Youth Ministry Committee,
Meeting Minutes
January 9, 2007
Present: John Cartwright, Marla Cartwright, Nathan
Fuhrman, Joel Hays, Brandon Lewis, Susan Pierce, Karen Raabe,
Kayla Swenson
COMMITTEE NIGHT MEAL: Youth Ministry Committee will provide the Tuesday
Committee Night meal in June 2007.
TRIENNIUM: A designated number of slots will be set
aside for each presbytery. James Byers
is involved in the planning of this year’s event, which will be held at Purdue
in July. Approximately 7,000 people will
attend. YMC needs to select a sophomore
or junior to attend and bring back some of the leadership and energy from the
conference. Applications were mailed to all
senior high youth. Completed
applications, returned by Aubri Thomas and Walker Patterson,
were reviewed. Based
on age, YMC will recommend that Aubri be selected. Hopefully Walker, as first alternate, will also get to attend. The session will make the final
decision.
SENIOR HIGH YOUTH
CONNECTION: “Shy-See” is January 26
(Friday night) until January 28 (Sunday) at Austin College for senior high youth. The
application deadline is 1/15. YMC will
pay for lodging and registration. Fort
Worth Presbyterian has offered to share transportation with us. At least six of our youth have expressed an
interest in attending, and Brandon
will call all who are interested. The
conference will be mentioned again in Sunday School. Karen will ask Diane Forester to go as a
sponsor. Nathan will also go.
SKI TRIP: Due to a blizzard, our ski trip group did not
make it past Dumas, Texas. First
Baptist allowed our youth to sleep in their carpeted gym, and served a pancake
breakfast the next morning. Then our
group returned home late that day. Lisa
Patterson is continuing to negotiate for some type of refund or rescheduling of
the ski trip. She sent postcards to all
involved with the details. YMC was asked
to gauge interest in a spring break ski trip.
Kayla suggested that we consider travel by air instead of bus. Nathan will ask Bev
Noah to explore a few options. Joel will
discuss further with Lisa.
OTHER DATES FOR SPRING:
- YOUTH SUNDAY will be scheduled later in the
spring to allow Brandon more time to get to know youth. Since the college group is scheduled to
lead worship of April 29, Youth Sunday could be set for April 15.
- 30-HOUR FAMINE AND LOCK-IN is usually scheduled
on Good Friday, which is April 6 this year.
- SENIOR DINNER is usually scheduled for the first
Sunday in May, which falls on May 6 this year. Susan asked that be better promote this event to show more church-wide support of
our graduating seniors.
CRUCIFER SIGNUP: A sign-up list will be circulated in Sunday School to recruit 10th graders as crucifers. They carry the cross during the procession
before and after the 10:50 am worship service.
BRANDON’S COMMENTS: Brandon talked to about 35 youth in Sunday School and 16 youth at Sunday evening fellowship. He asked about their needs and desires. Discussion included general Biblical
knowledge, WhirlyBall, the 30-Hour Famine, and
mission trips.
COMMITTEE PLANNING: Joel asked that the February YMC meeting
include a discussion for strategic planning for youth, focusing on the
church-wide planning themes of education, fellowship, mission, etc. He described a website for a Chicago church that has a structured 6-year mission program for
their youth.
YMC MEMBERSHIP: Joel asked if YMC membership should include a
senior high youth member. YMC agreed
that this would be great, and the senior high group would be asked each semester
to nominate one of their peers to attend meetings.