SUBVEЯT

Time to eat and compete.
For our end of the year picnic, we will not be meeting on Tuesday, May 1st. Instead we will meet on Wednesday, May 2nd from 7-9pm with our high school ministry Sync. Please plan on joining us on Wednesday night, to celebrate the end of the year with some good food, middle school vs high school competitions and a graduation ceremony for our 9th and 12th grade students.

Parents: If you would like to volunteer this night and help with grilling and serving food, Johnny would love the help. Email Johnny him to let him know you are interested.

Questions: Email Johnny.

Want a free iPad or iPod Touch?

We thought that’s what you’d say. Any student can win these two fabulous prizes! All you have to do is memorize 1 peter 2.1-12 for a chance to win an iPod Touch at the Merry Skatemas Party December 14th or a chance to win a new iPad at the End of the Year Picnic May 2nd.  Students that memorize the entire passage will have their names entered into the drawing 4 times.

Here’s a quick breakdown of how to enter.
Memorize 1 Peter 2.1-5 = Name entered once. Memorize 1 Peter 2.6-9 = Name entered a second time. Memorize 1 Peter 2.10-12 = Name entered a 3rd time. If you can say 1 Peter 2.1-12 without any help = Name entered a 4th time! If you don’t win the iPod touch at the Merry Skatemas Party, don’t worry, your names stay in for the iPad 2 drawing at the end of the year!

Fine Print: You must be at the End of the Year Picnic to win the new iPad.

7–7:10 — Hang out with everyone; play pool, foosball, ping pong, air hockey or Wii; run and jump on the bean bags; and generally go bananas for 10 minutes.

7:10–7:12 — Gather around the stage on the bleachers and beanbags and prepare for an awesome night.

7:12–7:25 — Play an outrageous group game! Usually involves everyone and gives everyone a chance to move or run around. It’s always awesome, and always a good time.

7:25–7:45 — Worship time. We have a worship band made up of some of the coolest Hope College students ever. They lead us in singing songs that get you out of your seat and dancing for the Lord. We also experience God in different ways besides singing—but you’ll have to come to SUBVEЯT to be a part of the unbelievable experiential worship that goes down on Tuesday nights.

7:45–8:05 — Teaching time. Teachings are 20 minutes long (at the most) and are always engaging, interesting and applicable to your life. You’ll love how much you learn about God and grow deeper in your relationship with Christ.

8:05–8:25 — Twenty minutes of time for just you and your LifeGroup. SUBVEЯT LifeGroups are made up of five to seven students plus two leaders of the same gender. The whole point of this time is to hang out, get to know each other more, and discuss the teaching and how it applies to you and your life. Your leaders love to listen and hang out, and they’ll be pumped to just be with you!

8:25–8:30 — Random Announcement Video time. This is when we watch a short video found on the internet, and also hear about the announcements for what’s coming up at SUBVEЯT.

SUBVERT will supply you with your very own SUBVERTLET. It’s a small booklet for you: write out your thoughts, write out prayers, take notes, draw a penguin with a rocket pack upper-cutting a giraffe into space—and just about anything else you would like to put in there that you are learning or thinking about during SUBVEЯT. Your SUBVERTLET will be kept at SUBVEЯT in your LifeGroup Box so that it’s there waiting for you every week.

There are two nights in the year where, instead of meeting with everyone at SUBVEЯT, you and your LifeGroup go out and have a blast together! You are free to go do whatever it is you like: Play laser tag, go to Buffalo Wild Wings, run to Taco Bell and get the Taco Bell runs, eat fondue, juggle kittens or organize a massive pillow fight. Pretty much whatever it is you feel like doing that night with just you and your LifeGroup.

Like LifeGroup nights, these are nights when we don’t have our regularly scheduled program. Instead, we go out into our community and serve others. It could be anything from organizing a local non-profit clothing store to raking leaves or shoveling snow. Service nights happen twice a year and are organized by Johnny and your leaders. All you have to do is show up and serve.

You haven’t lived until you’ve experienced the energy and excitement of one of our events. SUBVEЯT has a worldwide reputation for hosting incredible events like: Pirates vs. Ninjas, SUBVEЯT the NiGHT, Winter Retreats, Merry Skatemas, and others. We usually have one epic event planned for each month to keep you pumped up for the next one. Some have said the events of SUBVEЯT are legendary; they’re right, but you’ll have to come see for yourself.

So much goes on in a year, it’s impossible for us to fit it all in one place. But for you and for your parents, we’ve tried. Click here to see the SUBVEЯT calendar for the 2011-2012 school year.