Summer Intern Program

We are now announcing our first ever Summer Intern Program for Jr High Students! We are first offering this to our students in leadership and then opening up to all of our students as space allows; we only have enough space for 30 students. This is an opportunity for Jr High Students to connect with AMPED in a way never before possible. We will have times with other pastors here at Gateway, students will have valuable input for the services and our programs in the fall, and get hands on training in areas like media and creative arts. Kam, Brittney and I will be leading it on Wednesdays and Thursdays for 6 weeks this summer starting in July. The students will gather here at the Gateway Church offices starting at 10 am and go until 3 pm. They will need to bring a sack lunch unless we have a special day that we will announce beforehand. Each day will be different because of the different ministries the students will be exposed to. If you are interested in coming to help or be involved without having to commit weekly, or have any other questions, please email us.

No AMPED Services on Sunday May 11

Just a reminder that there will be no AMPED service on Sunday May 11, 2008 for Mother's Day.
Use this day to honor the special ladies in your life that have impacted both our lives as mothers and grandmothers.
We will resume our services on Sunday May 18, 2008.

Blessings,
James Reid

Monthly Leaders Meeting Thurs. May 8

Hello AMPED Leaders,We normally have our monthly leadership meeting on the first Thursday of each month but due to the National Day of Prayer we are moving the meeting to Thursday May 8, 2008 at 7pm.
This meeting is required for all current AMPED Leaders.
The meeting will be held at the Gateway Church Administrative offices.
Please come to the main entrance at the offices at 500 S. Nolen in Southlake, TX.
The meeting will be in conference room 300.
Our featured speaker will be Pastor Brad Stahl. We look forward to seeing you there!
Email with any questions to ampedleaders@gatewaypeople.com

Blessings,
James Reid

birth

you get what you ask for. just talk to Mike Melenka. tonight in the pre service meeting, I asked him what he wanted at AMPED, and he said he wanted kids to get saved tonight. so I then asked him to lead us in that prayer.

guess what, three guys got saved in his small group! you get what you ask for, especially when you ask fo what the Father wants. He wants his sons to come for salvation. congrats guys, welcome to eternity with the Father.

which also reminds me that 7 guys got saved in the 8th grade guys small group last week. God truly blesses us. i'm pretty stoked about what god is doing at AMPED, and you should be too. you are a part of this thing.

so i'm asking you, what do you wanna see happen at AMPED? I know what I wanna see and i'm gonna ask for it specifically.

Train!

What's up kids? Well just in case you check this blog with intense vigilence, I want to let you know that tonight we are having our leadership training for those of you who haven't gone thru it yet. We're gonna cover all kinds of stuff like small groups and stuff. So be at the Gateway offices tonight at 7 pm if you haven't been thru the training yet.

So remember the youtube post? So yeah I was on youtube just a sec ago and it had a small vid from Madonna about her new music video. Apparently we are told by the media that she is so great and of course Justin Timberlake is supposed to be great, so the obvious conclusion is that any music they do together is great. I don't buy it. I didn't buy it. Have you heard it? Don't beleive the hype. Anyway, Madonna looks super scary these days. I guess age has not been kind to her so the plastic surgery is very obvious. {{shivers}}

camp

holy cow I am looking forward to camp this year. We will have it at Sky Ranch Cave Springs in Oklahoma and it is going to be great. Last year was our first summer to have a Jr High only camp and it was a success. Now our second summer will be at a second location and we have more stuff to do. The campsite is better and we also have a new relationship with Sky Ranch.

This camp will be a little different in the fact that we are going to have more opportunities for spiritual encounters and teachable moments with the campers and we will also have a night event every night.

Please start praying now daily for camp if you haven't started yet that the kids that need to go will be able to and that the Holy Spirit will begin the jprocess in their hearts and in our own for us to get exactly what we need to at camp. Pray for fun, saftety, opportunities, our speaker (Jon Pritikin), and also the staff at Sky Ranch. I am praying that YOU get to go because we need all the quality people that we can to go. If you talk to a parent that wants to go but they are on the fence, talk them into it.

Trust me, you wanna be there.

Youtube

You guessed it, we now have some of our videos uploaded on Youtube. just search for ampedjrhigh and you can see what we have up there. Also, if you have any videos of your own that we can use, let me know.