Youth Activities - St. Andrew's Church

Youth Ministry

Know any youth Grade 7 and up?

Invite them to check out our AWESOME Youth Programs Friday Evenings and Sunday Morning.

Sports Break, Bible Studies, Retreats and outings!

A New Year for St. Andrew's Youth!

Communicants

The Communicant's retreat will be held May 31 and June 1 at Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo. We will gather Saturday for a day of fellowship, contemplation and preparation for the Sunday service. Everyone is welcome to attend the service on Sunday morning in the chapel.

Passport to Faith has returned!

We look forward to meeting a new group of young people, ranging from grades 7-10, who are entering the Passport program.

In the same manner as last year, those who enter the Passport must complete four modules:

75% attendance at scheduled Sunday morning youth classes.

Participate in five fellowship projects within the church.

Participate in four service projects within the church.

Attend a full session of Catechism classes (time to be announced)

Youth Serving in the Church

Heather Ingram-Smith has been smoothing the way for many opportunities for youth to be involved in the many ministries at St. Andrew's. Youth are infiltrating the church, leading Workshop Rotation classes, maintaining and designing our website, reading scripture, and serving at special events. Youth, if you hear about something at our church you would like to be involved in, talk to Cordelia or Heather and we can help you get plugged in!

Youth Council

We are excited to announce the start of our new youth council! Leadership of youth by youth! A small group of youth will be meeting once a month to plan and organize our upcoming youth events and brainstorm new activities. This group will also be working on putting together a vision of our perfect youth leader for the new school year.
Congratulations to our newly elected Youth Council Leader, Mike Blair. In their first meeting the Youth council decided that the youth should vote in their new leader and we have been collecting votes since then.

New Leader

It is time to say goodbye and thank you to Cordelia Sturtevant for the leadership that she provided for the last four months. Her insightful teaching and inspirational example are appreciated by everyone she touched. We wish her God's blessing as she goes to Camp Crossroads for her summer employment.

Courtney Gooding and Lauren Blair will be our new Youth Leaders. Courtney is currently enrolled at Brock University in Recreation and Leisure Studies. She works part time at the YMCA and will also be returning for her second summer as Critter Assistant Director with Camp Kummoniwannago. She has been helping with the St. Andrew's youth group over the past couple of years and is very excited to be working with them once again. Lauren and Courtney will be working very hard to plan a variety of Bible and faith studies for the coming months and look forward to helping the youth continue to strengthen their relationship with God and each other. In order to do so they will continue to offer the regular Friday night programs as well as special events, including the Overflow youth conference in the month of May.

The Sportsmen

Four wonderful men have taken on the role of 'Sportsmen' for our Friday nights. Dean Fergusson, Rob Johnston, Doug Blair, and Ron Watson will be taking turns leading the sports part of sports break. With so many volunteers our Friday sports breaks are going to be a blast! Say thank you to these guys when you see them!

Overflow 2008 - MAY 16 - 18

Overflow is a large Christian event for students (ages 12-24) from across denominations. The event exists to impact this generation with the powerful message of Jesus Christ through worship, biblical communication and the arts. St. Andrew's youth and their leaders will be attending Overflow and will sleep at the church Friday and Saturday nights, have breakfast in the mornings and proceed to the event for a full day and evening of activites.
For more information and to register contact Courtney Gooding at Courtney_blair@hotmail.com or Lauren Blair at laurencblair@hotmail.com. Check out the Overflow website www.overflowyouth.com for more details.

Contact Information

Do you have questions? Concerns? Ideas? The official email address for the youth group leader is St.Ayouth@yahoo.ca. Please feel free ask, comment, inspire, as the spirit moves you!

Youth Information Sheets

I am trying to get together a comprehensive collection of youth contact information, allergies, parent information, and so on, in hopes of making both me and future youth leaders more effective. If you have not yet filled out one of these sheets I will have them with me Sundays and Fridays. It would really help to get this information all collected, so please try to get these forms filled out and returned ASAP.

St. Andrew’s All-Inclusive Worship Band

The Worship Band is back this year–so come on out and join! Whether you’ve been playing an instrument for years, or you’d like to pick one up for the first time–all are invited to participate.

The Worship Band focuses on introducing new worship music and styles to the congregation, and has been asked to lead worship every 4-6 weeks in the Sanctuary.

Rehearsals are held Sundays following the 10:30am service in the Odeon. For more information, or to express your interest in joining the band, please contact David Sturtevant (519) 513-9993.

e-mail: standrewskw@ sympatico.ca
Our Fax Number is: 519-578-6730

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