Facebook Group

To all you facebookers out there, we have an official group called "Greene Valley Presbyterian Youth Group - Past & Present." It's a closed group, but if you'd like to join, send Bobby or Jennifer an invite and we'll let you in. Click HERE, to go there.

Bonfire - 10/4/08

What: Bonfire & food - good food, not just hot dogs & s'mores
When: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 7-10 pm
Where: GVPC church lawn
Who: you and all your friends

Sunday school

Bobby is now teaching the Senior High (Grades 9-12) Sunday school class. The class meets in his office which is located in the Education Building - first floor. SS begins at 9:30 with breakfast food/snacks/drinks and ends at 10:30.

Beach Trip!!!

Ok, the trip to Bethany Beach is finally upon us. We are meeting at the church at 7:00 am on Thursday, July 24th. Remember to look over your packing list I gave you VERY closely and don't forget bath towels/washcloths (they were left off the list, sorry.)

Bethany Beach... here we come!

July Schedule

Sunday, July 6, 6-8 pm - Youth Group

Monday, July 7, 5- 8 pm - cookout, games, band rehearsal

Tuesday, July 8, 9-4 - Bobby is in his office, nothing Tuesday night

Sunday, July 13 - Youth Group CANCELLED!

No midweek youth group cookout the week of July 14-18

Thursday, July 17 - tba - band rehearsal

Sunday, July 20 - 10:50 am - first band performance!!!

Sunday, July 20, 6-8 pm - Youth Group

Tuesday, July 22, 5-8 pm - cookout & band rehearsal

Thursday, July 24, 7 am - leave for BETHANY BEACH, Delaware

Saturday, July 26, 10 pm - arrive home

Sunday, July 27, 10:50 am - band plays during praise & worship time?

Sunday, July 27, 6-8 pm - Youth Group

If anyone is reading this...

... I just thought I would post an update on events this week.

Sunday, June 15th - Youth Group - usual time, 6pm - 8pm

Tuesday, June 17th - midweek gathering at the church - music/games/food


We're still waiting to hear from the church camp in Bethany Beach if we have been approved for the dates in July - we'll let you know as soon as we hear!


And finally, congrats to the Mikes baseball team on a great season!!

Announcements - this week

after a busy couple of weeks back in may, things are slowing down, just a little bit! youth group is back on for sunday nights 6-8 until further notice. and we will notify you if we do cancel/change that, don't worry!

Friday afternoons are done for the summer, but we are probably going to meet during another midweek day, I think Thursdays? But not this Thursday. This week we are having a BACK to SUMMER picnic on Tuesday, June 3rd at 6:00 pm at the church. We'll be breaking in the NEW GRILL! woo hoo! we'll be eating hamburgers, hot dogs, s'mores and homemade ice cream! yum!

Happy Memorial Day weekend!

bobby and I are currently at the beach, so we will not be having youth group this sunday night. you all are sick of us anyway, since we've been doing so much together lately, right...!

Calendar just updated! Scroll to bottom to see all that's going on in the month of May!

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May activities

Friday, May 16th - Bobby and Jennifer will not be hanging out in the youth group room serving coffee from 3-5. INSTEAD, we will be going to see Prince Caspian (the new Chronicles of Narnia movie) in the evening! We don't know what time the show is yet, but we will probably meet at the church around 5:30ish, eat a little dinner (pizza or something on the grill), then all go to the movie together (wherever we decide to go). THE NEXT DAY... Saturday, May 17th - PANCAKE BREAKFAST here at the church... served by YOU! Be here between 8 and 8:30 am to set up for the breakfast. Julie, Nathan & Zeb definately have to be here! We hope all of you will come and help. Other events this month will include: possibly another movie night and a street clean-up day (although that will probably be moved to June). ALSO... we will probably be cancelling YOUTH GROUP on Sunday, May 25th (the day before Memorial Day). That's all for now!

Pancakes for Missions

We will be having another pancake breakfast soon. May 17th is the date, 9:00 am is the time, GVPC kitchen is the place, and all donations will go toward mission trips. All youth group members are eligible if you are going on a mission trip this year. For right now, I think we just have Julie (Cherokee), Zeb (Cherokee), and Nathan K (Washington). Let us know if there are others.

Good luck Carmichaels Band!

Hope you all have a great time in Disney!!!

Support Julie!

This Sunday, following church, Julie will be having a chili dinner to raise money for her Mission trip to Cherokee this summer. I've been told that they are having chili, cornbread, and something else... so, go, eat, and give... for Julie!

Hibachi

Friday night, March 28th... meet at the church at 5:30 pm to go to Hibachi in Morgantown. The cost is $10 per person (the YG will be paying the remainder.)

If you can't make it, please call/text/message either Bobby or Jennifer ASAP.


also, remember that we will not be having our usual "coffee-shop" time in the youth room from 3-5 this friday b/c of the hibachi dinner. thank you.

Dates & Times

GIRLS - Sisters for Tea, Thursday, March 20th. Meet at the church around 10:30ish, so we can get there and eat at 11:00. Most of the girls have decided to dress up! Does that mean Julie will be wearing frilly gloves & a hat??? Well, maybe just a shawl...

EVERYONE - Hibachi dinner, Morgantown, Friday, March 28th - still don't quite have a time yet.

Good Friday - church service from noon-1pm, youth group "coffee-shop" from 1-3 and we will have pizza.

NO YOUTH GROUP ON EASTER SUNDAY!!!

Upcoming events in March

Thursday, March 20 - Tea Time for the girls with Jennifer at Sisters for Tea in Waynesburg. Time & cost is TBA, we'll discuss it at the next youth group meeting.















Friday, March 21 - GOOD FRIDAY - stay tuned for announcements.

Sunday, March 23 - EASTER - no Youth Group meeting tonight!

Friday, March 28 - dinner at Hibachi (click on the word for the link to their restaurant) in Morgantown. We'll probably leave Carmichaels around 5:30-6.

MOVIE!

ok, the movie has been decided for this week... but we're not telling you what it is! so just make sure to be at the GVPC youth group room tuesday (not thursday) night, march 4th, at 6:30!

bye bye birdie - part 2

sorry if there was any confusion regarding my last post... we are not going to the musical as an official youth group event. I just wanted to encourage everyone to go - on your own. Bobby and I are going Friday night, hopefully we'll see some of you there!

Bye Bye Birdie

Hey everyone, this weekend is Carmichaels High School's production of Bye Bye Birdie. All the information is here. Let's all go and support Andrew!

Sunday 2/24/08

Once again, be at the church and ready to leave for the concert by 5:00 pm. Please eat dinner prior to arrival and bring $8 for your ticket. We're all going to squeeze into the big green van! it's gonna be fun!!

March movie night

the date has been set... the next movie night is Tuesday, March 4th. be there!

Indelible Grace & Matthew Smith concert

Currently we have 9 interested people in the concert this coming Sunday 2/24/08. If you were one of the few undecided ones, please call/email/message Bobby or Jennifer by Tuesday to let us know if you are coming or not. The concert starts at 7, so we will have to leave the church around 4:50/5:00. We're assuming that the concert will be about 2 hours in length, which puts us back in Carmichaels around 10/10:30. Ticket prices are $8.

no movie night this tuesday!

I'm sure you heard the announcement in church, but the bulletin had incorrectly posted that there was a movie night for this upcoming tuesday, 2/12... so please note... there is NO movie night this week. we will let you know when the next one is.

Good Stuff

Since we are in a denominational church, the Presbyterian Church in America, I thought it would be a good idea to post some resource links that you can look at to learn a little more about our beliefs, practices, and so forth.

Our denominational homepage: http://www.pcanet.org/

Our confession of faith: http://www.pcanet.org/general/cof_contents.htm

Our general beliefs: http://www.pcanet.org/general/beliefs.htm

Our denominational seminary: http://www.covenantseminary.edu/

Our denominational college: http://www.covenant.edu/

Our denominational magazine: http://byfaithonline.com/

Some good places to go:

The PCA on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_in_America

Third Millennium Ministries: www.thirdmill.org

Ligonier Ministries: www.ligonier.org

www.monergism.com

Redeemer PCA in New York City: http://www.redeemer.com/


I'll post more info at a later time, but do look over some of these links. We have a very rich, diverse denomination that has a lot to offer.

friday afternoons

we're really grateful for everyone that takes the time to stop by on friday afternoons to hang out with us. in order to make it a little different than sunday evenings, so that it doesn't feel like youth group twice a week, we want to make it feel more open to bring non-church kids. I guess we need your suggestions. how can it be more appealing so that you want to invite your friends? those who don't normally come to youth group or gvpc? what would make you say, "hey, wanna go hang out with a couple cool old people after school for a couple hours?"? we thought the starbucks-generic drinks were enough, but maybe we were wrong... let us know!

welcome

all announcements and events regarding youth group stuff will be posted here, check back often.