Youth Ministry: Grades 6-12
Weekly Schedule
Sunday Morning 9:00 Tessera Worship Service 9:45 Sunday School Youth I (gr. 6-8) Youth II (gr. 9-12) 11:00 Worship Sunday Night 5:30 Youth Handbells 6:15 Youth Choir 7:00 Youth Supper & Club Jesús	Wednesday Night 5:30 Churchwide Supper 6:30 Wednesday Night Activities The youth room will be open for homework, hanging out and coming to Jesus from 6 - 8 pm on Wednesday evenings.
photos: passport 2009 | beach trip 2010
The Details Recent Newsletters Que Pasa (Youth Newsletter): You Should Read This (Youth Parent Newsletter): March 2010, January 2010 SUMMER TRIP TO HUNGARY, 2011: In 2011, the youth will be spending a week of the Summer in Hungary with Ralph and Tammy Stocks helping to lead a summer camp with children in their village. For ten days, with Ralph and Tammy as our guide, the youth will: lead the camp teaching about the love of God and Jesus through story, songs and crafts; meet with Gypsy teenagers and hear their stories; learn about Ralph and Tammy's ministry and meet with other ministers in the villages, and; learn more about the challenges faced by the Gypsy people as a result of discrimination and fear. We will also spend a few days touring the city of Budapest and eating wonderful Hungarian food. If your youth is interested in going on this trip, please contact Lin Bunce. Youth Handbells: The Youth Handbell choir has a new director, Susan Finley. The youth handbell choir helps lead music during the December Love Feast, and occassionally participates in the 11:00 am service. Youth handbells meets at 5:30 pm on Sunday nights. JUBILEE: JUBILEE is the name of our youth choir. This choir is led by Rydell Harrison, our Minister of Music here at College Park. This group often participates in leading music during the Tessera service. JUBILEE meets at 6:15 pm on Sunday nights. Club Jesús: Club Jesús is for youth, grades 6-12. The group meets on Sunday nights, and begins with a 7:00 pm group supper provided by the parents of our youth members. Activities following supper include spirituality and worship, games, discussions, community outreach or group outings. Club Jesús is an open and safe place where youth can explore together the difficult questions of life, faith and God. UpComing Events: Youth Serving at Greensboro Urban Ministry, March 21 - Sunday, March 21 Club Jesús will be serving at G.U.M. You need to be at the church by 5:30 pm for dinner. We will leave the church at 6:15 pm and will return at 8:00 pm. Brunswick Stew Fundraiser, April 10 – Barry Pillow has volunteered to help the youth raise money for the 2011 Hungary trip by selling some of his infamous brunswisck stew. We will be selling the stew by the pint on April 10 here at the church. We will also be helping Barry to make the stew on Friday night, April 9. Youth Sunday, May 2 – The Youth Sunday worship Sunday is created and led by our youth, and is an opportunity for our Senior youth to share their own faith story and how College Park has helped to nurture that. The Rehearsal for Youth Sunday is May 1, 10 am – 1 pm, and will include lunch. Used Book Sale, May 15 – On Saturday, May 15 we will have a used book sale to help raise money for our trip to Hungary. The sale will be open from 7 am – 1 pm. Youth Camping Trip, May 21 – 23 – Lee Stocks will be leading a two-night hiking trip this coming Spring, May 21 – 23. Youth Summer Mission Trip, July 24 – 31 – This summer the youth will be going to Colcord, WV to help families in the community who need but cannot afford home repairs (restoring roofs, rebuilding porches, repairing walls and ceilings, replacing flooring, or painting). During the day we will be helping to fix up someone’s home, and at night we will meet back together as a group for dinner, catching up, fun and games. Don’t worry, there will still be plenty of time for all the girls vs. guys pranks you might want to play on one another! We will also spend our free day at a recreation center that offers paintball, white water rafting, and other activities. This will be an awesome trip and a new experience for you. Cost of the trip is $300 per youth. A $100 deposit is due upon sign-up. Youth Discussion Series 2009-2010: Spring Discussion Series - "Take it to the Grave": This discussion series follows the Lent sermon series The Thing about Life is that One Day You’ll Be Dead. During this discussion series the youth will talk about various phases of the dying process and will be able to ask some of the difficult questions they have about life, death and what comes after death. We will visit Kid's Path, a part of the Greensboro Hospice center designed for children who are grieving, we will visit a cemetery together and discuss the history of tombstone art, and we will have a remembrance service together. The purpose of this discussion series is both to acknowledge our questions and uneasiness with the subject of death, and embrace death as part of life. Sunday School (9:45 - 10:45 am): The Youth 1 and Youth 2 classes have combined for the Winter and Spring discussions. Guided by the fresh and creative insight of the class leaders, the youth will explore familiar stories of our faith. The Winter and Spring discussions will focus on stories from 1 and 2 Samuel. Class Leaders: Mark Fleming, Lexi Eagles, and Stephanie McMullen Sunday Worship: Tessera, 9:00 - 9:45 am - Tessera is our new early morning worship service! This service offers a more casual and participatory style of worship. Classic Worship, 11:00 am - This worship service offers a blend of various traditional baptist and orthodox practices. The prayers and scripture reading in this service are offered by a liturgist from the congregation. The youth are invited and encouraged to help lead in both Sunday worship services through reading of scripture, offering of prayers, leading the children's sermon, serving of communion or acting as usher. At College Park the youth are embraced into full participation of the church body. Youth Sunday is typically held near the beginning of May. This is a time in which the graduating seniors are given an opportunity to preach, and the youth group as a whole leads the worship service. The 2010 date is May 2. Calendar of Events: March 14 – Club Jesus, Kid’s Path – meet at church by 6:45 pm 21 – Youth Serve at GUM, 5:30 pm at Church 28 – Club Jesus April 4 – Easter – No Youth! 11 – Club Jesus 18 – Club Jesus 25 – Club Jesus May 2 – Youth Sunday & Church Picnic – No Youth! 9 – Mother’s Day – No Youth! 16 – Club Jesus 21 – 23 – Youth Camping Trip, No Youth! 30 – Youth Summer Kick-off July 24 – 31 – WV Youth Summer Mission Trip Winter 2010 Beach Trip. See more photos! If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I will answer you: I came to live out loud. -emile zola
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