DFW Dive is this Friday & Saturday!!!!

DFW Dive is this Friday & Saturday (6/26 & 6/27)! We’ll be leaving this Friday at 7 AM from the EA Center (gym) and returning Saturday night around midnight. We’ll be staying at the Comfort Suites in Roanoke. This is further north in the metroplex b/c I’m not crazy about staying around Six Flags. This is a very safe area which we used last year. The hotel address is 801 Byron Nelson Blvd., Roanoke, TX 76262…(817) 490-1455. The cost for this event is $75 which includes transportation, lodging, Whirlyball, Ranger's ticket and Six Flags ticket. Regarding meals we will have donuts available Friday morning. The students will be responsible for lunch (fast food) and dinner (restaurant…$10-12) on Friday. Saturday we’ll have a complimentary breakfast at the hotel. The students will be responsible for lunch at Six Flags ($10-12) and dinner (fast food) on the road that night. So you’re probably looking at ~$40 for meals then any snack or souvenir money at Whirlyball, Rangers, and Six Flags. Here's the schedule for the weekend:
Friday - 6:45 AM...Meet at CBC EA Center
7:00 AM...Leave for DFW
Noon...Fast food lunch in DFW
2:00-4:00 PM...Whirlyball in Plano
4:00-6:15 PM...Dinner at Southlake Town Square
7:05 PM...Rangers game vs Padres followed by fireworks
11:00 PM...Check-in at Comfort Suites
Saturday - 9:00 AM...Leave for Six Flags
10:00 AM...Six Flags
5:00 PM...Leave for Midland
Midnight...Arrive at CBC EA Center

Rob
(432) 210-9138 cell
(432) 694-7722 church

Community Rehab: Ministry BEASTS!

Dear church,
Our students are BEASTS with power tools, hammers, scrapers and paint brushes! We are so PROUD to be here and call them "OUR" kids! Sunday we arrived around 4pm - just in time to meet our groups and head off to our sites. There are 22 homes in the mix this year receiving new windows, paint, roofs, or some combination of such. Homes are located in four towns - most in DeLeon and Commanche. Our students have been stretched a bit when many were placed on teams where they had no Crestview buds with them - but by the end of the day the first day, most had made lifelong friends with students from all over - Baytown, Canton, Plains, DeLeon, Commanche, Bedford and even a group from Alabama! (probably more towns I'm forgetting)

Our nights are comprised of yummy dinners, worship with Nick (I can't remember his last name, but he and his band have led worship for Crestview a few times.) The spiritual focus of the week is "Reality" and learning to live out the reality of God's Word. After worship, we have a Crestview time and then our regular "Allsups" runs for Dublin Dr. Peppers! (Our youth minister spoils us!) We have been so proud of how our students have stepped up to take on leadership jobs with some leading the crew Bible studies and/or our RainbowExpress (back yard Bible clubs).

Getting them to sleep is not an issue (at least not with the girls). Lights are out at 10:30 and most are ready to crash. The major challenge of the week is having 150 PAINTED on girls getting in to one of the 4 portable showers and getting clean in the 5 minute time limit! (We won't mention the guys AMAZING showering situation.....NO, NO....bitter??? Us?? NO WAY!) =)

Keep us in your prayers as God is moving through our students. Seeing them sacrifice and sweat with smiles in the name of Jesus is a blessing to all.

I have tons of pictures to download but I am going to have to get a new way to download them...sorry. Stay tuned. Nate said he'd give it a shot for me tonight!

Love to all of you!
'Mama' Donna

Community Rehab Update...

We leave for Community Rehab on Sunday!!! We have changed our departure time to 11:45 AM (right after 10:31 Worship). Our group will be recognized during the 10:31 service. Then we'll eat some pizza and head out! Please wear your D-Now shirts to worship and if you don't have one...we have some extras. We will load our luggage and sleeping gear on Saturday @ 5:00 PM at the EA. This will allow us to have a "stress-free" worship time on Sunday morning. You can find tons of additional information about Rehab at communityrehabproject.org.

Crestview Parental Recharge (CPR)

Summertime has arrived! In an effort to keep our youth parents connected to what's happening in our student ministry we'll meet this Sunday, May 31st at 5:00 PM. Join us in the Trinity Center Youth Room as we unpack information about Community Rehab, DFW Dive, Student Life Camp, Rock The Desert, Wake, Shoreline and THE MOVE! You'll also get the chance to meet our Summer Intern...Nate Peace.

Happy New Year! Headin' back to Texas!

We had a wonderful new year's eve here! We dispersed and everyone did exactly what they pleased. One group snow sledded at the park, the hard core skiers jockeyed for unused lift tickets and got an extra day of skiing in, a few even snowmobiled from 1300 feet up, and a big group of us headed to a nearby outlet mall for some fun shopping! I, for one, had a VERY successful shopping excursion!!!!! This has been a fun trip for all!!!

We had such an incredible time of worship tonight and God has been revealing His "Crazy Love" for us! What a blessing! After worship we all headed out to see the fireworks over Maggie Pond and the mountain . We were right under them. It was AWESOME!!!!! The evening is ending with some crammed (and well supervised, I might add) rooms full of kids playing games and counting in the new year's across the country. Fun times!

Most students are packed and we are leaving out early in the morning at 6am (7am Texas time) The drive is about 12 hours and we will have several stops, so we are estimating about 9 or 9:30. Thankfully the bad roads cleared before we arrived and the forcast calls for clear and dry road for our final travel day...Praise the Lord!

See you all NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!! :)
Love you all,
Donna