Huddle Recap November 5th- Woodbridge HS

Huddle #3 was attended by approximately 185 students.

Answered prayer!  David Hughes, the youth pastor at The Village Church, attended the Huddle and brought with him a portable sound system!  Thank you, David!  What a blessing that sound system is as it raises the energy level and enables everyone in the room to hear our speaker.

Christ-follower and former NFL player Egypt McKee spoke—starting with a falsetto voice that definitely got everyone’s attention.  And he was definitely worth listening to!

·                              It costs to follow Jesus!

·                              Many of us would do well to have a bell dog collar that keeps us from chasing our tail, that keeps us focused only on Christ.

·                               We’re all running around with two words on our t-shirt: “Affirm me!”

·                              Our value is not in what we do but in what Jesus did for us on the cross.

·                              Who do you walk by every day without saying, “Hey! What’s up? My name’s ____”?  Folks like that may wonder, “How can Jesus love me if His followers don’t seem to?”

·                               Life is not about being comfortable; it’s about being available.

·                               How much are you willing to give up to be a Christ follower?

·                               Find an accountability partner!  Get rooted in a church!  Get involved in serving! 

·                              Choose to be a slave to Christ. Yes, a slave!  And everyone in this room is already a slave to something!

·                                God loves you.  God knows all your secrets, and He loves you… in spite of yourself.

·         This isn’t a sermon!  I’m lighting a fire under your butt!

Thank you for these families who supported the Huddle with donations of cookies, water, pizza dollars, plates, napkins, time, and/or prayer:  Avazian, Babb, Coyle, Gaultiere, Gibbs, Grijalva, Haney, Hood, Mellor, Meyers, Moore, Prock, Torrey, and Valentine.

And just when we were settling into a pattern…

·         The next Huddle will be on December 3. (There is no school on November 19, which would have been the next date for a WHS Huddle.)

·         An email signup sheet will be sent out Thanksgiving weekend.

·         Reminder: We order and purchase the pizzas on the Friday before the Huddle.  If you are able and willing to support FCA with a pizza donation, please mail a check to Kris Gibbs, 7 East Yale Loop, 92604 right after you sign up so that we have the money we need when we need it!

Happy Thanksgiving—and know that as we count our blessings this year, we are thanking God for your support of FCA at WHS!

Kris Gibbs and Lisa Guest

Huddle Recap- November 1st- Irvine HS

 FCA Families!!
Here is a quick recap from our huddle last week on November 1st.

Our speaker for the huddle was Jarrod Davidoff.  Jarrod is the founder of  "Save the world foundation."   He is from South Africa and loves to share the gospel!    I had Trent Williams, our FCA Co-President write a quick recap of what Jarrod shared with the kids.....

“This weeks speaker was a guy named Jarrod from South Africa. He told us his amazing story of how he came from a life of sin and found Jesus. Its awesome to see how Jesus can make a broken life into a beautiful story. At the end of his testimony he asked people to raise their hands if they wanted to accept Jesus into their lives. So many people rose their hands. It is such an amazing feeling to know that all the leaders had helped in such a life changing decision.”
It was an awesome huddle....lots students in attendance, lots of pizza and lots of fun!!!

Our Huddles of course could not happen with out the support of our wonderful parents:
Our Pizza sponsor for this huddle was the Searl family.   
Baked Goods were lovingly prepared by the Alayra and Kenney families.

Water bottles were provided by the Lee, DeKlotz, Tom and Blevins families.

Thank you, also to all the moms who rolled up their sleeves during their lunch break to help serve water and pizza...see the attached picture.  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!!) 
Most of all, we ask that everyone please pray for this ministry as kids continue to come with a curiosity and a hunger for meaningful inspiration!

THANK YOU PARENTS for your support!!!    Attached are some fun pictures from the day!
Our next Huddle is Thursday, November 15th!!!
Blessings.......
Jodi Nordstrom
Michelle Carter

Huddle Recap October 11th -Mater Dei!

Dear FCA parent group,

We are so excited about the amazing first huddle we had at FAM, and are thanking God for all of your incredible sacrifice and support!  We had over 100 kids at the upper lunch huddle, and about 80 at the lower lunch huddle, great numbers for the first meetings.  The kids heard an amazing talk, and were encouraged by being together and feeling welcomed.  I can only imagine what God will do this year with such a great start, so many awesome new, young leaders, and a parent support team so willing to help.  We know without a doubt that each student who walked in the doors was encouraged by God's word and reminded that God waits to reach out a hand to help us up!  Yess!!!

Thank you so much Devon, Trisha, Sandy, Juliet, Elizabeth, Stacey, Mary Anne, and Mindy for your helping hands, water, and precious home-baked treats!  Thank you Kathleen for getting us off to such a great start, and of course Jared for your leadership and enthusiasm and contagious love for our kids and Jesus.  I am so pumped to see what God is going to unfold at Mater dei FAM!

Paula Boyer

paboyer@cox.net

Huddle Recap- October 11th-Beckman!

Hello Parents!

 

We had our first Huddle in the school gym last Thursday. We had about 200 students come hear Creg Darby from Free Chapel Church speak about Christ. There were a number of students who prayed to accept Christ as their Lord and Savior. Many of the students took home free Bibles and filled out prayer request cards asking that the FCA students could pray for them.

 

The pizza was donated by the Korb and Mannas families. Thank you to the many families who helped set up and serve pizza. Thank you, to those of you who donated cookies for the students! They were eagerly devoured!

 

Please pray about being involved with FCA. Would you consider donating a portion or even all of the pizzas for one of the Huddles? The next one is 10/25.

 

Blessings,

 

Nancy Korb

(714) 328-3883

Leaders at University!

Huddle Recap Woodbridge High Oct 8th 2012

To God be the glory!

·       *  Approximately 170 students attended today’s FCA Huddle, the first of the 2012-13 school year.

·       *  Jared Hall welcomed the students: “You’re at FCA, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. You don’t have to be an athlete; you don’t have to be a Christian. We’re just glad you’re here!”

·       *  Creg Darby of Free Chapel Church in Irvine kicked off the new school year by challenging the students to be game-changers in their classmates’ lives.   Like Peter and John in Acts 3, we believers may not have silver or gold or answers for hurting people, but we can share Jesus with those around us who are hurting and broken.  “When you take our eyes off yourselves and look at others,” Creg continued, “you can change this school!”

·       *  Many thanks to the following families who supported the Huddle with donations of cookies, water, pizza dollars, plates, napkins, time, and/or prayer:  Avazian, Babb, Coyle, Culbertson, Davis, Gaultiere, Gibbs, Greenberg, Guest, Haney, Klopfer, Link, Mellor, Moore, Prock, Suiste, Torrey, Valentine.

·       *  Next Monday watch for a signup sheet for Huddle #2, to be held 10/22/12.

·       *  And please join us for an FCA Dessert on Wednesday evening, 10/24/12, from 7:30-8:30.  Meet Jared, learn about FCA, and hear about the eternal impact this ministry has on students’ lives! We’ll be meeting at the Guests’, 37 Bloomdale in Woodbridge, 92614. Please RSVP so we have enough dessert for everyone!

·       *  Please let WHS freshman parents know about the FCA Dessert!  With built-in attrition in FCA parent support (our kids do graduate!!!), we need to be sure to share the vision with the parents of incoming freshmen and other newcomers to FCA!

Huddle Recap-Irvine High October 4th 2012

                                  Good Evening FCA Families!!
I just wanted to share with all of you how awesome our first IHS Huddle of the year was.  It was our LARGEST group of students in attendance...ever... with well over 200 students in attendance!!  We were a little short on pizza, so next time we will have extras!!

Your continued generosity will make it possible for us to be continue to provide the students with hot pizza, homemade treats and a drink... all while hearing an inspirational message.

Our speakers for this huddle were our CO-Presidents of the FCA Leadership team, Trent Williams and Sara Nordstrom.   Trent and Sara shared a little bit about themselves and then shared their “story” with the students.  It was very inspiring!
Our Huddles of course could not happen with out the support of our wonderful parents:
Our Pizza sponsor for this huddle was the Gottschalk family.   
Baked Goods were lovingly prepared by the Alayra, Hobbs and Kenney families.

Water bottles were provided by the Garmon and Salerno families.

Our amazing sound system is provided by the Alayra family.
Thank you, also to all the moms who rolled up their sleeves during their lunch break to help serve water and pizza...see the attached picture.  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!!) 
If you are able to donate waters or baked good on the day of the Huddle, please email me.  You can either drop them off at the school gym the day of the huddle or beforehand at my house.  If you are able to help serve these hungry students, please show up at the gym at 11:30 on the day of the Huddle.   And most of all, we ask that everyone please pray for this ministry as kids continue to come with a curiosity and a hunger for meaningful inspiration!

THANK YOU PARENTS for your support!!!    Attached are some fun pictures from the day!
Our next Huddle is Thursday, October 18th!!!
Blessings.......
Jodi Nordstrom
Michelle Carter