Concerts

This fall is the fall of CONCERTS here at Maximum Impact Student Ministries:

September 9 – Customary Alliance – Free concert for our youth kickoff

October 20 – David Crowder Concert – $20 buy your ticket any weekend at the church west information center.  Concert is at ECC!

November 5 – Skillet – Tickets approximately $20.  Buy them any Wednesday Night at youth group or Sunday Morning through Mike Maglish.

December 8 – Toby Mac and Relient K – Tickets are not on sale yet.  When they go on sale the church will have some available Wednesday Night or Sunday Morning through Mike Maglish.

Check out the “Fall Calendar” tab for complete listing of Maximum Impact topics and events

For more information on these concerts go to the church web site http://eaglechristianchurch.com/index.php?page=high_school.

For the Skillet and Relient K Concerts student need a general permission slip… these slips can be picked up at the Maximum Impact wall.  It’s gonna be a ROCKIN fall!

Mission Trip

11 students, 5 adults, 2 beautiful children, 1 bus, scaffolding, tools, food… you get the point.  We were on our way to Tacoma Washington to work with Network Ministries (Bob Weyrick founder and author JESUS DOESN’T SAY PLEASE).  The focus of Network is to provide a home and a car for people who would otherwise be homeless.  All this with the intention of helping people get back on track with their lives!  Their philosophy is not to give someone a fish, but teach them how to fish.  It’s messy and it’s hard, but it’s so much the heart of Christ!  The job for these high school students?  Reconstruct 2 chimney boxes, gut out an apartment, beautify the properties and paint, paint, paint.

When we first arrived we could tell, “We’re not in Kansas any more!”  The place we were going to be living is well-known as a “dark” part of town.  The apartments are in a neighborhood notorious for gangs and drugs.  After we got settled in on the first night and ready for bed I’m not sure anyone really got a good night sleep, except maybe Bear!  The man can snore!

Anyway, we lived in an among the homeless.  And after a week living with them, serving them, and worshiping with them, it was apparent to us that all our fears and bias’s were gone.  A light had been shone on that place, and we didn’t want to leave.

2 finished chimney boxes, 1 restored apartment, 10 gallons of primer, 20 gallons of paint, 2 community meals, 6 hours of worship, multiple hours of scripture memory and 1 Mariner’s game later… we were ready to head back home.  But much to our surprise the battery was dead!  So we had to leave a little later.  By the time we actually pulled away our bus was surrounded by all the people we lived with and among, children and parents.  After a tearful goodbye one of the people said, “Thank you so much for coming Eagle Christian Church!  You have shined a light on this dark place.  We will never forget you!”

The ride home was surreal.  Once again we were sent off to be a blessing.  Yet God flipped the script.  We were blessed tremendously!

Go to http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemaglish to sift through the videos and find the ones from the mission trip.  Subscribe to my account to see regular, raw and uncut videos of youth group events.

CIY trip

If you were at worship service Sunday, August 9 you witnessed a powerful work of God.  That day a group of high school students walked up in front of their entire church body at Eagle Christian Church and confessed they have not been a friendly group, apologized and asked for forgiveness, and invited students to come back.  What would lead a group of “selfish” teenagers to do such a “selfless” act?  Worship!

This past summer a group of students from Eagle Christian Church went on a trip that would change their lives!  They encountered an incredibly powerful week, focused on amazing worship and passionate preaching.  And when we encounter a mighty God we change.  Period!

So the students knew… things cannot be the same when we go back.  And in order to keep them focused and on track they felt the need to confess in front of the entire church body.

Maybe pride is the word that comes to mind when I think of how far our students have come.  But not the kind of pride God opposes.  I’m talking about Godly pride.  The kind of pride a Father has in a son after witnessing his spawn (aka offspring, descendent) help someone in need.

So it is time for us to recognize what God has done and give him the glory.  And it is time for us to encourage, lift up and support our teenagers in their hour of passionate living for Jesus.  However it is not time to look for fault.  I have a saying you will hear me say often, “We are not there yet!”  I don’t say that because I don’t think God has done a good thing.  I don’t say that because I don’t believe the students are honoring God with their lives and giving their best.  I say that, simply, because it can be easy to sit back and notice all the things we are not.  I say, “But we are a workmanship of God!  And we are moving in the right direction!  We know what we want… and we will aim for the target!”

So to the students who made that commitment – We are proud of you!  Keep moving closer and closer to the cross!  We’re not there yet, but we’re heading in the right direction.
Sift through and check out some CIY videos here… and subscribe the my account for more fun, raw youth group videos!

http://www.youtube.com/user/mikemaglish

$200 Challenge

Okay so we love teens!  And we want to see them fall in love with Jesus in the worst possible way.  We’ll to ANYTHING it takes to make this happen.  So I am personally issuing a $200 challenge to all students who are faithful to Christ and their part in this community throughout the summer.  Any student who follows through will qualify to win $200 in our drawing the end of August!

Go to:   https://live.jlog.com/ViewjLog.aspx?ID=2010

Watch the videos & leave your responses!

Print off the rules here: Maximum Impact $200 Challenge

Mike