SARAH WANCK (Youth Pastor)
Youth News
ENJOY YOUTH GROUP ON SUNDAYS!
The youth ministry of Galesburg First UMC is open to all students 6th-12th grades. Youth Group meets Sunday nights from 4:30-6 in #112 [unless special activities are planned that day]. Please check out the monthly calendar to see what’s happening in the ministry!
Jr. and Sr. High Youth Group is on a break for the holidays!
There will be no youth group in the coming weeks while Pastor Sarah is away at school. Please enjoy extra time with your family and friends - and plan on kicking off another great year of ministry on Sunday, January 22! See you then!
OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES: THE ORPHEUS CHOIR IN CONCERT
Friday, January 27th, 7:00 p.m., First Church of the Nazarene, 1501 Webster St., Galesburg. There is no fee, but a free-will offering will be taken to cover expenses. Come and enjoy a night of great music!
KFC (Kids for Christ) needs a logo!
A bulletin board in room #107 has been established for people to hang up their ideas. Anyone is welcome to add ideas to our board.
Christian Education has many opportunities
for you to give of your time. Various projects include taking pictures during our activities, bulletin boards, hanging up pictures in the hall, VBS director, tutoring, Bible Buddy, and more. If you are looking for a way to serve our church, we can find something for you! Call Kelly Reese 342-3197 (church).
With our Wednesday afternoon KFC
(Kids for Christ) program, our kitchen is in need of some items: 6" and 8" styrofoam plates, 8 oz. styro- foam cups, paper napkins (plain), SOS scouring pads, foil wrap. Please keep us in mind the next time you go to the store. Blessings! - Vi Welty, Kitchen Coordinator
A person willing to share responsibilities of Jr/Sr High Sunday School class is needed. All curriculum is provided.
Mission Mania! KFC will be participating in monthly mission outreach projects. For this month, we drew pictures for nursing home residents, decorated fliers for the Trunk or Treat Fall Festival and wrapped Christmas gifts for Salvation Army!
Cooke School students expressed their gratitude to our Sunday School classes that provided school supplies. Thank you cards from the Cooke School students are hanging in the narthex.
FEBRUARY 5TH - SUPER BOWL OF CARING
Souper Bowl of Caring is a national movement of young people working to fight hunger and poverty in their own communities around the Super Bowl football game. The Jr. and Sr. High Youth Ministry of our church will take up a collection, asking for one dollar for people in need. They will collect donations at church on Super-Bowl Sunday, February 5th. One hundred percent of this collection will be given directly to a local hunger-relief charity in Galesburg.
In 2011, more than 260,000 youth participated in Souper Bowl of Caring, collecting more than $9.5 million in dollars and food for local hunger-relief charities. That's a total of more than $81 million collected since the movement began in 1990! This year's goal is to
empower 275,000 young people to collect $11 million for charities in their communities.
The youth of our church will be collecting to help meet this goal. Please bring a dollar with you that Sunday and support our community with The Souper Bowl of Caring! Help us tackle hunger in America!
FROM KELLY REESE (Children's Ministry) Questions? Call Kelly
Sunday School: 9:00-10:00
Preschool meets next to the nursery in the 3 yr-old preschool classroom
Kindergarten-5th meets in the Chapel and then heads to room 107
Jr. High and Sr. High meet in the chapel, then heads to room 112
Children’s Church
Children’s church is held during the 10:30 worship service. Children from Kindergarten thru 5th grade begin with their families in church and are dismissed during the service. There is no Children's Church on Communion Sunday (first Sunday of the month).
Wednesday Afterschool Program Kindergarten thru 5th Graders After school until 5:40 - Kids participate in a snack and a variety of
activities (including Cherub Choir, Jesus Jammers and Rockin’ Ringers) 5:40-6:10 - Mealtime - families welcome to join (Free-will donation).
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LEAD TEACHERS ARE NEEDED!!!
We currently do not have lead teachers for the 2012 Kindergarten thru 5th grade class. Please contact Kelly Reese if interested. All teaching materials will be provided!
February 4
6:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. "Wii" will have our second Wii Game night. Come join the fun, watch people play, learn a new game yourself, visit with friends. Fun will be had by all. Please bring a snack to share.
WEDNESDAY AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS NEED YOU!!!
Wednesday afternoons from around 3:30-6:00 are very busy here at FUMC. We have many of our church kids as well as their friends, and neighborhood kids, here to participate in tutoring and Biblically-based activities. We need many hands to help this run smoothly. Opportunities to help are numerous and involve different levels of
time commitments. Please contact Kelly Reese if you are able to help! (We especially need tutors!!!)