This year’s d-now image was created by our very own Lizzy Gray, thank’s Lizzy for a great design! Do you have a great idea for our youth group? Shoot us an e-mail, we’d love to plug you into our program in any way we can, we want you to use your gifts and abilities to furthur the kingdom of God!

NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT, JULY 22 WE WILL BE ONCE AGAIN MEETING IN THE ATTIC OF DESOTO HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH.  Worship will kick off at our normal time of 6:15 PM, but you are always welcome to show up a little early or stay a little late to hang out with friends.  I’ve also heard a rumor that there will be an ICE CREAM PARTY on this night of celebration.

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Well it’s official the album, three years in the making, is finally avalible. This album is a way for you to share with your friends a family a taste of the worship experience in the attic every Wednesday night. You can pick up a copy on Wednesday nights at the kiosk for $10.  To order your copy of the album online at CDBaby click here www.cdbaby.com/cd/marclewis

Well the band is placing the final touches on the new worship album. We are so excited to be able to have a means of sharing our music with all you guys and gals. The album will be loaded with new material and a few tracks that you will be familiar with as well. In the coming weeks we’ll begin to share some of the music with you live on Wednesday nights. The tentative release date will be end of December early January we’ll let you know as soon as the company and our producer give us the final mixes and masters. More to come soon…

The Band

THE LOST SERIES HAS BEGUN!  Over the next two months we will be covering some major spiritual questions as we begin to change our worldview to God’s worldview.  Two of the major questions we will cover is:

“How do I know that God really exists?” & “What’s the deal with evolution?”

We will also be covering some different characteristics of God.  These are not easy questions with easy answers, but they are important questions for us to understand as believers so we can better share our faith with others.

FUND TOTAL (as of today): $829.64

On Wednesday, March 5 I spoke to the youth on the issue of money & giving. We are so blessed in America to have all that we have, but we are also responsible to be good stewards of what God has blessed us with. Dr. Donald S. Whitney says that “the question is not how much of my money am I going to give to God, but how much of God’s money am I going to keep for myself?”

It is no secret that ministry requires resources and resources requires money. A big need we have for our H2O worship service on Wednesday night is a new projector for the right side of the room. However, this will cost about $1,000 to purchase and install. I have challenged the youth to raise the money needed for the new projector, but we will not be “fund raising” this money. I have asked the youth to give out of their own pockets, even if that means sacrificing some things they love.

Every week we will be taking up an offering from the youth. If every student gave one dollar for just 10 weeks we could raise the money needed. Please pray for God’s leadership as we give and move forward with the student ministry here at DeSoto Hills Baptist Church

In Nicaragua, we’re not just building a house, we’re fulfilling a dream for families…the dream of owning a REAL HOME! With your support and in cooperation with Life Outreach International, our Homes for LIFE outreach will build 300 brand new homes for families and children living in extreme poverty.

These concrete homes are built to last a minimum of 25 years in the roughest weather conditions. To provide a home for only $3,600 means your gift goes a long way

• $30 will help provide shelter, water and food for 3 months
• $60 will help provide shelter, water and food for 6 months
• $120 will help provide a home for a family for an entire year
• $1200 can be combined with two other gifts to help sponsor a new home, water and food
• $3600 will help sponsor a new home for a family, provide a lifetime of clean water and food for a year

Facts About Nicaragua:

50% of the population in Nicaragua lives in overcrowded housing with 3 or more people per room. Most do not own their own houses.

83% of the homes are self-constructed and built from scrap and other discarded materials. 43% have earthen floors.

75% of the targeted population is malnourished. 27% of the children are underweight, comparable to areas in central and eastern Africa.

The dirt floors and unclean water create a cycle of deteriorating health. Ear, eye and skin infections are prevalent in children and many of the water sources are contaminated, leading to cholera, dysentery and, in some cases, death.

Good housing provides the first steps toward better health and a better family life. Project HOPE homes will shelter a family from the environment with concrete floors, solid walls and a reliable roof, providing a place of rest and safety.

Well we have a brand new (web exclusive) video series called “Stories”, in this series we’ll visit different staff and church members and hear their life story. This series especially excites me because I enjoy getting to know people and hearing interesting facts and bits about their lives. I decided to start with my own, as you will see in the video I have recently noticed the massive amounts of new faces within our church family and many of you may not know how I came to be a worship leader at Desoto Hills and I wanted to share that with you. I hope you enjoy, we’ll have more “Stories” coming soon…

Marc Lewis

D-Now was an incredible success, thanks to everyone who had a hand in making this very large event come together! Jenn and I wanted this retreat experience for our students more than anything, and you guys helped us pull it off. Students, you were worth every minute of hard work we put into this weekend and we look forward to all God has in store in the future. We will soon have pictures on the website and the highlight video. If you are interested in a picture cd we will have them available soon,

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Well tonight we kicked off our new fall series titled “The Real Life” Sammy Nuckolls was tonight’s guest speaker and he did an outstanding job! If you missed out tonight I hope you’ll catch us next week as we stuff our faces with (my favorite food group) ice creme. If you wanna know what happend here in the attic tonight then read on!

• Salvation Is Here
• Welcome
• You Will Reign
• Lawnboy Video (Bluefish)
• Holy Is The Lord
• Facedown
• Message Special Guest Sammy N.

     Students! We need you to sign up for D-Now 07 ASAP! We are currently in the process of ordering t-shirts, materials, food, etc. We need to get an idea of how many people to plan for. YOU WILL NOT WANT TO MISS THIS WEEKEND, God has incredible things in store, you will have the chance to meet new people and build new relationships not to mention and BLAST! Blow up games, JUNK FOOD, an awsome dinner banquet and much much more. Sign up today, cost is $30 (you don’t have to pay when you sign up) The fun cranks up Friday, August 3rd at 6:30 p.m. BE THERE!

If you attended “Boost” last night you now know of the terror that Beau experienced on our very own elevator of headphone death! As Mr. Moore entered the elevator heading downstairs to prepare for the service he did not follow basic elevator safety instructions. YOUR MUST COMPLETELY CLEAR THE ELEVATOR DOORS! The cable that hangs over his back got caught in the closing doors, as the elevator began it’s journey down, the headphone cable stayed right there on the third floor, snapping into a ZILLION pieces! As disaster struck and the band gathered round staring in dismay, do think Sir Moore of the Looxahoma fire department threw in the towel? NO! He stood there on the second floor laughing in the face of fear as he pulled out his trusty tool of choice, the ole box cutter, and plunged into his in-ear headphone emergency surgery. He took beau only 12 minutes to revive his trusty ole friend. Pictured here you will see Beau on the secod floor and (ironically) on the elevator ride back up reparing the headphones for the service. For those of you who may be wondering about their future, chances are they will be tossed for a new pair of monitors in the weeks to come, while they have done their job well in the past, chances are they will not be able to perform at the level our Looxahoma fire fighter expects of his gear.