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.

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

SOCIAL

UMYF - United Methodist Youth Fellowship

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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