Gethsemane Church's ministry to students in grades 6 - 12.
FALL 2025
Here is our Fall 2025 Calendar! Mark your calendar for the events you see below:
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UPCOMING DATES
Christmas Party | December 7, 2025
December 7th from 6-7:30pm is our annual Students Christmas Party! This is a great event for students to invite friends--there'll be Christmas games, hot cocoa, and lots of fun. Students should bring a white elephant gift (wrapped, around $10) and come in silly/ugly/goofy Christmas attire, too!
JH Winter Retreat | January 30-31, 2026
The JH Winter Retreat is a fantastic opportunity for students in grades 6-8 to get away, have fun, and most importantly have opportunities to engage Jesus and their relationship with with. We'll eat, play games, worship, and spend time studying the Bible and its concepts. Registration includes everything: food (dinner, breakfast, and lunch), travel, and accommodations. For students in the Confirmation program at Gethsemane, this serves at the spring intensive and is a required piece of the program.
HS Winter Retreat | Feb 27 - Mar 1, 2026
High School Students--join us for this personal and deep retreat in snowy (hopefully!) Pine, AZ. We will travel up on Friday, February 27th and return Sunday, March 1, 2026. We're joining one other church (Cross of Christ) and plan to have around 20 people total, so we'll have a lot of fun really getting to know each other and experiencing adventure together, as well as taking deeper dives into Scripture and study.
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VISION
Our vision for GC Students: take Jesus into the world.
With everything we do at GC Students, we are asking this crucial question: “How are we helping these students take Jesus into their world (context) and everyday lives?”
FLOW
We keep this flow relatively consistent across all our programming because it works well and it facilitates easier transitions between different levels of ministry, for kids, students, and volunteers.
We follow an ACTIVE > LARGE GROUP > SMALL GROUPS flow (see below).
Each week, we structure our Active time together around one of these themes:
SERVE
Engage in a project to help people in our community and church.
INVITE
Events that make it easy to invite friends to like Turkey Bowling or a campus-wide game of capture the flag.
PRAY
Set aside time to be guided through worship and prayer with special experiences and helpful new practices.
TEACH
Study at a deeper level and start your week with a more thorough understanding of the intersection of faith and life.