I recently received the following report concerning our EPIC students: Hey Ryan, I wanted to share with you a conversation I had today at Aspen Fitness after I got done teaching my class. There is a lady in my class who also works in youth ministry in her church in Galena she is a pastor’s [...]
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God is @ work in EPIC
March 2nd, 2011 
ryansmith Centrifuge Camp
February 15th, 2011 ryansmith 
“Ridgecrest rocks! U are gonna love it. We went to student life camp there my first year at GPCC. It’s where Kennedy committed her life to Christ formally. Awesome memories!” –Karyl Brown We are looking forward to camp this summer. This year we are excited about going to Centrifuge in Ridgecrest, North Carolina. The cost [...]
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No Comments »EPIC Win!!
December 8th, 2010 ryansmith We, at EPIC, are always evaluating what we can do to make EPIC better. In the past we have been frustrated with what we were doing because there seemed to always be something that was out of place. I recently realized that the reason for my frustration was due to the fact that I have [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous Tags: center, change, church, community, epic, goal, grace, lewis, ministries, oh, ohio, point, programming, student, win No Comments » December 6th, 2010 ryansmith We recently had our students take a Christmas quiz that tested them on their knowledge of the Christmas story. This was a great beginning to our new Christmas series, Deconstructing Christmas. If you would like to take the quiz you can do so here: http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Bible/Quizzes/Quiz2.htm Would love to hear your score. Comment below with what [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Sunday Nights Tags: bible, center, christmas, church, community, deconstructing, epic, grace, lewis, ministries, oh, ohio, point, quiz, real, student No Comments »The CHILL 2011–The Cost
November 3rd, 2010 ryansmith 
The CHILL 2011 We are excited that The CHILL is just around the corner. Here are details: When: January 14th-16th, 2011 Where: Camp Otyokwah (Butler, OH) Who: A retreat for Senior High students Cost: $95.00 Pick up a registration form on the EPIC table.
The REVOLT
September 15th, 2010 ryansmith 
Our second EPIC REVOLT is coming up September 26-28th. The REVOLT is a three night event where students from 6th-12th grade come to Grace Point Community Church (2393 Peachblow Road, Lewis Center) for games, food, live music, and a Gospel challenge. This year’s band is Winter’s Halo out of Pittsburgh, PA. Winter’s Halo will definitely [...]
Mission Cleveland–Day 3
July 25th, 2010 ryansmith We were up and heading to The Rock at 8:45 am for Day 3 of Mission: Cleveland. After spending time with kids and their parents during the Summer Lunch program, we kicked our our second day of VBS. Josh Jamieson led our singing time and Carly Hyder gave the lesson to the kids. She talked [...]
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July 7th, 2010 ryansmith Day 2 was the day we kicked off Vacation Bible School (VBS) at The Rock. We arrived at the church around 9:00 am. Pastor Dave Brunell set down with us and shared the difficulties of ministering in the Garfield Heights area. We then set up for summer lunch and VBS. We had around 15 students [...]
MERGE Middle School Conference
July 7th, 2010 ryansmith 
I am excited to announce that we are taking registrations for this year’s MERGE Middle School Conference. Here are the details: When: September 10th-12th Where: Heartland Conference and Retreat Center Who: Students in grades 6th-8th Why: To help students MERGE into a faith they own For more details and to register online go to www.mergeconference.com
Posted in Miscellaneous Tags: center, conference, heartland, marengo, merge, middle, ohio, retreat, school No Comments »Mission Cleveland–Day 1
July 6th, 2010 ryansmith After much prayer and planning we took off Monday morning at 7:00 for The Rock Community Church in Garfield Heights (a urbanburb of Cleveland). We arrived at the church a little before 10:00 and started with a tour directed by Pastor Dave Brunell around the church complex. Our chef, Lori Herning, got lunch ready for [...]
