Lost & Found Middle School

What did you read about today in the Bible?

This verse goes with our next lesson ☺️

Hey church family! Mark your calendars and make your plans to attend May 24th for our CFC Memorial Day cookout after service in the Family Life Center!
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We will provide the burgers and hotdogs! You bring the sides and desserts! 🤗🎉 🍔 🌭 🧁

We hope to see you all there! God is great!! 🙌🏻🙏😎🤗

It’s almost that time of year again!
Mark your calendars for our CFC Senior Sunday, set for May 17th @ 10:30!

We will be honoring our High School, College and Faith Bible Institute Graduates for their hard work, dedication, personal growth and achievements as they transition to a new chapter in life! 🎓🎉😎

Please be sure to stop by and check out their Senior tables in the foyer! Let’s shower them with a prayers, words of encouragement, cards, gifts and blessings! 🤗

May the Lord bless you and keep you!

High school seniors:🎓🏆

Presley Campbell
Elizabeth Winberry
Kathryn Crocker
Katlyn Lynch
Sarah Moody
Raeanna Vincent
Noah Wendel
Randy Eusebio
Jaxson Ray
Jacob Ray
Gage Staib
Aiden Huffman

College grads:🎓🏆

Livvie Campbell Alencar
Kade Carter
William Osborn

📣 Tomorrow @ Noon!! 📣

Hey CFC parents!! Please mark your calendars and make your plans to attend our parent meeting, set for Sunday, April 26th @ noon in the youth room!! 🤍🤍🤍 Parents of students from Nursery-12th grade are invited and are encouraged to attend!

We will discuss vision, calendar dates, summer events, curriculum, check in-check out protocols, update information and make connections!!

Hope to see you there! Thank you all!

Hey CFC parents!! Please mark your calendars and make your plans to attend our parent meeting, set for Sunday, April 26th @ noon in the youth room!! 🤍🤍🤍 Parents of students from Nursery-12th grade are invited and are encouraged to attend!

We will discuss vision, calendar dates, summer events, curriculum, check in-check out protocols, update information and make connections!!

Hope to see you there! Thank you all!

Anxiety.

The triumphal entry.

Jesus makes his way into Jerusalem with the disciples greeted with praise. “Hosanna in the highest!”, they shouted.

The Bible tells us that Jesus foretold of his death three times to His disciples. And all three times He told them to keep quiet about it. The Bible also tells us that He didn’t quite give them the full story or tell them exactly what was going on.

But Jesus knew. He knew there was something huge on the horizon.

So I imagine there was some anxiety going on.

Deep swallows, a little short of breath.

The butterflies rumbling, hands shaking, “here we go” type of feelings.

The inability to eat, desire to runaway from the world, anything to stop your mind from going in circle even just for few minutes.

Anxiety that He sat in unbeknownst to everyone else around Him. Even His twelve closest friends. Because He never told them the depths of what was actually going on.

He kept it to himself and I imagine it would’ve felt so heavy.

I imagine that every step that donkey, that had never been ridden before, took probably felt like tunnel vision.

And He rode into that week with people all around Him, but at the same time all alone.

Just Him and what I assume was at least a small level of anxiety.

Did He leave out the details to protect the disciples from what they would feel knowing their friend was about to suffer? So they wouldn’t worry? So they wouldn’t try to intervene?

Prophecy had to be fulfilled after all. The world needed a Savior.

No one could take the burden of the cross from Jesus and I don’t know that there’s much anyone could’ve said at that point to take the anxiety from Him either. I mean, how do you talk someone down from a crucifixion? C’mon now..

I just picture Him riding in on the donkey, looking around the city and going to bed that night – all possibly with crippling anxiety of what’s to come.

Anxiety is so real. And it’s hard.

It’s a struggle of mine, almost daily.

And my typical route is to keep it to myself.

Why burden those around me with it? Why cause them to worry about me or the situation?

Half the time there isn’t an actual situation, its all made up, that’s what anxiety does.

And even when there is a real situation, something is on the horizon or turmoil is happening, I still find myself keeping the depths of it from those I do confide in.

And sometimes, I even keep it from Jesus.

Not on purpose and not because “He knows anyways”, but because sometimes I get so lost in it that I forget to simply talk to Him about it.

I get caught in the circles my mind is traveling and the feeling that nobody will understand that I forget I have a friend that really does get it.

Maybe you’re walking into a new job, having struggles in a friendship, your spouse feels more like your enemy than your teammate.

Maybe it’s a recent diagnosis and a long journey ahead with that.

Maybe it’s the weight of longing for approval from others around you – your friends, your teammates, your parents, your coaches, your boss, your teachers, social media.

Sometimes it’s a long road, as I imagine the road into Jerusalem felt for Jesus that day.

But –

If anyone can sit with you in the anxiety that you’re feeling, it’s Jesus.

And not just because He’s Jesus, the Savior, but because He’s also been there too. He gets it on a human level.

Your anxiety isn’t too big for Jesus.

He’s there in solidarity during your anxiety and He’s there in your surrender of it.

He’s there for the REAL.

He can relate.

Written by Courtney Melton

Youth and Middle School Parents/Students

Just a reminder, no kids are allowed in the gym until 6:30pm and only with an adult present at that time. No one needs to be on the stage as well.

Thank you for your help on this!