Mission Trips

The Mission Trips are just right around the corner! If you havent gotten your final deposit in I need that as soon as you can get it to me. Also, the forms that need to be filled out are outside my office door. I hope you all are having a great week and give me a call if you have any questions about anything!!

blessings!
sg

Mission Trip Meeting This Sunday!!

This Sunday May 3rd we will be having a meeting about our summer mission trips directly after the worship service. I will be handing out the necessary forms that will be needed to be filled out for the trip. I will also give a short overview of what we will be doing on each trip. I hope that you all can make it for this meeting! If you cannot please call me at the church or set up a time where you can come by and get all of the forms. Blessings!!

Night Of Nets

I wanted to remind as well as invite all of you to Night of Nets this coming Saturday starting @1pm. We will have a great time of fellowship and also learn a little about Malaria and how we can help stop the spread of this terrible disease! There will be many fun activities and great fellowship time for us all to grow closer together as a group throughout the time we will be together.

So what is this night of nets all about?? Night of Nets….. To end Malaria is an advocacy event to help advocate and raise awareness of Malaria. The event is organized by World Vision and coincides with World Malaria day which is Saturday April 25th. Along with helping advocate and raising awareness we will also be raising money to help purchase Mosquito Nets that help in preventing the spread of Malaria by protecting families while they are asleep which is a time they are most vulnerable. For every $20 we raise, we will be able to help provide enough nets for an entire family. You may say, Scott we don't have enough time to raise money for this. Well here is what we are going to do. For the whole month of May we will be raising money and then at snack supper on May 31 I will announce how much we have raised and we will get the money sent to World Vision so that they can purchase the Mosquito Nets.

So what all will we be doing?? Well we will be learning about Malaria and how to help prevent the spread of the disease. We will also be playing games and just enjoying the fellowship of each other! We will also have a prayer and worship service on Saturday night @7pm. (Parents if you want to come to this please feel free to come and join us! It will be a grand time of worship as well as prayer) Then we will end the event with a Pancake Breakfast on Sunday morning!! If you have any further questions about the weekend please feel free to contact me at the church or on my cell.

Blessings

I Have Been Horrible About Updating This :-(

Hey all of you, I am so terribly sorry that I haven't used our Web Blog to its full potential! I promise that I will strive to keep things more up to date and when I send out the monthly newsletter I will try and figure out a way that I can either upload that to here or just highlight the main things from the newsletter. Anyhow, just wanted to say sorry and I will start posting to this more regularly!!

blessings!

2009 Will Be Mighty Fine!!

Ok, there I go again with a corny saying. If you have read your most recent newsletter you have read my let your light shine in 2009 also, which is also pretty corny. But whats the point in celebrating a new beginning to a year if you cant be just a slight bit corny?? Anyhow, we have many fun and exciting things coming up in 2009! We have retreats, ski trip, mission trips, and we are working on a few other things for this year! As you have read in the Youth Newsletter if you are going on the Mission Trips either the Mid High or Senior High I need to have your youth covenant and a $50 deposit by February 1st so that you will have a spot on the trip! Also, we have the CCYM Winter Retreat for Senior High which is February 13th-15th as well as the R.O.C. (Rythm of Christ) Retreat for the Mid High which is March 6th-8th. Both of these retreats are $100 for the weekend, for CCYM I need a $30 deposit and a form that you can get from me signed and back to me by January 21st which is a Wednesday so that we can get the $1oo rate. I haven't gotten any information yet on R.O.C. but I am guessing we will have to have the forms turned in around February 18th we a deposit of $30. On both of these trips make your checks payable to FUMC Artesia and then from there we will send in one check for the whole group. You may pay the deposit and final payment seperate and or all at once, either works for me. One other trip we have coming up is our Annual Ski Weekend up in Ruidoso! I am leaning towards the weekend of February 6th-8th but will not have a finalized date until I get with the owners of the cabins we usually stay in. The cost of that trip will be $25 base cost plus your ski/board rental, lift ticket, and a couple of meals. Ski rentals are usually around $25 and if we get some good snow between now and then the lift tickets will be around $50. If you are interested in going, please let me know ASAP so that we can make sure to have plenty of room! Well, I hope that you all had a wonderful 08 and I know that 09 will be just as great!!

blessings,
sg

Jack O Lantern Jamboree - Slime Time

We have our annual Jack O Lantern Jamboree coming up here in just a few weeks on October 26th.  This year we are doing something a little bit different!  We are doing a follow up to Power Lab which is called Slime Time!  We will begin to set up and prepare for this event this coming Sunday October 5th at 4p.m. in the Youth Room.  All of you youth are welcome to come and help prepare also if any of you adults would like to help out please feel free to come and help as well.  This is going to be a wonderful time of ministry and fellowship! I hope you all would come and join us!! So mark your calendars for October 26th at 5pm for Jack O Lantern Slime Time!!

2009 Mission Trips!

We have the 2009 Mission Trips set!! How exciting! For the Senior High we are going to San Diego, CA the week of June 21-26.  We will most likely leave the Friday prior to the trip which is June 19th.  We will return on June 27th.  For the Mid High trip we are going to Carthage, TX the week of July 12th-17th.  We will leave the Saturday prior and return Saturday July 18th.  I hope that you all are marking your calendars and setting those weeks aside for a great time of ministry and growth!!  I know that it is a long time away but begin now to pray and seek God about these upcoming opportunities!