4/23/20 Weekly Update

4/23/2020

Hello! Hope everyone is healthy, and doing well in your house! There is much to share with you today in our update so I pray you'll stick it out to the end! Also, due to us not being together as we typically are I'm including our students in these weekly updates. May be good to continue to do that moving forward.

Senior Highlight

The class of 2020 may have the cool year to graduate (2020) but it sure hasn't been "too cool" to them. They are missing some things we often take for granted or possibly even wished we didn't have to endure. I believe we're all realizing just how special these special moments really are, especially our seniors/parents. In an effort to brighten their day and honor them we will be highlighting a few of our seniors each Wednesday on The Rock SM Live. To do this we need your help.

We lean on you as parents and students to provide details for the yearly Sunday Graduate Recognition Service and we are asking for that again for this Wednesday highlight. So, if you have a senior you'd like to see highlighted on Wednesday nights, please send us a photo and a have them answer a few questions. WE HAVE A FORM ESPECIALLY FOR THIS HIGHLIGHT.

You can email or return the form to Chris@roopvilleroad.org

Summer Plans

We are currently praying through and discussing our summer plans such as Splash, Summer Camp, any weekly outings as well as a few mission trips. Unfortunately there are so many variables at play and uncertainties still looming. Please pray with us as we consider the options and ultimately seek to do what is both safe and God honoring. We'll do our best to keep you as informed as possible. Thanks for your patience during this process!

Devotions

For the last several weeks we have provided devotions on our website to help bridge the gap between us during this time. Those are available HERE.

Also, we're still looking for more leaders to jump in and help us with the writing. Please respond to Andrew as soon as possible.

Q&A

The Rock SM and 831 have combined for a Q&A session... What are your questions? What's something that confuses you, you have a hard time grasping? Scripture? Life? Post it HERE! We'll drop it Wednesday after the Rock!

NEEDED: Students & Leaders

Last night we were able to incorporate videos into our service. This opens up some doors to have student/leader participation during the Rock Sm Live. We are excited about this but need help in order to make it happen! All of this to hopefully make our online experience feel as much like home as possible. Here's where and how you can help us as students/leaders.

"Welcome to the Rock" Shout outs - Simple. Record yourself saying "Welcome to The Rock" and then send it to us.
Bible reading & Prayer - Read a passage of your choice or we can give you a passage. Read it and then pray for our time together in the Word.
Get in the Hot Seat - We'll be sharing more about this but our plan is to invite a student or leader to take seat in the hot seat and answer questions on the fly. Just a way for us to have some fun prior in the beginning...like we typically do in The Rock.
Leader Catch-up on Zoom - We'll need some leaders to play catch-up with me and Andrew on Zoom. We'll record it, edit it, and play it on Wednesday night. We want our leaders to take a part in the service. This would be you catching up with the students prior to The Rock on Wednesday.
Join us for the Lunch Hang on Thursday at Noon - Each Thursday we get together on Zoom and simply hang out. We had a great time today and want to do something special for a service. So join us next week and be a part of it with us!
Devotions from Leaders - Mentioned above
LASTLY - There are many things we have learned and refined during this season, one of them is our communication. In an effort to best stay in touch with your student we need your help. If you could ensure we have their cellphone number and carrier as well as their email we would greatly appreciate it. This will allow them to be informed moving forward. This goes for you as parents as well. To help us keep track of this, let us know if your student is NOT receiving emails and texts weekly from us especially if they desire to receive those things.

The Rock SM Live

Last night we kicked off a new series, Jesus & People. This series will follow Jesus and various interactions he had with various types of people. Through this we will see the greatest example of how we too can deal with the bully, the forgotten, those who aren't like us, and even ourselves. I'm so looking forward to learning from The Master.

We had some audio issues last night but please know we stayed late, until those were fixed. Hopefully this week will be much better from that standpoint. BUT, we know technology can cause many obstacles.

We've included the video from last night below. Please take some time to watch it, watch it again and then share with others! As you watch it, go ahead and subscribe to the channel. We'll be live on both Youtube and Facebook Live each Wednesday until we're able to be together again. Instagram TV will have the video a day later.

As always, we love you and miss you all terribly!
We can't wait to be together again but in the meantime we'll thank God for the ways He allows us to be together, even when we can't be together.

Chris/Andrew

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