remix is coming...

Hope summer is going well for all of you! I have seen so many of you at GCC on Sundays, yes that is our primary summer environment so come every Sunday. We are in the superheros series and it has been really cool. Hop to see you Sunday. Make sure and add us on myspace and on facebook. We want to hear from you!

This fall at REMIX is going to be amazing. we are working on plans right now and we think this fall is going to be amazing. We launch back in August so start making plans. We will be making a few big announcements about REMIX in the next few weeks so stay tuned.

Have a great week! make sure and email us any crazy pictures you take this summer to relevantteam@relevantstudents.com We will post the best ones on the myspace and facebook sites!

Sunday from Student Life...

What a great way to spend a Sunday! Yes we are here live from Student Life Camp in Shocco Springs, AL. You have to see this place, it is a camp dream. We had a great Saturday and you can go to our facebook group and check out a ton of pictures from here. yes it is 10 guys from relevant raising cain here at camp. It has been wild. Last night was an incredible time or worship. We really focused on wasting our life on Jesus and his dreams for our life. We will spend our life on something, why not spend it, use it, focus it on Jesus and making him known. We also made it through water day and an hour on the aqua park on the lake. Yes it was crazy. Water day turned into mud fest really quickly and I must say we dominated. YES DOMINATED. we have named our little band of rebels team domination. Today we hit UNITE at rec which is all about team building. get ready, paintball this afternoon. Domination is on the way. here are a few pics from yesterday...

live from Student Life Camp...

yes this weekend (Friday- Monday) we are here at Student Life camp and this is Michael sending the blog update live while our group is being led by Nate Edmondson in their small group time. We came here to Student Life with our middle school kids for the FIRST every middle school experience for teens at GCC. I was shocked at first that we only had 8 guys sign up to come, just guys...what do I do with that! Now that I am here with the group just 2 leaders and 8 guys I am understanding what God is up to. This is an amazing group of young men and we get the chance to pour into their lives for 4 days. Just amazing. We have had an incredible time so far. Last night was an amazing night in the worship gathering and we the camp here at Shocco Springs is wild. Today we get to hit a AQUA jump on the lake here and on Sunday we are playing paintball. This is a middle school magnet. Looks like we have found our middle school camp and the Student life flow is amazing. I will have more pics on Sunday to post and I already put a few on our facebook page.

getting ready for MIDDLE SCHOOL...

Back from bigstuf and we are getting ready for Student Life Camp where we are taking a group of middle school students. We leave Friday for this adventure so please pray for our group. Student Life is an amazing place and I am stoked our kids get to experience. This is the first middle school only experience for relevant student ministry so we are excited. It is going to be amazing.

It was great Sunday to see so many of you at GCC. It is crazy to think that we go to a church where we love to gather and love to worship God together. I have never served at a church where teens wanted to come to Sunday mornings. This summer you do not want to miss a week. It you want info about our current series go to www.gcomchurch.com. ALSO this summer is a great time to start serving. We can use you in Grace Acres, Cross Street, or in one of our greeting areas. You can serve now, why wait to serve God, serve NOW!

day 4 from bigstuf

It has been an amazing week and God keeps blowing us away with how incredible He is. Day 3 and 4 were not different for us here at bigstuf. Many times I am not sure what makes the most difference in a teens life...the relationships, the teaching, the fun, the music, the time alone with God? Not sure I can put God in a box on this one. When we get away and focus on connecting with God and with each other change begins to happen. There are so many little things that have connected for us about who God is and how he is working in our lives. All the guys hit waffle house last night, we are going to race go carts today, we all went crazy at the beach. So many time these times together are minimized but real connecting happens. Doing things kids like to do and joining them in their world works, amazing. Our team has been able to invest in some incredible teens. It has been a great week. we leave in the morning and we get to gather for one more gathering tonight. I know it is going to be amazing to meet with God all together once more tonight. This is the last post from bigstuf but here are 2 more pics...

bigstuf day 3, amazing

Something happens at Bigstuf when we start spending time with God, alone, one on one, no band, no speaker. Just us, God and the Bible sitting in the middle of creation. On Day 2 we always have our first time to get away before the night service and spend time with God. There is something amazing at watching 1,000 people spread across the beach and just talk to God...alone. This is just a pic I snuck in so you could understand what is happening here. When we are with God he changes us, he shapes us. It is hard to contain or explain but God begins to change who we are. We went right from this time alone to a time where we gathered and united together to encounter God. Stuart Hall led us to confront the idea of living a life of truth. Living life not embracing the practice of constant deceit. We all do it, we all lie. We know we should not go there but it makes life seem more controllable. We looked in the Bible where Jesus said, "let your yes be yes and your no be no" and it helped us understand Jesus led us to a life of truth. Once again the most significant time of the day happens when we meet in small group and this was no different. I was wild for us all to get to share in small group what was going on in our hearts. This is a significant week for so many here.

The beach - it was amazing...we also made a midnight run to Walmart and Sonic, YES camp is better with SONIC. If you want pictures they are on the way, for now just imagine lots of icecream. Tonight more surprises and more pictures

day 2 from BigStuf...

Day 2 here at Bigstuf camp in Panama City and our first day on the beach and it has been nothing but glorious. Yes, i know not everyone can be here on the beach but hey, someone has too and we have a bunch of high school students who are loving it. God has really been setting the table through Jared Herd and Stuart Hall here speaking and band leading each session we have been in. Our small groups met last night and got off to a great start. You never know how God is going to work in the hearts of kids at any camp but the theme is BROADCAST and we are asking each other what we are broadcasting with our life...simply said what we cling too the most is what we broadcast with our lives. It would be amazing if our teens could come to love Jesus and see what happens. We will see...

Just a few crazy things. We have a camp mascot, a pickle that Nathaniel Edmonson bought at a store. Yes, I said it a pickle. This morning it went to the session and ad its own seat. I will give ya a picture to check out. It is amazing, we are inspired. We also entered the volleyball tourney this year and something HUGE happened. We scored 2 points, still got beat, but we scored. CAN YOU SAY AMAZING! In three years we scored our first 2 points, year one we got shut out, year 2 we dd not enter, year three we score 2, year 4????what could happen. Keep praying for us as we are gone, we need it for sure...

made it to bigstuf!

Yes for all of you who know we are gone, WE MADE IT TO BIGSTUF. About 10 hours on the road a few pee stops and a sweet lunch at yes here is the picture of my drink...

Yes, we stopped at WHATABURGER, go sear it out on google and check this out. For most of us it was our first trip and it was very random but man it was good. We need this in Clarksville! I am alwasy amazed at the kids God brings us at GCC, these are amazing kids. We are so thankful to be here and our team is just stoked to see what God does tonight in all our hearts. Please pray for us this week. We will keep this thing up to date for sure! More in the morning, more pics for sure!