All UMYF,
This Advent season is continuing as we draw closer and closer to the birth of the Christ. I hope that we all remain cognizant of the true reason for the season! For God so loved the world that He have His only begotten Son, such a gift should be enough for us all. We had 25 show up last week, more than enough to really change Christmas morning for 35 small children who might have gone without otherwise. Tom Russell and the Board of Directors for the Security Blanket Project wanted me to pass along their sincere thanks for such a selfless act of giving during this Christmas season. Way to go Trinity UMYF!
Sunday after worship service the UMYF collected $550 dollars and some toys and a great group personally delivered them to Ms. Paula Wiggs, the Executive Director of the Bethlehem Center, during their annual Christmas program at 4PM. I hope that all that joined us had a great time and enjoyed the program full of great singing. Ms. Wiggs and the Bethlehem Center greatly appreciated our presence as well as the donations. Since we have officially adopted the Bethlehem Center as our domestic mission project, Ms. Wiggs has promised to get in touch with me soon about issues we can help address on their campus. Great job once again UMYF!
There will be no UMYF this coming Sunday evening. I have been invited to speak out of town Sunday morning and Sunday afternoon. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers as I travel. Also make it a point to come to Sunday School and Worship Service in my absence, just because I will be elsewhere do not mean you should sleep in Sunday. Church League Basketball has started, and our teams have been victorious! Come out and support your fellow members and friends. A schedule of the games will be posted in the CLC door so you can find out when the teams are in action. Take care and I will see you around!
Best,
Chuck
Monday, December 15, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Ideas for Parents and Families
1. Expect more from your kids. Stop praying only for minor behavorial changes; instead, share with teenagers Jesus' love for the marginalized. Develop them to love this same way.
2. Encourage kids to commit to a cause. Having a cause creates commuity, life-transformation, and a Christian identity. After teenagers overcome any initial reluctance, their lives will never be the same. Trinity's UMYF has adopted the Bethlehem Center and the Security Blanket Project as their causes during their "Season of Giving" campaign. You can do the same!
3. Be a role model. Serving and faith sharing should be "do as I do" activities.
4. Help willing faith-sharers find receptive hearers. Some of your kids' friend are likely to experience brokeness and pain. Encourage your teens to invite those people to church events!
2. Encourage kids to commit to a cause. Having a cause creates commuity, life-transformation, and a Christian identity. After teenagers overcome any initial reluctance, their lives will never be the same. Trinity's UMYF has adopted the Bethlehem Center and the Security Blanket Project as their causes during their "Season of Giving" campaign. You can do the same!
3. Be a role model. Serving and faith sharing should be "do as I do" activities.
4. Help willing faith-sharers find receptive hearers. Some of your kids' friend are likely to experience brokeness and pain. Encourage your teens to invite those people to church events!
Security Blanket Christmas Project!
All,
25 UMYF members, accompanied by Todd and Julie Stephens, and Chuck ventured to Walmart to buy presents for 35 children as part of their "Season of Giving" mission project to support the Security Blanket Project and the Bethlehem Center. 35 siblings of children with severe afflictions and cancer will now have something under the tree on Christmas morning. Thanks to all UMYF members for their efforts and Julie Stephens for coordinating!
25 UMYF members, accompanied by Todd and Julie Stephens, and Chuck ventured to Walmart to buy presents for 35 children as part of their "Season of Giving" mission project to support the Security Blanket Project and the Bethlehem Center. 35 siblings of children with severe afflictions and cancer will now have something under the tree on Christmas morning. Thanks to all UMYF members for their efforts and Julie Stephens for coordinating!
7 Dec Weekly News
All UMYF,
I hope this week is going well for you all and that you are slowly starting to feel the Christmas spirit in your hearts. I want to thank everyone who came out Sunday evening to support our mission project to aid the Security Blanket project that is so near and dear to many here at Trinity. Because of your willingness to help, thirty five children who in all likely hood would have had a bleak Christmas morning will now have some joy and excitement. So on behalf of the Security Blanket project and those thirty five children, I thank you all.
Tuesday morning and afternoon I attended a statewide Youth Worker Ministry Conference in Columbia. Much was discussed, with a great deal of time devoted to how youth ministry is approached in South Carolina. I hope that some exciting new ideas will be implemented as we march forward into 2009.
Sunday after service the UMYF will be taking a special offering to personally deliver to the Bethlehem Sunday evening during their Christmas Program. We will be departing from the church at 3:30PM. The program begins promptly at 4PM, and I hope we have a large crowd to represent Trinity and the UMYF during their Christmas celebration!
Continue to come out for Bible Study on Wednesday evenings at 5PM and enjoy supper afterwards. I saw a few of you this week during lunches at your respective schools, and I hope to see more of you once you get out for the Christmas holiday. Feel free to stop in or call me if you want to chat or hang out, and please continue to check our Facebook page and blog, http://trinitychumyf.blogspot.com/
Best,
Chuck
I hope this week is going well for you all and that you are slowly starting to feel the Christmas spirit in your hearts. I want to thank everyone who came out Sunday evening to support our mission project to aid the Security Blanket project that is so near and dear to many here at Trinity. Because of your willingness to help, thirty five children who in all likely hood would have had a bleak Christmas morning will now have some joy and excitement. So on behalf of the Security Blanket project and those thirty five children, I thank you all.
Tuesday morning and afternoon I attended a statewide Youth Worker Ministry Conference in Columbia. Much was discussed, with a great deal of time devoted to how youth ministry is approached in South Carolina. I hope that some exciting new ideas will be implemented as we march forward into 2009.
Sunday after service the UMYF will be taking a special offering to personally deliver to the Bethlehem Sunday evening during their Christmas Program. We will be departing from the church at 3:30PM. The program begins promptly at 4PM, and I hope we have a large crowd to represent Trinity and the UMYF during their Christmas celebration!
Continue to come out for Bible Study on Wednesday evenings at 5PM and enjoy supper afterwards. I saw a few of you this week during lunches at your respective schools, and I hope to see more of you once you get out for the Christmas holiday. Feel free to stop in or call me if you want to chat or hang out, and please continue to check our Facebook page and blog, http://trinitychumyf.blogspot.com/
Best,
Chuck
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
1 Dec 2008 Weekly News...
All UMYF,
I hope and pray everyone had a restful and grand Thanksgiving. We all have so much to be thankful for, I know I do. Taking time from the ordinary hustle and bustle of life to give thanks to God and those around us who makes our lives richer is a welcome task and one that we should partake in more often. I call on each of you to thank someone who enriches your life before we meet on Sunday, be ready to report about this encounter.
Come prepared for more interesting conversation this Wednesday evening in the church library at 5PM. Discussions will continue examining events in our everyday lives, and how we as United Methodists and Christians deal with them daily. The dialogue thus far has been great and I hope it continues. Again, we will be having dinner afterward at 5:45PM, and I invite all to come out and participate in our discussion and then enjoy supper!
UMYF will meet this coming Sunday at our scheduled time, 6PM. Please come out with positive attitudes and a renewed commitment to the Christmas season of giving to others as Christ gave Himself for us. I went out to MJH for lunch today, and I had a chance to see AE, Ben, Ellen, and Maggie today. It was great seeing you guys, and I will continue to check in on everyone. Be blessed this week, and I will see you around...
Best,
Chuck
I hope and pray everyone had a restful and grand Thanksgiving. We all have so much to be thankful for, I know I do. Taking time from the ordinary hustle and bustle of life to give thanks to God and those around us who makes our lives richer is a welcome task and one that we should partake in more often. I call on each of you to thank someone who enriches your life before we meet on Sunday, be ready to report about this encounter.
Come prepared for more interesting conversation this Wednesday evening in the church library at 5PM. Discussions will continue examining events in our everyday lives, and how we as United Methodists and Christians deal with them daily. The dialogue thus far has been great and I hope it continues. Again, we will be having dinner afterward at 5:45PM, and I invite all to come out and participate in our discussion and then enjoy supper!
UMYF will meet this coming Sunday at our scheduled time, 6PM. Please come out with positive attitudes and a renewed commitment to the Christmas season of giving to others as Christ gave Himself for us. I went out to MJH for lunch today, and I had a chance to see AE, Ben, Ellen, and Maggie today. It was great seeing you guys, and I will continue to check in on everyone. Be blessed this week, and I will see you around...
Best,
Chuck
A New Week...
All UMYF,
Thanks to everyone who came out last evening! The trip to the Bethlehem Center was informational as well as heart wrenching. There is plenty of work to be done there on their campus, and it is my sincere hope to see us play a major role in their renaissance. The tour was a great way to assess what needs to be done out there. I also found our stuffing of envelopes before our departure a fitting way to end our trip. Please continue to think about our visit to the Bethlehem Center and ways we as United Methodists can aid Ms. Wiggs in all that she and her staff do day in and day out.
Feel free to drop by my office any time, call, or email with your thoughts or if you just want to talk or hangout. My doors are always open. A sincere thanks to the Hamilton family for providing a delicious meal for UMYF Sunday evening. The continued support of parents and other members throughout our church family makes what we do as a UMYF possible, day after day.
I had a great time last week at Spartanburg Day, and I was able to catch several of our members in action on the basketball court. If you are an athlete or actor and would like me to attend an event you are participating in, please let me know. Send me schedules and such so I can put your information on the calendar and get out to see you do your thing! Because so many of you have Thanksgiving plans that will be taking you out of town, we will not be having UMYF this coming Sunday evening. However, right after service, all who are present are invited to stay after service to help with the Chrismon tree decoration in the Sanctuary. This will be a great help, and I think a fun time will be had by all.
As Christmas draws closer, we have several events that will keep us fairly active until the New Year. Shopping for the needy, a Night Out on the Town, and Trinativity are all on the schedule for the month of December. Please start returning your pledge cards as soon as possible. I hope to see you at these events, and for our various activities on Sunday mornings. Continue to be blessed, and I will see you guys around...
Best,
Chuck
Thanks to everyone who came out last evening! The trip to the Bethlehem Center was informational as well as heart wrenching. There is plenty of work to be done there on their campus, and it is my sincere hope to see us play a major role in their renaissance. The tour was a great way to assess what needs to be done out there. I also found our stuffing of envelopes before our departure a fitting way to end our trip. Please continue to think about our visit to the Bethlehem Center and ways we as United Methodists can aid Ms. Wiggs in all that she and her staff do day in and day out.
Feel free to drop by my office any time, call, or email with your thoughts or if you just want to talk or hangout. My doors are always open. A sincere thanks to the Hamilton family for providing a delicious meal for UMYF Sunday evening. The continued support of parents and other members throughout our church family makes what we do as a UMYF possible, day after day.
I had a great time last week at Spartanburg Day, and I was able to catch several of our members in action on the basketball court. If you are an athlete or actor and would like me to attend an event you are participating in, please let me know. Send me schedules and such so I can put your information on the calendar and get out to see you do your thing! Because so many of you have Thanksgiving plans that will be taking you out of town, we will not be having UMYF this coming Sunday evening. However, right after service, all who are present are invited to stay after service to help with the Chrismon tree decoration in the Sanctuary. This will be a great help, and I think a fun time will be had by all.
As Christmas draws closer, we have several events that will keep us fairly active until the New Year. Shopping for the needy, a Night Out on the Town, and Trinativity are all on the schedule for the month of December. Please start returning your pledge cards as soon as possible. I hope to see you at these events, and for our various activities on Sunday mornings. Continue to be blessed, and I will see you guys around...
Best,
Chuck
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