Extreme Summer Fun

Our Extreme Summer will begin on June 24th. This year we are so excited because we have been given another grant from the McMinnville High School Senior High, they are administrating the program for PGE and 1st Federal Bank. Our intentions are to purchase an art table activitysystem. Our goal for the Summer Fun is to engage all of the kids in fun, extrememly fun activities from week to week.

This is a way to continue the busting of Faulty Beliefs in the kids lives! We offer a reliable, safe place for them to continue to come to, we put aside the the curriculum in the summer months and play with the kids. We are looking forward to this amazing journey this summer.

We need family participation so if you would like to help by volunteering please sign up at the Kids Zone on Thursday Night. You could also send an email to me at dreynolds@hillchurch.com

Family Night

Family Night Presentation will be May 27th 2010

The kids have worked hard all Fall and they have practiced new skills and talked with the coaches about things that are sometimes difficult. We believe it is important for that new stuff to be presented to our family's. As a family the goal of Thursday Night Adults and Kids is to bring healing, and health and hope to the Family Unit. Just as addiction, divorce and dysfuntion are family matters, affecting all within the family structure, so is recovery. As a parent please know that it is very important for you to be there and particpate for the sake of your kids......

We look forward to CR being with us and we know you will all be blessed by the kids. See you all there Thursday May 27th

We had a great time with this the 5th Annual Family Night Presentation, the youth band played for us and it was an amazing night.....

Extreme Summer Fun 2010

Extreme Summer Fun begins June 24, 2010

We are very excited this year to get the Summer Program going, part of that is due to the Grant that we received from the McMinnville High School District. They are the administrators of the Grant and the providers are PGE and First Federal Savings and Loan. Our intention is to purchase some extreme outdoors equipment for the kids.

During the Summer Extreme we put the curriculum away and we literally play extremely fun things with the kids each week of summer. It is a powerful way to break down faulty beliefs that often accompany their belief systems.

This year we have a full schedule planned and it is fun packed and fast moving.....

We are looking for some parent volunteers to help out one of the weeks with these fun nights, sign up at the reception desk in the Kids Zone or email me at dreynolds@hillchurch.com

Kids' Group Encourages the Kids and Takes the Pressure off the Parents

That is what the goal of the Kids Groups is. We truly want to be a part of the solutions in your life as you walk through your recovery process. No matter what the issues are that surround you in your life. We want to help! Here are a couple of lists of things that we help the kids to know so that the pressure is relieved from them also:

these are taken from a book called "Kids' Power: Healing Games for Chrildren of Alcoholics"

The Four C's

I didn't CAUSE it

I can't CONTROL it

I can't CURE it

But I can learn how to COPE with it

The Five S's

I didn't START the issue

I can't STOP it

I don't have to SUFFER with it

I don't have to feel SHAME because of it

I can SAVE myself in spite of it

These are important lessons for the kids to learn and it would be important lessons for you to learn also.

My brothers eyes were SOoooooBig

This the story of a black eye, and it is also a confirmation that what our children, your kids mom and dad are learning on Thursday night at Confident Kids is working to change behavior and help them to develope healthy life skills.....so here it is for your pleasure and ours.

One of the boys came into the small group time and one of the coaches noticed he had a black eye....he said "did I do that to you last week?" :) such a clever way to get to what happened, the little guy looked up and laughed and said "NO! it was my litle brother, we had a fight and he punched me, but I did not hit back" the coach said "wow that was a good choice" he continued "I wanted to hit him back, I had my fists ready, but, I remembered I could STOP! and do a breath hand up out in front of him, I could THINK it throughindex finger to temple and I could GOmake a different choice, and that is what I did, but my brothers eyes were bugging really big, because he thought I was going to hit him back!

Anger Management Skills that is what we are learning right now and it is so wonderful to have a story like this to share with all of you.....How is it going with you and your Anger Management? Anger is not a bad thing, but acting out in it in ways that are inappropriate are....learn as the kids are that there are ways, we call them reducers, to walk through when you feel the anger rising. In this way you will be modeling good behavior and you will changing and improving your own behavior.

blessings Diane K Reynolds

Mission Trip

There is going to be a trip to Camden New Jersey in the month of June.....we will return to this inner city ministry and bring to them a 4 day program, do at least one community extreme make over and perhaps some training of the staff there in the procedures of Confident Kids Programming.

Last year's trip is one that none of us will forget for a very long time.

Check back on this blog for further postings about fund raisings and dates and scheduling
Diane K Reynolds
Pastor/Director of Recovery Ministries

email me any questions
dreynolds@hillchurch.com

Ways and words you can pray for your children

Confident Kids
16 Ways to Pray for your Children ©Bob Hostetler

1. salvation "Lord, let salvation spring up within my children, that they may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory" (Isaiah 45:8, 2 Timothy 2: 10)
2. growth in grace "1 pray that my children may grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 3: 18
3. love "Grant, Lord, that my children may learn to 'live a life oflove,' through the Spirit who dwells in them" (Ephesians 5:2, Galatians 5:22)
4. honesty and integrity "May integrity and honesty be their virtue and their protection" (Psalm 25: 21, NL T)
5. self~control "Father, help my children not to be like many others around them, but let them be 'alert and self-controlled' in all they do" (1 Thessalonians 5 :6)
6. a love for God's Word "May my children grow to find your Word more precious than gold, than much pure gold; [and] sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb" (Psalm 19: 10)
7. justice "God, help my children to love justice as you do and to 'act fustly' in all they do" (Psalm 11:7, Micah 6:8
8. mercy "May my children always 'be merciful, as [their] Father is merciful" (Luke 6:36)
9. respect(for self, others, authority) "father, grant that my children may show proper respect to everyone, as your Word commands" (1 Peter 2: 17a)
10. strong, Biblical self-esteem "help my children develop a strong self-esteem that is rooted in the realization that they are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus" (Ephesians 2: 1 0)
11. faithfulness "let love and faithfulness never leave [my children] but bind these twin virtues around their necks and write them on the tablet of their hearts" (Proverbs 3:3)
12. courage "may my children always Be strong and courageous in their character and in their actions" (Deuteronomy 31: 6)
13. purity" create in [ them] a pure heart, 0 God; and let their purity of heart be shown in their actions" (Psalms 51: 10)
14. kindness "Lord, may my children always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else" (I Thessalonians 1 :6)
15. generosity "grant that my children may be generous and willing to share [and so] lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age" (I Timothy 6: 18-19)
16. peace, peaceability "Father, let my children make every effort to do what leads to peace" (Romans 14: 19)

Diane K Reynolds