Friday Night
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Coming This Week.
Junior High
You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose. But you can't (or shouldn't) pick your friend's nose. We will be looking at what it means to choose our friends.
Friday Night
This Friday is for EVERYONE - Grades 6-12. We will playing ball hockey at Robert Little School in Acton. This event runs from 7pm - 9pm.
Friday Night
Last Week.
On Friday night we concluded our series on dating by looking at the questions of dating. We basically went through the who, what, when, where, why and how of dating. Just as we discussed God's design for our lives in honouring our parents, we discussed some of the other waays God has designed us to live, specifically that we are to love others as we love ourselves. In addition to honouring our parents in our relationships we must also honour ourselves, our dates and most importantly God.
We are also bringing some structure to our worship times at Senior High. Any senior high who is interested in participating in musical worship is asked to speak to Pastor Tim to review what this means. If you have your Worship Ministry Team covenant signed , please return to Pastor Tim.
We are also bringing some structure to our worship times at Senior High. Any senior high who is interested in participating in musical worship is asked to speak to Pastor Tim to review what this means. If you have your Worship Ministry Team covenant signed , please return to Pastor Tim.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Tonight @ Junior High
We will be playing some Minute To Win It Games. 6:45 - 8:00 in the portable.
You can also pick up 30 Hour Famine Pledge Sheets.
Last Friday.
Hey all, long weekends always make the week before seem so long ago. We had a good time with the Senior Highs on Friday. We talked about dating. Very similar to what the junior highs did a couple of weeks ago, we discussed God's plan for dating and the fact that our concept of dating would be foreign to the culture in Bible times. There are however guidelines that God lays out that show us how to live life and operate in relationships. One of the biggest of these is to honour our parents. We talked about how that looks, the difference between obeying and honouring and the importance of having regular, open communication with our parents in regards to dating.
We followed up the night by going to Bella Talbot's house for some snacks and to watch Courageous. This was my first time seeing the movie and I thought it was pretty good.
We followed up the night by going to Bella Talbot's house for some snacks and to watch Courageous. This was my first time seeing the movie and I thought it was pretty good.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Junior High Stuck on the Moon.
Greetings all, we had a great night at junior high last night. We continued our series on dating and looking at God's design for our relationships. We started things off with a NASA exercise. What items would you salvage from your crashed spaceship on the moon? Both our teams did fairly well, a couple of our students have an inordinate amount of information about the Moon.
The point of it all was to show some of the benefits of being in community. I also had an "age" moment when I asked who had seen the movie "Castaway" and got maybe 1 hand. (Seriously, its only like 10 years old). Anyway, where was I?
Right, God's design for Junior Highs in the dating world. Last week we looked at one of God's designs (honour your parents). This week we went to Luke Chapter 10 to look at the story of The Good Samaritan. In all of our relationshps we need to love the other person as we love ourselves. We talked about how we need to make sure we are living all of our relationships in this light. Prior to dating we should make sure we have our other relationships up to this standard (i.e. younger brother, etc). When we live our relationships this way we live them in a Godly fashion. This enables us to be Godly in our dating.
Next week is Minute To Win It Night. This should be fun. Also check out the post on 30 Hour Famine.
The point of it all was to show some of the benefits of being in community. I also had an "age" moment when I asked who had seen the movie "Castaway" and got maybe 1 hand. (Seriously, its only like 10 years old). Anyway, where was I?
Right, God's design for Junior Highs in the dating world. Last week we looked at one of God's designs (honour your parents). This week we went to Luke Chapter 10 to look at the story of The Good Samaritan. In all of our relationshps we need to love the other person as we love ourselves. We talked about how we need to make sure we are living all of our relationships in this light. Prior to dating we should make sure we have our other relationships up to this standard (i.e. younger brother, etc). When we live our relationships this way we live them in a Godly fashion. This enables us to be Godly in our dating.
Next week is Minute To Win It Night. This should be fun. Also check out the post on 30 Hour Famine.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Music Ministry
Are you in Senior High? Has God gifted you musically? (voice, instrument?) If you answered yes and would like to be a part of the Creed Youth Band we will be having a meeting this Friday prior to our regular youth night. The meeting will be at 6pm. Please bring a Bible. In this meeting we will discuss what it means to be a worshipper. We will also do some brainstorming so if you have a song that you have been wanting to do bring it.
Also, don't worry if you feel like other people play the same instrument, we will figure all that stuff out.
Pastor Tim
Also, don't worry if you feel like other people play the same instrument, we will figure all that stuff out.
Pastor Tim
30 Hour Famine
So GCF Students, we have the opportunity to impact both the world and our own town with the 30 Hour Famine this year.
We will be joining with youth groups from other churches in Georgetown to make a difference and have some fun not eating.
Here are some details:
The Famine is 30 hours and goes from March 13 - March 14. (It starts at 4pm on the 13th)
All Junior and Senior High students are invited to participate.
There will be pledge forms to raise money for this event. The money will go to both global and local projects.
On March 14th we will be having an event (basically we will all join together to have fun while we starve together) The event runs from Noon to 11pm at the Georgetown Alliance Church. To participate you must raise at lease $20 in pledges. (Or pay $20 at the door).
If you are not sure you can last the full 30 hours that's alright, we will have rice on hand at the event to make sure we stay healthy.
More details to come, this will be a great chance to do some good and have some fun on March Break.
Pastor Tim
We will be joining with youth groups from other churches in Georgetown to make a difference and have some fun not eating.
Here are some details:
The Famine is 30 hours and goes from March 13 - March 14. (It starts at 4pm on the 13th)
All Junior and Senior High students are invited to participate.
There will be pledge forms to raise money for this event. The money will go to both global and local projects.
On March 14th we will be having an event (basically we will all join together to have fun while we starve together) The event runs from Noon to 11pm at the Georgetown Alliance Church. To participate you must raise at lease $20 in pledges. (Or pay $20 at the door).
If you are not sure you can last the full 30 hours that's alright, we will have rice on hand at the event to make sure we stay healthy.
More details to come, this will be a great chance to do some good and have some fun on March Break.
Pastor Tim
Junior High Tonight!
Tonight at Junior High we continue our look at how God has designed us to live our lives and where dating fits into that. We are also going to the Moon. That might sound awesome, but trust me, its really just a big wasteland. The spacesuits are pretty cool though.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Love Is Moving Recap
On Friday night while GCF was filled with movie goers, GCF Senior High plus some young adults and grade 8s attended the Love Is Moving event at Queensway Cathedral in Toronto. (I think they call it Church on the Queensway now.)
This was a joint event between a whole bunch of Christian organizations including World Vision, Tyndale College and Seminary, CTS, IamSecond.org, and the Gideons. The keynote speaker for the night was Josh McDowell. Josh gave a talk on the realities of sex and love and pointed out that Love means to Provide and Protect. The main theme of his talk was about the need to love ourselves. (The Bible calls us to love others as we love ourselves, how can we do that if we don't love ourselves or if we don't know what Love really means.)
We were also treated to a hip hop artist who was brought over from England. We could've caught another artist, but our bus was set to leave at 9:45 so we had to skip out prior to him coming on stage. (If anyone would like to hear the hip hop stylings of S.O. let me know and I will give you a link where you can download some tracks for free.) All in all, a good night, safe travelling as well as the revelation that Cozy B. is perhaps Georgetown's premiere dance talent.
This was a joint event between a whole bunch of Christian organizations including World Vision, Tyndale College and Seminary, CTS, IamSecond.org, and the Gideons. The keynote speaker for the night was Josh McDowell. Josh gave a talk on the realities of sex and love and pointed out that Love means to Provide and Protect. The main theme of his talk was about the need to love ourselves. (The Bible calls us to love others as we love ourselves, how can we do that if we don't love ourselves or if we don't know what Love really means.)
We were also treated to a hip hop artist who was brought over from England. We could've caught another artist, but our bus was set to leave at 9:45 so we had to skip out prior to him coming on stage. (If anyone would like to hear the hip hop stylings of S.O. let me know and I will give you a link where you can download some tracks for free.) All in all, a good night, safe travelling as well as the revelation that Cozy B. is perhaps Georgetown's premiere dance talent.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Last Night.
We had a great night at Junior High last night. We started our 2 week February series on dating. This is a topic that clearly brings some good discussion and questions for junior highs.
We did a get to know the leader game where teams of students interview our leaders (David, Dakota, Leslie and Shelley) and then reported back to the group on who these people are. I was quite taken aback by the fact that half of the leaders have picked theie noses and eaten what they found. (I won't say which half).
In the message, we talked about the fact that the Bible doesn't give clear instructions to junior high students in Canada in 2012 as far as a dating rule book. The Bible talks a lot about marriage and about doing life together but our concept of dating would be foreign in Bible times. We did recognize that God has a plan for our lives should be lived and looking at that plan can give us insight into how we should conduct ourselves in the dating world. Specifically, we looked at Exodus 20:12 and Ephesians 6:1-3. These verses talk to us about honouring our parents.
After we discussed the differences between honouring our parents versus just obeying we discussed how that applies to our dating lives.
This Friday we have the Love is Moving event in Toronto, this event is for senior high students and young adults. We have invited grade 8s to come along. A couple reasons for this, first, they are probably mature enough for this event. Second, they will be senior highs in about 7 months so it is good to find opporunities to orientate them a little to senior high. The bus leaves at 6pm from the church and should be back by 10:30pm.
We did a get to know the leader game where teams of students interview our leaders (David, Dakota, Leslie and Shelley) and then reported back to the group on who these people are. I was quite taken aback by the fact that half of the leaders have picked theie noses and eaten what they found. (I won't say which half).
In the message, we talked about the fact that the Bible doesn't give clear instructions to junior high students in Canada in 2012 as far as a dating rule book. The Bible talks a lot about marriage and about doing life together but our concept of dating would be foreign in Bible times. We did recognize that God has a plan for our lives should be lived and looking at that plan can give us insight into how we should conduct ourselves in the dating world. Specifically, we looked at Exodus 20:12 and Ephesians 6:1-3. These verses talk to us about honouring our parents.
After we discussed the differences between honouring our parents versus just obeying we discussed how that applies to our dating lives.
- Stick to what your parents say. - If your parents have set an age limit for dating or a way they want it to look we need to honour them by abiding by that.
- Talk to your parents before you date. - Have a discussion about dating with your parents, how it should look, find out why they set what they set. There was some talk about this being awkward but if you feel you are mature enough to date then you should also be mature enough to have that conversation.
- Communicate with your parents after you start dating. Keep the dialogue open, let them get to know your friends and dates. Be accountable to your parents.
This Friday we have the Love is Moving event in Toronto, this event is for senior high students and young adults. We have invited grade 8s to come along. A couple reasons for this, first, they are probably mature enough for this event. Second, they will be senior highs in about 7 months so it is good to find opporunities to orientate them a little to senior high. The bus leaves at 6pm from the church and should be back by 10:30pm.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Love Is Moving - This Week.
Super Bowl 46 is now behind us. Only 211 days until the first game of the 2012 NFL season. Its gonna be a great 211 days. This week the senior high students will be joining the young adults, as we join with youth and young adults from across the GTA (and beyond) for the Love Is Moving event. This is gonna be a great night. We are taking a bus from the church to the event and its all free! So bring a friend, and come prepared for an awesome night.
*The bus leaves the church at 6pm and we are expecting to be back at the church by 10:30pm
Click the link below for a promo.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/zzkqEhbbmDk
*The bus leaves the church at 6pm and we are expecting to be back at the church by 10:30pm
Click the link below for a promo.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/zzkqEhbbmDk
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Senior High Girls Night Out / Guys Night In.
This Friday (tomorrow) Senior High is a little different.
If you are a girl - You will be going to the House of Mazzuca for girly stuff. Manicures, girl talk, looking at pictures of kittens (maybe not, I am not really sure what girls do when they get together) 7pm.
If you are a guy - You will be going to the portable @ GCF. We will be doing guy stuff. Movie, food, laughing at immature things. 7pm.
Remember next Friday is the Love is Moving Event at Queensway - Also take note that for that event you need to bring a non perishable food item for the food bank.
PTim
If you are a girl - You will be going to the House of Mazzuca for girly stuff. Manicures, girl talk, looking at pictures of kittens (maybe not, I am not really sure what girls do when they get together) 7pm.
If you are a guy - You will be going to the portable @ GCF. We will be doing guy stuff. Movie, food, laughing at immature things. 7pm.
Remember next Friday is the Love is Moving Event at Queensway - Also take note that for that event you need to bring a non perishable food item for the food bank.
PTim
Night of the Frozen Ninjas (or Night of the Not so Cold Junior Highs)
So last night was scheduled to be Night of The Frozen Ninjas for our Junior High group. In planning this, I thought how great a night it would be, I mean February 1 should be cold, the only worry was frostbite. I guess that wasn't the only worry, 6 degrees??? seriously?!
Instead of puching through with Night of the Muddy Ninjas, our excellent Junior High Game Squad (Dakota and David) came up with some indoor games to make the Jr. Highs forget all about thoughts of Frozen Ninja glory.
The 16 Junior Highs who came out last night were treated to some indoor soccer, a couple of lol improv games and our first edition of Battle of The Instant Dance Crews. This event saw our Junior Highs broken into groups of 8 (Team Shelley and Team Leslie), each team was given a cd and 15 minutes to choreograph a dance routine. The results were moving. Team Shelley went with the update approach highlighted some excellent use of The Worm. Team Leslie opted for the slow, emotional routine featuring a human fountain.
All in all a great night. Next week in Junior High we are back into the portable and we will be starting our 2 week series on dating. (Just in time for Valentines Day)
-PTIM
Instead of puching through with Night of the Muddy Ninjas, our excellent Junior High Game Squad (Dakota and David) came up with some indoor games to make the Jr. Highs forget all about thoughts of Frozen Ninja glory.
The 16 Junior Highs who came out last night were treated to some indoor soccer, a couple of lol improv games and our first edition of Battle of The Instant Dance Crews. This event saw our Junior Highs broken into groups of 8 (Team Shelley and Team Leslie), each team was given a cd and 15 minutes to choreograph a dance routine. The results were moving. Team Shelley went with the update approach highlighted some excellent use of The Worm. Team Leslie opted for the slow, emotional routine featuring a human fountain.
All in all a great night. Next week in Junior High we are back into the portable and we will be starting our 2 week series on dating. (Just in time for Valentines Day)
-PTIM
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