Free Pancake Brunch & Mini-golf

Congratulations! You finished your first week of the semester. I hope you are still excited about it and not feeling too overwhelmed by the three year's worth of assignments your professors told you you would be doing this semester. Don't worry, you can do so much more than you think you can. You'll do fine. Just pray for God to help you manage your time well, and study when it's time to study, and take a break when it's time to take a break so that you can hit the books again fresh, later.

And since the weekend is here, Saturday would be a great time to take one of those breaks! That's why the student leaders here have planned a FREE Pancake Brunch for tomorrow (Saturday) at 11AM at our campus house. We want to give you a chance to blow off some steam and relax and enjoy some delicious pancakes and sausage, and get to know each other better, or maybe meet you for the first time.

Afterwards we're thinking about going miniature golfing if the weather cooperates. So if that sounds like fun, plan on doing that with us, too. The mini-golf place also has batting cages, and a driving range if you want to do that while we're there.

Bring some friends if you want. Everyone is welcome.

If you need directions to our campus house, one of the best ways to get them is to type "413 Clay St. SW, Blacksburg, VA" into Google maps. You'll see that our campus house is only about a block away from most of the dorms on campus, over by the Washington Street tennis courts. It's much closer than most of your classes if you are on campus!

If you are walking from on campus, when you are standing on Washington Street between O'Shaugnessy (O'Shag) Hall and Johnson Hall -- cross to the other side of the street and take the sidewalk up the hill towards VT's Cranwell International Center. (You will see a sign for Cranwell on Washington St.) VT's Tennis Courts will be on your right. As you are walking up the hill veer to your left off of the sidewalk and walk up the grassy hill. You will see the campus house facing you. It's a two story red brick house with a big front porch and a banner on the balcony railing that says "Christ's Church @ VT Campus Ministry" -- so you'll know you found the right place once you get here! It's really pretty simple.

Don't forget: FREE Pancakes and sausage, 11AM tomorrow (Saturday, August 25) at 413 West Clay St.

Check out our schedule of other upcoming events at the bottom of this page. Just scroll down. Thanks.

We are really hoping to see you Saturday.

Working up an appetite,
Steve

Free Spaghetti Dinner & Oasis Bible Study

Hey, hope your first two days of classes have gone great and you were able to find all of them without getting lost or anything like that. Here at Christ's Church at VT campus ministry (CCVT) we are excited about having our first "Oasis" Bible study of the year tomorrow, Wednesday, which is our main large group gathering that we have every week. It's kind of the center of our life as a campus ministry and includes Bible Study, group discussion, sharing with friends, prayer, & celebration through heartfelt worship. We are really looking forward to welcoming everyone who is new to VT to our group, like you maybe! So please plan on coming.

To help us get to know each other, we have planned a free Spaghetti Dinner for before "Oasis". Just come on over to our campus house at 6:30pm and we will enjoy some home cooked spaghetti with sauce, garlic bread, sides, drinks and dessert.

Oasis starts at 7:30pm. Jesus said, 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.' So we are going to hear a little bit from God's word during Oasis, particularly from a parable Jesus (the "bread of life") told us.

If you need directions to our campus house, probably the best way to get them is to type "413 Clay St. SW, Blacksburg, VA" into Google maps. You'll see that our campus house is only about a block away from most of the dorms on campus, over by the Washington Street tennis courts. It's much closer than most of your classes!

All of us at CCVT are really looking forward to seeing you at Oasis, and we really hope you can join us for some free spaghetti, too, so I hope to see you there.

And feel free to bring some friends with you.

Don't forget: Spaghetti Dinner at 6:30pm, Oasis Bible study at 7:30pm (Wednesday, August 25)

Check out our schedule of other upcoming events by scrolling to the bottom of this page.

Looking forward to seeing you Wednesday night -- Steve

Your Last Homemade Dinner

OK, so hopefully it won't be your last homemade meal ever, but it will probably be your last homemade dinner until you go home for a weekend. So don't miss out on this chance to enjoy some good home cookin' and make some new friends at Christ's Church at VT campus ministry (CCVT).

The menu includes pork BBQ, chicken, cheese and potato casserole, and for those of you who are more adventurous, deer roast! If you've never had any, it's time you tried it. I think this will be my first time trying it, but I like to try new things, so I'm looking forward to it. Call it your first cultural experience at VT.

It's all FREE, so come join us at our campus house right on the edge of campus by the dorms at 413 Clay St. SW, Blacksburg, VA. (Copy and Paste that into Google maps for great directions.) Here is a photo of the house:

It all starts at 6pm Saturday! (August 22)

Come find your campus ministry before you get busy with classes next week. And feel free to bring a friend with you, or many friends. See you soon. -- Steve

Fall 2009

Upcoming Fall Events -- Save the Date
(check back soon for details)

August 20, Thursday, 10am -- Campus House Work Day

August 20, Thursday, 6pm -- CCVT Reunion Dinner

August 21, Friday, 6pm -- Cookout with Volleyball (and maybe Badminton!)

August 22, Saturday, 6pm -- "Your Last Homecooked Meal"

August 23, Sunday, 7:30pm -- Worship Team Meeting

August 26, Wednesday, 6:30pm -- Spaghetti Dinner & Oasis (large group Bible study)

August 28, Friday, 2-7pm -- Gobblerfest/Student Organization Showcase (Come see us at our display)

August 29, Saturday, 11am -- Pancake Brunch & Mini-golf (bowling if it rains)

Sept. 2, Wednesday, 7:30pm -- Oasis (large group Bible study)

Sept. 2, Wednesday, after Oasis -- First Core Group Servant Team meeting of the semester

Sept. 5, Saturday, 8pm -- Football Party, Alabama vs. VT (away game)