Read It!! The Shack by William P. Young

I normally would not pay $14.99 for a paperback book, especially one with less than 300 pages. The day I bought this book was the best money I spent that day.

If I start giving a synopsis of the story I'll just ruin it; I'm like those people you go to a movie with and they tell you all the details of each scene before you get a chance to see it for yourself. So, I'll just behave myself and highly recommend that everyone read it.

Well...I will say this, I'm very sensitive to stories involving children. This story can be heart wrenching , but read it anyway. I hope that when you are done that you will sit quietly and think about your relationship with God. This book does not reveal any truths at all, this is a work of fiction - keep that in mind. What this book did for me was leave me wanting to run to God, jump up in His lap and give Him the biggest hug imaginable. Even a work of fiction can bring glory to God, see for yourself.

-Phoebe C. England

Bible Bowl Teams Forming Now!

Northside Christian Church is excited to announce the beginning of a new Bible Bowl season. Each Sunday night at 6:00PM students in grades 5-12 meet to study selected sections of scripture and to practice using the buzzer system and prepared practice questions. These practice sessions prepare us to go and compete monthly against other churches in our district. From October - May monthly Round Robins will be held, these larger competitions prepare the students to compete at the National Bible Bowl, this year to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana July 3-7. Throughout the year we will do little things to raise the money needed to offset travel expenses.

Bible Bowl is more than just a Bible Trivia game. On the National Level students compete for scholarship money to sponsoring Christian Colleges. The great thing is any team can go to the National Bible Bowl, there is no pre-qualifying.

While we invite the 5th graders to practice with us they are actually ineligible to compete until 6th grades. A junior Bible Bowl for grades 3-5 is available at the National Bible Bowl, however, Georgia is still working on organizing this junior level. Here at Northside we ask our 5th graders to be our "Assistant Coaching Team" so that they are prepared for competition when they enter 6th grade.

We invite you to come and see one of our practice sessions, look over the material we are studying and see what all the excitement is about.