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I Thank My God For You

Are you attending Next 2010? If so, we encourage you to pray for yourself and your friends!

While you are praying, don’t forget to pray for the countless volunteers that are serving you, so you can encounter God. To help fuel your prayers, check out this blog post…

I Thank My God For You (Praying For/Thanking the NEXT Team)

Why Spend The Time & Money?

I don’t know about you, but the older I get the more I realize that money just doesn’t grow on trees. And we all know that time is money. Taking time off for a conference can be a huge step of faith. Spending a couple hundred dollars can seem like millions. Why go? Especially when you can just download the messages from the comfort of your home. I recently came across this blog post and thought it may encourage you, get you excited about the conference, and answer some of those “Why” questions…

If you are like me, each year as you get ready to type your credit card code to sign up for NEXT; try to walk through the months of the year to figure out what month “9” is so you don’t mess up the expiration date; you eventually ask yourself this question “Why am I going to NEXT? Why spend the time? Why spend the money?”
For me it isn’t the thrill of packing in a hotel room with three other guys. It isn’t the rush of joy that I get seeing a Ninja in the morning with a fresh cup of coffee or the head ache I acquire from staying up until all hours of the night. Or the joys of trying to find your way to your Family Group in the morning. All those things are great don’t get me wrong…. They make awesome memories and God uses memories to build friendships so lets keep doing it!
But I keep coming back to NEXT year after year because I encounter the living God. I encounter God through the messages that cut through my sinful soul and strengthen me with truth; I encounter God in those sweet conversations late at night with a brother or sister in Christ; I encounter God through genuine worship to God through both singing and applying God’s word to my life. I walk away each year reminded, my God is real, he sent his son to redeem me and he is worthy of all praise I can give him.
I don’t know where you are at… maybe you punching in that credit card number just because you have done it year after year. Or maybe you have never been to NEXT, you don’t know anyone and it seems like a huge jump into the unknown. Or maybe you are college student and you have discovered money doesn’t grow on trees. If I could just urge you do what you can to make it to NEXT ’10….
I don’t know what God has in store for you, but I know this…. God will be there and you will encounter him…. And when Christians encounter God, wow big things happen! So sign up and maybe we will run into each other getting coffee from a Ninja.
Oh and by the way, September is the 9th month in the year….

Post taken from Next Blog: Why Spend The Time? Why Spend The Money?

I’m Too Poor To Attend

I want to go to Next ‘10, but I don’t have the finances. Times are tight and you can only budget so much. The Staff at Next know that it can be hard to find the dough to attend Next. So, they have come up with a couple of posts on the Next blog. Hopefully, it will give you some ideas and make finding cash a little easier.

You can find the link to their first post below. Check their blog later this week for more posts on practical fundraising.

I’m Too Poor To Attend (Fundraising Ideas) by Christopher Cooke

Next Deadline

Are you planning on traveling to Baltimore and rooming with us? If so, we need to know soon...very soon. Many details need to be finalized. These details cannot move forward until we hear from you. Please let us know by March 30th (yes or no).

Please contact Jessica at, 864.346.2361 or jessica[at]sgcsc.org.

Costs:
Registration - $150 - www.thisisnext.org
Hotel - $110 (Four people to a room).
Bus - $125

Please note: Registration increases on April 1st.

Next Promo Video

Next 2010 Promotional Video from Sovereign Grace Ministries on Vimeo.

Go to www.thisisnext.org to find out more about Next 2010!

Bows, Gingerbread, & 2010

5th Annual Toys R Us Gift Wrap!

This Saturday

9am – 3pm

Toys R Us (Haywood Rd.)

Wear a red shirt and Santa hat. We’ll see you there!

2nd Annual Gingerbread Contest (and Christmas Party too)

This Saturday evening

6pm – 9pm

Bring $5 & a wrapped gift for the gift exchange.

Registration Is Open!!!

Registration for the Next 2010 conference is open. Join us as we worship the Savior, listen to some great speakers, fellowship, and make a lot of memories.

Register for Next HERE.

Next Is Back!

The Next Website & Blog are up and running. What is Next? It’s a conference that we are very excited about. For more information, click the links below…

Next 2010

Next Blog

Promote Next on your blog or website…

Calling All NEXT Memories

Do you have a memory from Next 2009? The Next Staff wants to hear it! And they want to share it with others.

If you attended Next 2009, you know that there’s no substitute for being there. How did God meet you? Was it worshiping passionately (and loudly), listening to Joshua Harris or C.J. Mahaney preach about Christ, talking at midnight over coffee, or praying in the morning with your community group (and more coffee)? If you had a couple of sentences to broadcast to the world, what would you say?

Let Next be your megaphone. Send two or three sentences to next[at]sovgracemin[dot]org. They  may even use them in announcing Next 2010 (but they’ll ask permission first).

They’ll send more info about Next 2010 over Thanksgiving. In the meantime, mark May 28–31 in your planner, iPhone, huge wall calendar, iCal, back of an envelope, or whatever you use to remember stuff.

Next Worship LIVE

The Next Worship Album is available for download. You can download it HERE. The cost is $5! Here is the song line-up:

God Over All (Devon Kauflin)
His Name is Jesus (All Hail the Power) (Judah Groveman)
He Is Jesus (Stephen Altrogge)
Praise the Lord (Doug Plank)
By This We Know Love (Judah Groveman)
All I Have (Jordan Kauflin)
Jesus Thank You (Pat Sczebel)
I Need You (Kristian Stanfill/Eddie Kirkland)
The Name above All Names (Judah Groveman)
What a Savior (Devon Kauflin)
I Will Glory in My Redeemer (Steve & Vikki Cook)
Blessed Is the One (Doug Plank)
Oh the Deep, Deep Love (Bob Kauflin)

What Was The Name...

It's been a month...Next memories are fading. You really wished you would have purchased that book, but you can't remember the title. A specific worship song blessed your soul, what was the title? A quote stood out in a message, but you couldn't jot the whole thing down.
Wouldn't it be nice if that information was online?

The Next team has come to the rescue. All of this information (and much more) has been posted on the Next website. To make things easier for you, we have included some links below. Enjoy!

Mp3's of conference messages

Bookstore List

Worship Line-up

Application Questions

Message Notes

NEXT MP3s

NEXT 2009 messages are available for download. We recommend that you download and listen to them. They are excellent!

Download HERE.

 

You can also view hundreds of pics from the conference. Don’t forget to look for your friends. SGC folks are in quite a few! NEXT 09 Pics

No Care Group/NEXT Travel Info

There will be NO CARE GROUP this Friday. This will give those attending the NEXT conference an opportunity to pack and go to bed early.

For those of you attending NEXT, a couple of reminders:

• Bus is leaving the Marriott (back parking lot) at 5:30am. That means that you’ll need to get there a little before, so we can pray and load up the luggage.
• Don’t forget to bring quarters! We will have a bunch of chilled sodas on the bus. (Dr. Pepper, Diet Dr. Pepper, Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Sprite, Mountain Dew, and Juice Boxes)
• Please have someone BRING YOU! If you have a friend or parent that can drive you to the Marriott, please do so!!! We can only park a couple cars in the Marriott parking lot. So, the more people that can carpool and be brought by someone else, the better! Thanks for serving the Marriott in this way.
• If you have not given Jessica $$$, please put it in the mail…(need the address? jessica[at]sgcsc.org). Just address it to the church and to Jessica's attention.
• Don’t forget, everyone will be checking themselves into the Hilton. Just give your name at the front desk.


Conference Details:

Registration Check-in is from 3pm – 8pm.
Bookstore will be open early this year! It will be open on Saturday from 3pm – 8pm.
First session begins at 7:45pm, doors open at 7:15pm. Get to doors early if you want a good seat!

What should I bring? Clothes are helpful. A toothbrush... But, seriously, bring shoes for walking (you’ll be doing a lot of standing/walking), Bible, Notebook, Pen. Just the usual things for a weekend conference. Oh and bring cash for coffee…you’ll need it. ;)

Next $$$

We need you!

Yes, you. This Sunday (May 17th) is the deadline for the NEXT hotel & bus payments. If you haven't paid the church, please bring your payment on Sunday . (Please give NEXT payments to Jessica.) If you are paying by check, please make the check out to Sovereign Grace Church and write NEXT in the memo. If you're paying cash, please put it in an envelope and mark the envelope with, yep you guessed it, NEXT. Thank you!!!

NEXT Registration, Closes May 10th

Everyone knows one. Everyone has a friend that does “it”. But, no one wants to admit that they procrastinate too. Who me?

Since we know that you don’t procrastinate, this is a reminder for your friend, please make sure you remind them…

Or maybe your finances have been tight and you’re waiting for your tax return…

Whatever the case may be, DON’T FORGET!!! Registration for the NEXT conference closes on May 10th. That’s right, your last chance to register is fast approaching. So, don’t delay, register today…

NEXT Registration

Registration INCREASES

Have you been planning on registering for Next 09, but more important things have occupied your time (like school, care group, sorting your sock drawer…). Take 5 minutes and do it TODAY!!! Registration increases tomorrow (12am, April 1st). Don’t delay, register today.

http://www.thisisnext.org/2009-conference#register 

Not sure if you’re going? Want to go, but cannot afford it? Contact Matt R. or e-mail us at: jessica[at]sgcsc.org.

THIS IS NEXT

Fundraising 101

Let’s face it, singles just do not have money stashed away in a sock drawer. It can be tough to make ends meet. And when it comes to a conference, is your first thought, “And where do you expect me to get money for this?”

Well the creative genius’ on the Next Blog have read your mind. They are posting a series on fundraising ideas and ways to make your hard earned cash stretch. So, don’t waste time. Stop whatever you are doing and check out these creative ideas!

Fundraising Ideas – Round 1

Fundraising From Your Living Room

Still short cash? Talk to Matt R.  

30 hours

Are you looking for some theologically rich sermons to download? Well, look no further! thisisnext.org has just released a Resources page. On it you’ll find no less than 36 messages from the New Attitude conferences. That’s somewhere over 30 hours of sermons from men like John Piper, Al Mohler, Mark Dever, Mike Bullmore, Bruce Ware, Bob Kauflin, C.J. Mahaney, Wayne Grudem, and Joshua Harris.

What are you waiting for? Start downloading!!!

http://www.thisisnext.org/resources

No Care Group This Week

Don’t forget, there is no care group this week (Friday, February 6th).

Stop by the Next Promo Table this Sunday…pick-up a poster, sticker, and “bookmark”.