School is over and our kiddos are moving up! Every child was celebrated and promoted as we paraded through the church wearing our graduation hats and waving our pom poms. Goodbye 2023/2024 school year!
2023 High School Winter Retreat
This retreat was full of God-filled moments. From the student-led talks and student-written devotionals to the family-style meals and copious amounts of free time - these students I know experienced something miraculous. From camping on top of a mountain, to early sunrise kayak adventures, and all the free time to fellowship with one another in this community. I hope that you will be able to hear the God-filled stories in the coming weeks! To help you get a better picture of what it was like check out the pictures above!
Blessing of the Backpacks 2022
C.A.S.A - Children and Students Altogether
YouthCUE 2022 DC
On Saturday, July 2 at the Washington DC National Cathedral, Charlotte Blais, Taleesa Fox and William Nabors raised their voices with over 100 student singers from churches around the country at the 25th Nation’s Capital Festival of Choirs Grand Concert. The Festival is produced by YouthCUE, whose stated purpose is to teach and instill the astonishing power of musical arts as a means of changing the world for the better. Sacred texts are often embedded in the choral music YouthCUE sings, and those passages, combined with beautifully crafted music, enrich the students’ experience, and will remain with them for the rest of their lives. To sing at the National Cathedral is a memory of a lifetime – the holiness, the beauty, the grandeur, the acoustics of the Cathedral are magnificent and our WHPC students took full advantage of the opportunity to ‘sing praises to God in his sanctuary’.
Blueprint Ministries San Antonio Trip
33 participants went to San Antonio a couple of weeks ago and partnered with Blueprint Ministries. Blueprint Ministries is an urban home repair ministry, which consists of painting, repairing siding, or roofing someone's home. The WHPC team split into 4 work groups, and each team repaired a roof. We all became familiar with terms like tar paper, roll roof, weather guard, and orange caps. Each team enjoyed getting to know the homeowners through conversation, fellowship, and prayer.
Promotion Sunday at WHPC
Promotion Sunday at WHPC was all cheers and laughter this Sunday in the gymnasium with our milestone transitions (rising 6th, 9th, and graduating seniors and their families). There was wisdom shared from key adults from the Music Ministry, Nursery, and Student Ministry, and working with the class of 2022 in those key areas. Following the adults, one youth from each grade level stood up and shared a word or phrase of wisdom to the grade below them. Key takeaways, you meet some pretty cool people at church and the food is better in Middle School then it was in Elementary! It was a grand time of fellowship and good food.
Community Signulls - Nerf War!
Every 1st Tuesday of the Month we have Community Signulls (Highschool Youth). This month was WHPC Nerf War!!! Visit us here to learn more: https://bit.ly/3sRzSMj
