Peachtree Corners

Come Experience an Extreme Makeover–Catholic Edition

The 2005 thematic park, Peachtree Corners, is located in Halls B4 and B5 on Level One of the Georgia World Congress Center. It is open Thursday from 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. The size of over four football fields, Peachtree Corners is THE place to be when general and concurrent sessions are not meeting. Divided into four quadrants: mind, body, spirit, and community, it houses hundreds of exhibit booths, inflatable games, service opportunities, sports, arts and crafts, and more. Following is a sampling of what is inside.

Exhibits Area

  • Exhibitors from around the country including musicians, national and local ministries, clothing and religious goods vendors. A complete list of exhibitors is available online at www.nfcym.org.
  • Peachtree Prayer Station located in the center of the exhibit area where participants can write out their prayer requests and hang them on our prayer tree.

Mind Quad

  • The John Paul II Student Center sponsored by Southern Catholic College including exhibits from Catholic colleges and universities from around the country, Texas hold ‘em, a lounge showing football and movie clips, Catholic Jeopardy, and much more.
  • The Cyber Café where you can check your email, download ring tones, and try your hand at some new electronic gadgets and X Box games.
  • Extreme Experience interactive booths. Actually spread throughout the park, these twenty plus booths will engage and inspire with thought provoking and hands on interactive experiences. A list of participating organizations appears on the next page.

Body Quad

  • Demonstrations by BMX Extreme Bikers sponsored by Catholic Heart Workcamp
  • Team building and experiential games by the National Center for Catholic Youth Sports.
  • Volleyball on Thursday, an exhibition basketball tournament on Friday by Georgia Special Olympics and Soccer in the Streets with pick up soccer and character building exercises on Saturday.

Bring a canned good to donate and “Twist for Hunger” at the same time. Help us break the world’s record for number of people playing Twister at one time.

Spirit Quad

  • In the Teens 2 Teens service area the “We Care” project allows participants the opportunities to reach out to teens in need by making care packages to send locally to teens in foster homes (Thursday), nationally to teens whose parents are serving in the military abroad and to those in the Gulf Coast region devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (Friday), and internationally to teens at St. John Bosco’s Home for Boys in Jamaica (Saturday)!

Bring a new or gently used backpack for this project.

 

  • Also in Teens 2 Teens, we will be making fleece blankets for premature babies and bandana scarves for children hospitalized with cancer. A label will be affixed to each item that says that we will be praying for them and that God cares for them.
  • The vocations area features a nine hole putt-putt golf course where you can sign up to play a round with bishops, priests, and sisters.
  • The Master’s Clubhouse sponsored by the Atlanta Office of Vocations includes an area to have your picture taken in photo cut outs of different vocation clothing, play pool and air hockey, or just hang out.

Community Quad

  • The Catacomb Café performance stage sponsored by Life Teen will showcase national and local talent of all types of music as well as comedians and multicultural dance teams.
  • On Saturday at 1:30 p.m. the Catholic Campaign for Human Development will present youth from St. Michael’s Church in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii with the 2005 CCHD Multi Media Youth Arts Contest Award on the Catacombs Café stage.
  • The Images of God and Mary Artist’s Lounge where some café performers will come to mingle and you “paint by number” large, beautiful murals of images of God and Mary.
  • Arts & Crafts where you can try your hand at making a rosary, friendship bracelets/anklets to exchange and other projects.
  • Pick up a prayer journal sponsored by Narnia Outreach and make it your own. All interactive booths and several other exhibitors will have “Try This At Home” sheets which will explain how to bring the organization/project to your hometown.
  • The Amazing Race has clues and instructions that will lead you through the park to different areas each day. Complete the sheet and turn it in to get a raffle ticket for the day. Each day, dozens of prizes will be raffled off for the participants to win.

 

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