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After School Program: WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS

The fall session of After School will begin on September 22nd and run to November 10th, 2010.  A registration form is available here or you can pick one up from the church office.  Registrations can me mailed to 501 E 19th St N, Newton, IA  50208, emailed to stluke@iowatelecom.net, or dropped off at the church.  Space is limited to 40 children so please register soon. If you have questions you can call the church office at 641-792-5736 or email: stluke@iowatelecom.net.  Click here for an After School Flyer with more information about the program.

After School Flyer

After School Registration Form

EDUCATION

Summer Sunday School Is One-Room School House
For kids of all ages from 9:15-10:15 a.m. every Sunday.  We’ll be looking for you.  If you’d like to “lead” a one-room class or two this summer, sign up in narthex or talk with Lisa Marston.

Preschool through eighth grade Sunday classes - 9:15 - 10:15 AM Sunday, "Live BIG: Live your Belief in God"

  • Preschool:  Lisa and Dan Marston
  • Kindergarten-Third:  Pam Osborn and Tamara Lloyd
  • Fourth-Sixth:  Verna Christopher
  • Seventh-Eighth:  Peg Ehler

High School Sunday class - 9:15-10:15 AM Sunday, "Thinking Theologically About Pop Culture"

This class will open students’ eyes to a factor of pop culture of which they are often unaware.  Students examine who’s behind pop culture and how pop culture’s values are different from “kingdom values.”  The will also look at how the church has responded to the pervasive influence of pop culture and what guidance Scripture gives.

Vacation Bible School

Over seventy explorers had a great experience at the SonQuest Rainforest VBS, July 12th through July 16th, 2010.   The students’ classroom lessons included one of the parables of Jesus each day. It was a great learning experience for each of them as well as the teachers.  The music, crafts, snacks and recreation were fun for everyone.  The many volunteers helped make it a week to remember!

SonQuest Rainforest participants raised $585.08 for the Village Wells Project in Nigeria.  The students learned about how clean water is essential for drinking, cooking, hygiene, livestock and gardens.  The money will support the effort to bring clean water to Sabon-Gida, Nigeria.  Currently, the women of the village carry water three miles every day.

Thank you to everyone who helped at VBS, provided snack or craft ingredients, made a financial donation for VBS curriculum, or donated towards the Village Wells Project offering.

MUSIC

Jesus Christ’s Joyful Children, JC’s JCs, meet on Sundays from 10:15 am to 10:30 am JC’s JCs invites all kids, grades K-6, to come sing and play while we share about Jesus with one another and the church family. There will be songs to sing, skits to act, puppets to make come-alive, and more.  JC's JCs meet September-April.

Chancel Choir
7th grade and older
Director - Jan Lewis, 641-792-3662, rivers4@netins.net.
Practice - 7:15 - 8:00 pm Weds. evenings, Sept. thru October and December-April

Chime Choir
7th grade and older
Director - Bev Thomas
Practice - 7:15 - 8:00 pm Wednesday evenings.



SOCIAL

UMYF - United Methodist Youth Fellowship

Open to all 6th - 12th grade students. This group meets the second and fourth Sunday of the month, from 6:00 - 7:30 pm. Food, fun activities, devotions, social time and learning opportunities in a Christian setting. Even if you have never attended before, we would love to have you join us.
Leaders - Jeff and Ami Murphy 641-792-3293 or email ja.murphy@mchsi.com and Dan and Lisa Marston 641-526-8840 or email lisam@partnercom.net

In July of 2009 nineteen youth and their adult leaders went to Wichita, Kansas, for a mission work trip, recreation and Worship. They drew lots of attention with their matching "UMYF" t-shirts at Worship on Sunday morning where they heard the Kansas UMC Bishop's wife speak about missions. It was, again, a great trip!

23 Youth and adults went on an annual Mission trip in summer 2008.   They worked in the city of Minneapolis through the Urban Servants agency.  Lodging and meals were at United Methodist Camp Kingswood.  Each day groups went to do various projects like landscaping and gardening at the homes of elderly ladies, cleaning a parsonage, scrubbing dining tables and chairs at two care centers as well as interacting with residents, packaging one-pound packages of rice cereal for food pantry distribution, and, our most-rewarding, packaging food for starving children.  "In the two hours we worked, we made meals for 38 children for one year.  We saw pictures of the difference one serving per day can make in the life of one child and realized that we were saving children from starving to death!  We could hardly eat our own lunch after thinking of that.  Of all the work projects we did, it was the one that touched us the most.  And we want to do it again, so we headed to Des Moines in September  2008 to package foods with the Meals From the Heartland Project."   Pastor Audrey Young, St Luke UMC, Newton, IA.

Pop Cans and Bottles for Youth:  The youth collect redeemable cans and bottles to earn money for work trips and projects.  Redeemable cans and bottles can be placed in the wood crate at the NW corner of the parking lot at any time.

United Methodist Camp Catalog is available at the church for persons of all ages to sign up for a camp the most fulfills their interests.  Church Camp provides an opportunity to achieve new heights, discover new interests, make new friends and continue spiritual journeys.  Check the catalog at church, call 800-765-1651 or go to www.iaumc.org/camps. 

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