Interested in Being a Host Home for our 2017 Discipleship Weekend? Dear Ridgecrest Member: Thank you SO much for being a Host Home for our 2017 DNOW weekend, March 31-April 2. We hope the info below equips you to know if God is opening your heart to open your home for this important student ministry event.
What is Disciple Now? Disciple Now is a weekend retreat where students (7th-12th grade) gather at the church for worship and preaching, connect with their peers, and meet in small discipleship groups in homes of church members. The studies are led by adult leaders with the goal of beginning and strengthening the ongoing process of discipleship in each student’s life. This Year’s Theme: “Supremacy” Our Weekend Speaker and In-Home Small Group Leaders will help our students understand what it is that makes Christianity unique and what difference those beliefs should make in our lives! Host Home Responsibilities and Things to Know 1. Host Homes play a vital role by providing a place for students to call “home” for the weekend
and helping create an environment for discipling students. You’ll receive a weekend schedule and are invited to join us for any of the large group activities you can make. 2. Weekend participants will be placed in small groups by age and gender. The size of your group will depend on the number of participants and host homes but will be typically between 4 and 10 students. Students bring sleeping bags and such and will sleep anywhere and everywhere you tell them they can. After you let us know you’re interested in hosting, we’ll contact you to help you figure out what age, gender, and size of group will be a good fit for your home. 3. One or two adult Small Group Leaders for the weekend will also be assigned to your house and will take the lead on helping the students at your house behave, have fun, stick to the weekend schedule and experience the Lord together. 4. We believe teenagers need Christian adults in their lives! We hope you’ll see this weekend not just as an opportunity to share your home, but to share of your life as well. Interact with the students. Ask them questions about their lives, families, hobbies, spiritual journey, etc. 5. Students will arrive at your house late Friday evening, come-and-go on Saturday, and be gone for good when they leave for church Sunday morning. 6. When your group arrives at your home Friday evening they will bring a basket containing items for Saturday morning breakfast at your home and snacks for the weekend. We ask you to be responsible for drinks for the weekend. (If you need more of anything, let us know and we’ll help you get it.) 7. We will also need help this weekend shuttling students from church to your house. While it is not mandatory that host homes help with transportation, sometimes it works out perfectly. Let us know if you can also help us with transportation. I Think I’m Interested in Being a Host Home This Year. What Now? Let us know as soon as you can if you are interested by emailing our Student Ministry Assistant Pam Gaunt at
[email protected]. If you have some questions you’d like to ask first, email Pat Findley our Next Gen/Student Pastor at
[email protected] or by calling 417-887-2317 Ext.273 or contact Nic Goodin, Student Min. Associate at
[email protected] or 417-885-5232. Student Ministry is impossible without help from adults like you. Thank you for your prayerful consideration of helping us with DNOW 2017!
The following is our schedule for DNOW 2017. Host home families are WELCOME to attend any and all main sessions over the course of the weekend. Also, please see the information below the schedule and consider attending our Parent Encouragement Session!
SUPREMACY: DNOW 2017 ITINERARY Friday, March 31 5:00pm: D-Now Staff Leadership Dinner (SG INTRODUCTIONS) 6:00pm: Weekend Check-in. RULES (At Ridgecrest in Fellowship Center) 6:30pm: Large Group “Getting to know you” Activity (Icebreaker) 7:00pm Weekend Kickoff Service: Main Session 1 Worship with Micah Christopher / Preaching by Richard Ross 8:30pm: Students Leave for Host Homes 9:00pm: Host Home Intros / Host Home “Rules of the House” 9:30pm: Small Group “Getting to know you” 10:00pm: Small Group Session 1 (SG LEADERS; in Host Homes) 11:00pm: Hang-Out / Free Time in Host Homes 12:00am: LIGHTS OUT Saturday, April 1 8:00am: Breakfast in Host Homes (Meals provided by Host Homes) 8:30am: Small Group Session 2 (SG LEADERS; in Host Homes) 9:30am: Travel back to RBC 10:00am: Main Session 2 Worship with Micah Christopher / Preaching-Richard Ross 11:00am: Small Group Session 3 (SG LEADERS; at Church→students grab chairs and find somewhere quiet in or near FC) 12:00pm: Lunch at Church 1:00pm: Small Group Session 4 (SG LEADERS; in church) 2:00pm: Leave for Rec Event 2:30pm: LARGE GROUP REC EVENT / PARENT SESSION WITH RICHARD ROSS 6:00pm: Dinner at FC with Parents 7:00pm: Main Session 3 Worship with Micah Christopher / Preaching by Richard Ross 8:30pm: Students Leave for Host Homes 9:00pm: Small Group Session 5 (SG LEADERS; in Host Homes) 10:00pm: Break 10:30pm: Small Group Session 6 / Debrief time 12:00am: LIGHTS OUT Sunday, April 2 7:30am: Leave for RBC / Visiting Churches Go Home 8:00am: Breakfast in FC 8:30am: DNOW Debrief and Stories 10:00am: Gospel Project Small Group / Church Service 11:30am: Church Service 12:45pm DNOW IS OVER—GO HOME
DNOW PARENT ENCOURAGEMENT SESSION We’re having our 2nd Annual Parent Session --Something just to encourage parents of teens! On Saturday afternoon while your teens are out of the building, our DNOW speaker and Next Generations/Student Pastor are planning a 2-hour session just for parents! The DNOW Parent Encouragement Session will run 2:30-4:30 PM on Saturday, April 2. Please make plans to attend. You’ll be glad you did! This session for parents is FREE, but we do need you to RSVP by contacting Nic Goodin,Student Associate, at
[email protected] or 417.885.5232 or Pam Gaunt at
[email protected] or 417.885.5298.
