Highlights Live

High school and Jr. High students are welcome to join us for Pool Tours this summer. The first pool day is next week so hold the date!

Jr. High students: Meet Wednesday, July 8, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at the Neighbors’ home, 1206 Cambridge Lane, Newport Beach
High School students: Meet Thursday, July 9, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Speth’s home, 623 Irvine Avenue, Newport Beach

The VBS kids had so much fun worshiping every day last week with Rob Biagi! They also loved learning about their mission project this year and helped raise a total of $7,526.41 for The Heifer Project. Way to go VBS kids!!!

CAM staff meeting with church leaders to discuss the Fostering project.

Lahu Church leader fostering the 2 kids in the right side of the picture.

The Church of Christ in Thailand AIDS Ministry (CAM) has started a new project recently. This is a “Church and Community Fostering Families” project. The project’s purpose is to train up and resource church members and leaders to provide family support for children and adults who have been left unsupported by their own families due to sickness or death from HIV/AIDS. The goal is for a number of churches in the Chiang Mai district of Northern Thailand to seek ways to help families affected by HIV/AIDS, and to offer this in very practical ways. The idea is for individual churches to take on a form of family foster care and to see this as a long-term commitment to families until they are able to support themselves once more. The aim is that this project will become self sustaining, as the participating churches become good role models for other churches, and as they seek ways to raise the finances needed from within local church and community.

Ten churches from Chiang Mai and the outlying regions are participating in this project. Each participating church will then select 5 members from within the church who will commit to receive training in community awareness and care of people with HIV/AIDS, home based care, and general education about HIV/AIDS. This project is being funded by a church in Australia for a 3 year period. The first year the project is fully funded and the next 2 years the funding decreases to 80% and the 3rd year they will fund 50%. It is then up to the communities to provide self funding and resources.

Brett and Shelley Faucett

During VBS last week our kids made crafts, played games, watched a drama, learned about our mission: The Heifer Project, rocked out to the worship of Rob Biagi, and learned about Jesus’ disciple Peter!

Last Friday night, men from our church community joined together to watch the Angels vs. Dodgers game on the big screens, play games, eat good food and enjoy fellowship with each other. Stay tuned for more men’s fellowship opportunities later this year!

Last Friday night, the young adults got together at CPK for dinner and then went to Irvine Lanes. Here are some fun pictures of the group bowling. Join us for our next young adults get together! Look for upcoming activities in the weekly Highlights.

Over 440 children have joined us for VBS this year. Here are their class pictures!

Class A

Class B

Class C

Class D

Class E

Class F

Class G

Class H

Class I

Class J

Class K

Class L

Class M

Class N

Class O

Class P

Class Q

Class R

Class S

Class T

Class U

VBS is here and the kids are having a blast! Here are some pictures from Monday where the kids participated in worship with Rob Biagi. Stay tuned for more fun pictures from this year’s Son Rock VBS Camp.