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Sunday
School |
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{Sunday
Mornings} |
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| Sunday
School classes are offered each Sunday morning from 9:30am
- 10:30am. A variety of curriculum is used in each class to
help students go deeper and grow in their faith and their
relationship with Christ.
- Middle
School Class – { grades six through eight } –
gathers in the front of The Basement
- High
School Class – { grades nine through twelve } –
gathers on the couches in the back of The Basement
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| Koinonia
Small Groups |
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{Wednesday
Nights} |
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Our
entire youth group gathers every Wednesday night in the basement
for our weekly koinonia small groups. We gather from
6:00 -7:30. Senior high students are placed in several
small groups and junior high students are placed in different
small groups.
Each group is lead by an adult and the time is spent growing
in Christian Fellowship and accountability. Each week
we study a passage from the Bible and apply it to the world
we live in today. Time is also spent sharing issues and
struggles youth are facing throughout their week and there
is time for prayer and encouragement from the whole group.
Koinonia is the Greek word for “fellowship” that
is used in the New Testament. The term refers to the
community or fellowship of Christians participating together
in the life of Christ made possible by the Holy Spirit. This
shared belief and practice was the foundation of the early
communities of disciples.
In the mind and teaching of Christ a church, or youth group,
is a vital, living, dynamic fellowship of believers. Koinonia
can be thought of as the fullest possible partnership
and fellowship with God and with other believers.
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| God
Squad |
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{Sunday
Nights} |
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| Our
Sunday night fellowship involves the entire youth group, 6th
– 12th grade from 5:45 – 8:00. We gather in
the Family Life Center at 5:45 for a snack supper and then head
down to the basement around 6:15.
At 6:30 we begin an evening of games and fun indoor and outdoor
activities. We end the evening with a youth lead devotion
and a time of worship and prayer. Each Sunday promises
to be an encounter with the Living Christ and an opportunity
to be spiritually feed through the scriptures, the fellowship
of other believers, prayer, and worship.
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| Youth
Choir |
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{Sunday
Nights} |
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| Youth
Choir is open to all students in grades six through twelve.
Rehearsals are from 5:00 - 5:45pm Sundays in the choir loft
of the sanctuary. The youth choir sings every third Sunday at
the 8:30am worship service. Meets during school year. |
| Special
Events |
| We
have at least one special event per month during the school
year and several outings and camps during the summer months.
These events range anywhere from Laser tag to a Whitewater Rafting
Retreat. We also have youth participating each summer in several
week-long camps and mission trips.
Once a month we have a fireside chat were we build a bonfire
and discuss an individual from the Bible. Afterwards
we spend the remainder of the evening roasting marshmallows
and visiting with friends.
There is also a Fall Retreat and a Spring Retreat when we
head off to a camp to spend the weekend together as a group
searching deeper into God’s Holy Word and exploring
our relationship with Christ. We also incorporate many
group building games and activities and hear some incredible
music and hold powerful worship celebrations!
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| Outreach |
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have an ongoing mission to the students of Harrison High School,
serving them a free breakfast every Wednesday morning when school
is in session. We also actively encourage our students to invite
their high school friends to attend a Chrysalis weekend, please
see link below for more information. |
| Missions |
At
Aldersgate our youth have many different avenues of mission
work. We claim the fact that we are called to be the
hands and feet of Christ and are always seeking to go out
into the community and make a difference.
On the
first Saturday of each month we serve supper at the United
Caring Shelter. Through out the month we also try to
have several other opportunities to serve and minister in
our city.
Each summer
we take a week long mission trip and this coming summer we
are planning on going to Quest Farm in Kentucky to assist
mentally handicapped adults in working the farm they maintain
to provide a living for themselves. |
| Open
Invitation |
The Aldersgate United Methodist youth group would like to
extend an invitation to EVERYONE to come and join us at any
and all our youth events! Christ calls and invites ALL
into His Holy Fellowship & Body and we are excited about
what God is doing at Aldersgate and through our youth.
You are
welcome to come and see the difference Christ is making in
our lives and you are invited to experience the difference
Christ so desires to make in your life! We seek to make
our youth group a “safe place” where young men
and women can explore their relationship with God and seek
to build each other up in positive, uplifting ways.
In the
words of Philip the Apostle to his friend Nathanael, “COME
& SEE!” |
| “Let
anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let then one who believes
in me drink. As the scripture has said, out of the believers
hearts shall flow rivers of living water.”
John 7: 7; 37-38
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| “Listen,
I am standing at the door, knocking; if you hear my voice
and open the door, I will come in to you, and eat with you,
and you with me.”
Revelation 3: 20
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“The
spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed
me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to
bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and release to the prisoners; to proclaim the year of the
lord’s favor …. to comfort all who mourn, …
… to give them a garland instead of
ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantel
of praise instead of a faint spirit. They will be called
oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, to display
his glory.”
Isaiah 61: 1-3
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| Contact
Information:
 Youth
Pastor - - - Lee Shepherd
Cell
phone – 774-6644
e-mail – shepherd319@hotmail.com |
LINKS:
http://www.sicbym.youthsite.org/index.cfm
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South Indiana Conference – Conference Board of Youth Ministries
CBYM }
http://www.evansvillechrysalis.com/About.html
{
Evansville Chrysalis Community }
http://www.youthspecialties.com/
http://www.upperroom.org/devozine
{
great youth devotional }
http://bible.crosswalk.com/
{
wonderful Bible resource }
http://www.upperroom.org/emmaus/
http://www.cmcentral.com/
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