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Breakaway is a time for students to come sings songs of worship, play games, pray, and learn about our great God each Wednesday night while school is in session. This year we will be doing a study through the Westminster Shorter Catechism(WSC). Not memorization, but a study of some of the concepts supported by Biblical passages. For those of you not familiar the WSC it is a series of questions and answers completed in 1648. It is designed to help people of all ages gain an understanding about why they exist, who God is and what Scripture teaches. Each week we will go over a new question.

During the year we send out an email with info about upcoming events and with info about what we’ve been teaching. This is also one way we inform of cancelation due to weather or other such issues. We will collect email addresses from your children the first two weeks. If you wish to be removed from that list simply reply and ask, if you do not get on the list and wish to be added please email me at bhough@redeemer-pca.org. The other way to stay up on what is going on and cancelations is to visit our youth blog at www.TheGraze.org

Basic Times

6:30 – 8:00 Elementary Students (2^nd – 5^th)

6:30 – 8:30 Junior High (6^th – 8^th) and High School Students (9^th- 12^th)

Further Explanation

We are trying something a little different this year with Breakaway. We will start at 6:30 with Elementary (2^nd grade – 5^th grade) and Junior High (6^th grade – 8^th grade) as participants. Some high school students will serve as helpers for the elementary group during this time period. By 7:35 the elementary group will be done and dismissed to supervised free time in the gym which last until 8:00. Parent pick up time is 8:00.

However students in 6^th grade – 12^th grade will participate in another time of study and games from 7:35 – 8:30. This could cause pick-up/drop off issues for families with students in both groups. So if you have a junior high student you can tell them to leave at 8:00 with their younger sibling or the younger sibling is free to play in the gym until 8:30 with adult supervision. If you are still confused read the time guide below.

Time Guide by Grade

2^nd – 5^th grade: drop off before 6:30 (we’ll start exactly at 6:30 in the Youth Room) and pick up at 8:00 (unless they are waiting for older sibling to finish)

6^th – 8^th grade: drop off at 6:30 (again, we’ll start exactly at 6:30 in the Youth Room) and pick up at 8:30 (unless you wish for them to leave with younger sibling early).

9^th – 12^th drop off at 6:30. Pick up at 8:30

Drop off and Dismissal Procedure

Drop off: Please drop your students off at the main WCA entrance on the East side of the building where they will check in before heading downstairs to the Youth Room.

Pick Up: If you pull up to the door at 8:00 we’ll have someone waiting with cell phone/walkie talkie to inform adults inside you’re here for your students. We’ll then send them out to you (you are of course always welcome to come inside and get them if you wish).

This Saturday Morning at 10:00 a.m. (last only one hour) we will be leading a game of Bingo for the Good Samaritan Center. I would really love to see as many of you as possible come show the love of Christ to the residents there with your time and conversation. It is located at 20705 W 151st St, Olathe, KS 66061 which is across the street from the Great Mall of the Great Plains behind the hospital. If you plan on being there please email me at bhough@redeemer-pca.org to let me know and be there about 15 minutes early.

Before giving the result of the first ever Redeemer Olympics let me remind you that Movie Night is tonight in the youth room from 7-10 p.m. All students 6th grade and up are invited to enjoy a movie and popcorn. Parents if you have concerns about what movie please give me a call today 913-439-9319, I prefer to keep the title a suprise. Now…

For the first ever Redeemer Olymipics we had three competing nations, Uzbekistan, Peru and Texas. In the end Peru and Texas were tied in the medal count with Peru winning due to their high number of gold medals.

Run Down of events

1. Wall Sit – required a sitting stance against a wall for as long as possible. It came down to gymnastics trained Roxie and Potty trained Chris. Both there legs began to shake against their wills and Christ held on for just a bit longer. Gold went to Chris Earnshaw, Silver to Roxie Vos and Bronze to Robbie Hotz.

2. Cotton Ball Shotput – Just like it sounds, other than a DQ for inovation (wading up cotton ball) on the part of Zach Lutz the event went off perfect. Gold went to Mark Sievert, Silver to Sam Basham and Bronze to Cam Earnshaw.

3. Down Sprite – Simply drink the Sprite as fast as you can. The Earnshaw twins have been training in this for quite some time and it showed as Cam broke the world record with the gold medal and Chris also breaking the previous world record received a bronze medal. Zach Hershberger from Bulgaria finished with the silver.

4. Standing Jump – Stand and jump as far as you can. Early on there were high hopes for Brandon and Mark that proved to be misguided as the men finished with Cam Hershberger winning gold followed by Robbie Hotz and Zach Lutz. In the women’s division Roxie Vos took gold with Joy Hillyer winning silver and the bronze going to dance guru Sophie Elliot.

5. Race Walk – This turned out to be quite entertaining as 20 man walk race went up and down the halls before returning to the youth room with overly serious faces from all the effort. Robbie Hotz again took gold for Peru with Zach Hershberger close behind bringing the silver home to Texas. Connor Lutz took bronze adding to the Purivian medal count. In the ladies division Roxie Vos brought home yet another gold followed by Joy Hillyer with the silver.

6. Coin Catch – Coin catch has contestant holding 8 coins on their elbow which must then be caught using the same arm’s hand. Connor Lutz’s training in “hey, can I have that” proved to be strong as he took home the gold with 7 coins. Connor was followed by brother Zach and Chris Earnshaw with 3 and 2 coins respectively.

7. Rowing – 4 rolling chairs facing backwards and a fifth facing forward to yell, “pull” over and over again. Peru gained gold, Texas the silver after a nasty wreck on their first run and Uzbekistan the bronze.

8. 20m Roll – The 20m roll is roll down the hall like you are going down a hill. It is very hard to go straight and many heads made contact with wall. Robbie smashed his head and still managed to win the gold, he was in Phelps like form during these games.In the women’s division Roxie brought home another gold medal.

Final: Like we said Peru won these games just beating out Texas. 7 individual world records and one team world record was set along with two athletes gaining the title of most decorated athlete in the history of the games. Roxie Vos with 5 total medals, 3 of which were gold and Robbie Hotz with 4 medals 3 of which were gold.

There is already talk of the 2012 Redeemer Olympics and how Jack Reymond will fair in the dismount event.