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.

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Refuge at Mountain View Church

-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

Capernaum Weekend Winter Camp 2013

Last weekend we had the opportunity to join close to 300 students at Young Life's Oakbridge camp in the San Diego mountains. We took 15 Capernaum students and leaders to experience a weekend full of fun and learning about the free gift God gave each of us on Christmas. A few highlights of the weekend include messy games (kids got to throw shaving cream at their leaders, what's not to like about that?!), dance parties during club, and cabin time where we had the chance to debrief together as a group and hear what our students thought about the message that was shared at club. It always blows my mind to see how differently each of us (and our students) connect with God. Hearing what our students had to say about how much they know God loves them and what was on their hearts was a personal highlight of mine. It really was a privilege to spend the weekend with our Capernaum students at winter camp.

-Ashley Silver