Easter Huddle-Irvine High School

                                  Good Evening FCA Families!!
I hope you had a wonderful spring break.  I wanted to send you all a quick recap of our last FCA Huddle right before the break.  Once again, the turnout was incredible, the bleachers were packed.  Lots of new faces too.

Our speaker was Steve Johnson.  He is the high school pastor from Good Shepherd Lutheran. 
I asked Hannah Torrey, one of our Senior FCA student leaders to write as short description of Steve’s message.  Here it is:

“At our last Thursday's huddle, Steven Johnson from Good Shepherd spoke about Easter. He laid out a clear explanation of the history of Easter – how Jesus told the disciples that He would get arrested, and how Peter would deny Him three times before the rooster crowed. Steven taught us that the Easter story is one of hope because God loves us so much that he sent His son to die on the cross for our debts, and that putting our trust in worldly things is pointless because of what Jesus did for us. He asked us "what are we putting our hope in?" and "why are we looking for the living upon the dead?". Steven encouraged us to not live a lukewarm Christian life, but to pursue God with everything we have because once we've experienced God, our lives should change drastically, and that everything in the world will disappoint except God. He told the Easter story clear for students hearing it for the first time, but also related it to those who have been Christians, and urged us to give all we have to Christ. It was awesome that he was able to present the Easter story to new listeners, but also everyone else because we can never hear enough of the good news! ”
As you can see by Hannah’s recap, Steven’s message was perfectly timed with Easter and he really connected with the kids.
Our Huddles of course could not happen with out the support of our wonderful parents:

Our Pizza sponsors for this huddle were the Pittaluga and Fox families.   
Baked Goods were lovingly provided by the Searl, Hobbs & Kenney families.

Water bottles were provided by the Johnson family.
Our amazing sound system is provided by the Alayra family.
Thank you, also to the moms who rolled up their sleeves during their lunch break to help serve water and pizza. We are so grateful for your help as this ministry continues to expand.

As you can see this club is growing and will only stay afloat with all of our help!    If you are able, in these tough times, to donate financially, please send a check made to IHS Athletic Boosters-FCA to:  Jodi Nordstrom, 9 Redrock, Irvine, Ca. 92604.  (Your donations are tax deductible!!) 
THANK YOU PARENTS for your support!!!    Attached are some fun pictures from the day!
Our next Huddle is Thursday, April 26th!!
Blessings.......
Jodi Nordstrom
Michelle Carter

FCA Re-cap Rosalyn Reasor -PICTURES- 2 FCA Camp Scholarships Donated

 

Dear FCA Parents,

 

Team FCA wishes you all a blessed and restful Easter break with your families and gratitude for your continued faithful support of this campus ministry.  We pray your Easter Sunday is filled with great joy as we celebrate our risen Savior!     

 

 

We would like to acknowledge one of our FCA point moms, Rosalyn Reasor, as she spoke at our Huddle last week.  Rosalyn spoke of the love she has for our students  and the love Christ has for each one of us.  Rosalyn has displayed her love and dedication to FCA over the past 5 years by faithfully picking up and delivering pizza, paper products and bottled water for FCA Huddles.  She is also NHS’s MIT leader that meets faithfully twice a month to pray for our students.  If you see Rosalyn on campus  please take the time to express you appreciation for her service as she will be greatly missed being that her youngest child, Jill, is graduating this year.  Thank you Rosalyn for all you do and the joyful heart you serve with!!!

 

Exciting news..... an FCA family has generously donated 2 FCA camp scholarships totaling  $1100!!  If your son or daughter desires to attend this amazing camp, scheduled for June 29th-July 3rd  (see camp video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF8Hnh0bfdM), please have them write a one page essay expressing why they deserve to be awarded this scholarship and give it to Coach Rick Curtis or Coach Tim O’Brian by April 19th.  The 2 winners will be announced at the next huddle on April 24^th.  

If you would like to donate toward the Huddle ministry please send donations to Monica Younger at 26 Rincon 92620 . If you need a tax receipt make checks payable to FCA otherwise make payable to Monica Younger.  

 

PICTURES:

http://s1131.photobucket.com/albums/m542/jounger/FCA%20Huddle%20Northwood%20High/Northwood%20FCA%20Huddle%20Rosalyn%20Reasor/

 

A Big thank you to the following families for supporting the last Huddle:

 

Pritts

Stone

May

Hammeras

Nagel

McDonald

Campbell

 

Loving teenagers,

Torre Murray

Monica Younger

Kate Gisch

**** FCA Huddle Recap ****

                                  Good Afternoon FCA Families!!
Sorry for the delay in getting this out to all of you!!!  Here is a quick recap of our last FCA Huddle.   Before the speaker, the students competed in a relay game.....of passing the orange....attached pictures will explain   =).


Our speaker was Creg Darby.  Creg is the Family Ministries Pastor and Free Chapel Church in Irvine.


I asked Zoey Shade, one of our Junior FCA student leaders to write as short description of Creg’s message.  Here it is:

“ Last Thursday Pastor Creg came to us and talked about being a fighter.  In the beginning of his life, he was involved in physical fighting and after finding Christ that part of him evolved into emotionally fighting.   Pastor Creg shared with us, that even though it's easy to give up when things get hard, or just quit when it seems like things won't ever get better, you have to keep fighting.  God doesn't want you to give up and even if you're only fighting back inch by inch, God wants you to keep fighting through life.  Any heart with Christ in it is a strong one and Pastor Creg reminded all of us just how strong we can be. ”
At the end of Pastor Creg’s message, he invited kids to make a decision for Christ.  He asked all of the students to bow their heads and then asked those that wanted to make that decision to raise their hands.  As hands were raised, Pastor Creg would congratulate each raised hand, so while we all had our eyes closed,  we all were aware of how many hands were being raised.   It was such a powerful and moving moment.  

Our Huddles of course could not happen with out the support of our wonderful parents:

Our Pizza sponsors for this huddle were the Hobbs, Kenny, Lockwood, Lee and Salerno families.   Thanks so much !!!  
Baked Goods were lovingly provided by the Lee and Hobbs families.

Water bottles were provided by the Johnson family.
Our amazing sound system is provided by the Alayra family.

Thank you, also to the moms who rolled up their sleeves during their lunch break to help serve water and pizza. We are so grateful for your help as this ministry continues to expand.
We have 6 Huddles left this year.  We are still in need of funds to cover pizza costs for each of those Huddles.  If you are able, in these tough times, to donate financially, please send a check made to IHS Athletic Boosters-FCA to:  Jodi Nordstrom, 9 Redrock, Irvine, Ca. 92604.  (Your donations are tax deductible!!) 
THANK YOU PARENTS for your support!!!    Attached are some fun pictures from the day!
Our next Huddle is Thursday, March 22nd !!!
Blessings.......
Jodi Nordstrom
Michelle Carter