Please Pray!!!

Over the next few weeks the student ministry has many important ministries setup that we would like for everyone to be praying about:

MS Retreat at Camp Livingstone (Oct. 23-24)
Pray for safety, fun, and open hearts to God's awesome message of love

Fall Festival at YMCA (oct. 25 from 5-7 pm at the Cleveland YMCA)

pray that it will be more than just a fun event for our church, but that it would truely be a ministry in our community

HS Leadership Retreat at new Frontiers (Nov. 6-7)

Pray for safety, fun, and grasp of God's desire for true leadership and how our HS students can continue to do it.



Looking forward to telling everyone how things went,
Mickey

Mark Your Calendars

See You At The Pole - Wednesday, Sept. 23 at your local school (AM)

SYATP Rally - Wednesday, Sept. 23 at The Conn Center (6-8 PM)
Speaker: Jeff Lovinggood
Worship: Scott England
DJ Diekon
WV Drumline

MS Retreat - "So Now What?"
October 23-24
Camp Living Stone
Cost: 75
Early Bird (Sept. 23) - $60

HS Leadership Retreat
November 6-7
New Frontiers
Cost: TBD
Registeration starts Sunday, Sept. 27

Make plans to join us at these awesome ministry events!

Loving FALL,
Mickey

The ONE Project

Our area mission project (ONE) is this Saturday from 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM. Everyone needs to be at Mosby Park by 8:50 AM and wear old clothes for working.

OUR PROJECTS:
- cleaning flowerbeds and planting knock-off roses
- washing windows
- mowing yards
- weedeating around houses & fences
- cleaning out fence rows
- hauling off trash
- washing cars
- trimming hedges
- providing pizza lunch to houses on street
- sharing the love of Christ through our attitudes & action
- sharing the story of Christ as opprotunity arises

everyone needs to bring bug spray, work gloves, saftey goggles
lunch will be provided

Tupos,
Mickey

Fall Schedule!!

Newbie Celebration - THIS Sunday (August 9) 5:30-7:30 PM at the YMCA Outdoor Pool
** This is 1st event for NEW 6th Graders!

Sr. High Boys Overnight River Trip - August 22
at Stout’s River House
Cost: $10

Roundup - August 23

Vertical Café - Starts back Sunday, September 13

Middle School Retreat - October 23-24 @ Camp Livingstone

Sr. High Retreat - Nov. 13-14 @ New Frontiers

Summer Camp!

What a great week at Fort Bluff and to every student or adult that participated, you are AMAZING!

Couple of notes:
1) Stay plugged in this last month before school
2) Start now in focusing on how God could use you this next school year
3) Have fun and enjoy your last month of summertime

See you Wednesday night at 6:30 PM!

Spiritual 2 A Days,
Mickey

Camp 2009 (June 28 - July 2)

Camp is approaching quickly and thanks to the 50+ students who registered early for this year's camp.
Details:
Crossroads Camp is at Fort Bluff Camp in Dayton, Tn (www.fbc-naca.org). This year's camp theme is two-fold: Morning study is S2AD (Spiritual 2 A Days) with Tony Eubanks, Chaplain for Clemson University; Nightly Worship studying "The World's Perceptions are not God's Reality" with David Allen, very funny illusionist. In the middle of the two studies put crazy group games, The Blob, Shaving Cream Fight, Putt-Putt, Fishing, Triathlon Competition, Ropes Courses, Dodegball, Water slide, etc... and you have a glimpse of this year's camp. Needless to say you do not want to miss it.

Cost:$250 per person

So for more info or if you have a question please contact us at (423) 728-5050

Twitter Tweets

The student ministry is now officialy twitters! I actually do not know what that means, but it sure sounds good. This will be a great to get info out to all students/adults through messages on twitter. In fact after you register your account you can have all the messages sent directly to your cell phone via text; PRETTY COOL! The student ministry will not send multiple messages everyday, but will use twitter for major announcements or plans (ex. registration deadlines, lunch plans during the summer, summer hangout locations, etc...). So go to

www.twitter.com

register an account

& choose to follow us at:

@GPStudents

Tweet, Tweet,
Mickey

BIGGER than Big Creek!

Thank you to everyone who supported, prayed, or went on the spring break mission trip to Big Creek, Ky. The mission could not have went any better which is a testament to God's faithfulness to His people when they seek His will and follow after Him. The most exciting part of the mission is actually just now taking place. To watch the students change their lifestyle in order to live everyday as if they are on a mission is awesome. (The truth is that we are!) So remember leadership is ..... "Being willing to do all the work and give somebody else all the credit - Servant Leadership".

You can go to www.bigcreekmission.com to view photos.

Green Sock Classic is approaching quickly and it is a great opprotunity to raise money for camp. Go by the info desk and get the information or email me mclark@grace-point.com

FOR ERICA:
The Camp Theme for 2009 is ...... drum rolll, wait for it, wait....... , still waiting......

"PerCetIon is not always REALity"

This year our guest speaker is David Allen who will engage us with his illusions and lead us to realize the difference between the world's perceptions and God's REALITY!

Big Creek Mission Trip

ADOPT A MISSIONARY AT BIG CREEK

ENCOURAGRAMS: Kevin Rogers has informed me that snail mail will probably not get to us, so please send all notes of encouragement via internet.

1) Simply go to http://www.bigcreekmissons.com/
2) Click on ENCOURAGRAM
3) Leave a note for your child or someone else!

Please try to send at least 4-6 notes daily (Sunday-Thursday) to some of the students & adults. (Please pick different students & adults everyday!)

Updated Pictures:
go to website (http://www.bigcreekmissions.com/) daily to see updated pictures of our trip!


PRAYER:
Please pray daily for our students’ and adults’ safety, attitude, influence, spiritual growth, &
testimony in the community!

Students
Stanley Allen
Skyla Andrews
Kayla Arp
Celeste Benton
Josh Bishop
Brandon Bond
Emilie Brown
Jessica Bryant
Rebecca Bryant
Zeke Burke
Stacey Chandler
Alex Choat
Jesse Cogdell
Matthew Cogdell
Lawrence Cotton
Madleline Daffron
Megan Daffron
Cody Dickson
Mallory Durham
Becky Floyd
Bethany Griffin
Payton Griffin
Eric Hall
Glen Hall
Richard Hall
Steven Hall
Madison Holcomb
Madraye Hightower
Alex Hopkins
Tyler Hopkins
Gaberial Hunter
Jacob Jones
Kaleb Jones
Stephen Lee
Kevin Lonas
Dian Marcum
Courtney Michaels
Tiffani Moses
Nathan Myers
Jimmy Ortiz
Kacie Pendergrass
Tamara Pope
Carly Powell
Cobus Reyneke
Sias Reyneke
Garrett Samples
Victoria Samples
Tori Stevenson
Erica Swindle
Jonathan Swindle
Nora Swindle
Baylor Terrell
Jake Vincent
Kari Vincent
Jesse West
Justice West

Adults
Mickey Clark
Amy Clark
Chad Hann
Lauren Hann
Julia Bowman
Chris Lee
Jerry Stout
Randy Bishop
Dan Benton
Sias Reyneke
Jeff Choat
John Holcomb
Junior Burk
Kevin Rogers - Director of Big Creek Mission

Have a great Spring Break!
Mickey

Deadline Sunday!!!

The mission trip keeps growing, but remember the DEADLINE to register is THIS SUNDAY, March 8!

Other News: GP HAS THE GREATEST STUDENTS IN THE WORLD & I LOVE YOU!!!!

Looking forward to ministering together,
Mickey

Next Blog: Theme for camp revealed!

Service with a SMILE!

Our mission trip is approaching quickly; so do not miss this great opportunity to serve the people of Lesile County, KY & have fun while you do it.

For more information go to:

www.bigcreekmissions.com

or come by the information desk at the church.

Opportunities on the mission trip to serve are:
1) Construction Projects
2) Community Projects
a) Nursing Homes
b) Park clean ups
c) School involvement
d) Food & Homeless Shelter
d) overall community involvement
3) Tutoring in the local schools

Look forward to serving w/ you,
Mickey

Super Sunday INDEED Part II

WOW! Yesterday had to be one of the most amazing days and thank you to everyone who helped & made the Super Bowl Party an awesome ministry! As you can tell by the haircut; the students reached their goal & I have never been more excited to look like an idiot. Yesterday was truly a God situation and may God get all the credit & glory for the many decisions made for Jesus last night at the worship service.

Highlights:
1) Watching the students catch God's heartbeat by fasting & praying for 2 weeks!
2) Watching God be faithful and students accept Christ as their Lord & Savior!
3) Worship
4) Watching all the wonderful adults pull together and make the party run smooth!
5) Having the party be totally planned by our Sr. High! You guys ROCK.
6) Dodge ball!
7) Lastly, MOHAWK!
8) The memories of hanging out and planning the event with a bunch of great students.
aka: more tea for bear
9) Everyone bring their friends & having 208 students at the ministry event
10) Having such a great time that I could not tell you a thing about a single commercial or the game (outside of the last 5 minutes)

Put on your Jersey and let the world know!
Mickey

Super Sunday INDEED!

Feb. 1st @ The Church At Grace Point
5:26-9:30 PM

Cost: MS - bring a 2-Liter,
HS - Setup & Planning,
or $5

Friends are FREE!

Super Bowl Party includes....
Wii Room (multiple Wii consoles set up) Madden ‘09 Tournament, Basketball, Dodge Ball, Rock Band Room w/ full sound system & projection screen, pool table, multiple Guitar Hero games, multiple gaming system room, FOOD, Super Bowl on Two HUGE screens in worship room & one 46” TV in the café, awesome worship at Halftime, plus much much more…...

Doors open at 5:26 PM!

Mickey

A Great Big Do Over!

I love the New Year! Why? B/c no matter how bad you failed at last year's plans & goals you get a fresh start. The whole world looks at the New Year as fresh start. A fresh start to....
Excerise/Workout
Eat Healthy
Quit A Bad Habit (this applies mainly to UGA fans! ha,ha)
Work Less/Spend Time with Family More
etc......

Ironically, most poeple will start 2009 with the same with the same goals as 2008. Unfortuantely most people forget that "if you do what you always have done; you will get what you have always gotten."

So in 2009 lets make some great goals & make sure that God is a vital part of them, but lets also remember that we must change our approach and efforts to accomplish something new.

Go Titans,
Mickey

SUPER BOWL PARTY

When: Sunday, February 1st Time: 5:26-9:30 PM
Cost: Middle School bring a drink, High School setup & planning,
Or $5 dollars

Adults please sign up to bring something on the bulletin board!