Huddle Recap Northwood High School 5-10-11

Dear FCA Parents,

Our school year is winding down as we have just two more Huddles to go before we break for summer.  Our guest speaker last week was pro-surfer Jodie Nelson .  On March 28, 2010, Jodie became the first woman to paddle 39.8 grueling miles from the island of Catalina to Dana Point.  She finished in 9 hours.  18 miles into her paddle, Jodie had a close encounter with a 30-foot Minke whale Jodie  fondly named “Larry” .  Larry followed Jodie for 2 full hours while paddling to raise $125,000 for breast cancer research and prevention.  Thank you Jodie for sharing your  adventurous spirit  with our students and for your mission to raise support for breast cancer awareness.

Parents, next week USC football player Robbie Boyer will be sharing with our students.  As of today we are short  $300 to fund next week’s Huddle as we typically have 500-600 hungry students in attendance!!  If you feel led to give at this time please make your check payable to: Monica Younger if you do not need a tax receipt, or to NHS FCA Huddle if you do (26 Rincon, Irvine 92620 ). 

A “Big” thank you to the following families for your generous donations:

Coleman

Locklear

Sharpe

Edmond

Waterson

Reasor

McMains

Skelly

McDonald

Nagel

Margaret

Thank you in advance for your generosity as this ministry would not exist if not for your faithful giving.  Thank you parents for allowing us to serve your wonderful students!

Loving teenagers,

Torre Murray

Kate Gisch

Rosalyn Reasor

Monica Younger

Huddle Recap Foothill High School 5-11-11

Dear FCA Parents and Supporters,

Wednesday was another great Huddle!  Thank you for all the behind-the-scenes help and prayer you invested that helped make this happen!

Matt Luke, former baseball player for both the Angels and the Dodgers, shared with over 500 Foothill kids how finding God changed his life.  (See attached pictures.) Matt described what happened to his life when an injury took him from the lime light of being the number eight draft pick where his entire purpose and focus was on success, to becoming paralyzed for two months--shut away in a dinky hotel room with all of his hopes shattered.  It was in that desolate place that he accepted Christ. 

He told the kids very honestly that life didn't get immediately easy, but that he "was blessed from that moment."  "I learned how to use my skills to glorify God.  The focus was 
off me and on what I could do to honor God," Matt said.  Then using John 14:15 as his text, he asked the kids, "What are you doing with the gifts God has given you? Burying them, or allowing God to use them to bless others?" 

Matt asked for a show of hands in response to his question, "How many of you love God?"  There were cheers from pockets of kids all over the room.  He pointed out that a personal relationship with Christ is much more than just saying you believe.  Then he issued the challenge for believers to share the Good News. "Don't be afraid to step out! Sure, you will be ridiculed, persecuted for it, but be BOLD for God!" 

What an encouragement these words were for all our children who struggle to live lives that honor Christ each day on campus!

Please continue to pray for the students at Foothill who have yet to hear the Gospel.  There is but one Huddle remaining this year--May 25th, and it is our prayer that every student hear the Good News before leaving high school.  There are many hearts still to be reached!

To Christ be the glory!

Humbly,
Cherie and Linda

Huddle Recap Northwood High School April

Dearest FCA Parents,

We hope this email finds you all well as you are enjoying Easter Break with your kids.  Thanks to your faithfulness, FCA Huddles continue to draw hundreds of students into our gym (see picture link below) during lunch to hear a thought provoking message from our outstanding speakers.  Last week our students watched the popular video skit “Everything” by Lifehouse (see link below) before our guest speaker shared her message.  Parents, please take the time to watch the video from beginning to end as it builds and concludes with a very powerful and emotional message. Our guest speaker Shannon Laine shared of her goal to go to USC and fulfill her dream of becoming a USC Song Girl.  As she strived and worked hard to accomplish those dreams, she found herself feeling unsatisfied and empty.  Shannon shared of her journey to completely surrender her life to Christ in a more intimate way.  She referred to Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” Shannon now believes her experience as a USC Song Girl has given her a platform to boldly share her faith in Jesus as she mentors high school and college aged students in their own spiritual journey.  Fight on Shannon!!            

Huddle Pictures:

http://s1131.photobucket.com/albums/m542/jounger/FCA%20April%202011%20Shannon%20USC%20Song%20Girl/

Huddle Video Skit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GwdTg9l_bI

A BIG thank you to the following families for donations of pizza money and baked goods:

Gregerson

Holler

Pierce

Coleman

Locklear

Sharpe

Skelly

Thomas

Nagel

Dougherty

Cervero

Our next Huddle is May 10th.    If you feel led to donate towards a Huddle, please make checks payable to Monica Younger and send them to 26 Rincon, Irvine 92620.    If you would like a formal tax receipt from FCA, please make your check out to NHS FCA Huddle.   You can still send that check to Monica.

Thank you in advance for your continued support of this ministry......both monetarily and through prayer!

Blessings.....

Kate Gisch

Torre Murray

Rosalyn Reasor

Monica Younger

Huddle Recap Mater Dei High School 4-29-11

May 3, 2011


Dear FCA/FAM Families:

We had our last Huddle this past Thursday and it was a home run with Egypt McKee speaking.  He was funny, poignant, and really connected with the kids with a wonderful message.  It was a great way to end the year. 

Thank you to Bart and Debbie Thomsen for underwriting the pizzas.  It is so appreciated by the kids....and the parents!  Thank you also to the parents who served and brought treats and waters.  Also, thank you to Lee Glover for putting the FAM photo book together!  It's terrific!  Thank you Kathleen Kelly and Jared Hall for a successful FAM year!  You are both blessings.  Our numbers have grown and we are thankful for that.  We are also thankful for our parents who have helped with FAM this school year at our Huddles.  We couldn't do it without all of you!

We hope your students have a successful year end and great summer.  Keep doing what you do with them because they are all wonderful kids!

See you in the Fall!

With much appreciation, 


Paula and Lucy

Huddle Recap Foothill High School 4-6-11

Dear Foothill FCA Parents and Supporters,

Carl F. H. Henry, former editor-in-chief of Christianity Today, once said, "The Gospel is only Good News if it gets there in time."

These are especially meaningful words in light of the "Every Fifteen Minutes" event that preceeded the FCA Huddle this past Wednesday, April 6th. "Every Fifteen Minutes" very graphically re-enacts for high school juniors and seniors the devistating effects of a fatal drunk-driving accident--something that statistically occurs every fifteen minutes.

To have our speaker, Clint Gresham of the Seattle Seahawks, follow this event by sharing his grief upon discovering his friend's suicide; struck a chord with many of our students. Clint thenshared two truths that changed his life:
1) God doesn't want us to stay away from sin because He likes to take away our fun, but rather because He loves us and wants to protect us from harm.
2) God showed how much He values us by sending His only Son in exchange for our lives!

It was a very quiet and attentive audience. There were broken hearts and tears--evidence thatFoothill is a mission field with a harvest ripe for Christ.

Click to view pictures of this week's Huddle: https://picasaweb.google.com/mduffy/FoothillFCAHuddleApril62011?authkey=Gv1sRgCP3Qs8H7qt2SZg&feat=directlink 
Please continue to pray for these students! Many are coming in for the pizza, but they are staying and hearing the Gospel. They need the understanding and courage to take the next step--to cast themselves aside and ask Christ to be their Savior and Lord!

Thank you for choosing to be involved in FCA as it shares the Good News on a public school campus!
To God be the glory!

Blessings,
Linda and Cherie

Huddle Recap Irvine High School 3-31-11

Good Afternoon FCA Families!!

Here is a quick recap from our last huddle on Thursday, March 31st.  Once again, We had a great turnout, in spite of it being an extended lunch.   I have attached a few pictures, check them out!!  Also, check out our face book page = “IHS Fellowship of Christian Athletes”.
Our speaker this week was Creg Darby.  Creg is the Family Ministries Pastor at Free Chapel OC.  I asked Paul Roh, one of our FCA Student leaders, to write a quick recap about our speaker...
“The message at this past huddle was about Joseph (from the Old Testament) and how he was put through many obstacles one after another, but still did not give up nor did he turn away from God. He kept going and striving to be the best he could be whether it was being the best brother or servant. After overcoming one obstacle, he was put through an even tougher one. Creg reminded us that we cannot give up on God just because times get tough, because life with God is truly a lot better and meaningful. “

Steven and John from Good Shepherd church also attended the huddle last week.  Please don’t forget to extend an invite to your youth pastor to come to our huddles.

Of course, our huddles could not happen with out your help....here is who stepped up to the plate this week:

• Pizza –  Big Thank You to the Humphreys Family for donating all the funds to pay for our Pizza

• Baked Goods were lovingly prepared by the these families:

           Hobbs
            Kenney

• Water bottles were provided by the Lambeth Family...8 cases worth!!

• Our amazing sound system is provided by the Alayra family. 

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.  If you are interested in sponsoring a Huddle, please contact me via email –jmnordy@cox.net  As you can see this club is growing and will only stay afloat with all of our help!   (Your financial 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!!!    
Our next Huddle is Thursday, April 14th!!   Here are the dates for the rest of our huddles for this year (only 4 more huddles left) .....
5/5/11,        5/26/11,      6/2/11
 Blessings.......

Jodi Nordstrom
Michelle Carter

Huddle Recap Mater Dei High School 3-24-11

Dear FAM supporters,
Thanks again for all of your prayers, time and effort.  We had an amazing huddle, with the most kids we have ever had at the FAM meeting last Thursday.  Shannon Laine, USC song girl, gave a passionate talk about her identity being in Christ and nothing else.  She shared with the kids how awesome it is to be a part of God's family and encouraged them to find their own identity in God.  She shared how amazing it is to be in the Coliseum and be a part of the trojan family, but far more important to her will always be being God's daughter.  She reminded the kids how much God loves each one of them and to think of Jesus actually dying for each one of them.  It was an incredibly inspiring time to see a young woman so sold out for the Lord.

Thanks to all of you, especially Stacey, Elisa, and Juliet for bringing food, water and the ever-needed helping hands.  As always, thanks to Jared and Kathleen for all they continually do for FAM.  We have a month long break now, and look forward to seeing you all next month for our one huddle April 28th.

Have a wonderful spring break,
Lucy and Paula