Youth Family Night

Join us this Sunday at 6pm for a Youth Family Night. 

With the hustle and bustle of the holidays rapidly approaching, we need to stop.  Stop and reflect.  What are you thankful for?  But what are you missing?  What is it in your life that maybe you don’t see as something to be thankful for?

Sure we have a lot that we could complain about, sure things could get better.  But things could also be a lot worse.  And for that alone we should be thankful.  But Thankful is a state of mind.  And on Sunday, my hope is that you will view Thanksgiving in a whole new light.

So get a sitter for the kids, and join your teenager for Youth Family Night.  See You There!!!

Like Drive-Thru, but Better!

Don’t forget about the Youth Progressive Dinner This Friday, November 21

Here are the details for you:

Who: All Youth
Where: Meet and Return to SCC
When: 5:30pm to 10:30pm
Cost: FREE!!!!

Here’s how it works-
We will be enjoying a lovely four course meal…but at four different houses.  We will split into groups at the Church and will travel with our group from house to house to enjoy different parts of the meal.  You may get a salad first, or you could eat dessert first! You never know what you are going to enjoy at the next house.

After the meal, we will all gather at Scott and Andrea’s house to watch a movie.  After the movie, we will return to SCC for pick-up.

Like I said in the title- It’s like Drive-Thru, only Better!  See You Friday Night!

Tyra talks Sex…

Not a big fan of the Tyra Banks show, but I found this very interesting.

Over the summer, Tyra Banks surveyed 10,000 girls on her website on all kinds of social issues, including teen pregnancy, drugs, alcohol, violence, STD’s, and sexual habits. 

The results are kind of scary. Here is a sampling of the results of the survey-

52 percent of survey respondents say they do not use protection when having sex.

One in three says she fears having a sexually transmitted disease.

24 percent of teens with STDs say they still have unprotected sex.

One in five girls says she wants to be a teen mom.

Is that not enough info to get you concerned.  Listen to these quotes from the article:

“A lot of the guys, if I didn’t have unprotected sex with them, they would get mad at me and I still wanted that closeness with them,” one girl says during the show. “I was afraid if I didn’t do what they wanted, they wouldn’t be my friend.”

Another girl, a 17-year-old mother of a 7-month-old boy, says she lost her virginity on a school lunch break and deliberately planned her pregnancy by monitoring her menstrual cycle.

“I had helped teach a sex-ed class to a class of freshmen my sophomore year,” she explains. “We taught how … there’s a week [in] the month you are more likely to get pregnant than any other time of the month. I had calculated that out and I decided on two days I was most likely to get pregnant.”

You can read the entire article here

Wow, now that’s personal responsibility!

You have to see the hard line this mom takes on her son’s bike riding habits!

Apparently her son and daughter were riding their bikes through an apartment complex parking lot, and a cop was driving through the lot as well.  Basically, the girl saw the cop and turned out of the way.  But the boy kept going straight and the cop hit him.

Well, you can read the rest here…

I would love to hear your thoughts!

Thank you Parents for not making my job feel like this…

I love what I do.  It might be different if my job were like this…

Watch Sex, Have Sex…

A ground-breaking study from Chicago has noticed an interesting pattern.  Teenagers who watch a lot of tv with sexual dialogue and behavior have a higher pregnancy rate than those who do not.  

Check out the entire artilce here 

The big thing to take away from the study- Talk with your kids about sex so they don’t have their views formed by what they see on TV!