Generation Church


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Awkward Silence
Pastor Elijah Waters
Jun 24th (University District)


Taking the reality of God to our generation

Generation Church (GC) is the youth ministry of The City Church in the Seattle area. We are young people, Junior High through University, who are passionate about taking the reality of God to our generation. Read more about us



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30-Jun Everyone Goes to Camp!!!

Looking to go to GC camp this year but a little short on cash, GC has the answer for you! We have amazing families that have jobs for our very own GC students to raise money to pay their way to camp. Dont let money be the reason you miss out on GC Camp 2009. For more information about working your way to camp or camp scholarships please email breanna.giberson@thecity.org.

12-Jun High School Paintball at Skinny Joe’s

Schools out for summer, which means GC camp is just around the corner. All the games, all the glory, and yes, lots and lots of paint everywhere.

GC High School students: this your shot to get warmed up for GC camp. We will be taking all the GC High school students paintballing Saturday June 27th, this includes all new sophmores that are moving into high school this summer. The cost is 35 dollars and that includes your paintball gun, mask and paint. If you have your own equipment your more than welcome to use it. We will also be stopping for lunch on the way home so bring a little extra for food.

You don’t want to miss this opportunity to take your best shot at all the GC staff, so bring it baby! Space is limited for transportation to the first 40 students, so stop what your doing and get signed up today. Dont forget to fill out both waivers (GC waiver, Skinny Joe’s waiver) and sign up with Joy Sevrin at GC or through email to joy.sevrin@thecity.org.

04-Jun Camp Registration Now Live

It’s June, it’s sunny, and school is almost out for the summer. We’re readying a summer camp experience like you’ve never had before, so you’d better make plans now, and register today! Space is limited, so don’t procrastinate this year.

28-Apr Details for the Gathering, May 2009

UPDATE: We’ve decided to delay the Gathering by one week! It’s now scheduled for May 9th — same time, same place.

Calling all campuses — Kirkland, University, Central District, Alderwood, Plateau, and North Sound — join all of Generation Church (and YP) at our next Gathering on May 2nd May 9th at 8pm in the Kirkland Auditorium for our blow-out service! Don’t forget to sport your campus color:

  • Kirkland: black and white
  • University: purple
  • Alderwood: green
  • Plateau: yellow
  • Central District and Belltown: red
  • North Sound: camouflage

26-Apr Where’s Pastor Judah Going?

Some have asked what’s next for Pastors Judah and Chelsea. Here’s the quick answer: Pastor Judah will continue to preach the weekend services as Preaching Pastor of The City Church. For those who want to continue to listen to the messages via podcast, don’t forget to subscribe to the Sundays podcast. Also, be sure to follow @judahsmith on Twitter to get his updates!

23-Apr BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: New GC Pastors!

We are excited to announce that Pastors Elijah and AnneMarie Waters are the new Generation Church Pastors! Pastor Judah will be preaching his last message as a youth pastor next week at GC, so you don’t want to miss it! (Additionally, he will continue to preach at the weekend services and fulfill his recently-appointed role as Preaching Pastor at The City Church.)

02-Apr Dating Delilah Now Free

If you haven’t yet picked up a copy of Dating Delilah, Pastor Judah’s book about purity, then now you have no more excuses. We’ve made the digital PDF and audiobook copies of the book available for free online at datingdelilah.org.

(If you’re a youth pastor or leader and you’d like to distribute copies of the PDF book, please refer to the license agreement — which basically states that so long as you copy the entirety of the book and leave the attribution intact, re-distribution is allowed. The same goes for the audiobook.)


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