Spiked Student Ministries

Here’s info for the ‘rents

Dear Spiked Parents,

Your student(s) may have come home this week with a medical release and parental permission slip form for a lock in this Friday night. Spiked student small group leaders have encouraged the teens to participate in the M25 Food Drop this Saturday from 9:00am to Noon. If your student brought home a Permission slip and medical release form it is because they expressed the desire to serve with NHC this weekend as we reach out to families around our Community. We are so excited that your student(s) is demonstrating a serving heart and we hope you share our excitement.!!!

The Spiked students will actually begin their serving as a group at the M25 Lock-In on Friday evening. (This is what the Permission and Medical Release forms are for.)

At the lock in they will serve by helping get things ready for Saturday morning. After helping prepare, we will reflect on what it’s like to be hungry so that they can feel more in touch with the purpose they are serving on Saturday. (We will put dinner out in front of them, but not serve it to them for several minutes and ask them what it feels like to not know when they will eat). The purpose will simply be to put them in touch with what some of the families we are serving go through every day and how much our serving is going to impact those lives. We will then commit our meal and what God will do through us on Saturday to prayer and then we will feed them. They will spend the rest of the evening fellowshipping and having fun.

Unlike most lock-ins, we will not be encouraging an all night stay up. We will have a lights out time so that the kids can get some sleep and wake up early and refreshed to serve on Saturday morning. We will also be providing breakfast.

If your child will be participating you can bring them to NHC on Friday night anytime after 7:00PM. There is no need for you to worry about dinner Friday night or .breakfast Saturday. We will take care of that.

We hope you will join us in serving at the Food Drop on Saturday. If so please arrive as early as possible before 9:00AM as there is lots to do. Otherwise your student needs to be picked up anytime at 12:30PM Saturday afternoon.

Please send with your student a sleeping bag, a change of clothes, basic toiletries (toothbrush, deodorant,etc). They can bring anything else they would like to bring for their hang out time. Video games are permitted, but no games rated “M” (Mature Audience) will be permitted to be played. We also may show a movie. Any movie we show will be PG-13.

You can direct any lock-in questions to Melinda Duarte at melinda.duarte@newhorizonchurch.tv or call at 919-618-2532.

Thank you for you commitment and dedication to helping us to serve your student(s).