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The Middle School years are a pretty remarkable time of life.  Everything surrounding these students suggests that the world is getting bigger, moving faster, and probably crazier than they could ever have imagined. It’s exciting, and potentially a little scary.

This is where Club JV comes in. Club JV is part of Parkside’s ministry to middle school students in grades 6-8. Club JV meets on Tuesdays at the Warehouse.  Every Tuesday is an opportunity for fun and growth as we spend time building relationships, playing games, worshiping God, and studying the Bible.

We're about to begin a new year of youth ministry at PKS. We're looking for new leaders to join our ranks this year to make this a great year for our students! We asked AMT members Kurt and Ashley Ingersoll to summarize their experience with high school youth ministry.

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After the publication of The Reason for God, Newsweek hailed Tim Keller as "a C.S. Lewis for the twenty-first century." That is a lofty comparison and one I'm sure must make Keller quite uncomfortable. Yet at some level the comparisons are becoming undeniable. Keller's ability to communicate to believers and unbelievers alike and to do so on an intellectual level clearly parallels that of Lewis. Where Keller's first book offered an explanation as to why we should believe in God, his second, The Prodigal God, focuses on Jesus' best-known parable (and potentially the best-known and most-loved story of all-time) to challenge both believers and skeptics.

In May, Delhi Bible Institute's executive director, Isaac Shaw, visited Parkside as an attendee of the 2010 Basics Conference. Pastor Shaw sat down with Pastor Scott Kennedy to share his testimony, describe the particular religious and economic challenges in India, and to encourage listeners by sharing the story of the remarkable transformation of an arms dealer turned prolific church planter for DBI.

Parkside will have a booth at the Solon Home Days festival July 22-25.

With the help of our Vacaction Bible School (VBS) Director Elizabeth Heisey, we began work on VBS in January.  Our VBS leadership team joined the efforts in March as music was selected, craft supplies were ordered, and volunteers were placed to meet the needs of hundreds of staff spots.  In April, we began registering what would turn out to be almost 800 children.  In May, we spent hours training our small group leaders and teachers in what they would need to know to help the children understand the truths of Scripture we would be teaching from Genesis. 

Pictures from Vacation Bible School are now up on flickr. You can check them out by clicking here>

As a pastor and professor of theology, Dr. Sinclair Ferguson has probably encountered hundreds of un-amazed Christians in his classes and congregations. In fact, myriads of Christian men and women do not find the grace of God amazing. Do you? Or have you become accustomed to it?

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We recently welcomed a group of folks into membership at PKS.