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Follow-up Sponsorship
Sponsorship is a long-term activity. It doesn't end at the closing ceremony. After the Chrysalis weekend, sponsors should encourage new Butterflies to join Next Steps groups. Give them an opportunity to talk about their three-day experience and what it meant to them.
Invite new Butterflies to attend Hoots/Gatherings with you to help them feel included. Inform them of ways to participate in the Chrysalis Community and support upcoming Chrysalis events. Also encourage them to serve on a weekend team.
Invite new Butterflies to become part of your church and youth group if they don't have one of their own. Encourage them to follow through on fresh hopes and dreams, decisions, and changes they feel God is calling them to make. Help them act on new commitments.
Assist new Butterflies in sponsoring others. Make sure they know the responsibilities and the expectations of being a sponsor. Above all, be a model sponsor yourself.
Sponsorship is an act of love for God, for young people, for the Chrysalis Community, and for the church. It is a living demonstration of agape love. Through sponsorship, we become instruments of God's design and desire for the person we sponsor.
RUSH and Gatherings
The Upper Room has renamed Hoots to RUSH - Reuniting Spiritual Hearts. You may bring friends who have not been through a weekend to a RUSH if you wish.
We will post more information here when we schedule our next RUSH.
Below is a list of this year's gatherings - held at 7pm unless otherwise noted:
What's a RUSH? A RUSH is a time for those who have gone through a Chrysalis weekend to get together for games, food, fellowship, and a way to keep in touch with each other. But mostly, to have fun! Some RUSH are open just to those that have gone through Chrysalis but others are open to everyone. We will let you know when they are open to everyone or just to the butterflies.
What's your opinion? We'd like to know what your views are of past RUSH and Gatherings.
Is there something that you'd like changed? Have an idea for what we could do in the future?
All input, both negative and positive, is welcome...and wanted! We want to know what you think so we can make them as best of an experience as we can. Feel free to contact us using the contact us form!
Next Steps MeetingMar. 29, 2012 Time: TBA Location: Washington Evangelical UMC
Next Steps
Chrysalis is more than a three-day mountaintop experience for young
people. The three-day experience aims to deepen young people's
experience of God's companionship for everyday life and to strengthen
their commitment to follow Jesus back into their familiar environments
of friendships, school, family, church, and work. Chrysalis supports
young people's return to the world as butterflies by encouraging and
strengthening their local church and youth group connections.
Next Step Groups are small groups of young people who have been
on a Chrysalis Flight or Journey. The groups are designed to keep the
spirit of the Chrysalis weekend alive and staying in relationship to
help one another live in the light of God's love as disciples of Jesus
Christ. At the end of a Chrysalis weekend, participants are broken
into groups by churches, schools, or towns. In some communities, young
people divide themselves into groups by regular times and days when
they would be able to meet.
It’s Important to Stay Focused
Staying
focused on God is the key in your walk with Christ. Sometimes it's
difficult to find a way to keep focused on God in our everyday life, or
like most we just simply don't feel like taking the effort to do this.
It is important to keep God the center of your life or you will become
distant from God. Being a Christian is living the life of a Christian,
like the book of 1 John tells us. Along with the book of 1 John, there
are many other books in and out of the Bible. We hope this list of
scripture and books will assist you.
The Bible
Begin with the Gospel of John--Read regularly. Read 1 John,
Philippians, the other Gospels, 1 Thessalonians, 1 Corinthians &
move on to other Bible studies.
For the New Christian
In His Steps by Sheldon
How to Pray by Torrey
Four Spiritual Laws by Campus Crusade
Quiet Time by InterVarsity Staff
A Handbook for Christian Maturity by Bright
Lord, Change Me by Christenson
A Shepherd Looks at the 23rd Psalm by Keller
My Heart, Christ's Home by Munger
Too Busy Not to Pray by Hybels
Continuing Your Walk
Disciples Are Made, Not Born by Henrichsen
Hinds Feet on High Places by Hurnard
The Will of God by Weatherhead
How to Really Love Your Child/Teenager by Campbell
Experiencing God by Blackaby & King
I've Got to Talk to Somebody by Holmes
When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Kushner
When All You Really Wanted Isn't Enough by Kushner
My Utmost for His Highest by Chambers
The Sacred Romance by Curtis & Eldredge
Twice Pardoned by Morris
Beyond the Barriers by Morris
What's So Amazing About Grace? by Yancy
God Calling by Russell
Healing for Damaged Emotions by Seamands
Growing Through Divorce by Smoke
When There is No Miracle by Wise
Book Suggestions for Singles
Devotionals
Window to My Heart: Reflections of a Single Woman by Joy Hawkins
Single to God by Douglas Fagerstrom
51 Good Things to Do While You’re Waiting by Harold Ivan Smith
Holy Me by Harold Ivan Smith
Single But Not Alone by Jane Graver
Single Purpose by H. Norman Wright
Moments for Singles by Leigh McLeroy
Wait for Me Journal by Rebecca St. James
Dating
Choosing God’s Best by Dr. Don Ravnikar
I’ve Kissed Dating Goodbye by Josh Harris
Boundaries in Dating by Dr. Henry Cloud/Dr. John Townsend
Knight in Shining Armor by P.B. Wilson
When God Writes Your Love Story by Eric & Leslie Ludy
Finding Your Million Dollar Mate by Randy Pope
Date or Soul Mate? by Neil Clark Warren
Finding Mr. Right by Steve Arterburn
Finding Your Perfect Mate by H. Norman Wright
Relationships That Work & Those That Don’t by H. Norman Wright
Discovering Your Lifelong Love by P.B. Wilson
I Kissed a Lot of Frogs: But the Prince Hasn’t Come by Kathleen Hardaway
If Men Are Like Buses: Then How Do I Catch One? by Michelle M. Hammond
In Search of the Proverbs 31 Man by Michelle M. Hammond
Dear God Send Me a Soul Mate by Rose Sweet
What’s a Girl to Do? by Janet Folger
The One by Ben Young & Dr. Samuel Adams
The Dateable Rules by Lookadoo & Morgan
Dateable: Are you? Are They? by Lookadoo & Morgan
Define the Relationship by Jeremy & Jerusha Clark
Christian Living
Choices by Stacy & Paula Rinehart
Single & Feeling Good by Harold Ivan Smith
Single’s Plus by Ray Mossholder
Common Mistakes Singles Make by Mary S. Whelchel
A Single Journey: Biblical Sketches for Life on Your Own by Jim McNutt
Secrets of an Irresistible Woman by Michelle M. Hammond
Sassy, Single, & Satisfied by Michelle M. Hammond
If Singleness Is a Gift, What’s the Return Policy? by Hammond & Virden
Teach Me How to Love You by Thomas Weeks III
Living Whole Without a Better Half by Wendy Widder
Latte for One & Loving It! by Dobson/Williams
Men Are Like Waffles, Women Are Like Spaghetti by Bill & Pam Farrel
Table for One by Cameron Courtney
Joyfully Single in a Couples World by Harold Sala
Love, Sex & Lasting Relationship by Chip Ingram
Buyers, Renters & Freeloaders by Willard F. Harley, Jr
The Struggle by Steve Gerali
God’s Call to the Single Adult by Michael Cavanaugh
Playing the Tuba at Midnight by Roberta Rand
Sex & the Single Person by Robert G. DeMoss, Jr
Passion & Purity by Elizabeth Elliot
Quest for Love by Elizabeth Elliot
The Rich Single Life by Andrew Farmer
Single & Content by Anders/Clement/Conti/Trent
Single & Satisfied by Audrey Lee Sands
Always Reliable Christian Authors
James Dobson
Bruce Larson
C.S. Lewis
Catherine Marshall
Lloyd John Ogilvie
Charles Swindoll
Oswald Chambers
Tim Hansel
Joni Eareckson Tada
Billy & Ruth Graham
Max Lucado
Patsy Clairmont
Barbara Johnson
Philip Yancy
John Trent
Gary Chapman
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