My Secrets Video

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Do you have secrets? Do you know there’s hope in spite of your scars? Talk to a live coach tonight at hopenet360.com

See You At The Pole totals are coming in…

Here are the latest numbers from schools around Northeast Wisconsin. Got an update? Comment below with your school and total around the flagpole.

Bay Port High – ~35
Bayview Middle – 10
Green Bay West High – 12
Kimberly High – 90
Marinette High – 23
Neenah High – 32
Peshtigo High – 36
Preble High – 85
Coleman High – 30
Fall River High – 12
Marshfield High – 58
Marshfield Middle – 39
Case High – 21
Horlick High – 60
Park High – 10
Union Grove – 20
Sennett Middle – 19
LaFollett High – 20
Glacial Drumline Middle – 5
Jerstad Middle – 15
Oakfield – 16
Waupun – 32
Locania (Rosendale) – 50
Superior (Milw.) Middle – 15
Superior (Milw.) High – 45

We are a generation rising from the rubble to see God’s power move in the darkest of places! Don’t forget about the rally happening in Green Bay tonight at Spring Lake Church and the Fields of Faith event on October 12th!

See You At The Pole!

Do you ever feel alone on your campus? Do you sometimes feel you’re the only Christian around? Is it tough to reach out without standing out? But your heart is to reach your friends for Christ, so what do you do?

Well, what if you gathered with other Christians around the flagpole at your school on the morning of September 28 and laid this petition before God, “Father, may Your will be done on my campus as it is in heaven”?

What if all of you really meant that prayer? What if your youth pastor stood ready to help you make this a reality?

How would that change your school? How would that change the lives of your friends and fellow students?

See You at the Pole™ can provide a powerful connection between you and the other Christian students on your campus to pray and reach out all year long.

Let See You at the Pole™ be a kick-off for you to truly make a difference this year. Take your place in history with millions of other students on this Global Day of Student Prayer.

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Bring a friend or 3 and join us along with area youth groups from Northeast Wisconsin for the…

See You At The Pole Rally
[Facebook Event | download: poster | flier]

Spring Lake Church [map]
9/28 | 6:30-8:30pm
FREE EVENT! [T-shirts: $5] 

questions? call 800.979.9010 x113 or email info@hopenet360.com

Cutting: Bleeding the Pain Away

If you’re a cutter, you know what it’s like to feel the pain welling up inside you. It feels like any second you’re going to explode. In the past you may have cried, gotten angry, accused, complied, or blamed yourself, but now you cut. You’ve prayed, asking God to change things, to make you want to stop cutting, but you feel as if your prayers stopped at the ceiling. You don’t pray anymore.

Unlike the emotional pain, you control the physical pain created by cutting. You know it’s not normal to get relief by cutting, but it does bring release and nothing else seems to work. You reason, “Why would I give it up when nothing else works?” In your heart however, you know that this doesn’t work either. You are having to cut deeper and deeper, more and more frequently.

read on at biblicalcounselingcoalition.org

Join us as we Putt for Hope!

For immediate release.

De Pere, WI. HopeNet 360, a non-profit organization that hosts an internet crisis chatline for teens and young adults, is hosting a mini-golf fundraiser at Duck Creek Golf Center.

HopeNet 360′s “Putt For Hope” event runs Saturday, July 23rd at Duck Creek Golf Center in Green Bay. The event runs from 10am to 2pm and is open to the public. The “Putt For Hope” event provides a free round of 18-hole mini golf, a sloppy jo lunch with beverage, a raffle ticket and dunk tank ticket.

Participants have two options to choose from in order to participate in Putt For Hope. Option 1, or “Sponsored Golfers”, raise pledges and are eligible for grand prizes for the top three golfers in collected pledges. Any golfer who raises a minimum of $100 will receive a free T-shirt and CD, compliments of HopeNet 360 and Q90 FM. Option 2, or “Pay to Play” golfers, pay $20 per golfer at the event. A family gets in for $60. Additional family members pay $5 per golfer. “Pay to Play” golfers are not eligible for prizes aside from the raffle ticket he or she receives upon registering at the event.

You can find out more about how easy it is to sign up and find sponsors by checking out our website at www.hopenet360.com and clicking on ‘Putt for Hope’ or mail a request for more information to HopeNet 360, 1253 Scheuring Rd. Ste 2B De Pere, WI 54115.

HopeNet 360 is a 501 (c)3 charitable, educational organization that is connecting generations to save lives from destructive lifestyles and suicide. Powered by Groundwire.net, HopeNet 360 provides a safe, confidential place for young people to talk about deep issues with caring, trained adults (Coaches) 7 days a week, up to 18 hours a day. HopeNet 360 is connected to local community organizations to bring awareness to the public about the hidden troubling realities of today’s youth. This “network of hope” is established through positive local events, partnerships, and online resources geared to both youth and parents. HopeNet 360 also hosts seminars and events that encourage communication and understanding between parents and their teens.

For further information contact:

Nancy LeMay
Putt for Hope Coordinator
nancy@q90fm.com
800.979.9010 x108

A Message of Hope

This is a guest entry from David Wager.

For the objectified ladies of the world…
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. – Psalm 139:14-15

You were made to be loved.

I know there are times you feel like you were made to be used, but that is not the case. In fact, as you look at our wonderful creation and hear the voice of our Creator, you find that you were indeed made to be loved by Him and to love Him. As God crafted the world in which you live, He saw that it was good, for it was being crafted for you. God personally created you and personally create3d the world in which you live for you, as one of His many gifts to you.

Since we live in a world that is Godless, we often do not see how special life really is, and we feel used, cheap, abused, and hopeless. God, who started it all, had a plan. This plan involved loving, an you are the target of His love.

Groundwire Online Ministry Getting Attention

Teens today can be overwhelmed searching for meaning amidst depressing hopelessness, negative self-image, and the pressure to be perfect. To meet the needs of hurting teenagers across the country, Groundwire, a current and innovative outreach, has become a ministry where teens find comfort, guidance, and answers delivered through multi-media communication. Groundwire leverages media and technology to meet teens exactly where they are — viewing, listening, texting, or chatting — and to invite them to voice their questions and struggles so they can find answers in the message of the Gospel.

Q: What motivated you to create the ministry of Groundwire?

A window of opportunity now exists for us to bring the Gospel to a generation that is literally dying without it. Not with an invitation that can be rejected, but with an invasion of truth that interrupts the lives of people ages 15-25 through the media they use every day. Our unique strategy—to “go into all the world and preach the good news to all” by leveraging mainstream media and technology—is doable, cost-effective, and cutting edge. More importantly, it’s working.

keep reading at hmmagazine.com

Here’s a great article from HM Magazine on our brother ministry, Groundwire.