September Calendar

Hey guys! The September calendar is available for download. Just click on the following link for the PDF file & print it off:

CVMC Youth September Calendar

New Series

Hey there everyone, I hope things are going well for everyone. I know for me I feel like we are finally in the swing of things again. With School, and schedules and all that fun stuff.

So this coming Wednesday we are going to be starting a different series called "Backpack" I am super and ubber excited for this series. I think God is going to do some crazy awesome things! So this what you will need for this coming Wednesday night!

1. A bible!
2. A notebook
3. A Pen
4. A friend
5. Prayer......Ask a couple people to pray for you while you are at Youth Group this Wednesday night! It's pretty cool to see what God can do when people are praying for ya!

I hope you guys are rocking and ready to go this coming Wednesday! I am super pumped, also please make sure we have your cell numbers because starting Wednesday morning I am going to be sending little devotions to your phone to encourage you every single day this month! Hope you guys have a great week!

See you Wednesday!

P.A.

Crazy night

Hey there everyone I hope things are going well for ya today, sorry this update is coming so late in the afternoon but I have been extremely busy today!

So last night was pretty cool, the games with trying balance eggs on trays, and trying to flip ping balls into a waste basket was so much fun to watch and see!

Great job to our 7th grade guys for winning last night it was so stinking awesome!

Last night we finished up our series called "Eyes wide open" we got to look at the death of Jesus and realize that there is so much more to Jesus life then just him living and dying! He did so much for us and He is standing in front of us with His pierced hands and side wanting us to believe and make a step of faith to believe and obey His word. Last night was pretty awesome, because I know for some of our students it really hit home.

Our next series we are going to be diving into is a series called "backpack" and its going to be dealing with what we are carrying around. Some of our students are carrying around so much hurt and baggage from past relationships, parents, and so much more that we don't even what that is yet. So this next series is all about Freedom! Being free from all the crap and the hurt that this world brings.

So join us for some fun next Wednesday!

Can't wait to see you guys next week!

P.A.

Thomas and the nail pierced hands

Hey there guys! Thats what we are going to be talking about tonight, you guys need to be here tonight, I understand if you have practices, events, and even some homework by know, but if you can make it before 7:30 tonight do it! We have some really cool things we are going to be doing tonight. It's not going to be a normal night tonight.

We have some really cool things cooked up for ya tonight. So if you can't be here till 7:30 thats cool but try to be here before then. Everyone else needs to be there at 6:30 because we are starting a small group competition tonight that I promise you wont want to miss. Lots of amazing games, and cool things we are going to be doing tonight!

We are praying that God does some amazing stuff tonight! So tonight before you come do a couple things:
1. Text a couple friends to come with ya
2. Grab your bible!
3. Bring Adam a Taco :)
4. Take some time to pray for tonight and your leaders.

Can't wait to see all of you tonight!

P.A.

1 more day until Youth Group!

Hey there everyone, this post will be a little bit shorter because I am really stinking busy today I just wanted to remind you that tomorrow is going to be flipp'n sweet!

We are going to be doing things a little but different tomorrow and I am so pumped for that. So come ready to worship God with everything you have, and start a sweet small group competition! It's going to be awesome.

So tomorrow from 6:30 - 8:30 be here at Crystal Valley, and bring a couple friends with ya. Tomorrow is going to be that much fun that we need other people to come along for the ride!

Hope to see you tomorrow!

Here is a little funny video to get you through the day!



P.A.

Monday Monday

Hey there everyone I hope things are going awesome for you already. I know for me I couldn't sleep that well last night so I was up at 4am thinking and praying for our students. It was a long night mainly because I couldn't fall asleep till well after Midnight so I am running on some coca-cola, and Christ this morning :)

Anyways, this coming Wednesday is the Finally to our Eyes wide open series and I hope you can join us, its going to be powerful because I know God has got some amazing things planned!
We are going to be answering hard questions about Jesus Christ. Like was Jesus God and man at the same time, and if so how is that possible, or If Jesus rose from the grave in 3 days, where was he those 3 days? Those are all great questions and we are going to try to tackle them as best as possible. So come on out Wednesday night at 6:30, and stay till 8:30 we will have some really funny minute to win it games this coming Wednesday and also some great worship and prayer time as well.

So come on out!

Finally I want to say one last thing, we understand as a youth ministry that this school year is going to be hard for some of you out there, there have been life changes in a lot of your lives, but please if it gets hard, get a hold of us, we want to help, we want to pray with you and come along side of you this year! So please don't bottle that stuff up come and talk to us about it. Any of leaders here at CVMC would love to sit and talk with you. We are already praying for you, and asking God to love you in extraordinary ways. We love you guys as a family!

Have a great week.

P.A.

1st day of school

I am so proud of our youth group, last night when we talking about this year being different, and this year being something to remember most of you stood, and want that. I commend you on taking a stand. Now the rubber meets the road and in you need to stand up for injustice at your school, your faith in Christ needs to lead your decision making, and then God can break loose in your school, and in your life!

So I encourage you today to start letting Christ guide your decision making process, and allowing Him to create opportunities to love others in ways you never knew how too.

So back to last night, we talked about the Bible, and how amazing this bible is and how even though its an ancient book. It still has relevance in today's culture. The bible has answers to your questions. And if you study the bible and dig deep into what it says it can honestly change your life.

So this is what I am offering to you. For some of you, you have no idea where to even start with your bible, and that's ok as long as you don't stay in that 1 spot for very long. If you want to learn more about how to navigate your way in studying the bible please email me and talk to me we have lots and lots of resources at our finger tips that we can use and give out. So if you are interested please email at cvmcadam@verizon.net or text me! We would love to get you started with other people around you to encourage you and help you in your journey with Christ.

Hope you have a great day everyone!

P.A.

Tonights going to Rock!`

Howdy everyone! I hope things are going really well for you today and your last day of Freedom!

Man how fast has this summer went, insane. Wow, but all good things must come to and end at some point, and the best thing is. With youth group we are just getting started for our year so booyah! This good thing is just beginning.

So tonight a couple things you need to know.

1. Bring your bibles!
2. Bring 32 friends with you!
3. Come ready to dance tonight!
4. Come ready to pray over this coming school year.
5. Bring your Bibles!

We have some cool things we have planned for tonight, a game I like to call human Scrabble. Its going to be intense, that's all I know. So come tonight at 6:30, and be ready to have a great time, and come ready to meet Jesus in a brand new way. Can't wait to see ya tonight.

P.A.

School starts soon!

Yikes School starts soon, oh my word where did this summer go? insane!

Oh well, this post will be shorter because I have a ton of things going on today, but I want to encourage you to come to Youth Group tomorrow night. We have some really fun things planned, but I want to try to get as many students there tomorrow night to pray for you heading back to school!

I honestly believe that this year can and will be different. God is stirring up things in students hearts that can and will bring revival to Northridge, Concord, and Goshen. So tomorrow night we are going to be praying over students during our worship time. So come tomorrow night and get ready for some awesome prayer time for this school year.

We need to be sending out warriors for Christ! Ambassadors for the kingdom, and I believe that the students from Crystal Valley can lead the cause! So get pumped for Youth Group tomorrow night.

P.A.

Eyes Wide open pt 2

Hey there everyone, I am super excited for what is going down on Wednesday night. We have so many cool things that are coming up in the near future. Bigger and better is coming down the road here soon, we have a chance for you to serve on Sept 18th, and we have some great chances for you to bring your friends to some really cool and unique events.

This Wednesday we are going to be breaking down the bible. So many of you have questions about who wrote the bible, how do you know the bible is the Word of God, how did the bible come about? In continuing with our eyes wide open series we are going to dig deep into those questions, and try to help us understand that the Bible is so much more then just a book that you are told to read by your parents, and your youth pastor.

The Bible has some amazing stories, but it also has gone through so much through being banned from a lot of countries, to being the law for other countries, so come on Wednesday night and we are going to dig deep into the Word of God!

Can't wait to see you on Wednesday night!

P.A.

Sunday Sunday Sunday

Hey there everyone just want to drop some knowledge on ya!

This coming Sunday the students of CVMC are taking over, we have the whole service to talk about how much God did on Mission trips this summer. So make sure you are here this Sunday, the leadership gave us both services to rock out with our worship band, our video's, and most importantly THE STUDENTS! We have all students talking this coming Sunday, lots and lots of people are going to be up on stage talking about how God rocked their world with these trips!

So be here this coming Sunday at 9:00am, and 2nd service at 10:45. Don't be late because we start things right on time when the Youth Group is running things!

Hope to see you soon!

P.A.

Thursday morning blahhness

Hey there everyone, I hope things are going well for you guys this morning. I was up last night talking with our very own Nate Hickox till around midnight last night, and so my beautiful wife and I didn't even set an alarm for this morning because we were so tired from a great night last night at youth group.

For those who didn't get to make it last night here is a little recap on what we talked about.

We talked about the question how did life start. We brought up evolution and Intelligent design. Then we talked about how God in Genesis 1:1 created the Heavens and the Earth. Then we dove into one of the smallest forms of life we have cilia, and then we talked about how God knits us together even the smallest parts of us. Then we went big time and talked about our planet and how cool it was that God placed ever small detail in making out planet. We wrapped up by asking the question what if all these small details were all pointing us to a knowing relationship with Jesus Christ. We want to live with our eyes wide open to see exactly what God has for us!

So that's what we talked about last night, but in a nutshell. We hope you guys can join us Next Wednesday for when we keep unpacking this eyes wide open series! I can't wait.

Hope to see you this Sunday as well as the Urban plunge team, and the DR team get to tell you what we did on our missions trip.

Praying for ya,
P.A.

Preteen camp and crazieness

Hey there everyone, I am sorry I haven't got to update about this week but I have been at Preteen camp down in Milford, IN. It was a great time with those kids, it was really really hot though, but inspite of ourselves God did some amazing things!

So tonight we are back at the church for YOUTH GROUP! I am so excited, because we have so much fun stuff for tonight. So come tonight to youth group from 6:30 - 8:30 tonight. We are starting a new series called Eyes Wide Open. The series deals opening your eyes to Gods creation, His Word, and His Son.

I am so extremely pumped for what we are going to be talking about tonight, honestly I think it could change students lives tonight. So for all those students who are thinking about coming tonight come on out and have a great time. For those who know you are coming tonight text a bunch of people and tell them to come!

Fun games, Great Worship, and time to hang out and have fun with each other! Don't spend another boring night sitting at home, come and hang out with us tonight!

P.A.

Sorry for the no updates yesterday

Hey there everyone! Sorry for not updating after our first night back, but I didn't get home till pretty late on Wednesday night and then on thursday I was up and out the door at 7am.

We are at a conference in Mishawaka called the global leadership summit, which is awesome. But it comes with so many speakers, and so much to in take that when I came home yesterday my mind was mush, so I didn't get to update!

So here is a little up date before I take off again today

1. Last Wednesday night was awesome, good food, good games, and a good time of revealing our new fall calendar. Which will be in your hands at the end of August. For the August calendar head to archives to see that.
2. Next Wednesday we are back here at the church for Wednesday night so be prepared to have an awesome time again next week, and bring a new person to Youth Group if you can make it that night.
3. Please keep Esther and I in your prayers we have been on the move for a long time now, with the mission trips, to vacation, starting preteen camp, then moving into Wednesday nights and coaching again its been a stretch of lots of moving and not a lot of time of being home. So keep us in your prayers!

Hope you have a great Friday! Hope to see you Sunday morning!

P.A.

Calendar for August!

Hey there everyone, we are in the middle of getting our calendar all in order to hand out to ya'll and it will be done by September but we don't have any major events going on until the end of September but I still wanted to you know what is going on down this month in the Youth Group for Crystal Valley.

August 4th - Tonight! We are going to be at the Pretty Place tonight from 6:30 - 8:30 and we are going to be having a ton of fun out there tonight. Hanging out, eating food, and we will be going over all the major events for this coming year!

August 11th - We start youth group back at the church for our regular nights again.6:30-8:30pm We will be starting a series called Eyes Wide open. We are going to be answering questions on how was the bible written? Why is Jesus Christ different than any other god? We are going to be answering those questions so you don't have to go through this life with unanswered questions.

August 18th & 25th - We are continuing on with our series at CVMC from 6:30 - 8:30

Can't wait for tonight everyone!

P.A.

Fall Kick off tonight

Hey there everyone, tonight is the fall kick off out at the pretty place bed and breakfast!

Here is how you get to the Pretty Place:

Turn Right out of the church, head about a quarter mile down the road and on your left hand side you will see a huge sign that says the pretty place, the drive to get back is a dirt driveway right in front of the big sign! Really easy directions :)

We hope to see you there tonight, we will have food, games, and the unveiling of our fall calendar and all the big events we are doing. So I can't wait to see you tonight.

I know a lot of you have sports, or band but after those events come on by for some food, and hangout time! We hope to see you there tonight.

6:30 - 8:30! Be there!

P.A.

Tomorrow is going to Rock

Howdy everyone! I hope you are having an amazing day, I know my day is going really fast so far because we have been really busy over here at the offices at CVMC but I am taking some time out to update you on some awesome things that are going down with the Crystal Valley Youth Group!

So here we go:

1. Tomorrow night we are meeting at the Pretty Place which is right down the road from the church on the left hand side of US 20. Turn left out of the church and its a quarter mile down the road on your left! We are having food, drinks, and fun! We will unveil the fall calendar to you that night and all the big events we have planned for ya, so you will not want to miss this!

2. We start regular youth group in 8 days! We will be meeting every Wednesday night again at the campus of CVMC, where the worship team, and the games, and the series will start again, I am so pumped for what we have in store for this fall so make a note that every Wednesday night from 6:30 -8:30pm you will be at CVMC Youth Group!

3. The blogspot is going to go through an overhaul here in a just a little bit, and some new changes are going to be made on how we communicate to ya'll we will still update this site everyday, but there will be some other ways we will get info out to you, so that will be explained further in a later date!

Hope your day goes well, hope for all those students in sports, band, and other school events going on that you take time to pray, and work on your relationship with Jesus. Don't let that go by the wayside! Its to important to let fall by the wayside.

Hope to see you tomorrow.
P.A.

Junior High Bible study

Hey there everyone! Tonight is Usually Junior High Bible study night, but we are done having the Junior High bible study, because we are starting Youth Group back up this week! So we hope that you had a good time meeting the couple times we did, with the pool party and things!

So tonight take the night off and spend it with your family or hanging out with some friends!

If you really want to take that hour and spend it reading your bible, there is a really cool story about Joesph in Genesis, you should read that!

Also text a bunch of your friends for Wednesday night!

6:30 - 8:30!

Vacation was Great!

Hey there everyone! Man Vacation was awesome we got to go hiking a lot and go to make good meals, watch movies, look at mountains. It was a great vacation so those who were praying for Esther and I thank you so much it was very relaxing!

But back to the grind! And I love it!

This week we are starting youth group again!

Let me restate that again........

WE START BACK UP YOUTH GROUP THIS WEEK!

ok normal font again, but this week we are bringing youth group back we have been on a 6 week hiatus because of mission trips, leaders getting married, and lots of other things, but we are back are ready to hit the ground running. So this week at 6:30 we are going to be having a good old time at the Pretty Place here in middlebury!

How to get to the pretty place...... The Pretty place is on US 20, and if you head towards ST RD 13, on 20, the pretty place is on your left hand side. There is a really big sign and right before that sign there is a dirt road that leads back into the woods follow that road, and then you will see all the cars, and people!

So 6:30 - 8:30pm! Youth Group is back, we will have some games, and some time around a bon fire, and we will be discussing this coming falls events! I am so excited and I hope you will be too!

So 1 more time,

Youth Group this week is at the Pretty Place, 6:30 - 8:30. Hope you are there!

P.A.