Transitions and Growing Up

This Fall is going to be a bit different for Capernaum in South County Young Life. This is the first semester with our Beyond Capernaum Club being part of Mountain View Church.

Our hope and dreams for this happening come back to what Young Life's whole goal is for every kid. Young Life is here to reach the furthest kid, build a relationship, share the Gospel with them, and help them get plugged into a church body.

This is something we have been trying to do for years with our able-bodied students and last year we were asked to try this with our older Capernaum friends. This Fall marks the first year of our friends getting plugged into a church body, allowing them to be able to grow in their faith beyond what Young Life can do for them, and lastly give them a place they can belong to FOREVER.

Please continue to pray with us for this transition. That this transition will truly be a blessing to not only our friends with special needs but the families involved.

For more information please click the link below

Refuge at Mountain View Church

-Dave

Capernaum American Idol Club

As part of out March Madness we do with the Capernaum clubs, we always end the month with a bang! American Idol Night is always a good time and the students LOVE performing. 

We started March Madness with a typical club. The 2nd week, we got to go see a movie about a blind man who learns to surf and overcome his disability. The 3rd week we went Ice Skating. And finally we ended the month with American Idol Club.

Here is the highlight reel.


A BIG shoutout to Mike Cannavo @ Akros Media

American Idol Night

-Dave

Beyond Capernaum Update

We've had a great Fall Semester at Beyond Young Life. Our awesome, committed leaders have set the tone for a welcoming, high-energy environment that fills up each Wednesday with our friends. We've enjoyed getting to know some new people coming from the Glenwood Home in Laguna Beach, as well as strengthening relationships with familiar friends.  During our club talks we've been studying the Heroes of the Faith, based on Hebrews 11. We've even been visited by our very own superheroes each week (Captain Mismatch, Ironing Man, and Supremely Fast Man) that have comically helped to reinforce the stories we've learned. One of the highlights of our clubs are the small group time that we have each week to discuss the club talk, share about our lives and pray for each other.

Some other highlights of the semester include our Halloween dance party and during Thanksgiving we rallied together to participate in Operation Christmas Child. We put together 16 boxes of toys and supplies that will be sent to children all over the world for Christmas. It was a blessing to serve others and know we are making a difference in the lives of others in Jesus' name! We're looking forward to our last gathering of the semester where we'll watch a Christmas movie while snuggled in our pajamas.

-Tristen Anderson

Beyond Capernaum Rocking

Our Capernaum Beyond group is rocking this year. Here are some pics from all the fun thats been happening over the last month. We have pictures from some of the games. The first shots are from a game were an Alka Selter tablet is on a leaders forehead and their teammate needs to make it disappear. The pics after that is from planning Charades. Our friends love this game. It actually gets everyone involved and is hilarious to watch. You'll also see some shots of leaders dresses up as various things, those are the skits leaders perform to help share the message and create more fun.

-Dave

Capernaum Beyond Hanging Out

Capernaum Beyond is having a great year. This past week they hung out at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour.

-Dave

Praying for the 2013-2014 School Year

Hello Friends

Please continue to be praying for Young Life as we move into this next school year. We have specific needs to be praying for here are just some of them.....

• More Leaders- Every one of our clubs can use more leaders
• Team Leaders- We have hopes for 2 new clubs this year but need the leadership
• Location for our Dana Club
• Financial Resources- It takes money to continue to grow Young Life
• More Prayer Warriors- We meet every Monday and pray, would you consider joining us?

Thanks for looking at our prayers for this next year and being willing to serve Young Life!!!

-Dave

All Area Leadership Camping Trip

In the beginning of April we had our leader camping trip! Most of us arrived in Santa Barbara on a Friday night, grabbed In n Out for dinner, and then went back to the site for s’mores and time around the campfire. We spent Saturday morning in prayer and then spent the rest of the day walking around the beach, exploring the surrounding areas, and relaxing at our campsites. Our Area Director, his wife and our committee chairs made us dinner that night – Chillie dogs and baked potatoes  - and we had a devotional around the fire. The rest of the night we hung out around the campfire, enjoying each other’s company. It was a great time to get away from the craziness that we have in our day-to-day lives, and spend time with the people we serve with.

-Rachel

Andrew Fordonski

This April, our area experienced one of the harder things that comes with working with people who have special needs: our friend Andrew Fordonski went to be with the Lord. He had a long battle with cancer and malfunctioning shunts, and he is finally living pain free with our Savior. The Capernaum Beyond group has been studying the Fruit of the Spirit. The week that Andrew passed we were talking about kindness and what that looks like. As an act of kindness to Fordonski family, our friends from club wrote letters to the grieving family. It is always nice to see our friends caring for others, and wonderful to see their kind hearts shine through when they know someone is in need of comfort.

-Rachel

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Help us make Young Life happen in the South County. Money from this will go directly back into our programs and help our students get to camp this summer.

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Please make sure all check are written to Northminster Presbyterian Church or NPC


Mail check to
Young Life- Dave Jansen
26542 Paseo Belardes
San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675

Big Air with the High Rollers

We took a week off of club for spring break, but luckily a few of our high roller friends agreed to hangout with us during their vacation time :) We were lucky enough to get 10 free passes to the Big Air trampoline park in El Toro, so we decided to make a night of it.  We started there and spent a fun filled hour jumping, playing dodgeball, slam dunking, and doing tricks in the foam pit.  By the end of our time limit we had worked up an appetite, so we headed over to in-n-out and ended the night by hanging out and eating burgers!

Jimbo catching some air! 

David and Cameron challenging each other to a jump contest (I'm pretty sure David won)

The whole crew from left to right: David, Me (Tayren), Brett, Caleb, Ashley, Cameron Burns, Cam Kee, and Jimbo.  Dream team!!! 

The boys... all jumped out.  And ready for some in-n-out.

-Tayren

American Idol Club

American Idol club is always the most anticipated club of the semester, and this year was no different.  Last Wednesday's club was a hit.  The performers, judges, and even the audience had a blast!! It is so fun to see our high roller friends take the stage and feel like a star. It is amazing to see their faces light up as the audience cheers them on and at the end of their performance receive a round of compliments from our leaders (impersonating the idol judges).  If you didn't make it to American Idol club this year, put it on your calendar for next year NOW and be there.  I promise you won't be disappointed!!!!

Sean warming up the vocals for his Justin Beiber performance

Teresa and her new friend Gabe enjoying the show

It was a packed house!

Josh performing Guns N' Roses.  A crowd favorite.

Nicki Minaj got NOTHING on Mark Fitzpatrick

-Tayren

March Madness: Carnival Night

One of the things we started doing during March Madness is Carnival Night. We had a number of amazing volunteers from all over Southern California come to help run the booths. Six small groups from Saddleback Church came to help, as well as a group of high school students from South Central Young Life, and a few volunteers from Azusa Pacific University. Sarah Field, a local photographer, volunteered her services for a Photo Booth that night which was a huge hit! Along with the overflow of volunteers, we had a number of people donate games to play for the evening and materials for other booths. We had a Wii dancing booth, Pie Your Leader booth, Bowling, Face Painting and so much more!  Check out our pictures of the booths and the awesome Photo Booth pictures

 Pie your leader

 Wii Dance Booth

Torre and David 

Dance Party! 

Photo Booth 

Photo Booth  

Photo Booth

-Rachel