StuMin Kickoff: Renov8

6:35 Welcome and Announcement

Wednesdays!

Question Box!!

Eye of the Tiger all Nighter at GCU

6:40 Cereal Bar

6:45-7:10 Interviews

7:15-7:30 message

7:30-8 Shrink wrap/ fellowship

Small group leaders to gatgher info

Intro - Mastodon bones unearthed. -

KENT COUNTY, MI -- Several people are working to unearth mastodon bones in a West Michigan field after they were discovered during a road construction project.

Staff with the University of Michigan’s Museum of Paleontology are at the site, overseeing the recovery.

A construction crew was working to install a large culvert along 22 Mile Road, north of Kent City, about 1:45 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 11 when an excavator operator noticed something red in the ground.

The operator asked other workers to check out what was in the ground.

“It was a humongous bone,” Kent County Drain Commissioner Ken Yonker said.

He said some of the workers initially thought they could be dinosaur bones, but University of Michigan researchers determined they were mastodon bones.

Related: Mastodon bones unearthed at Michigan construction site

Yonker said it’s possible a full, or nearly full, mastodon skeleton will be recovered from the ground. Researchers told Yonker the animal likely was between 12 and 20 years old when it died.

He described the discovery as exciting.

“You go out there to put a pipe in the ground and you find this. To find a mastodon, that just blew us away,” he said.

“That was just really cool,” Yonker said.

The culvert replacement project is on hold pending the archeological dig and bone recovery.

The bones are expected to be donated to the Grand Rapids Public Museum.

Renov8 How many of you like HGTV?

It is messy downstairs...

This space is a little different

But there is no way to do what needs done unless it is messy.

This space is a little different

Renov8 - Inside Out - To be renovated from the inside our is different than to slap a coat of paint on and call it good.

Matthew 23:25–28 ESV

25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean. 27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. 28 So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Dependence: God is the one that does it.

Psalm 51:10–12 ESV

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

Transformed: a choice by renewal of mind

Romans 12:1–2 ESV

1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Christ: Like Him and By Him

2 Corinthians 5:14–21 ESV

14 For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; 15 and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. 16 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Looking forward to this year

Renov8 Teaching & Topics

September:

Renov8 (2022-23 Theme) October:

God's Book (How to Study the Bible) November:

Thrive: Mental Health, God & You December:

Christmas January:

The Heart of God Winter Retreat:

On the Run with Jonah February/March:

Identity - the Real Me April/May:

Parables: Look at that!

Regular Q&As and Interviews

Events

Wednesdays 6:30-8 StuMin Gatherings

Friday 9/30 - All Nighter at Grace Christian University (It's Friday Night activity)

Saturday October 8th - Fall In - A StuMin Outing 1-3pm

Friday October 21st - Escape Room! (It's Friday Night) 8-10:30pm

November 4-6 - Student Ministry Leader Retreat (No It's Friday Night)

Nov 18th & Dec 2nd - It's Friday Night 8-10:30pm

Dec 14th - StuMin Christmas Party