Youth Groups

LCC has two Youth Groups, one for middle schoolers (grades 6-8) and one for high schoolers (grades 9-12). The groups meet monthly in the LCC Youth Room and Youth Group experiences occur throughout the year. Past activities have included a Haunted Hayride, Thanksgiving Potluck, LCC Lock-In, Homeless Awareness Sleep-Out, Sledding & Tobogganing, Movie Night, and the annual LCC Youth Musical (April).

Youth Mission Trip
In addition to outreach projects benefiting individuals and organizations in Northeast Ohio, each summer the youth of LCC participate in a Mission Trip that provides them with an opportunity to reach out to people in need in other areas of the United States. Over the years they have traveled to Lott’s Creek, Kentucky, Rutland, Massachusetts (Heifer Farm/Heifer International), Pittsburgh (The Pittsburgh Project) and Chicago (DOOR) to name just a few. Both the teens and their chaperones talk about their experiences many years after their return home.

The 2025 Mission Trip: Washington United Church of Christ, Cincinnati, OH: June 15-19

Homeless Awareness Sleep-Out (HASO)
Since 2006 the youth of LCC have participated in the Homeless Awareness Sleep-Out (HASO). They construct outdoor “homes” made out of tarps and cardboard boxes and sleep out on the front steps of LCC – overnight, all night. Every year in February, in the snow, sleet, rain, and/or zero degree temperatures, they collect (essentially by “pan-handling”) money to donate back to organizations and agencies working to end housing insecurity in the Greater Cleveland Area.