FCA Huddle Recap- 10/5 Northwood High School

Good Afternoon FCA Families!!

Parents, to our amazement our first NHS Huddle of the year was our BIGGEST yet with approximately 500 students in attendance!!  Yikes…that means we need to purchase more pizza!  To put that in perspective, that is 25% of our student body or a whole grade level!!!  We serve a BIG GOD don’t we?  Our new Assistant Principal Saul Glasser was baffled as to why the lunch tables were so empty during lunch and when he walked into the gym to see that students were gathered for a Christian club, he was in AWE of the crowd as were the parent helpers!  Because of your continued generosity we were able to provide the students with hot pizza, homemade treats and a drink while they heard an inspirational message.  THANK YOU PARENTS for your support!!!    Attached are some fun pictures from the day!

Our guest speaker was Barry Martinez as he typically is our kick-off speaker for the new school year.  Barry spoke of his experience as the starting quarterback in high school, to being demoted one week later to third string quarterback due to a poor performance.  He shared about the dejection and humiliation he felt and how he wrestled with feelings of not wanting to return to school due to the embarrassment of being benched. He shared how his faith in Jesus helped him gain his confidence back and told the students that Jesus is looking to heal their hurts if they are feeling like they don’t measure up or if they have made bad choices.  It was very inspiring!

Thank you, also, to the dads 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.

  

A big thank you to the following families who contributed financially:

May

McSunas

Locklear

Stofko

McMains

Holder

MacDonald

Mohammadi

DellaMaggiore

Bowers

Baked Goods were lovingly prepared by the these families:

Skelly

Younger

DellaMaggiore

MacDonald

As you can see this club is growing by leaps and bounds 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 Monica Younger to:  Monica Younger, 26 Rincon, Irvine, Ca. 92620.   If you are able to donate waters or baked good on the day of the Huddle, please drop them off at the school gym.  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!

Our next Huddle is Tuesday, October 19th!!!

Blessings.......

Kate Gisch

Torre Murray

Rosalyn Reaso

Lots of Food!!!

Foothill FCA: God in their Hearts and Bibles in their Hands (November 17th)

Dear FCA Parents,

What a wonderful Huddle!  (Click on picture link below.*)

Local youth leader, Melissa Brosch, held the kids' attention with her riveting--and true--story about a traumatic toilet mishap.  Ask your kids to tell you about it, but perhaps not during dinner!  She related the heroic actions of the father to what Jesus did for us by reaching down to save us from the disgusting muck of sin.  It was certainly a picture of redemption the students will not soon forget!

Jared followed up by pointing out student leaders and local youth group leaders at the Huddle who would be glad to speak with them and answer questions about Christ.  He also offered Bibles to those who wanted them. 

I overheard the following conversation after Jared's announcements:
Girl with blue shirt: I think I'd like a Bible.
Her friend: What for?
Girl with blue shirt: Well to read, of course!

Six Bibles were handed out; two of them to girls who came for the first time!  Doesn't that put a big smile on your face?

This is why we pray, this is why we bake cookies and sling pizza--so that these kids will come in, hear the Gospel, and open their hearts to Christ!

Thank you for being a part of this ministry!  God is doing great things!

Amen and amen!

Humbly,
Linda and Cherie

Foothill FCA- November 3rd recap

The FCA leadership kids came up with a great icebreaker.  Lots of laughs--thanks
to the kids crazy enough to try it. 

Speaker Craig Darby made made an interesting connection between spandex and
Christ when he asked the kids what defines them.  He clearly explained the
gospel, and as you've already heard in an earlier email, he gave the students a
chance to ask Christ into their lives right then.  Hands went up, and several
voices could be heard praying.

God is at work at Foothill!

As Jared said earlier, we don't know how much longer Christian voices will be
allowed to speak up on public school campuses, but God has made this possible
for this place at this time! 

Blessed be His name!

Humbly,
Linda and Cherie

Foothill FCA: 550+ Kids Heard the Gospel at this Week's Huddle

They came for the pizza.
They came to stay warm.
They came because their friends invited them.
They came because there was a break dancer.
And they KEPT COMING!

Yesterday's Huddle was amazing!

Somewhere between 500 and 600 kids filled into the shelter of the gym where they saw Josh and Michael, two young men from a ministry called Break-Free, share their break dancing “moves” with the crowd.

Then Josh took the mic, and using the analogy of someone facing sentencing for a crime committed, he very clearly explained the Gospel. When he asked if there were students who were serious about wanting Jesus’s gift of salvation, about seven kids boldly stood up…in front of their peers! What a testimony this was to those in the crowd who didn’t know Christ!

What is a soul worth? What are seven souls worth?

Thank you, parents, for the time and money you have chosen to invest in these kids! We may never fully know here on Earth what the return on this investment is, but God promises that His Word “will not return … empty, but will accomplish what He desires and achieve the purpose for which He sent it!”(Isaiah 55:11)

Please keep these new believers in your prayers—that they would find a place to connect and grow in their faith.

Pray also for the Christian kids on campus to be bold in their faith and be “ready to give an answer to everyone who asks them to give the reason for the hope that they have.” (I Peter 3:15)

Finally, pray for the ministry of FCA. It is not a small miracle that the Gospel can be shared openly on a public school campus. God is using FCA to reach kids who might otherwise never hear the Truth!

Blessed be His Name!

Humbly,
Linda and Cherie

Foothill FCA's First Huddle was "Standing Room Only!"

What do you do with 240 high school students during lunch on a rainy day?

a) Stick them in a classroom designed to hold 40-50 students.
b) Give them free pizza and dessert.
c) Let them listen to a college athlete share about his walk with Christ.
d) ALL OF THE ABOVE!

Foothill’s first Huddle of the school year was amazing!  Kids were welcomed with "high-fives" from FCA leaders as they gratefully grabbed hot pizza and treats served by parent volunteers. Youth leaders from Calvary Chapel, Trinity, and Young Life mingled with the kids and made connections.  Jared Hall did a great job engaging the students with his testimony about the struggles he went through in high school.  But what was really amazing, is that 200+ kids actually quieted down and listened!


The Gospel is being shared on Foothill's campus, and your intense prayers and support are making this happen!  Praying for each Huddle, encouraging your kids to bring their unsaved friends, supplying cookies and water, and covering the cost of pizza might all seem like little things, but we know God does great things with the little things we do in His name!  Let’s see what He decides to do this year through FCA!

Blessings,
Linda and Cherie

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