BCM hosts Volleyball-a-thon
Jaime Munoz
Issue date: 3/12/09 Section: Sports
By Jaime Muñoz
Staff Writer
924151486@gsc.edu
Gainesville State College's Baptist Collegiate Ministries club hosted a fundraising Volleyball-a-thon in the gym on Feb. 27 from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. The general public was invited to play against the BCM club and admission was $1 per person.
The theme of the event was "Serve the World," and all of the money raised will be donated to the state BCM organization.
"We're raising money for missions and the state organization of Baptist Collegiate Ministries will send 150 kids all over the world," BCM Council member Trey Hildebrant said.
The pouring rain that day meant that not as many people as the club had hoped for showed up for the first four hours of the volleyball event.
"We didn't have a whole lot signed up till 5 o'clock. We've got teams coming to play us from five to eleven tonight," GSC Campus Baptist Minister Ken Jones said.
It wasn't until 5 p.m. that the first group of organized competitors showed up to play BCM, a youth group from Flat Creek Baptist Church. Various other groups throughout the night also played against the BCM team, which included a youth and adult group from Corinth Baptist Church and the North Georgia College and State University BCM club.
The event was open to everyone, not just local church groups, but the GSC BCM club had struggled to find other clubs on campus to come and play against them.
"We wanted other clubs to get teams to come play us but it just didn't work out where anyone else could get a team to play us," Hildebrant said. "With it being a commuter college, especially on a Friday like this, a lot of people in clubs don't live near here."
One such trip GSC's BCM club events have collected money and donations for was their 2008-09 New Year's trip to New York City as part of a mission trip that allowed 21 students to travel and participate in inner city work for one week on the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan.
GSC's and NGC&SU's Campus Baptist Minister Ken Jones has been leading student groups to the surrounding neighborhoods that are influenced by Graffiti Baptist Church in lower Manhattan.
Staff Writer
924151486@gsc.edu
Gainesville State College's Baptist Collegiate Ministries club hosted a fundraising Volleyball-a-thon in the gym on Feb. 27 from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. The general public was invited to play against the BCM club and admission was $1 per person.
The theme of the event was "Serve the World," and all of the money raised will be donated to the state BCM organization.
"We're raising money for missions and the state organization of Baptist Collegiate Ministries will send 150 kids all over the world," BCM Council member Trey Hildebrant said.
The pouring rain that day meant that not as many people as the club had hoped for showed up for the first four hours of the volleyball event.
"We didn't have a whole lot signed up till 5 o'clock. We've got teams coming to play us from five to eleven tonight," GSC Campus Baptist Minister Ken Jones said.
It wasn't until 5 p.m. that the first group of organized competitors showed up to play BCM, a youth group from Flat Creek Baptist Church. Various other groups throughout the night also played against the BCM team, which included a youth and adult group from Corinth Baptist Church and the North Georgia College and State University BCM club.
The event was open to everyone, not just local church groups, but the GSC BCM club had struggled to find other clubs on campus to come and play against them.
"We wanted other clubs to get teams to come play us but it just didn't work out where anyone else could get a team to play us," Hildebrant said. "With it being a commuter college, especially on a Friday like this, a lot of people in clubs don't live near here."
One such trip GSC's BCM club events have collected money and donations for was their 2008-09 New Year's trip to New York City as part of a mission trip that allowed 21 students to travel and participate in inner city work for one week on the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan.
GSC's and NGC&SU's Campus Baptist Minister Ken Jones has been leading student groups to the surrounding neighborhoods that are influenced by Graffiti Baptist Church in lower Manhattan.
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