Posted by: Matt Blackwell

When: Wednesday Nights 7pm

What: ECHO Summer Bible Study

Where: 5 Pleasant Cove, Austin, TX

Posted by: Deborah Routt

Join us for Echo in the courtyard of FEFC this Sunday, April 12 at 11am.

Posted by: Deborah Routt

Please start praying about how you might participate as part of Echo’s leadership team for the 2009-2010 school year. There are a variety of ways to serve within Echo including being a part of the worship team, prayer team, outreach, welcome & follow-up, community events, media, ISM or being a small group leader.

Download an application here
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Completed applications are due on April 19.

Leadership interview will be held on campus April 27-29. (Be ready to sign up for an interview time slot when you turn in your application on April 19).

Posted by: Matt Blackwell

Join the 9:15 service

A group of us will also be going to the Impact, the Young Adults class at 11:00am in room CL 105 (first floor of the main building).

Posted by: Deborah Routt

Nagishot, Sudan Mission Project
May 24-June 3, 2009

If you are interested in this trip, please fill out an application and return it to Matt ASAP.

Echo Summer Project Application: Sudan

Peer Reference Form
Parent/ Guardian Advice Form
Adult Reference Form (you’ll need 2 of these)

March 8 - Sudan informational meeting for anyone who is planning on going on Echo’s Summer Mission Project or is just interested and wants to learn more about this opportunity.

Click here to apply for an expedited passport or renew your passport

Posted by: Deborah Routt

SPRING BREAK
Galveston, TX
Sunday, March 15 - Friday, March 20

Final balance is due Sunday, February 22.

($275 if registered by 2/15, $300 if registered after)

REGISTER HERE!

Posted by: Matt Blackwell

Some colleges are famed for their academics, some for their location and some, well, are legends for their party scene. The Princeton Review’s survey of 120,000 college students for “The Best 368 Colleges: 2009 Edition” revealed the top 10 party schools in the nation. Read excerpts from the students’ responses to the survey below.

8. The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas)
“It is impossible to be bored [at Austin]. There is always something to do,” says a junior. Sororities and fraternities constitute the bulk of a lot of students’ social lives, and “alcohol accompanies all sporting events, parties, and weekends in general.” Whether you head downtown to the famous Sixth Street for the bar scene, tailgate on Game Day, or head to a campus blowout, “there’s constantly someone somewhere having a good time.”

Read the entire article at http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Departments/College/?article=Top10PartySchools09

Posted by: Matt Blackwell

Revelation chapter one uses the terms Alpha and Omega to describe Jesus. What is the significance of this?
What does it mean that Jesus is Alpha? The Alpha is the 1st, the beginning. Jesus is uncreated, nothing precedes him, he is not the Beta and the Omega. That means that all things start with him, and that means that you start with him. You don’t start defining yourself with yourself, you start discovering yourself when you start with the beginning, namely Jesus. What is your Alpha point? Are you an accidental collection of atoms or was their a loving creator that knitted you together in your mothers womb? Knowing where you came from (your alpha point) is the only way to be able to know who you are and the reason for your existence.

But Jesus is also the Omega – the Last. If he created the universe than it is all oriented toward him. All of history is rushing headfirst into Christ. Everything that is exists for His glory. He is the creator of matter and life and the judge of matter and life. He is the starting block and the finish line, the kickoff and the final whistle. Jesus is your omega point. There are 2 ways to approach God. 1) you make him the end & everything else the means or 2) you make him the means and everything else the end. The Omega point is the direction that your life is moving toward. You may think that your omega point is graduation or getting a good job, or finding a spouse. Much of our religious experience is making God a means of getting us to our ends, our omega points. Instead Christianity reorganizes life to say that God is the omega point and all of our life exists as a means to get us to him. So we see graduation and getting a job and finding a spouse as a means to getting us to God. We don’t view God as the genie that gets us what we want, we see God as the great purpose of our life. We don’t serve God to get things we serve God to get God.

Posted by: Deborah Routt

SPRING BREAK

Sunday, March 15 - Friday, March 20
Cost: $275
Price goes up to $300 after February 15

On September 13, 2008, Hurricane Ike made landfall over Galveston causing extensive damage and widespread coastal flooding. The storm took the lives of at least 20 people in the Galveston region. An estimated 100,000 homes had been flooded, and numerous boats washed ashore. Galveston was declared uninhabitable…

But the Church has responded by rebuilding homes and rebuilding lives in the region. This March ECHO will be joining with other churches to lend a hand to the reconstruction effort. We will be gutting flooded houses, and constructing new homes for people.

Total Cost: $275 (includes lodging, food, transportation, t-shirt)

$50 non-refundable deposit required to register.

Final balance is due Sunday, February 22.

Space is limited.

SIGN UP by 2/22!

Posted by: Deborah Routt

This Sunday, February 1
5:00-9:00PM
Nick Taylor’s Place
5701 S MoPac #1337
(Please bring a snack or dessert to share)

Directions to Nick’s house:
If you are coming from campus, go south on Mo Pac all the way down to William Cannon. Exit William Cannon and U-turn. My apartment complex will be on the right (Its really the only thing right there). When you get into the complex, there will be a little building on the left that has two archways. Take the right archway and at the end of the building will be keypad. Put in 5700 and the gate will open. Go straight until you must go right, then immediately turn left. Continue all the way down and my building is the green roofed, #13.

Contact Nick Taylor for more info (512) 569-7814.