Last week I attended Creation Festival with 100,000 of my closest friends. Well, maybe not my closest friends, but that’s how many people were in attendance during the four-day festival.
I went with five members of my church’s youth group, a friend of one of the members and another leader. We had a group [...]
Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to attend Youth Specialties‘ The Core 2008: Generation Change with my pastor and two of my fellow youth volunteers at Camp Hill UMC.
Overall, the event was pretty decent, though I didn’t think it was as good as the previous week’s conference at Messiah College or a training held by [...]
Last Sunday was Christ UMC’s annual Youth Sunday, the one Sunday of the year where the youth have complete (or at least almost complete) control over our worship services.
This year, the youth and leaders decided on a theme of “Jesus is our hope.” The idea primarily came from a popular YouTube video that shows [...]
I’ve finally had an opportunity to compile my notes from last week’s 3rd Annual Messiah College Youth Workers Conference, so I’m ready to post a wrap-up of the event.
The highlight of my day was most definitely the keynote speech (broken up into two parts) by Kenda Creasy Dean, a professor and the director of the [...]
For the past three or four years, Christ UMC’s youth group, The Gathering, has participated in World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine (read about the 2007 30 Hour Famine).
Earlier today, I had to make a difficult, disappointing decision: I had to cancel this weekend’s 30 Hour Famine. The weather forecast called for four to seven [...]
Today I pose a question to the readers of this site (assuming there are any): What do you do if the members of a committee (all of whom are volunteers) which you lead need to meet and there isn’t a single day and time when everyone is available?
Do you a) meet when the most members [...]
Yesterday afternoon, The Gathering met at 12:15 to go ice skating at the Sunbury Ice Skating Rink. Once everyone had arrived, someone mentioned that Selinsgrove had a skating rink where everything was free. Having lived here almost ten years (four years in college, five years as an employee), I was surprised I’d never [...]
Saturday afternoon, my youth group went up to the Ronald McDonald House at Geisinger Medical Center
to prepare a meal for the families who were staying there. Unfortunately, because the event was on a Saturday, we only had three youth and four leaders attend.
Soon after arriving, we started preparing dinner of spaghetti and meatballs, garlic [...]
Last night was the first Bible study of the spring, but the high school girls wanted to talk about some things, so we spent the evening talking. Since I can’t share what we spoke about, the only thing I can say is that we finally made a decision about Impact 2008!!
Four of our students [...]
Last night was The Gathering’s first meeting of the winter/spring season after two weeks off for the Christmas and New Year holidays. Parents were asked to attend so details of the spring schedule could be flushed out, particularly who prepares dinner and provides transportation. Additionally, I wanted to make a decision on whether or not [...]
