Easter's Coming

Its getting closer and closer to Easter and the youth ministry at FUMCTR has a lot going on!  Here are just a few of the things you'll see around our church as we prepare for Easter:

Bible Study will meet just three more times before the end of the season.  We meet at Brian's on April 6th, in the media room for a special worship night on April 13th and then one final time April 27th with KFC for a closing ceremony.


Youth Group will continue to meet on Sundays with an important meeting April 10th for UMARMY.  We will be explaining a bit about UMARMY and filling out permission forms for the trip, so parents need to come in and sign forms! April 17th will be a special field trip as we consider Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday. We'll need some parents to help drive us to our secret destination.  We could also use some youth to help with our Egg Hunt that day.

No Youth Group April 24th (its Easter) or May 8th (its Mother's Day) and instead of the usual May 1st youth meeting we'll be heading out to Yellow Brick Road for some ice cream!  We will have a couple of tabled reserved from 6 to 8pm so instead of meeting at church, we'll just let people come in and out of Yellow Brick Road to hang out with our group for as long or as short of a time as they want.  Bring your family, bring your friends, bring whoever!

Also, don't miss our 30-hour famine where we help those who need our help the most! We will have our overnight event April 29th-30th including a scavenger hunt, a service project and plenty of time to experience what hungry people go through every single day.  Join us because its fun and because its good for you!

Epic IMPACT

An Epic Impact is upon us!  We are only a few more days away from leaving for IMPACT 2011, our Senior High Retreat in Ocean City, MD.  If you still have questions about what to bring, how much money you need, when we are leaving or why a young person should go on this event please revisit our IMPACT notes.  Any young person going must have a yearly Parental and Medical Release Form filled out (you can find a link to that document here).  Most people have that filled out already, but if you aren't sure, give me a call.  We leave Friday at 330pm and will pick up 3 of the Hertls on our way to Maryland. I look forward to some great bonding, great bands and growing in our love for God.  See you soon for an Epic event!

Some Fun Stuff

In March we have plenty of exciting stuff happening in our youth ministry. Let me share with you just a few of those things:

March 6th we are having an open gym riddled with team-building activities
March 13th is our 30-hour famine fundraiser. Join us and be inspired to serve!
March 20th is a St. Patrick's Day celebration. Wear green and show pride!
March 25th-27th is our IMPACT retreat. Join us if your in High School, but remember, there is no youth group on March 27th.
Don't forget that KE,WL continues to meet on Tuesday nights for Senior High Bible Study and on Wednesdays we have another Bible Study meeting with movie nights and house meetings. We'll even be meeting at Friendly's in a few weeks! To hold you over until then take a look at some pictures from the ski trip.