question
is intended not just to be asked by you, but to be responded to by BOTH of you. Use this opportunity to find out what God is teaching your child, and allow your child to see what God
is teaching you as well.
Blessings,
Pastor Traci
NEW
FRIEND REQUEST:
Series Overview
We all want friends—even if we don’t want to admit it. We all want someone to hang out with, someone to talk to, someone who knows us. But friendship requires
something from us. It’s not just what we get or what makes us feel comfortable or happy. There’s a smart way to do friendship, a way with intention, a way
that will draw us closer to God’s heart—if we surround ourselves with the right people. That doesn’t mean our friends have to be clones of us—but it does mean
that they at least help us move in the right direction.
Session One: Accept? (08/17/11)
Having friends is great. Whether you want one, or you already have one, there’s just something about having other people in your life who you can count on. For
many, friendships just happen. A new friend is in the right place at the right time. And while friendships may start out randomly, there is an intentionality about who we allow close to us—and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Because the people who are closest to you have influence on your life. They help shape who you are. So who are the friends closest to you . . . and how are they influencing you?
Session One Parent Cue: Who are some of your closest friends? Why are these people so important to you?
Session Two: Respond? (08/24/11)
Someone to listen to my problems. Someone to do stuff with. Someone to talk to constantly. Someone to hang out with. When you make a list of what qualities
you want in a friend, how many of the things on your list involve what that person can do for you? Most of us would have to admit that it’s a lot. But the best friendships are ones that are not just about what the other person can do for you—the best friendships also involve how you can be there for someone else. How you can listen, instead of always talking. How you can give someone space when he or she needs it, or just hang out when your friend needs that too. In other words, the best friendships are not centered solely on you—and that’s a
good thing.
Session Two Parent Cue: What are some ways you’ve been able to help out your friends?
Session Three: Ignore? (08/31/11)
Relationships=conflict. It’s natural. It’s part of two people relating to one another because at some point, you’re not going to agree. One person will do something the other person
doesn’t like. One person will let the other person down. One person will say or do something stupid. It happens. And at some point, it happens to us—either we’re the person making the mess, or the one who is feeling the effects of the mess. So how do you navigate your way through the drama? Do you just ignore it and hope it goes away? Do you just drop that friend? Or do you find a way to work it out? The choice is yours.
Session Three Parent Cue: What is the biggest fight you’ve ever had with a friend? What was the outcome?
Summer Missions Trip
We are going to Special Touch Getaway this summer to take part in the Caregiver in Training program.
Special Touch is an organization whose goal is to provide disabled individuals around the United States or their families with a summer camp.
If you are interested in taking part in this amazing opportunity email Pastor Nathan and download this application.
Here we come
2011! 
Friday 9:00pm – Saturday at 7:00am
We are going all night long to welcome in the new year and all that God has for us. Games, Food, Friends, Fun in many forms. $15.00 covers it all.
Permission slip found here http://www.thesourceym.com/permission-slip-2010-11-all-nighter.pdf
See you there!
p. Nathan
Welcome to The Source website. We have all kinds of things for you to be a part of. God has great things instore for your life. See you soon.
God bless you, P. Nathan
We have some exciting changes coming to The Source. Small Groups, Activity Nights, Service Nights and more. Also Chase The Lion to the big dream God has for you. Keep checking back here for schedule changes and fun events.
