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MAY 2010

CROSSROADS YOUTH HAPPENINGSUPWARD INWARD OUTWARD

Hey Crossroads Youth! I cant believe that May is already here. This year has gone by so quickly and it is not going to stop anytime soon. We had a great month last month with our POWER sermon series. Teaching about the power of the resurrection and how we are empowered by God through the Holy Spirit. On our Baptism of the Holy Spirit night we had 4 students respond to receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and I believe our Lord is faithful and they all received. Now it is time to put into

practice what we learned about God empowering us.

This month we will be busy with baccalaureate, graduation party, graduation service, and... you guessed it... MORE GRADUATION! We want to make sure we honor our graduates for the hard work they have put in this school year. All of our graduates parents are invited to the special service we will be having for them on Wednesday night May 19th. We hope to see all of you there.

Let me encourage all of you with one final word to remember that you can do ALL things through Christ! Donʼt be afraid to reach out to someone. Even if you are rejected, use the power that God has given you to be His witness. I promise you God will deliver.

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MAY

HOMEGROUPSDon’t miss the bonfire on

May 1st at Josh McGuire’s

house!

May 15th homegroups

will be at Pastor Mark’s

house. Contact Pastor Mark

for directions to either of

these events

CAR WASHOur missions team will be

hosting a Car Wash on May

15th from 10 a.m. - 2p.m. at

the Chick-fil-A on I-240. Make

sure to stop by and support

our Youth Missions!

ICE CREAM SOCIAL

Come join us after the evening service on May

2nd for ice cream and our pie in the eye contest!EV

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S M T W T F S

1Homegroup

Bonfire

2Water

Baptism

Ice Cream Social

3 4 5Wednesday

Night Service

6WHS

Evening W/ Arts @ WHS

7 8

9 10WHS Choir Concert @

WHS

11 12Wednesday

Night Service

13 14 15Homegroup

Missions Car Wash

@ Chick Fil A

16Baccalaure

ate

Leadership meeting

17Senior

Dinner in Bricktown

18WHS

Graduation

19Graduation

Party

20 21SHS

Graduation

22MHS,

DCHS, MCHS

Graduation

23 24 25 26Wednesday

Night Service

27Coach

Graduation

28NHS

Graduation

29

Outreach The outreach this month will be held on May 5th and 12th from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. at

Pastor Mark’s house. There are around 40 to 50 kids that pass by his house every day on

their way home from school. We are going to grill out hot dogs, hand out waters and invite

all of them to church. Make sure you get involved!

30Leadership

meeting

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Hey Junior Highers! There is a lot going on this month that you can get involved in. This month is not only for the High School seniors. We have our Homegroups Bonfire on May 1st at Josh McGuires house. Be there at 5:30 PM for all of the fun and excitement. We will also have another homegroups on May 15 at Pastor Mark’s house. Contact Pastor Mark or Mary for directions at mthornton86@gmail.com

We also have our two outreach dates of May 5th and 12th at my house starting at 2:30PM. Get there anytime you can. We will be handing out hotdogs and drinks to the students in my neighborhood. Yes I know its a wednesday but we are hoping to get them to church that night.

Of course there are the wednesday night services where you can connect with all of your friends. Remember there are only a few weeks left of school so if there is that one friend you want in church make sure you bring them these next couple of weeks. Have a great month!

Photo CaptionsLeft: Bryce Hatton

chowin’ down on some tasty

baby food as a part of our

food relay during WIPEOUT

Bottom: Aaron Rowin

doing his best impression of

the Phamtom of the Opera

CODY HATTON SCHOOL HOBBIES FAVORITE FOOD FAVORITE VERSE

Cody is in the 10th grade at

SouthMoore High School.

His favorite class this year has been

History.

When he’s not at school or church, he likes to skate,

wrestle, play football, run track,

and he likes to jump in creeks,

which usual results in injury

He LOVES Chinese Food

2 Timothy 4:7

JUNIOR HIGH HAPPENINGS

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Graduation! Graduation! Grduation!. That is all I have to say about the High School happenings. We have so much geared around graduation it’s not even funny. The first thing we have is our graduation service on May 16th. That afternoon (May 16th), we have the Moore Public Schools Baccalaureate at Crossroads Church at 3PM. We will then have the Senior Dinner that Monday night. Seniors will need to meet at the church at 6PM. Our Wednesday Night Graduation Service will be immediately followed by the Senior Party at Joe Johnston’s house. Its is going to be a busy week. Not to mention all of the graduations that are going on that week. Here is a list on graduations:

Westmoore High School - May 18th @ 7PM @ Cox Center

Southmoore High School - May 21st @ 7PM @ Cox Center

Midwest City High School - May 22nd @ 9AM @ 1st Southern Baptist

Del City High School - May 22nd @ 1PM @ 1st Southern Baptist

Moore High School - May 22nd @ 4PM @ Cox Center

Coach Graduation - May 27th @ 6PM @ Crossroads Church

Norman High School - May 28th @ OU

Those are the graduations that I have. Hope you all have a great senior week and a great month!

MISTY BABCOCK

I was born and raised in Katy, Texas. I met Cory at Katy High School and

we started dating about a year after I graduated. We married after a short 7 months of dating! Here we are 9 years later in Oklahoma City with 2 beautiful girls. I was saved when I was 3 months pregnant with Lilly. I

decided that I wanted my children to know God. I wasn’t raised in church at all growing up and I wanted better

for my kids. My husband and I received our call to the youth

ministry in May of 2009. My goal as a youth sponsor is to be there for

these kids and to help grow them in the word of our Lord. I want to be

that life line to Him that they may not other wise see or reach. Since being

involved, I have fallen in love with each and every student and look forward to my time with them on

Wednesday nights. Thank you for sharing them with me.

High School Happenings

Right: A few of our seniors Sarah Kiper and Jolie Young cheesin’ for

the camera

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LETTER FROM PASTOR MARK AND MARY

This is going to be a great month and I cant wait to see what God does in our services. I can already tell you guys are hungry for more than just an average relationship with God. We are going to press in to Him like never before and we are going to reach out to students like never before. I hope a lot of you will be able to join us at my house the next two weeks for our outreach. We will be handing out hot dogs and drinks to the students in my neighborhood. These students could be your friends so if you want a chance to reach out to one of your friends be there. I want to encourage you to continue to be Upward.Inward.Outward in everything that you do. God is the number one thing in your life so keep Him where He is supposed to

be. Remember that there are people that you are around every single day that you need to reach. I cant do it, your parents cant do it and your friends cant do it, you have to. Last thing is to continue to read the word and do what it says. Become a true disciple of Jesus Christ. We love you guys!

In Christ,

Mark & Mary Thornton

2010... The year of PURPOSE!

May Birthday’s

Chris Sanders Jr. - May 12th

Rachel Shubert - May 18th

Riley Porterfield - May 22nd

Prayer Request’s• Please pray for a quick recovery and easy surgery for Ally Babcock.

• Pray for God to move in the Youth Ministry in a big way.• Stephen Hardy has an unknown disease and mother has cancer.• Aaron Rowin has a hiatal hernia and gastritis.• Aubree Bennett has an unspoken medical issue. Pray for healing!