Parents,   Students go through tough times in life just like adults.  Some students are more vocal about the tough times they go through whereas some are more reserved and prefer to keep it to themselves.  Knowing that all students will experience tough times or “go through the fire” at some point in their lives, we chose to wrap our weekend service around the concept of: “What to do when...

The Palm Valley music team is recording a live worship album due out this winter. To be a part of this, all the Junior High WIRED Small Groups will be meeting at the Desert Edge High School Auditorium for the Night of Worship with the church body. The time is still 7:00pm-8:30pm. As parents, feel free to hang around and join us. It will be an incredible night.

Parents,   Your sons and daughters made powerful life changing decisions this past weekend in Student Ministries at church!  They thought about a sin or sinful habit they had in their lives that was driving a wedge between them and their relationship with God and they gave it up to Him this weekend.  They did it in a creative way that that burned an image in their head forevermore of the power of...

Parents: I wanted to make sure to let you know that since printing our semester calendars and sending them out, we have changed the date for our Junior High Summer Camp. We will be having camp June 7th-11th 2010. We were offered a different week, that will allow us to take more students, and have the camp completely to ourselves. Mark your calendars because you do not want your Junior High Student...

Parents,   As you may or may not have heard, we started a new series in Student Ministries called “Playing with Fire.”  This series is all about how God “Plays with Fire” for different reasons throughout the bible.  We started the series out by talking about how God “played with fire” to get Moses’ attention.   Something the students walked away with was the understanding that “God...

Parents, Research shows mentors are the third most influential people in a persons’ life.  The two most influential people in a persons’ life are their spouse and their family.  Since none of the teenagers in our Student Ministry are married yet (at least I hope not!), that means that mentors are the second most influential people in a teenagers life.  That is why we feel so strongly about you...