YR Axxess Thanksgiving Special!

Dear Youthrock Axxess Readers,

I sadly regret to announce that there will be NO YOUTHROCK Nov 24th (Today) due to the Thanksgiving Holiday. I know that there are some that are sad because of this but we here at Solid Rock Family Church believes family time is a spiritual time aswell. So spend your weds night with your family and build a stronger relationship with them. Remember we just came off from the Proud Family Series to help you build those relationships with your parents and family members. So do me a favor and stuff your faces with lots of Thanksgiving food, go hit the stores on Black Friday and stand in lines for your parents (okay just kidding about that one) but enjoy your weekend and we will see you December 1st! Can you believe the year is near the end?

15 YEAR OLD TEEN LEADS WORSHIP AT A NATIONAL PCG ASSEMBLY

This is Alex Skiles the daughter of Joe and Teena Skiles who are the National Youth Director of the Pentecostal Church of God. I'm sure many are familiar with Alex Skiles and her family. This young lady had the honor and priviledge to help lead the worship service at the National Penetcostal Church of God Solem Assembly recently. She is only 15 years old and is using her gifts and talents for God. It doesn't matter how old you are or what talents and gifts you have, God can still use you to make an impact in the lives of others. We here at Youthrock Axxess wants to acknowledge Alex's for this and say that you the reader can do the same. Maybe not lead worship if you can't sing or have anything musical. But you can use what you have to make a difference in someones life. Find your niche, know what talents and gifts that you have. Discover you identity in who you are in God, and find out what makes you standout or different among the pack! God has a special call on each of our lives, it just takes you to discover it between you and Him and act on it!  

Coming December 15 as we promoted in last weeks issue, Christian Rap artist DA MAC will be performing live 7PM! We need you Youthrockers to help us spread the word and bring in your friends. You don't want to miss this guy as he comes in. He will be singing his music, sharing his testimony, selling some merch such as music. We will run next week a full bio on this guy but until then you can look him up at this website

http://www.indiecommunity.com/

Solid Rock Family Church

Youthrock Teen Ministries

508 Hunters Run Road

Jefferson City, MO 65109

Phone: 573-893-4609

Email: youthrock@srfc.us

www.youthrock.us

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YOUTH PASTORS

MIKE & TARA KOELLING

YR Axxess 11-18-2010

SLEEPROCK - Recap!
Nov 12th at 11PM we kicked off the annual Youthrock event known as SLEEPROCK! We stayed up all night long locked inside the facility just having a great night of fun with students and staff. The night kicked off with some free time of just hanging out followed by kind of an orientation of what the plan is for the evening and introducing all the staff that was present for the night. Then we loaded up onto the buses and headed out to California, MO to this barn on some guys property that he let us use. There we roasted hot dogs over a bon fire, drank some hot chocolate and just hanged out for a bit. We loaded back up headed back to the church. We got back and began to play rounds of "Silent Library!" Its based off this show from MTV where there is six competitors and 6 cards. Whoever got the Joker card had to do a certain task without making any noise with in the time frame. We had people eating stuff off the floor, licking Matt Koellings bald head covered with frosting, blowing up a balloon til it pops, building a human pyramid while getting hit by dodge balls.

We played Pastor Mikes new favorite game called Aggie Ball! This is a game where two teams battle to keep the ball in the air and get it to land in their goal line. If it touches the ground on the field, its a dead ball and have to start again. There were bodies hitting the floor, people getting smacked and just absolute chaos trying to bat this beach ball across the gym to their goal line. We have a clip of it up on Youthrock Srfc's facebook page to view it. But after a couple rounds the beach ball didn't make it and we moved on to dodge ball which is always a fun time. We served pancakes for breakfast and watched Toy Story 3 and ended the event. Sleeprock 2010 was a success and lots of fun. I and many others suffered from Sleeprock Hangover the next day.  That's where you are on a weird sleeping schedule and your body hurts from the beatings of dodge balls and just feeling lifeless because of no sleep through the night. Can't wait for next years!

We finished "The Proud Family" Series this past Weds night at Youthrock by breaking out into small group discussions. Sometimes you just need to break away from pulpit preaching and just sit down with a group of 10 students and just have an open discussion to give the students a chance to share and discuss topics. Which I personally love when we do this because it gives you the chance to know whats going on in their lives and be able to connect with them on issues. Our topic was on Teens and Parents. We discussed 10 Things Your Teenager Hates About Their Parents.


The 10 things include; 1. Teenagers Hat Inconsistency: Failure to be a consistent model such as "Do as I say, not as I do." How many of us has gotten that from parents? We discussed that teens need to model before parents a consistent spiritual model. Back up your words with action. And if the parents are consistent learn from them.

2. Teens Hate When Parents Act As If They Are Never Wrong: Or I'm the adult. I'm Right! Reality check parents, you are not right all the time and same for the students. Fact is parents can fail and students fail. Make sure to do what the bible says and that is to forgive, forget, and move on. I asked the question how many of you guys held grudges against parents, some hands raised. Then I said who are still holding on to them now? The hands stayed up. I made mention that maybe its time to resolve these issues and put them behind.

3. Teens Hate Dishonesty. Such phrase like "Because I said so, that's why? Lets face it parents, I always hated that phrase when it was told to me. Give students a reason why and explain your position on this subject it leaves the student curious and wants to find out. Students be open and honest with your parents. And parents be prepared to answer the hard questions. Communication is key to a family and relationships

4. Teens Hate when they can't dream for themselves. Failure to let your student develop a personal identity. Let these kids dream big dreams for their lives. Don't trap them to be what you want them to be. They need to find their personal identity and find where they fit and find what God has purposed for them. Believe me, I've dealt with identity crisis and its not fun. The World isn't looking for a carbon copy of someone else, they are looking for YOU! They want someone original and themselves. Who Are You? What Are Your Skills and Talents? And What Makes You Different/Standout among the pack. Let students discover their identity through God.

5. Teens hate when parents don't acknowledge the good but always brings up the failures. Parents usually take out the stress of life on people and the target is usually the people they are closest too. Parents do love you students and remind them of the things you have done instead of the things you haven't

6. Teens hate that adults refuse to love beyond performance: Such phrases like "Can't you do anything right?" Adults and people in general seem to only remember the wrong things others do instead of the good. Lets get away from that and start encouraging the good things. Yeah, we know mistakes were made but lets let that go and move on. Work hard to build the trust and confidence. Do your best to be original but original with respect, honor, faith, hard work, and passion.

7. Teens hate when you judge their friends: Parents, how many of you facebook stalk your students friends? The responses I got during this subject was a lack of trust in the students judgement of who they hang out with even when they explain their position and where they stand on their values. We do live in a media driven culture and everything is out in the open and nothing is private anymore. People do tend to show their true nature through social media but that maybe not the whole picture. So its a tuff call on this one to make. Just remember, sometimes you as parents see the bad instead of the good. Sometimes parents see what the student doesn't see and parents know things that the student don't. So work on trusting each other's judgement. But I encourage you parents to get to know the people in your students life personally before you just judge them on a website. And for the students maybe your parents are right about some of the people you do hang out with. Listen to both sides and come to a conclusion.

8. Teens hate that perfection is the requirement: Failure to give teens the right to fail. Lets face it, we all have failed. But lets not let failure stop you from achieving your goals and dreams. Learn and grow from mistakes. Ask and seek forgiveness and forgive those who wronged you. God used many people in the bible who were failures and not perfect. But most importantly seek forgiveness from God when you do wrong. Parents when students do wrong embrace them and love them and encourage them. Acknowledge what was wrong and learn from it and move forward.

9. Teens hate that they can't ask questions: Please be open to discuss subjects with your teen. They need you to listen to them and you be their for them. Communication is key to relationships. Be ready to answer some hard questions.  And number 10 is Teens hate that they can't ever come first. Make time with your child and at the same time teens need to make time for family. Have that personal time and communicate. Know whats going on in each others lives as a family! So there you have it. Ten Things Teens Hate About Parents! Students always remember that the parents are the head of the house and you to honor them even when its hard. Work with your parents. They may not be perfect and will fail at times but continue to build relationships with your parents and work on these areas with them. Communicate with each other!

For any question and comments on this send them to youthrock@srfc.com

UPCOMING EVENTS!

Coming up this Sunday at 4 to 5:30PM is Youthrock Life Teams. We encourage you to be apart of this and join in on the conversation/discussion with our lessons. There is always a fun time with YR Life Teams. We have games, sometimes food, sometimes we go off campus and more. Its a great way to learn and grow in your relationship with Christ!

On December 15, Youthrock is turning the mic over to an up and coming rap artist by the name "Da Mac!" He will be coming in to share his testimony and performing his music with you. Join us on this night and bring out your friends, you don't want to miss this. We will post more information about this guy in the upcoming Axxess as we draw near to this date. You can visit this website and look him up and sample his music. http://www.indiecommunity.com/

Solid Rock Family Church

Youthrock Teen Ministries

508 Hunters Run Road

Jefferson City, MO 65109

Phone: 573-893-4609

Email: youthrock@srfc.us

www.youthrock.us

http://youthrock.us/media.html for iTunes and Facebook

To Subscribe email us at yraxxess@gmail.com

Youth Pastors

Mike & Tara Koelling

YR Axxess 11-11-2010

Youthrock kicked off its newest 2 week series called "The Proud Family." Pastor Mike kicks off this question of "What do you live for?" Hmm.... Something to think about honestly. Do you live to make yourself proud, to make others proud, to inspire or degrade, discourage, and disappoint them? What do you live for? The next party? the next facebook status update? (Don't hate on Youthrocks status updates now) The next relationship? The next high? The next anger filled selfish tantrum? What do you live for? We hope somewhere in there you would say that you live for your family.  Family is important. It takes time, it takes energy, it takes commitment, it takes building relationships with your family members. Your relationship with your family is a great witness to the world. Witness as in modeling Jesus Christ to the lives of others. God intended the homes to be a spiritual, stability, humility, sincerity, and purity type of a home. But lets face it not everyone's home is like that or even close to it. We all struggle. We all have family issues.

The choice now is to give back to God in everything you do. Serving him through loving, teaching, training, forgiving and equipping the family. Galatians 5:16-24 gives a run down of what the sinful nature produces and what the Holy Spirit produces. We are either producing garbage or we are producing fruits of the spirit such as love, joy, peace, patients, kindness, and so on in the family and as an individual. These fruits in our lives should prove that we serve God and that we are a Christian. Our actions are important when it comes to faith. You can say everyday that you love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength but mistreat yourself, your family, your friends, or the world  and we'll know you're a liar. 1 John 3:14-19(check out this passage)

God said in his word to love. Love is the emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. Love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. Love is not just a virtue, but the basis for all being (God is Love) and the foundation for all divine law (such as the golden rule) Christians love. Christians love their families, their friends, their enemies, and the world! God plants love inside of us and us spending time in His presence will make that love grow! Christ's love is not performance based. His love is perfect, His love is honest, true, and pure. He showed us His love by dying for us and sacrificing His all!

No Family is perfect. Although we should desire to be as perfect as we can while allowing God to make changes in us is just the beginning. Ask God to make the changes and He will show you what needs to be changed and then He'll allow you the opportunities to change. He will never stop making changes in you. God changes you through worship, through reading God's word, through serving, through giving, through fasting, and through His creation...people! (1 John 1:5,6 1 John 4:17-21)

LIFE TEAM NEWS – LEGOS and DEAD BODIES!

This past Sunday Youthrock Life Team met up at 4PM in Youthrock. We went over Pastor Mike’s sermon on Dead Man Walking. First we kicked off with a game that involved Legos. That’s right, Legos. The concept of the game is as follows:

 3 teams of 3 people

1 person has a picture of the lego structure and cannot show any one what it looks like. That person has to describe to the runner (person number 2) how to build it without showing the structure.

The runner has to run to person 3 (The Builder) on how to build the lego structure without helping just communicating where the pieces goes according to the instructor.

This game took us 30 mins and a couple of the teams were missing some pieces and couldn’t get it complete which was an honest mistake but was pretty funny. So we did a retry with a different design after the lesson with all the right pieces.

The Lesson we discussed about how the Romans punished murders by strapping the dead body that the murder killed on to the murderer. We talked about how difficult life would be having a dead body strapped to you. We tied that in with the sin in our life that we end up strapping on us that holds us down and leads to a road of destruction. We discussed ways how to break free from these things and how to stay free from those things.

Then we talked about the game, saying that when you don’t have the right pieces or resources to get the task done, not having the right people in your life to help you and not having the right source for answers things will get crazy in life. Even though it was an accident that the lego pieces were miscounted and caused such confusion and chaos it worked well with the lesson.

We have this and more every 1^st and 3^rd Sunday of the Month with Youthrock Life Teams. Come be a part of fun activities, open discussions where you can ask the questions and talk about stuff that goes on in your life. We encourage you students to be a part of this awesome discipleship class.

You can catch the sermon on the Youthrock iTunes podcast that is FREE!!!! This one is a must have download and will be available within the coming days. Also check out the dance team’s video that kicked off the series on Youthrocks facebook! Next week more cool stuff are on the way for week 2

Are you coming to Sleeprock this Friday Nov 5^th at 11PM? If not your missing out on a great fun filled time. This Friday night we will be hosting the annual Sleeprock! This year’s event will feature the dreaded game and Pastor Mike’s personal favorite, AGGY BALL! And there will be no medicine balls this time and cause injuries on the field. We will also be going off campus to California, MO to a big open Barn. Flash Lights may be needed if you’re scared of the Dark! There will be food, music, and so much more. Maybe a little Silent Library in the mix!

The Cost is $10 plus Permission Slip is required with Parents Signature! Event kicks off at 11PM and ends at 7AM Saturday Morning. Please Parents be here at 7AM to pick up your kids! Buses Will NOT Be Provided! We will have a complete review and rundown of SLEEPROCK next week!

A LITTLE BABY NEWS FROM A COUPLE ON OUR YR STAFF

Solid Rock Family Church

Youthrock Teen Ministries

508 Hunters Run Road

Jefferson City, MO 65109

Phone: 573-893-4609

Email: youthrock@srfc.us

www.youthrock.us

http://youthrock.us/media.html for iTunes and Facebook

To Subscribe email us at yraxxess@gmail.com

Youth Pastors

Mike & Tara Koelling

Youthrock Axxess Nov 4th 2010

The annual Fall Festival at Solid Rock Family Church took place this past Sunday Night on Oct 31^st. The theme was Welcome to the Jungle! All the workers began to arrive around 4PM and the event kicked off at 5PM with a line of cars filing into the parking lot. The Parking Team helped direct and keep the flow of traffic moving throughout the night. We had several different kinds of games such as Zero Gravity, Rock Climbing, Bull Riding, several inflatables like a giant slide and hoop shot, and a race track in the middle of the gym along with many other games and activities throughout the facility. Thousands of people ran through the facility dressed up in costumes just having a great time. People of all ages showed up to this event. Over at the visitor’s tables every single gift bag was handed out before the night was even finished. This event is a great way to help reach out to the community and serve them while showing the example of Christ that’s in us. The entire event was all free including food and prize giveaways like a digital camera and an iPod. In conclusion it was a successful night and a great safe and friendly family environment for all.

Back in the Roman times they did something that is unbelievable to a person after they have been guilty of murder. They would take the dead body of a person that the murderer killed, strap it to the murderers back and was forced to live their life with a dead body weighing them down. As the body starts to decompose, swell, ooze, and rot, the DEATH would seep into the body of the murderer. This would cause a slow and painful death, as you could only imagine. The Romans were the same people that invented the cross. Imagine yourself in this position. How would you go about living your life with a dead body strapped to you? It would make life a bit difficult. Everywhere you go you have that smelly rotting dead body with you. I bet you would lose friends and even family members over it. Possibly your lunch every time you tried to eat. Lifting up your arm and you see a finger just fall off into your food. Okay moving away from the graphic stuff now. This is the same situation when it comes to sin. Sin weighs us down. Sin is a slow death to the spirit of God in us. Sin separates you from God. Paul wrote in Romans “the things I wanted to do, I did not and the things I did not want to do, I did.” It is a constant battle between right and wrong, between the Holy Spirit and Sin. There are times I know I should have done what is right and end up picking the wrong choice and pay for it by its consequence. Many people are tied to their sin, their addictions, to their destruction. We must rid of the dead body off that is hanging on us. We need to chalk line that body and stuff it in a body bag. Loose that dead body loose that sin and be free from it. The way to do that is to seek God for forgiveness and repent of those things. Remove those things that may make you stumble back into that life style. Jesus paid the ultimate price on the cross. He paid for the rules that we ignore, the guidelines we crossed, the laws we broke, he paid for it with his life. Becoming a Christian takes a moment of faith but becoming like Christ is a lifelong process. It is a commitment. Perfection is God’s requirement Jesus is God’s perfect alternative. Jesus did not come to make bad people good but to make dead people come alive. As said before with that body strapped on it will eventually kill you.  1 John 4:9-10 states this “God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real loved not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.” And there is your recap of Youthrock this last weds night! 

UPCOMING EVENTS!

Solid Rock Family Church

Youthrock Teen Ministries

508 Hunters Run Road

Jefferson City, MO 65109

Phone: 573-893-4609

Email: youthrock@srfc.us

www.youthrock.us

http://youthrock.us/media.html for iTunes and Facebook

To Subscribe email us at yraxxess@gmail.com

Youth Pastors

Mike & Tara Koelling