As we wrap up the school year we have fun stuff coming up for our Senior High Small Groups. Here is our schedule for the remainder of the school year:Sunday, April 15th: Theme: Stand Tall (the last in our series on "Courage") 7:30-9PM
Sunday, April 22nd: Theme: "???" Ask any question you want related to faith and culture. Is there something you have always wondered about or wanted to ask? You will be given the chance to write down any question you have and we will see where the discussions go! (Disclaimer: This is NOT to say that I or the Bible have all the answers on every topic but we can explore where there may be clear answers and also differing views on various topics.) 7:30-9PM
Sunday, April 29th: Graeter's Ice Cream! 6-8PM
Sunday, May 6th: Our FINAL Powersurge! Theme: Encouragement! We will rock out to a bunch of great worship songs, and review the awesome year we've had. We will also honor our newest Confirmation Class that just got confirmed and our 2012 Seniors! 6-8PM
Sunday, May 13th: NO SMALL GROUPS! It's Mother's Day. Love yo' mama's!
Sunday, May, 22nd: THE GRAND FINALE! Big cookout and fun at the Russ's / Lever Park! Food, baseball, kickball, tennis, skateboarding, basketball, frizbees, games, fun. 6:30-8:30PM
Senior High Summer Mission Trip: July 22-28, 2012
This Summer the Senior High will be going to Washington DC for our Summer Mission Trip with the Center for Student Missions! We will need teens and adults for this exciting trip. For all the information you need to know, as well as an application to be a part of the team click HERE.
Feel free to also check out the Center for Student Mission website page at www.csm.org.
Welcome to our Senior High Ministries!Welcome all teens in 9th through 12th grades! We have opportunities for you to get involved in Sunday mornings at 9:00 and 10:30 AM. Also, our small groups meet on Sundays throughout the school year. Pay attention to the calendar for details on what is coming up week by week. Once a month we will get together with the Junior Highers for a PowerSurge night which will be from 6-8PM. On other nights we will meet from 7:30-9PM. We also offer service opportunities, activities and mission trips! Go to the calendar to find out more details on all of our events.
For any additional details contact Scott Russ at sruss@epiphanyumc.org or you can call or text me at 513-600-4790.
Parents, if you did not attend our informational meeting at the begining of the school year the you will need to fill out our release form in order for your teen to participate in our activities throughout the year. You can download it by clicking here. This release form allows your teenager to participate in many of our local activities. It also allows us to take video and pictures of our events and use them for church purposes. Please download this form and fill it out and send it into the Youth Ministry Department. We will keep it on file for the year. Also, by clicking on the Parent Tab you can see all the information we covered in our Parent Information Meeting and then contact me with any questions you might have.
SENIOR HIGH WINTER RETREAT! (CANCELLED! ... sorry!)
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The Senior High Winter Retreat is coming up in the first weekend in March! Get your boots on and bundle up for this fun overnight! Click HERE for a brochure and regirstration for filling you in on all the information you need to know for this memorable activity. Also, if you are an adult who would like to help with this overnight then click on the "VolunteerSpot" button below to get all of the details on how you can be a huge help to the sucesss of this trip! 
Sign Up for the Boy's Chrysalis Flight!
The Boys Chrysalis Flight is almost upon us! So with that in mind I would like to give you the TOP 10 reasons why you (your teenage boy) should seriously consider going . . . . 10. Your teen will get a much bigger view of "the church" by meeting and making friends with a cross-section of teens from many other area churches.
9. Your teen will hear from a variety of quality speakers in our local area: pastors, lay adults and teenagers.
8. The snacks. And oh the snacks there are!
7. Learning "The Ballentine". It's a sweet dance move that almost guarantees dates to prom.
6. Worship. The singing at this event is wild, crazy, fun and at times reverential. They will come home humming tunes for weeks.
5. The love! They will experience so much love that it will jolt their spiritual lives like Red Bull to a Junior Higher.
4. The new friends. They will walk out of there with so many new friends that they will stay connected to for years. Some have even reconnected at college together.
3. Basketball and 4-Square. It gets vicious, ugly and darn right fun.
2. The FOOD! Dang do you eat, and eat well, with lots of variety and wonderful people serving and assisting with the meals. Just you wait and see! You may even fall in love with one of your cooks.
1. A Powerful Right of Passage. Confirmation is perfect for teens in Junior High. But High School presents so many more challenges to keep teens connected and involved in their faith. This one event is just as powerful a right of passage to capture teens who are 15 years old and older and help to remind them again what their faith is all about and why it is so important for them to continue putting effort into it. I relate Chrysalis as Confirmation on steroids. It is a one-time event that helps to reset the course of their spiritual life in the midst of all the distractions that can pull them away from their church / faith.
Sign up for Chrysalis! We have 2 teens signed up right now. I would love to get at least 3 more on this flight. This is a one time event that can have a tremendous impact on your teens' faith throughout high school and college. I can almost guarantee that this will be a powerful, memorable and awesome experience for them.
Here is some more information below from the Chrysalis board about the retreat weekend and all the links you need to get an application and fill it out.
Dear Chrysalis Community,
February 18th-20th will be the Guy’s Greater Cincinnati Chrysalis flight #37.
As of today, there is still room to get additional guys registered to attend the Chrysalis weekend.
The weekend is fast approaching and who is God leading you to sponsor or co-sponsor? Please pray about how you can impact those around you and God's kingdom through this flight. Applications for the flight can be found at http://cincinnatichrysalis.com/application.php
Applications are due by February 10th.
If God is not leading you to sponsor someone, how about making sure you are signed up for the prayer vigil or as a helper on the job board? It's a great opportunity to get out of the house on a cold winter day and warm your heart in the glory of serving.
To sign up for the prayer vigil or the job board, please visit:
- http://cincinnatichrysalis.com/jobs.php
- http://cincinnatichrysalis.com/prayer.php
For other information (and to check out our new website!!) go to:
http://cincinnatichrysalis.com/
Fly with Christ!
-Greater Cincinnati Chrysalis Board
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Reverend Scott Russ
Pastor of Student Ministries
Epiphany United Methodist Church
6635 Loveland-Miamiville Road
Loveland, OH 45140
Office: 513-677-9866 x203
Cell: 513-600-4790
scottruss86@gmail.com
http://epiphanyumc.org/
http://www.scottruss.blogspot.com/
