Youth Activities
After
School Program: COME JOIN US ON A JOURNEY WITH JESUS
Children grades K-6th are invited to our
Wednesday
After-School
Program
Click here for registration
form
Click here to view a flyer
with information about this program.
An eight-week session runs from January 13
to March 10, 2010, from
2:00 – 5:30 pm
including a
5:20 pm
supper. Except for Ash Wednesday, February 17.
How to Register:
Registrations are now being accepted.
Space is limited to 40 children so please register soon! To register
click here for a form to fill
out and send in (one child per form), call 641-792-5736 or email: stluke@iowatelecom.net.
Click here for
an After School Flyer with more information about the program.

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
July 12th - 16th are the dates for the 2010 VBS and the theme is set:
St Luke UMC and Gospel Light has revealed the 2010 VBS theme and there's a
teaser page at http://www.gospellightvbs.com/2010/index.html
.
Next summer, bring kids to SonQuest Rainforest VBS—an experience of
discovery they’ll never forget! Based on five key Bible verses that will
change a child’s life—including John 3:16—SonQuest Rainforest VBS
transports young minds into a vivid rainforest environment of jungle
sounds, sights and smells, where they’ll dig into the Bible and meet
Jesus in every day’s story. Five Bible verses, five days of discovery and
an experience that can last a lifetime: Gospel Light’s SonQuest
Rainforest VBS will bring kids closer to Jesus, every day.
Theme Verse:
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever
believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. —John 3:16

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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