Morning Gathering
We Gather Every Sunday Morning From 9:30am-10:15am At The Church St Campus: 111 Church St, Blacksburg, Va. We Eat Breakfast, Plan Service Projects With Our Youth Leadership Team, & Do A Devotion Focused on Serving The Community!
Youth gather on Sunday mornings for some service project planning & time in their Dreamers & Offshoots devotionals. We meet at 9:45am - 10:30am on the Church Street Campus (111 Church St) upstairs! Anyone can join at any time throughout the year, and feel free to leave early if heading to the edges campus service!
Youth Group
Meets Every Sunday from 6:30pm-8:00pm at the edges campus: 706 Harding Avenue Blacksburg, Va
Youth Group happens every Sunday evening from 6:30pm-8pm at our edges campus (706 Harding Avenue). All 6th-12th graders are invited to join us for desserts, fellowship time, a short devotional, and small groups with our team of dedicated adult leaders! Anyone can join at any time throughout the year!
Bible Study
We host a highschool bible study every Wednesday night from 8:00pm-9:00pm at the Blacksburg Panera Bread! We are currently studying a book called "Love Does" in conjucture with scripture stories that reveal the many shades of God's Love.
Every Wednesday night, 8pm-9pm, at Panera Bread in Blacksburg, the high school youth get together for some fellowship time and bible study! We studying the life of Jesus in the gospels - the point of His pilgrimage. While laying it parallel to our own personal lives.
Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for them in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith & in pureness.
1 Timothy 4:12
If interested in joining youth group, please register on our form! We need information in accordance with our Child Protection Policy, and so we can send out important information!
Service Projects
Our youth leadership team works to develop one project per month that serves our community. All youth are invited to these specified "Service Sundays" and engage in the projects! In addition to this, we take a week long mission trip every summer!
One Sunday per month, the youth have a Service Sunday where we meet for a couple of hours to complete a service project for our community! All of our projects are planned and led by the youth, with some of our adult leaders assisting!
We have a large team of adult leaders - leading our morning gatherings, our youth group small groups, our service projects, and our trips/events! We have a running "Love Our Leaders" video series highlighting these incredible people!
Sign-Up for our summer mission trip
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Rising 7th graders through graduating seniors are invited to join us on our summer mission trip to Asheville, North Carolina! We will spend the week lodging at Lake Junalaska - enjoying meals together, access to the lake and kayaking, team building games, pool access, and nightly worship. Each day we will be travelling around western North Carolina working on much needed repair and feeding porjects for people displaced by Hurricane Helene. Our last day (our "fun" day) will be spent white water rafting the French Broad River and exploring downtown Asheville before heading home!
recap of our summer 2024 Trip to the Chesapeake Bay!
We Shared & Received Much Light On Our Recent Trip To The Chesapeake Bay!
Christa Craighead
Director of Youth Ministries
youth@blacksburgumc.org