Get ready for Saturdays!

We just finished our Sunday classes and now we are movin' on up to Saturday classes & outreaches, only four more to go!! I am so excited about the next four weekends because I truly believe that when we step out of our comfort zone and serve others (with love & humility), God will do a work in our lives and truly change us from the inside out.

Blue Sushi, I challenge you to come expecting God to do great things in & through you!!!

Revised Schedule:

Week 7, October 20: What It Means to Be a Servant & Outreach
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
We will meet at the Highland Campus KIA room for class (8:00-9:00) and then we will leave to go to our new Dream Center facility on Winborn Ave for a church wide clean-up day. Please bring a sack lunch!

***No class on October 27th due to Live the Dream Women’s Conference***

Week 8, November 3: Having the Heart of a Servant & Outreach
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
We will meet in the Highland Campus Foyer and then we will leave to go to the Heart House. The Heart House is a home for young, unwed mothers and is located on Old Jefferson Hwy near Hoo Shoo Too Rd.

Week 9, November 10: Living the Life of a Servant & Outreach
8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
We will meet in the Highland Campus KIA room for class and then we will leave to go to the Baton Rouge Dream Center.

Week 10, November 17: Blue Sushi Wrap Up & Party
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
We will be having our Blue Sushi Party at the Tanner’s house.
Call Kari @ HPC for directions!

753-2273 ext: 293

Vision Night

I just want to remind all of you that we are having Vision Night this Sunday, Oct 14th at 6:30 (pre-game is 6:00 p.m.). Pastor Dino & Delynn have been given a great vision for HPC's future that they would like to share with all of us. So, please make it a priority to come out and experience the great things God has in store for us, as we partner together to do everything we can to be "a Healing Place for a Hurting World."

Giving it your best...

We had a great class this past Sunday, where we learned about living a life of Excellence & Integrity. It is so important that we learn to give it our best in everything we do, & to do it with good attitudes (no complaining people).

Rebecca Monsour, who was apart of our first Blue Sushi class over 2 years ago, helped teach the lesson this week and did a fantistic job! She has taken what she learned and put it into practice at school, home and church! I am so proud of the young lady she is becoming...GO BECCA!!

Here's something we learned:

A person of Excellence and Integrity...
1. Goes the extra mile to always do what is right.
2. Keeps their word even when it is difficult.
3. Works hard in school & in life, and gives it their best each day.

4. Applies the best of themselves to every assignment and task.

5. Has an excellent spirit, which shows up in their quality of work & in their attitude.

Colossians 3:23-24 says...
"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is Jesus Christ you are serving."

Austin working on some homework questions...
Team Work-that's what it's all about (Abby & Taylor)...
These boys are concentrating hard on their work: CJ, Dakota, and Chrsitian... Chelsea is determined to get her pen to work... The two Destiny's are pretending to work so I can snap a picture! Haha...

Donuts Anyone??

We are going into our 5th week of class and having a blast. Every week we have different parents bring breakfast and here are some pictures of the kids loving some donuts...

Here's George about to enjoy his second donut of the morning... After class the kids decided to go back for seconds and thirds....

Aren't donuts the best? Donuts may not be the most nutritious food on the market but they sure taste good early in the morning when you have to be in class for over an hour. The sugar from the donuts gets these young bodies good and ready for the Word of God; that is really why we do what we do.

Kids these days can practically go anywhere to eat donuts, but we want to make sure they are "filling up" their hearts, minds, and souls with the love of Jesus Christ. Jesus has to be our number one source in life. Which reminds me of a story in the Bible (John 4:7-15) where Jesus is sitting at a drinking well with a Samaritian women and they begin to have a conversation, let's read the story together...

A woman, a Samaritan, came to draw water. Jesus said, "Would you give me a drink of water?" (His disciples had gone to the village to buy food for lunch.)

The Samaritan woman, taken aback, asked, "How come you, a Jew, are asking me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?" (Jews in those days wouldn't be caught dead talking to Samaritans.)

Jesus answered, "If you knew the generosity of God and who I am, you would be asking me for a drink, and I would give you fresh, living water."

The woman said, "Sir, you don't even have a bucket to draw with, and this well is deep. So how are you going to get this 'living water'? Are you a better man than our ancestor Jacob, who dug this well and drank from it, he and his sons and livestock, and passed it down to us?"

Jesus said, "Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again and again. Anyone who drinks the water I give will never thirst—not ever. The water I give will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life."

The woman said, "Sir, give me this water so I won't ever get thirsty, won't ever have to come back to this well again!"

Blue Sushi it's time that we stop wasting our energy trying to draw water from the wells of this world that leave us thristy. Let's commit to filling up our lives on Jesus Christ and ALL He has for us!

Live bold & stay strong!