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Depart The Block at 7 PM on Friday, April 27.  Students should arrive at 6:30 PM, but no earlier.  PLEASE EAT DINNER BEFORE COMING

Arrive Back at The Block @ 1 PM on Sunday, April 29

Cost: $63 early bird rate (register before April 11 @midnight) and $70 regular rate.  Half scholarships available.  Cost includes transportation, housing, 4 meals, smores, activities, and 4 Edge programs.

Where:  Camp Carl, Ravenna, OH (www.campcarl.org)

Purpose: A weekend focused on the redeeming power of God’s grace and how to be leaders in his kingdom.

What to bring: sleeping bag, pillow, towel and toiletries, jacket, clothes, shoes, flashlight, water bottle with name on it, Bible, journal, pen, trash bag, camera.  $5-10 for lunch on the way home Sunday.

What NOT to bring:  cell phones, ipods, handheld video games and all other portable electronic devices.

Please CLICK HERE for the online registration form.

Deadline to register:  April 25th. 

Running a marathon is an extremely difficult task. It requires an incredible amount of training and discipline. Marathon runners are some of the most physically fit athletes in the world. In God’s word, walking with Jesus is compared to running a race. In this way, our life is like a marathon. As young men and women we have just crossed the starting line of a lifelong race of following Jesus. We must learn how to train so that we can run the race effectively. We must learn to become strong in God’s word and through his power, so that when we have finished the full 26.2, we will have run our race well.

OUT OF FOCUS
This is our last week in this series. God is big – like really big. There are so many parts of him that are really hard to understand. Because of this we often misunderstand things about God. We are just human beings, trying to comprehend an infinite, all-powerful God. This causes us to only see part of the picture when we think about God. We don’t see him clearly. We see him out of focus. This week, we are going to continue to look at some things about God that we see out of focus and we are going to bring them back into focus. We will see them clearly so that we can see God clearly – and worship him because of it.

SPRING BREAK
Next Wednesday, March 21st, there will be NO EDGE due to Hudson schools being on Spring Break. The church goes by Hudson schools for any cancellations even though we have students from many school districts. Please mark your calendars.

DOOR #2
Door #2 Studio will be open this Thursday afternoon. Door #2 meets at 4510 Stow Road, Stow from 3-5:30 pm. We are looking for drivers to help students get from school to Door #2 each week. If your student is interested in going to Door #2 and you could take a few more students with you, would you please let Lisa Olson know by emailing her at lisa.olson@ccchapel.com? Parents are responsible for picking up their own students when Door #2 is over.

SPRING THING
Our Spring Thing retreat is coming up soon! Please mark your calendars for April 27-29th. We will be at Camp Carl and will enjoy 2 full days and nights of fun, games, teaching, Door #2 art and much more. Please watch future Parent Updates for more info on how to register your son or daughter online soon.

God is big – like really big. There are so many parts of him that are really hard to understand. Because of this we often misunderstand things about God. We are just human beings, trying to comprehend an infinite, all-powerful God. This causes us to only see part of the picture when we think about God. We don’t see him clearly. We see him out of focus. In the next three weeks, we are going to look at some things about God that we see out of focus and we are going to bring them back into focus. We will see them clearly so that we can see God clearly – and worship him because of it.

Hey everyone

Just a little reminder– the Edge Games VIII After Party is going to take place this Wednesday, from 7-8:30 PM at the Block. It is going to be an awesome time! Here are a few of the things that will be going on at the party:

-Snacks from the Edge Concessions stand

-Team games with prizes

-Special Edge Games award ceremony with prizes

-Edge Games highlight video

-The Edge Band

-Trophy Presentation/Flag Recessional

-Team Spirit Competition – Dress up in your country’s color

-Prizes for the team with the most students at the closing ceremonies

Hope to see you there!!

Here are the updates for this week…

MISSION TRIP PARENT INFO
If anyone was unable to attend the information meetings about the mission trips being offered this summer, please see the attachment to this email. Applications are due by Wednesday, February 29th.

NO WEDNESDAY EDGE
This is the second week of The Edge Games. We resume the competitions on Friday, Feb. 10th. We will not have Edge on Wednesday night because of the Edge Games. We will not have Edge the next Wednesday as well.

EDGE GAMES VIII
The Edge Games is the perfect chance for Edge students to show Christ to their friends. Edge students will be assigned to a country team, and their job is to fill that team up with their friends, and compete in team competitions, appealing to all kinds, for the first 3 Fridays in February. They compete to have their team and their name etched into the Edge Games torch. That’s secondary to the chance to see their friends experience the life changing love of Christ. There will be competitions for the athletic, the artistic, the intelligent, the talented, and the daring. This is an event that no middle school student in the area will want to miss.
At the Edge Games, we are challenging students to ask big life questions that lead to the gospel. We’ve created 3 videos that we are playing over the 3 weeks of the Edge Games that help them think about these questions. I thought, as parents, that you might be interested to see these videos. Hopefully, in watching them, you can have some great conversations with your child and/or their friends. Please CLICK HERE to see this past week’s video.

DOOR #2
Door #2 Studio will be open this Thursday afternoon. Door #2 meets at 4510 Stow Road, Stow from 3-5:30 pm.

NEW OPPORTUNITY
I want to tell you about a great opportunity for our students to be involved in a new part of our church family. Our church is going to begin a Christian library for the youths at the our new venue at the Cuyahoga Hills Youth Detention Center. We are collecting gently used Christian books and Bibles. If any students wish to donate books, they can be dropped off at the church office marked “Prison Venue Library – local outreach”. What a great way to serve other students that we are reaching out to as a church family! Please scour your bookshelves at home or feel free to purchase a couple of new books/Bibles for the teens.

Pittsburgh, PA, March 17th and 18th
Who: 8th grade girls and their moms, Lisa & Louisa from Edge, Darlene Hess from Tha Porch

Trip Purpose: This trip gives you as a Mom the ideal opportunity to welcome your 8th grade daughter into womanhood in a godly manner. Everything we do on the trip and the set-up of the trip itself is intentionally designed to put you in situations where you will be able to challenge, give advice, and encourage your daughter to be a woman after God’s own heart. It also gives you a chance to bond with other mothers as well as Lisa, Louisa (both Edge Ministry) and Darlene Hess (Porch Ministry), the women who have been and will be leading your daughters in ministry at CCC.

Dates: March 17th and 18th
Cost: $90 per person ($180 per Mother-Daughter). This cost includes Hotel (sharing a Queen bed with your daughter (note: there will be another mother and daughter pair in your room) breakfast at the hotel, the meeting room we will use at the hotel, and ticket to the Revolve tour (Saturday 12-7pm). This price does not include food (1 lunch, 1 dinner) and travel (we plan to carpool for travel).

 
Revolve Tour: We are excited that this trip will include going to the Revolve Tour. The Revolve Tour began in 2005 as a response to Mothers who had visited Women of Faith events and now wanted something for their daughters. The result is a one-of-a-kind inspirational event for 6th– to 12th–grade girls that combines award-winning bands and speakers with real, relevant messages in a high-energy event. You can read more at www.revolvetour.com

Information Meeting:  Sunday, February 5th at 11:30 am.  Meet downstairs in Room 10.

Registration:  CLICK HERE to register.

Questions:  Contact Lisa Olson at lisa.olson@ccchapel.com

It is finally here.. the Edge Games are only three days away.  Get pumped up!  The road to the Gold Torch begins here.

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The Edge Games VIII are coming on the first 3 Fridays in February (3, 10, and 17) from 7-9:30 PM at the  Hudson Campus of Christ Community Chapel.  Below is all the information you need to know to be involved and have a blast with us.

• This event is for students from all campuses of Christ Community Chapel and their friends.

• Notice the event is extended by 30 minutes this year.

• No pre-sign up and no charge for this event. Medical and release forms are not necessary because students at no time will be permitted to leave the property.

• Students should come dressed to be active that night as we will be playing team games.  Games are not limited to athletic people.  Other competitions include art contest, trivia, talent show, and more.

• All students are expected to comply with the rules set forth by our Edge staff and over 80 safe adult leaders that will be present.  The adult leaders have the right to send students home if they do not comply.

• Attention Parents!  Please feel free to join us for a cup of coffee and snack in our Edge Games parent lounge located in the atrium.  Also, please feel free to join us on Feb. 17^th for Edge’s Got Talent Show in the church sanctuary at 8:15 PM.

For any questions about anything concerning The Edge Games event, please contact Lisa Olson at lisa.olson@ccchapel.com or 330-650-9533, ext. 357.

Christ Community Chapel, Hudson Campus//750 W. Streetsboro St.//Hudson, OH 44236

Edge Games VIII Team Breakdowns by Small Group (2012)

If you are not in a small group, you can sign up for any team at Edge this month.  Everyone else should work to recruit your friends to join your team.  The biggest team usually wins!

Togo (Red)

Gates –8B (Head Coach)

Creech/Kuzyk—7G

Aurora Campus—All Grades/Genders

Fiji (Yellow)

Sluka—7G (Head Coach)

Collins—8G

Bindus—7B

Aruba (Blue)

French—6B (Head Coach)

Olson—8G

Benden—6G

Dick Youngstrom—Core Teacher (6^th)

Bahamas (Green)

Bee—7G (Head Coach)

Kozy/Scott—7G

Nick Tallman—HS leader

Jeremy Hay—Core Teacher (6^th)

Uruguay (Black)

Neumann—7G (Head Coach)

Savitt—7B

Lance Fry—Core Teacher (7^th)

Djibouti (Orange)

Stow Campus Small Groups—All Grades/Genders

Paolucci (Head Coach)

Brown—8G

Iceland (White)

Lisowski—8B (Head Coach)

Kozy—7G

Doug Hartline—Core Teacher (8^th)

Cambodia (Pink)

Weaver—8B (Head Coach)

Volk—6G

Wilkinson—6B

Michele Minger—Core Teacher (6^th)