Shoal Creek Student Family Connection - 9/29 Edition

Hi Families, here’s your “need-to-know” info for your Buya and Crash Students:

1. Special Opportunity Sit Face-To-Face With World-Leader This Thursday – This Thursday at Roy’s home from 7-8:30pm, we have the opportunity to be face-to-face with Jim Yost, one of the the best movement leaders in the world. Would anyone like to hear about what he’s been up to, and gain insight in our we can make our student ministries a better place for our students? The bigger context of the meeting is about how we can help stop Human Trafficking; however, Roy has said that it may be possible to get Jim to share with us some of the things he’s experienced in working with youth in general. PLEASE let me know if you’re interested in hearing about student movements—thanks! You can RSVP HERE.

2. Crash Students Invited To Go Eat Lunch After Church This Sunday At Chipotle – On the first Sunday of each month I’m inviting any Crash student that wants some good grub to go get some lunch together. This Sunday we’ll head off to Chipotle as soon as second service is over. Let me know if you want in!

3. “New Look” For Crash (9th-12th Graders) On Sundays At Shoal Creek – Starting now, and indefinitely forward, instead of the high school students at Shoal Creek doing their own program during the 11am service, our Crash Team invites each high school student up into the Attic between services for free breakfast food, and then into the Auditorium Balcony during the 11am service to sit as a high school group to experience the wonderfully relevant Auditorium service together. For details on why/how we reached this decision, please read my blog post here. Please also feel free to contact me for any/all questions you have that the blog post doesn’t answer.

4. Clay Terrance “Homework Huddle” Community Service Opportunity, Wednesdays, 3:15-4:30pm – This summer we had a really fun time at Clay Terrace Apartments putting on these Fun Fridays. Now we’re trying to follow up with some of the relationships we started through what we’re calling “Homework Huddles”, which will be on Wednesdays, where we’ll help students with their homework after school. I know many students have commitments in that right-after-school time slot, but I consider this an A++ type of service opportunity that students really excel in. I’ll be there! Would love to serve alongside your student! Please RSVP HERE if you/they would like to help!

Here’s what’s available to students and how we communicate to student families weekly.

1. “Buya” program every Sunday, 9:30am and 11am in the Underground for all 6th-8th grade students.
2. “Crash” (9th-12th grade) students can meet in The Attic every Sunday from 10:35am-11am for free breakfast, then attend the 11am service in the Auditorium as a group by sitting in the balcony.
3. Join the “Buya Parents” or the “Crash Parents” City groups if you want weekly info on upcoming events.

Wanting more information about what Shoal Creek offers for students that you don’t see here? Contact Justin Talley, or start following our Shoal Creek Students Twitter account—@SC3Students—to be connected with the latest happenings. 

Shoal Creek Student Family Connection

Hi Families, here's your "need-to-know" info for your Buya and Crash Students:

1. "New Look" For Crash (9th-12th Graders) On Sundays At Shoal Creek - Starting now, and indefinitely forward, instead of the high school students at Shoal Creek doing their own program during the 11am service, our Crash Team invites each high school student up into the Attic between services for free breakfast food, and then into the Auditorium Balcony during the 11am service to sit as a high school group to experience the wonderfully relevant Auditorium service together. For details on why/how we reached this decision, please read my blog post here. Please also feel free to contact me for any/all questions you have that the blog post doesn't answer.

2. Clay Terrance "Homework Huddle" Community Service Opportunity , Wednesdays, 3:15-4:30pm - This summer we had a really fun time at Clay Terrace Apartments putting on these Fun Fridays. Now we're trying to follow up with some of the relationships we started through what we're calling "Homework Huddles", which will be on Wednesdays, where we'll help students with their homework after school. I know many students have commitments in that right-after-school time slot, but I consider this an A++ type of service opportunity that students really excel in.  Please RSVP HERE if you/they would like to help!

3. Buya and Crash Small Groups are now meeting weekly. If interested in getting your student plugged in, please message me and I'll get you connected.

Here's what's available to students and how we communicate to student families weekly.

1. "Buya" program every Sunday, 9:30am and 11am in the Underground for all 6th-8th grade students.
2. "Crash" students can get free breakfast in The Attic from 10:30am-11am. Then sit together in the Balcony for the 11am Auditorium service.
3. Join the "Buya Parents" or the "Crash Parents" City groups if you want weekly info on upcoming events.

Wanting more information about what Shoal Creek offers for students that you don't see here? Contact Justin Talley, or start following our Shoal Creek Students Twitter account--@SC3Students--to be connected with the latest happenings. 

New Look On Sundays For Crash (9th-12th grade) at Shoal Creek Community Church

For those of you with a "Crash" (9th-12th grade) student, Sundays are going to look a lot different than before. After a year of having our Crash program in the Attic, and after a couple months of discussing how to connect the best with high school students on Sundays, our Crash Team has decided to try utilize the Sunday services in the Auditorium to connect with the high school students that call Shoal Creek home, instead of trying to recruit them "out" of the Auditorium and into the Attic for their own service.

Or, to put it another way. The more we talk to students and get an understanding of what they're looking for in a Sunday morning service, the more we realize that we don't need to "compete" with what's happening in the Auditorium, since most of the adult services are still completely relevant and meaningful for 9th-12th graders. Over the last year we've been finding that what happens in the Auditorium on a Sunday is just as attractional to teenagers as it is adults, since the level of musical excellence and culturally relevant videos and dramas all are still able to speak into a teenager's life. Instead of trying to draw high school students "out" of the Auditorium, we want to try to connect with high school students "in" the Auditorium.

So, what this means practically, is:

• From 10:35am-11am each Sunday, the area we call "The Attic" will be open and there will be free food and coffee for high school students that want to come get a donut, muffin, or other treat, and meet the Crash leaders and other students that call Shoal Creek home. 
• During the 11am Shoal Creek service, instead of Crash students doing their own program in The Attic, the high school students will all go sit together in the balcony to watch Shoal Creek's very culturally relevant service together.  We will have leaders "floating" through the Auditorium in between services, inviting high school students to come get food and coffee in the Attic each week, and also inviting high school students to come sit together and meet other high school students that regular gather in the balcony. 
• Once a month, the Crash students and leaders will also go out to each lunch directly following second service to try and continue to build authentic relationships between each other. 

Each week there will still be small groups for the high school boys and girls that meet mid-week. We will still be doing other "just-for-fun" activities with the students as the opportunities present themselves. So not much else outside of what happens on Sunday morning changes, and Buya (6th-8th grader program) remains the same.

We're just looking at this change as an opportunity to go where the high school students are naturally more drawn to, and deciding not to try to "extract" them from where they already are wanting to be. We are going to work hard to create opportunities to build relationships outside of Sunday mornings, since sitting through a service together lends itself to being a little more passive when it comes to relationship building. I'd advise you to contact me and let me put you on my weekly contact list so you can be in the loop about all the upcoming events, hangouts, and service opportunities that we regularly create for students at Shoal Creek.

If anyone has any questions or concerns at all, please contact me and I'd be more than happy talk you and walk you through the process and the conversations that have taken place over the last year that have brought us to this point. 

Shoal Creek Student Family Connection - 9/8 Edition, Small Groups and Homework Huddle Info

Hi Families, here's your "need-to-know" info for your Buya and Crash Students:

1. BUYA and CRASH Small Groups To Start THIS WEEK - Here are the details if you are a:

Buya Girl - Tuesdays, 5:30pm-7pm, meet in the Underground at SC. Lead by Leslie Eklund (816-206-6922).
Buya Guy - Wednesdays, 5:30pm-7pm, meet in the Underground at SC. Lead by Justin Talley (816-510-3859).
Crash Girl - Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm, location Goodwin Family Home, 330 S Fairview, Liberty, 64068. Lead by Erin Talley (816-510-3859).
Crash Guy - Wednesdays 7-8:30pm, meet in the Underground at SC. Lead by Justin Talley (816-510-3859).
Please contact any of the above leaders for any questions you might have. 

2. Clay Terrance "Homework Huddle" Community Service Opportunity to Wed Sept 16th, 3:15-4:30pm - This summer we had a really fun time at Clay Terrace Apartments putting on these Fun Fridays. Now we're trying to follow up with some of the relationships we started through what we're calling "Homework Huddles", which will be on Wednesdays, where we'll help students with their homework after school. I know many students have commitments in that right-after-school time slot, but I consider this an A++ type of service opportunity that students really excel in. I'll be there! Would love to serve alongside your student! Please RSVP HERE if you/they would like to help!

Here's what's available to students and how we communicate to student families weekly.

1. "Buya" program every Sunday, 9:30am and 11am in the Underground for all 6th-8th grade students.
2. "Crash" program every Sunday, 11am only, in the Attic for 9th-12th grade students.
3. Join the "Buya Parents" or the "Crash Parents" City groups if you want weekly info on upcoming events.

Wanting more information about what Shoal Creek offers for students that you don't see here? Contact Justin Talley, or start following our Shoal Creek Students Twitter account--@SC3Students--to be connected with the latest happenings. 

Shoal Creek Student Family Connection - 9/1 Edition, Fall Small Group Details

Hi Families, here's your "need-to-know" info for your Buya and Crash Students:

1. BUYA and CRASH Small Groups To Start Directly Following Labor Day- Here are the details if you are a:

• Buya Girl - Tuesdays, 5:30pm-7pm, meet in the Underground at SC. Lead by Leslie Eklund (816-206-6922).
• Buya Guy - Wednesdays, 5:30pm-7pm, meet in the Underground at SC. Lead by Justin Talley (816-510-3859).
• Crash Girl - Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm, location TBD. Lead by Erin Talley (816-510-3859).
• Crash Guy - Wednesdays 7-8:30pm, meet in the Underground at SC. Lead by Justin Talley (816-510-3859).
• Please contact any of the above leaders for any questions you might have. 

Here's what's available to students and how we communicate to student families weekly.

1. "Buya" program every Sunday, 9:30am and 11am in the Underground for all 6th-8th grade students.
2. "Crash" program every Sunday, 11am only, in the Attic for 9th-12th grade students.
3. Join the "Buya Parents" or the "Crash Parents" City groups if you want weekly info on upcoming events.

Wanting more information about what Shoal Creek offers for students that you don't see here? Contact Justin Talley, or start following our Shoal Creek Students Twitter account--@SC3Students--to be connected with the latest happenings.