South Plains Youth Ministry

Join us this Thursday July 3rd at 11:30am (to beat the lunch rush) at the Freebird’s on Slide and the loop over by Guitar Center. Come enjoy the biggest and best burritos that some of the world has never known and enjoy even better company. Bring your own money and transportation as well as ‘your current favorite jelly flavor’… What is the Thursday Lunch Crew??? Click Here to find out more! 

Join us this Wednesday night as Rob Anderson will be our guest speaker for ONE. Rob is an administrator at Texas Tech University, who works with student scholarships. Rob and his wife Jana have been part of the South Plains family for 4 years now. Formerly Rob served as a youth minister and a small groups minister before moving to Lubbock. Rob was key in developing and implementing our community groups at South Plains. He is a very gifted and I am confident you will leave class challenged!

Rob, lounging…

Congratulations to Connor Wheeler! He was the most recent winner of i-SPY. Now a new game is afoot and it’s a little more difficult so search hard. If you need a hint…you may be able to coax one out your Youth Ministers…but only if you’re desperate.

Join us for the next Share Him project this summer. Meet at the church building at 9am Tuesday July 1st. We’ll load up and head to East Rice st. to continue working on a house that got a huge makeover during The BLITZ. Bring a sack lunch and clothes you can get dirty in. Plan on being finished and back at the church building by 2pm. For more details about Share Him projects, Click Here!

Left–Mickey Okafor

Center–David Neill

Right–Lonnie Edwards

David Neill, Texas Tech defensive lineman, will be our guest speaker this Wednesday night during our One series. David, a Flower Mound, TX native, is one of the most talented defensive lineman recruits during the Leach era at Texas Tech. More impressive about Neill is his deep faith in Christ which is evident to all those around him. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to spend time with David!

Join us for the next Share Him project this summer. Meet at the church building at 9am Tuesday June 24th. We’ll load up and head to Vandelia Church of Christ to involve ourselves with the neighborhood kids for a 3-day VBS. That’s right, a 3-day VBS meaning we would love for you to show up at the building by 10am Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to come be a part of the activities at Vandelia. We will be serving lunch to them and lunch will be provided for you. Plan on being finished by 2pm and back at the bulding by 2:30pm each day. There is a preparation day Monday June 23rd from 12pm - 2pm where we will be coming up with class ideas and activities to do throughout the week. Lunch will be provided. For more details about Share Him projects, Click Here!

By Rachel Wiseman

On Tuesday morning, everyone met up at the church building and scrambled into the people mover. We drove towards Trent’s house so he could pick up something and then we headed in the direction of the children’s home of Lubbock. As we pulled into the Children’s home, the bus moved toward a few car washing supplies and we stopped in front of them. After we waited in the bus for a little bit, Matt started waving his hands and we slowly got out of the bus. A truck was already parked there beside the car wash stuff and we then started washing it. After some soapy water was scrubbed all over the pick up, we rinsed and dried it then quite a few more cars pulled in and that’s where our work began. We scrubbed all the water on the cars and moved onto a new one after finishing the one we had been working on. The teens all worked on for three hours, washing each car that drove up. After 20 or so cars, we had finished washing a lot of the Children’s Home people’s cars. We were ready for lunch! We got into the bus and ate our lunches. After finishing our sack lunches, we stopped at a park close to Anna Beth’s house and got out and some sat down on the playground, other people had obstacle course races with Trent and then a few called random people on Tanner’s phone because they had nothing else to do. After being on the playground for about half an hour, Mike Cabe took a quick group picture of all the teens before heading over to Anna Beth’s house to drop her off so she could go to her dentist appointment at 1:30. After leaving her house, we headed back to the church building so we could go home to rest and glorify God in what other ways we found to. We had a good time washing cars outside of the Children’s home. Don’t miss the next Share Him on Tuesday from 9-2 for a fun, adventurous time to serve others!

Join us this Thursday June 19th at 11:30am (to beat the lunch rush) at the Cici’s on Slide across from the mall. Come dine upon the cheesiest and sauciest of Lubbock’s finest pizza buffet and enjoy even better company. Bring your own money and transportation as well as a ’thought for the day’… What is the Thursday Lunch Crew??? Click Here to find out more! 

Our Wednesday night “One” speaker for June 18 will be James Rettman. James is an elder here at South Plains. Many of you grew very close to James while serving on last years mission trip to Mexico. James and his wife Joy are incredible people with a contagious passion for Christ. James deeply cares for our teens and is involved in many of their lives.

To find out more about One click here.

James Rettman at Casa de la Esperanza in 2007