New Year's Eve Lock-In!

Make plans to come to the church building for the New Year's Eve Lock-in. When is this you ask, Luke and Eleanor? Dec.31 at 9:00 until Jan.1 at 8:00 Am. Bring a 2-liter and snack item to share. We will have games, a devotional, Wii, ping- pong, Balderdash, Do you love your neighbor?, and much more! Bring friends, Bring aquaintances, Bring cousins, bring enemies, but especially bring yourself! This will be a great time!

Progressive Dinner!

The Progressive dinner is Friday Dec.19 from 5:30 to 10. You need to sign up in the teen house if you are going to attend and let us know if you are bringing an appetizer or dessert. We still need a few parents to volunteer to have teens in their home for the main course. More details were sent out by snailmail over a week ago. Any questions, let me know.

Girls! Help Needed

Youth Group Girls: The daughters of the King could use some help this Sunday with their Christmas project at the Wyngate. You will meet at the church building at 12:45 and return around 2. They need several of you to volunteer. Please let Ryan know if you can help with this project.

Guys' Night!

This Friday will be the Guys' all-night party @ the Ice's. Come starting at 8 0'clock and play games, watch movies, and play ping-pong. Please bring a 2-liter and some type of snack food to share. Pick up on Saturday is by noon. You may want to bring a sleeping bag and pillow.
Don't forget tonight is Heart 2 Heart from 6:30 to 7:30 @ the Ice's.

No Revolution Sunday!

There will be no Bible Bowl or Revoluition this Sunday! Enjoy your week off from school. Have a Happy Thanksgiving and go ahead consume a lot of FOOD! I will!

Awaken Student Conference

We will be meeting Friday at the Youth House @ 6:00 to go to Blennerhassett Middle School for the rally. We will arrive back at the youth house for pick up at 9:00.
If you have signed up already but have not paid you need to bring $25 with you. If you did not sign up, but still wish to go to the rally you need to bring $35.
Saturday we will meet at the youth house at 8:30AM and arrive back at 9:45 PM. We will be going to the mall food court for dinner. You will need to bring your own money for this and we may a short amount of time to do some shopping.
Sunday we will meet at the youth house at 9:00 and return around 12:00.

Heart 2 Heart

Heart 2 Heart will be tonight at the Ice's (202 37th st.) from 6:30 -7:30!

Girls' Sleepover

Girls! Don't forget: Tonight Jessie has invited all the teen girls for a sleepover. Bring your sleeping bags and have a great night hanging out and watching movies. Come at 8PM and pick up will be on Tuesday (Veteran's Day) at noon.

5th Quarter!

We will have a 5th Quarter this Friday @ the Youth House from 9-11:30. Pool, ping-pong, PS2, Wii, Balderdash, & Don't forget $2 for pizza. Be there!

Heart 2 Heart

Don't forget! Heart 2 Heart is tonight from 6:30-7:30 @ the Ice's.

What's Coming Up Letter

Here is the letter sent out Oct. 27 that was sent via snail mail. http://www.grandcentralchurch.com/assets/attachments/3FB2C14B-188B-45B5-6CDD28265C1737E4.doc

Calendar updated!

Be sure to check out the updated calendar. More info to come via snail mail this week.

VOLLEYBALL!

This Sunday, we will meet at the North Campus Gym with the 36th st. youth group to play volleyball and enjoy fellowship from 2-5. Please make plans to attend, it should be a lot of fun! Parents need to drop off and pick up at OVU's NC gym. There wiil be no Bible Bowl this week and this time will replace our normal Revolution.

*COOK OUT*

There will be a Cook Out at the Youth House /Student Center this Saturday evening from 6-8pm!

Please come and join the food and fun!

Back to School BASH!

Come join us Sat. night (Aug. 23rd) at the GC Student Center!! We will be having fun and games to celebrate together one more time before school starts. 

The fun starts at 7pm and ends at 10pm.
Don't miss it:)

God Bless...

Teen Class Starts THIS WED. (July 30th)

Do NOT go to PT...

I repeat: Do NOT go to PT!

Teens will have class in the Student Center.

This will start July 30th.

Thanks,
Ryan and Cody

Pizza and Prayer!

Tonight at 6pm, we are having a get-together at the Youth House. Our plan is to start with Pizza, and then we are planning on having some prayer time as a Youth Group. I hope that all of you will make an effort to come and join in on the fun!

Cody and Ryan 

Heart-2-Heart

So...Ryan and I were wondering if any of you all would be interested in coming to Heart-2-Heart that is this Tuesday July 15th 2008?? We think that you all should come to Ryan and Jessie's house at 6:30pm tomorrow night:) Thanks!

Cody & Ryan

Youth Group Video Ideas!

Add a comment and share your ideas for our video that we are working on:)

Cody + Ryan

Local Mission Trip

Here's the Mission Trip Run Down...


Wednesday- 
*Meet in the Youth House for class at 7pm.
*After class, we will head to "Clown Golf" in Boaz, WV (don't let the putt-putt name scare you, lol). Bring a few bucks (around $3) to cover the cost of putt-putt.
*After putt-putt, we will then head back to the Youth House and have a Devo.
*After the Devo, the girls will go with Jessie to her house and Ryan and Cody will stay with the boys at the Youth House (This will be the same Wed.-Fri. night). 

Thursday-
*Around 10am, we will head to nursing homes to sing to the people there.
*We will then head to the Youth House for Lunch at Noon.
*1pm-3:30pm, we will be baking cookies, making cards, and door knocking at Powell Apts.
*3:30pm-5:30pm, we will be delivering our delicious cookies.
*6pm-8pm, we will be having dinner with Elders/Members.
*We will then hang out for a while and then have a devo at around 10pm.

Friday-
*Leaving at 7am from the Youth House for Cleveland.
*Some things that we will be doing in Cleveland are...visiting and doing crafts with the children at the Cleveland Clinic, visiting the Tower City Mall, and eating at the HardRock Cafe'.
*Ariving back to the Youth House at around 10pm.

Saturday-
*Noon, we will meet at the Youth House for Lunch.
*1pm, we will leave to go to the Marietta Water Park.
*6pm-8pm, we will be having a pizza and game night with the Prime Timers.
*8pm-9pm, we will pack and clean up.
*9pm, we will have a Youth and Parent Devotional at the Youth House.
*Then the 2008 GC Local Teen Mission Trip will officially be over, and will go down in history as one of the best Mission Trips EVER!! 

We just wanted to thank everyone who made it to the 6th Grade Welcome Party. We had a lot of fun, especially with the scavenger hunt. Ryan has learned his lesson and will not put "dead animals" on the list of items to bring back. For those of you who were not there, we had 4 groups who went on a scavenger hunt around town. One of the items you could get and bring back for 150 points was a dead animal. Ryan, being Ryan, thought that no one would do this and IF they did it would be some type of dead bug (i.e., fly). However, the groups returned with a dead turtle, dead mole, dead crow, freshly hit chipmunk (they say it was an accident), and the one that earned a group an extra 20 bonus points was.......drum roll please....... a dead SKUNK!!!!! One group scooped up a dead skunk and drove around with it in the back of a van for a half an hour! The van smelled horribly! I'm not sure how many cans of Glade was used that night, but it had to be a lot. We had a ton of fun and we hate that some people weren't able to make it. BUT....there is always next time. Make sure to check the calendar on the Blog for the upcoming events!

Jessie Ice

6th Grade Welcome!!

Don't forget that tomorrow night (Fri. June 13th) from 6-9pm is our 6th grade welcome night! Come to the Youth House and join in on the fun! Scavenger Hunt, a NEW mixer game, Pizza and fellowship! Don't Miss It!

In Him,
Cody Balch

Indiana Jones Tonight!

Some of the teens are interested in going to see Indiana Jones tonight. We will unofficially be meeting at 9:45 p.m. at the Grand Central Mall for the 10 p.m. showing, if you are interested. Click Here for the Plugged-In (Focus on the Family) review.
AE

2008 Graduating Seniors Slide Show

I've been asked to post the slideshow of our 2008 Graduating seniors for several friends and family who were unable to attend our Senior Honoring Sunday. I've spent all day trying to post this, and for some reason the audio drops out after the first song. It's fine on my computer, but after it is uploaded to the internet it develops this problem. I'll try to fix it later. Here's what I've got:

P.S. Parents of graduating seniors who haven't received their copy of the DVD or had the hard copies of their pictures returned should contact me as soon as possible this week. AE Thursday, April 24, 2008 H2H and "Dinner and a Movie" This is just a reminder that Heart 2 Heart will be held at the GCYM Student Center tonight. Also, due to the Jr. Youth Rally, we will be rescheduling the "Dinner and a Movie" that was scheduled for this Saturday. (Iron Man, anyone?) AE Thursday, April 17, 2008 H2H and Game Night This is just a reminder that: a) Heart 2 Heart is tonight at Adam and Dana's House from 6:30-7:30. We are on the chapter about Moses. CLICK HERE to read it online. b) We have a game night at the student center tomorrow (Friday) from 7-10 p.m. AE Wednesday, April 16, 2008 Devo and Game Night Nicole Wooten...I know that you asked me Wed. night at church about what time the shin-dig is happening on Friday night, and I think that I may have accidentally told you the wrong time. The Devo and Game Night this Friday is at 7pm-10pm just like the calendar says. My bad Nicole:/ Cody Balch Thursday, April 10, 2008 H2H Rescheduled We are rescheduling Heart 2 Heart for next Thursday instead of tonight. Most of our usual participants aren't able to attend tonight. AE Wednesday, April 02, 2008 slight change of plans Due to the Honduras Fundraising dinner at the church tonight, we will not be having our Pizza and Prayer Time. We encourage you to go to the fundraising dinner and support the work in honduras. AE Friday, March 21, 2008 Heart 2 Heart Our next Heart 2 Heart is Thursday, March 27th, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at Adam and Dana's house. We are studying The Book of God by Walter Wangerin, Jr. (A Novelization of the Bible), and this particular week we are discussing Chapter 4: Joseph. CLICK HERE for an online version of the book. AE Wednesday, February 13, 2008 H2H cancelled this week Most of the students who are consistently a part of Heart 2 Heart have contacted me to say they won't be able to attend this week. We are canceling H2H for Thursday, Feb. 14th, and will resume at the next scheduled meeting time. AE Tuesday, January 22, 2008 GCYM Facebook and Myspace Groups In case you didn't know, there are GCYM "groups" on both Facebook and Myspace. I'm listing the links below. If you have an account on either with either of these services, please join our group. This in another great way for you to get information about what is going on in the Grand Central Youth Ministry. CLICK HERE for our Facebook Group. CLICK HERE for our Myspace Group AE Thursday, January 10, 2008 iPod Stuff Several of the teens got iPods for Christmas, and have been asking me about helpful software, etc for them. Here are some helpful links: CLICK HERE for lots of really helpful programs (all/most seem to be free) CLICK HERE for another great list of iPod utilities to download (mostly free) CLICK HERE to download HandBrake, a free program which allows you to convert video content for you ipod (DVD's and stuff) CLICK HERE for Christian Audio's website. They give away one free audiobook each month. CLICK HERE for tons of free classic audiobooks. CLICK HERE for Songbird, an opensource alternative to iTunes. Hope this helps, AE Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) Book Recommendations Join The Revolution Loading... 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