Shoal Creek Student Family Connection - 10/27 Edition

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

1. All families (students and parents) please join all of Shoal Creek each Wednesday from 6-8pm at Shoal Creek for the “7 Journey Experiences”. This is the link to RSVP for J4 “Isolation to Community” Wednesday night experience. Dinner WILL be provided (which is why the RSVP is important). Families with kids in grade school (K through 5th) will remain with their kids in the auditorium for a family experience including skits, videos, games, prizes and more. Adults & Families with older kids (6th grade and above) will go to the Attic for an interactive experience.

2. Only ONE Buya Service on Sundays, at 11am, Until Further Notice – Unfortunately, for several months now, our Buya Team has been struggling to make Buya on Sunday mornings as effective and life transformational as we hope it can be. Most recently, we have struggled to have enough volunteers on Sundays to staff two services. Our Buya Team (primarily made up of the parents of Buya and Crash students) is meeting and discussing to make a longer term decision of whether or not we are able to be more effective in the lives of students with two Buya services on a Sunday, or if we will be more effective by moving to one Buya service on Sunday. 

Until we can make a final decision in the next couple of weeks, we are putting 1st service Buya on “hold”, and asking families of Buya students to please consider attending the 11am service, so that we can still engage your Buya student in a spiritual journey then.

3. Last Week’s ParenTeen Post, “Slaying the giant of worry how your kids will measure up.” can be found here.

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

1. “Buya” program every Sunday at 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 ParenTeen - Slaying the giant of worrying how your kids will measure up.

 "This back-to-school season you might be like me. Wondering what kinds of challenges and discoveries await my kids this year. Wondering what will happen in their friendships. Wondering how they will grow—physically, spiritually, and a host of other ways—over the next ten months. But underneath these questions lies another question we wonder about.

We wonder how our kids will perform. How they’ll measure up against their peers in class and in sports or other pursuits. How they’ll take more steps toward the successful adulthood we dream about for them. 

These underlying questions loom beneath the surface like a sleeping giant. A giant of fear and anxiety. This giant occasionally bothers some parents, and continuously torments others. It’s the reason we push our kids to add that extracurricular activity, volunteer a few more hours to boost their resume, and take the “zero period” class at 7am each weekday to get a little bit ahead of the curve."

-StickyFaith.Org Blog

Ever felt this way? Finding yourself a couple months into the school and neck deep into these feeling and questions? Here's an article from Brad Griffin at Sticky Faith that was written for the beginning of the school year, but could serve as a good "thermometer" in how we're doing now that we're halfway through the school year's first semester, and some suggestion on what kinds of conversations we could try to have with our students.

Shoal Creek Student Family Connection - 10/20 Edition

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

1. All families (students and parents) please join all of Shoal Creek each Wednesday from 5:30-7:30pm at Shoal Creek for the “7 Journey Experiences”. This is the link to RSVP for J3 “Receiver to Giver”. Dinner WILL be provided (which is why the RSVP is important). Families with kids in grade school (K through 5th) will remain with their kids in the auditorium for a family experience including skits, videos, games, prizes and more. Adults & Families with older kids (6th grade and above) will go to the Attic for an interactive experience.

2. Halloween Bash Oct 25th – Who would like to help run a hot chocolate stand this year? This year the Halloween Bash is set to be an outdoor event, using our back parking lot instead of being primarily inside. The Student ministries role this year is going to be to run a hot chocolate stand, and I need 4-6 people to help me from 4:40-6pm, then another 4-6 people to help me from 6-7:20pm.

Anyone available to help me pass out hot chocolate at one of those two shifts? You’ll be compensated with all the hot chocolate your bladder can hold!

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

1. “Buya” program every Sunday at 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 - 10/13 Edition

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

1. URGENT – Only ONE Buya Service on Sundays, at 11am, Until Further Notice – Unfortunately, for several months now, our Buya Team has been struggling to make Buya on Sunday mornings as effective and life transformational as we hope it can be. Most recently, we have struggled to have enough volunteers on Sundays to staff two services. Our Buya Team (primarily made up of the parents of Buya and Crash students) is meeting and discussing to make a longer term decision of whether or not we are able to be more effective in the lives of students with two Buya services on a Sunday, or if we will be more effective by moving to one Buya service on Sunday. 

Until we can make a final decision in the next couple of weeks, we are putting 1st service Buya on “hold”, and asking families of Buya students to please consider attending the 11am service, so that we can still engage your Buya student in a spiritual journey then.

If you are a parent that has any concerns or further questions, please feel free to message me and set up a time to talk with me, or any of our Buya leaders. I would love to use this as an opportunity to engage the Buya parent community more deeply, and work together with the Buya parent community in figuring out the best way to move forward with affecting the spiritual journeys of 6th-8th grade students at Shoal Creek on Sunday mornings and also during the week.

2. All families (students and parents) please join all of Shoal Creek each Wednesday from 6-8pm at Shoal Creek for the “7 Journey Experiences”. This is the link to RSVP for J2 "Self-Hearted to Soft-Hearted". Dinner WILL be provided (which is why the RSVP is important). Families with kids in grade school (K through 5th) will remain with their kids in the auditorium for a family experience including skits, videos, games, prizes and more. Adults & Families with older kids (6th grade and above) will go to the Attic for an interactive experience.

3. Halloween Bash Oct 25th – Who would like to help run a hot chocolate stand this year? This year the Halloween Bash is set to be an outdoor event, using our back parking lot instead of being primarily inside. The Student ministries role this year is going to be to run a hot chocolate stand, and I need 4-6 people to help me from 4:40-6pm, then another 4-6 people to help me from 6-7:20pm.

Anyone available to help me pass out hot chocolate at one of those two shifts? You’ll be compensated with all the hot chocolate your bladder can hold!

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

1. “Buya” program every Sunday at 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 - 10/7 Edition - Big Buya Announcement

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

1. URGENT – Only ONE Buya Service on Sundays, at 11am, Until Further Notice – Unfortunately, for several months now, our Buya Team has been struggling to make Buya on Sunday mornings as effective and life transformational as we hope it can be on Sunday mornings. Most recently, we have struggled to have enough volunteers on Sundays to staff two services. Last Sunday we had to cancel 1st service Buya very last minute. Our Buya Team (primarily made up of the parents of Buya and Crash students) is meeting and discussing to make a longer term decision of whether or not we are able to be more effective in the lives of students with two Buya services on a Sunday, or if we will be more effective by moving to one Buya service on Sunday. 

Until we can make a final decision in the next couple of weeks, we are putting 1st service Buya on “hold”, and asking families of Buya students to please consider attending the 11am service, so that we can still engage your Buya student in a spiritual journey then.

If you are a parent that has any concerns or further questions, please feel free to contact me and set up a time to talk with me, or any of our Buya leaders. I would love to use this as an opportunity to engage the Buya parent community more deeply, and work together with the Buya parent community in figuring out the best way to move forward with affecting the spiritual journeys of 6th-8th grade students at Shoal Creek on Sunday mornings and also during the week.

2. All families (students and parents) please join all of Shoal Creek each Wednesday from 6-8pm at Shoal Creek for the “7 Journey Experiences”. This is the link to RSVP for J1 “Earner to Heir”. So far, almost 200 SC’ers have replied that they’ll be there. Dinner WILL be provided (which is why the RSVP is important).

Families with kids in grade school (K through 5th) will remain with their kids in the auditorium for a family experience including skits, videos, games, prizes and more. Adults & Families with older kids (6th grade and above) will go to the Attic for an interactive experience.

Hope you can make it! Not a better way to try and grow deeper in your spiritual journey and help your students grow alongside you.

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

1. “Buya” program every Sunday at 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.