FEBRUARY EVENTS in the works...
February 5 - "Souper" Bowl of Caring Sunday
February 11 - Youth Sweetheart Dinner - (Western style!)
February 12 - Deadline to Register for Young Christians Weekend - Cost: $35.00
February 26 - Visit Second Baptist Church - (Unity Sunday)
Notes from Penny: January 30, 2012
This Sunday we will be focusing on "Unity." One of the things we are encouraged to do is to attend a different ethnic worship service. So on Sunday, February 26, we will be attending Second Baptist Church. Their 4th Sunday is actually youth led. It begins at 10:50. So I encourage you to have your youth here for Sunday School and then we will leave to go over there. We will then eat lunch together and have our "fun day"
activity and finish around 2:30-3:00.
SOUPER BOWL SUNDAY - Don't forget this Sunday is our SOUPER BOWL mission project. The youth that are doing this week's skit should be at church at 8:00 to run through it. Also other youth will take up the collection after the services. Sr. High will then meet at noon. Eat a bite of lunch and then paint the backdrop for their sweetheart dinner. We will finish by 1:30!
SWEETHEART DINNER - We will need help cooking on the 11th. I will send times out next week. I still need adults to help with babysitting! No volunteers yet! We do have one family with children signed up so far.
It should be an easy job!
Young Christians Weekend - Deadline to register and pay the $35 is February 12! Don't forget to do this if your youth wants to attend.
I think that is it. Lots of great things going on so encourage your youth to attend as much as possible!
In His Service
Penny
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Festival of Sharing 2011 - Wesley Youth and Sponsors who attended!
Four youth, along with Pastor Tom, Lainie and Penny just returned from the Festival of Sharing in Sedalia. This year’s theme was “Sharing God’s Abundance.” It is always amazing how our youth are willing to share their abundant energy to go above and beyond what is expected of them. The first station was the potato drop but the truck ended up in Kansas City instead of Sedalia??!!
So rather than waiting around for the next station our group jumped right in and started bagging beans.
Then it was onto the “Calendar” station where the youth made calendars for prisoners.
The afternoon station ended up not needing the Wesley group but that didn’t stop them from jumping in again and filling more bags of beans – again working very efficient to get the job done. So in essence, the youth truly did share God’s abundance through their abundant energy and drive in the work they accomplished!
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Visiting Those Who Can't Get Out
Senior High & Middle School Youth Group (5:45 - 7:00 p.m.): We have started going the Castlepark Retirement Center and play bingo with the residents. We are going to do this once a month on the first Wednesday evening of each month. This will give us an opportunity to develop relationships with residents there since we will be there more than just once. They have 12 residents. This is where Gene Smith lives. We are excited to have this opportunity to reach out in this way. We invite ALL youth to come on these Wednesday evenings. We will gather right at 5:45 p.m. (after the W.O.W. meal) and get loaded and there by 6:00. We will spend an hour there and then get back to church around 7:15 p.m. when all the other Wednesday church activities are ending. We always welcome an extra adult along besides Shelly and Penny.
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Don't Text While Driving
There is a nation wide campaign that we totally support. Don't text while driving. This is even more dangerous than drinking while under the influence of alcohol or drugs! Don't take a chance with your life or someone else's life. [YouTube video]
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 Pop Your Top!
The Wesley Junior High Youth are still collecting pop can tabs for the Ronald McDonald House and they want to thank everyone who has brought in pop tabs to church.
As of May 1, 2011 Wesley U.M.C. has donated a little over 54,000 tabs or 22 pounds to the Ronald McDonald House in Columbia. Please continue to collect and bring them to church. Don't forget the tabs on soup cans also count. Let's see how many we can collect. Every little bit helps! The collection container is a cardboard house located on the counter next to the pop machine. Please deposit your can tabs there.
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OLD NEWS....BUT FUN TO READ TO SEE THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF OUR YOUTH
Congrats to our High School
Graduates (May of 2011)
Best wishes to Wesley's High School graduates: Logan Allee, Jared Cluck, Doug Crawford, Jordan Hull, Andrea Green, Brittany
Green, Shawna Leftwich, and Jessi Treese.
Thank you to the United Methodist
Women
The Wesley youth would like to thank the U.M.W. for their
generous donation of $224.66 to be used for their summer Mission Monday
projects. It's exciting to see the possibilities when we work together
for the good of the Lord! Thank you!
Congratulations to our Confirmation
Class (April of /2011)
This year's Confirmation Class, Sean Burton, Cole
Eidson, Darra Mobley, Breana Nilges, Alec Propst and Alex Vogel became full
and responsible members of Welsey U.M.C. on Sunday, April 17. Rev.
Williams designed a special worship service for that day to emphasize the
importance of choosing to follow Christ. Please continue to keep all six
of our new church members in your prayers.
2011 MIssion Mondays (June- July of 2011)
Our
group is very mission minded and loves to help others. So we have decided
to start in June and expand our "Mission Mondays" with some extra days.
Our tentative schedule at this point would be: June 6, June 13, July 11,
July 18, and July 25.
Summer Church Camp
Schedule (Summer of 2011)
With snow on the ground, it may seem odd to be thinking
about summer camp already. However, children, youth, and their parents
often start planning their summer before winter even begins! So, it is
good to know that the United Methodist Missouri Conference Camp Book is now
online. A limited number of the paper version of the camp book is
available at Wesley. Registration opened February 1. Early Bird
deadline is April 15 (save money!). To view LAST YEAR'S (2011) camp book, or to
find out more click here. Be sure to contact
Penny for a $100 camp voucher (available to Wesley youth
only).
Special Thanks from the
Youth
The youth would like to take Mike and A.J. Mistler for their hospitality on a “Destination Unknown” trip. Mike and
A.J. shared their beautiful home with us and we saw how they have used their
God-given talents to bring beauty and creativity to their home. Mike also
shared his experience with creating the sculpture of St. Joseph and
Jesus. The youth are still talking about the experience!
Sweetheart Dinner - 2011
Thanks
to all the youth and adults who helped make this year's Sweatheart Dinner such
a memorial occasion. [Enlarge
picture]
We Colored our World!
The
youth of Wesley would like to thank all the parents, Lesa Jenkins, Bill Burton,
Michael Flynn, Gloria Chaney, and Claire for their help in painting, cleaning,
or running after lunch and paint! We are excited to add color to our
youth area! Again, thank you to everyone for taking your Saturday to help
our youth.
A Big Win for the Soup-er
Bowl (February of 2011)
 Let's hear it for the Wesley United
Methodist Church family for their generous giving in this year's "Souper Bowl
of Caring." We collected almost $750 and 40 cans of soup!
The Middle School Youth Group would like to thank everyone for exhibiting the
"soup-er" Christian trait of sharing that we heard about in Rev. Williams'
sermon on Soup-er Bowl Sunday. Many struggling individuals and families
will receive the gift of your generosity! Thanks to everyone.
 Leaf Raking was a
blast!
We had a great time yesterday raking leaves! Here's
a picture of the group so you can see what fun we had! A special thanks
to Jeff Treese for the use of his truck and all the hauling he did! Also
thanks for Jean Treese, Marcia Burton, Debbie Newberry, Kirk Boyer, and Art
Gier for being the adult helpers.
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Mission Mondays
This
summer the youth have just completed their third annual series of Mission
Monday Projects. Click here to read about
all the good work our youth did this July or
click here for 2010 pictures.
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