Wednesday, August 27, 2008

See You at the Pole

See You at the Pole will be September 24. This is a national day of prayer in which students gather at their middle schools and high schools to pray for their school and their country. Check out these youtube videos.






Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Upcoming Events

August 17– Youth Choir Resumes at 4:00
August 20– M&M Block-party at 5:30
August 23- Youth Choir Kickoff
August 24– Parents Meeting
August 27- Wednesday night schedule resumes. Supper is at 5:30 and we will have a recreational event at 6:15 (check out the weekly schedule below for more details)
August 29– Fifth Quarter after the football game.

September 6– Pet Parade (at the Taylor House). 9:00 a.m. If you would like to help with the Pet Parade show up at 8:30.
September 7- Snack Supper & Bible Study Begin at 6:00 following choir (check out the schedule below for more details). Tracey Buff will be teaching the New Testament portion and I'll be leading the O.T. This should be really good so be sure to stick around after choir or come at 6:00 if you aren't in choir.
September 12– Middle School Guitar Hero Party
September 19– Fifth Quarter
September 20– High School Lake Party. Meet at the church at 12:45

October 3– Fifth Quarter
October 10– Lock-in (subject to change). Lock-ins are super fun but can only happen with good parent support. Be sure to encourage your parents to volunteer to help withthe lock-in so that we can do it :)
October 31- Halloween Fifth Quarter

Monday, August 04, 2008

New Youth Group Changes

We've made to big changes for the youth group. First, we've added 6th grade into the youth group. This means we will have a middle school group (6th-8th) and a high school group (9th-12th). We will also do some stuff combined. The second change is we have dramatically changed our regular weekly schedule.

6th Grade
We are adding 6th graders for several reasons. Overall the main reason to is make a youth group that contains the best ages and will allow us the most freedom to learn and have activities that work. This change should offer a lot more for sixth graders, but should also have a positive impact on all youth.

We will seperate into seperate groups on some occasions like Sunday School and Sunday night Bible study. We will also have a bunch of seperate activities. This should allow some events to have a more specific atmoshphre for that particular age group.

We will combine into a large groups at other times, such as Wednesday nights and for some events (such as a ski trip, YEC, and MMM).
New Schedule
Wednesday Youth Missions
We will have a rotating schedule where we do something different each week.
1st Missions Speaker
2nd Missions Activity
3rd Worship
4th Fellowship Activity
5th Surprise

Sunday Night
4:45 Choir
6:00 Snack Supper in the Fellowship Hall
???? Split up into middle school and high school groups for all new Bible studies. This time may change each week since we may have large group activities planned, or we may have seperate into middle school and high school groups before doing any activities.

Click on the images below to visit the blogs for the Middle School and High School groups.
Middle School


High School

Water Wars

Water wars is this Wednesday. We've got some cool inflatables like a giant water slide and it should be pretty fun. Its 5:30-7:30. Wear a bathing suit and be prepared to get soaked.