D Groups this Fall!

By On August 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Youth
DVD Series: Five Things God uses to Grow your Faith by Andy Stanley- Series begins August 29th
– This is a video series done by Andy Stanley at North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia. Throughout the five videos, he covers five ways to expand our faith:
1. Practical teaching from the Bible, to application in our life
2. Importance of Community
3. Private Disciplines
4. Personal Ministry: Importance of Serving
5. Pivotal Circumstances: How the tests and trials in our life can expand our faith and trust in God.

– This series will challenge ourselves to evaluate our faith and will hopefully be able to lead to great discussion about real things in our lives and the lives of students that keep us from growing in our faith.

*D Groups meet every Wednesday from 6:30-8:00 in the Education Classrooms

 

Youth Group This Fall!

By On August 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Youth
The Armor of God- Series starts September 9th

Every sunday night for the next few weeks we will be studying Ephesians 6: The Armor of God. For those of us that grew up in the church and sunday school, we remember the old activities of creating shields, swords, helmets, belts and shoes to mimic the spiritual tools as found in Ephesians 6. In our superhero culture, we see the need for armor as a fantastical necessity used to ward off villains and physical threats to our life. The real threat to our spiritual well-being is often neglected by Christians today, and the need to guard our hearts and faith from the constant attack of society and pressures all around us are extremely important. We will look at the key parts of a healthy spiritual life that can guard against temptation, misinformation, and disillusionment.

*Youth Group meets every Sunday Night from 5:15-7:30 in Education Classrooms

Extra Resources:   (Launch sermon player and click on 7/15/12)

Branden Lauranzon- Armor of God:     http://cccgainesville.com/media.php?pageID=47

 

Sunday Morning Youth Classes!

By On August 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Youth
Sermon on the Mount- Series starts September 9th
Each week we will be studying the Sermon on the Mount in both High School and Middle School Classes. This series structure and material will be taken from Sinclair Ferguson’s book, Kingdom Life in a Fallen World, as well as the original scripture text in Matthew 5-7. The Sermon on the Mount is important to us as Christians because it is the “manifesto of Jesus” as Ferguson puts it. This means that this was Jesus’ public declaration of “policy”, his public declaration of how to live in the Kingdom of God, and how to live this Christian Lifestyle in a secularized, or pluralistic world that we live in. This will be a cool study to dive into and really explore the teaching of Christ.
Extra Resources:
Sermon on Mount: Phillip Jensen- The Sermon on the Mount (MP3)
 

Youth Update

By On July 3, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Youth

Hey Everyone!

Thank you all so much for your prayers and thoughts last week as we were in Mississippi at the Palmer Home. It was such an awesome week of bonding and growing in realization of God’s presence and blessings in our lives. We were given various jobs throughout the week such as landscaping, painting, cleaning and sorting the Palmer thrift store, scraping paint off of fences, mowing, weeding, and pretty much whatever else they needed around the campus. Temperatures were above 100 degrees for most of the week, making it very easy for us to feel exhausted and questioning how our little jobs could possibly be helping the Palmer Home, but God provided encouragement at the right time from various staff around Palmer Home who came up to us on the site and at dinner telling us how we might be there for a week, but they will enjoy our work for the next year. Our youth really did an amazing job with not only working, but loving the Palmer Home kids as well. By the end of the week it was awesome to see the relationships that were formed, and to hear our students wishing we could have stayed another week. Hopefully y’all have been able to talk to them about what they learned or what they thought about the week, I was so encouraged by them last week, and thankful for each of them that went.
This week!
–No D Groups because of 4th of July.
– No event on the 6th: I know it says on the magnet schedule that we were planning on having an event on Friday the 6th, but due to the holiday this week, and the amount of volunteers that will be out of town, we will not be having that event this week! So no event on Friday the 6th.
-Sunday July 8th: Sunday Night youth group will return as usual from 6-8 pm.
– Youth Sunday morning classes are also going on right now, every sunday at 9am in the Multipurpose room of the office complex. Hope to see all  youth there!
Finally,:
 – VBS (Vacation Bible School) sign-ups are happening now, meaning that we need to also get youth signed up to help. Our Local Missions Week is an awesome time to serve the church and our community, as well as continue to grow and build relationships as a youth group community. Our youth will serve at VBS in the morning, eat lunch here at the church, at 1 we will depart from the church and go out into the community each day doing various pre-organized jobs each day. We will be doing some yard work at Arbor House, visiting Emeritus Assisted living center, and various other places each week. After our work that day, at about 4:30 or 5 we will reconvene at a house for dinner, games, swimming, and debrief time, and will be done at 8pm. Everyone that has been involved in a Local Missions week in the past few years has nothing but great things to say about the week, we are really looking forward to this week!
– Email me ( ddonovan AT christcommunitychurch DOT COM )  to get signed up for the week, we will need to have some idea of numbers so that they can get placed into a group for VBS, as well as arrangements for our service activities each day!
– Drivers are still needed if you are able to be involved that week. Thank you!
Drew
 

Palmer Home is Coming!

By On May 31, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Youth

Hey Everyone!

The Palmer Home trip is rapidly approaching! On June 24th-30th, we will be heading to Columbus, MS to serve the good people and families at the Palmer Home for Children. This will be an awesome week filled with hard work, great fellowship, and just an awesome time to get away from your usual life here in Gainesville and really see first hand how God is able to work and change hearts in a big way.

The Palmer Home has been around for over 100 years and is home to over 100 children who are “social orphans.” The children are placed into real homes on the Palmer Home campus with loving house parents who cultivate the family atmosphere. The children are given chores and responsibilities, as well as given the opportunity to attend good schools in the area. The youth group has been going to Palmer Home for four years now, and has been an awesome growing time for everyone. For more info on The Palmer Home visit this website, palmerhome.org

Feel free to email me with any questions, ddonovan@christcommunitychurch.com

More information will be coming soon!

 

Sign Up Today!

 

Important Facts to remember:

Dates: June 24-30

Cost: $175 per person

DEADLINE: June 3rd


**Make checks payable to CCC, and turn into Drew or Church Office