Youth Group
St. John’s Facebook: facebook.com/stjohnhillchurch
St. John’s Children and Youth Ministry: facebook.com/childrenandyouthministry
ELCA Gathering Website: www.elca.org/youthgathering
Remember: Masks are required at all church / youth group in-person events!!!
Happy Summer, everyone!!! The following are some youth group items to consider and mark on your calendar:
The Gathering: Planning is underway here on The Hill for the 2022 ELCA National Youth Gathering. Any youth group member just finishing 8th through 12th grade in the spring of 2022 are eligible to attend the Gathering in 2022. If you haven't already completed the informational letter, please do so ASAP and return it to a youth group advisor. If you didn't receive the emailed letter, please contact Olivia. Even if you don't plan to attend, please respond ASAP. This helps us with our planning. Thanks!!
The Gathering will be in Minneapolis, Minnesota from Sunday, July 24, 2022 to Thursday, July 28, 2022. This 5-day adventure is filled with many faith formation opportunities. We will engage in interactive learning, worship, Bible study, service, and fellowship time. Every evening we gather in our small group for the Final 15. This is a time to talk about our day, our experiences, and just enjoy each other's company. It promises to be a life-changing, faith-strengthening, fun time. We suggest visiting the ELCA Youth Gathering website for more information, signing up for their newsletter, and liking their Facebook page.
Strawberry Festival: The Strawberry Festival is coming up on Wednesday, June 9th starting at 12:00 p.m. This year it is drive-through only. Even though it's a little different than years past, they still need our help! Please contact Jeff Lehman if you are available to help that day.
Knoebels Tickets: We still have Knoebels ride ticket books available if you know of anyone interested in purchasing some. They are $18.00 each for a $20.00 book. Your summer isn't complete without a trip to Knoebels! Don't forget!! The tickets never expire!! Please contact Olivia Williard for tickets.
Youth Group Meetings: The summer youth group meetings are set for Tuesday, June 22nd and Tuesday, July 13th. There will not be a meeting in August. The meetings will run from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. Watch your email for more details about the meetings.
Fundraising: With the Gathering just over a year away and many other fun outings planned as things open back up again, we will be doing a lot of fundraising. What are your ideas?! Send any fundraising ideas to one of the youth advisors.
2022 ELCA Youth Gathering Theme (July 24-28, 2022)
The ELCA Youth Gathering team announces the theme of the 2022 Gathering, “boundless: God beyond measure,” based on Ephesians 3:19 CEV.
“I want you to know all about Christ’s love, although it is too wonderful to be measured. Then your lives will be filled with all that God is.”
St. John’s Children and Youth Ministry: facebook.com/childrenandyouthministry
ELCA Gathering Website: www.elca.org/youthgathering
Remember: Masks are required at all church / youth group in-person events!!!
Happy Summer, everyone!!! The following are some youth group items to consider and mark on your calendar:
The Gathering: Planning is underway here on The Hill for the 2022 ELCA National Youth Gathering. Any youth group member just finishing 8th through 12th grade in the spring of 2022 are eligible to attend the Gathering in 2022. If you haven't already completed the informational letter, please do so ASAP and return it to a youth group advisor. If you didn't receive the emailed letter, please contact Olivia. Even if you don't plan to attend, please respond ASAP. This helps us with our planning. Thanks!!
The Gathering will be in Minneapolis, Minnesota from Sunday, July 24, 2022 to Thursday, July 28, 2022. This 5-day adventure is filled with many faith formation opportunities. We will engage in interactive learning, worship, Bible study, service, and fellowship time. Every evening we gather in our small group for the Final 15. This is a time to talk about our day, our experiences, and just enjoy each other's company. It promises to be a life-changing, faith-strengthening, fun time. We suggest visiting the ELCA Youth Gathering website for more information, signing up for their newsletter, and liking their Facebook page.
Strawberry Festival: The Strawberry Festival is coming up on Wednesday, June 9th starting at 12:00 p.m. This year it is drive-through only. Even though it's a little different than years past, they still need our help! Please contact Jeff Lehman if you are available to help that day.
Knoebels Tickets: We still have Knoebels ride ticket books available if you know of anyone interested in purchasing some. They are $18.00 each for a $20.00 book. Your summer isn't complete without a trip to Knoebels! Don't forget!! The tickets never expire!! Please contact Olivia Williard for tickets.
Youth Group Meetings: The summer youth group meetings are set for Tuesday, June 22nd and Tuesday, July 13th. There will not be a meeting in August. The meetings will run from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. Watch your email for more details about the meetings.
Fundraising: With the Gathering just over a year away and many other fun outings planned as things open back up again, we will be doing a lot of fundraising. What are your ideas?! Send any fundraising ideas to one of the youth advisors.
2022 ELCA Youth Gathering Theme (July 24-28, 2022)
The ELCA Youth Gathering team announces the theme of the 2022 Gathering, “boundless: God beyond measure,” based on Ephesians 3:19 CEV.
“I want you to know all about Christ’s love, although it is too wonderful to be measured. Then your lives will be filled with all that God is.”
Ephesians 3:14-21 CEV 14 I kneel in prayer to the Father. 15 All beings in heaven and on earth receive their life from [God]. 16 God is wonderful and glorious. I pray that [God’s] Spirit will make you become strong followers 17 and that Christ will live in your hearts because of your faith. Stand firm and be deeply rooted in [God’s] love. 18 I pray that you and all of God’s people will understand what is called wide or long or high or deep. 19 I want you to know all about Christ’s love, although it is too wonderful to be measured. Then your lives will be filled with all that God is.
20-21 I pray that Christ Jesus and the church will forever bring praise to God. [God’s] power at work in us can do far more than we dare ask or imagine. Amen.
We are bound. Bound by our sin, by the expectations of others, by poverty, by -isms that try to divide us, and by so much more. In a life that often feels as if it has young people in a suffocating grip, we want them to imagine the boundlessness of God: boundless love, boundless mercy, boundless freedom, boundless creation, boundless strength. All offered from a gracious and loving God who knows and adores them. All so abundant and endless it cannot be measured.
What are the stories of God’s people, both in Scripture and modern-day, that share the awe and wonder of just how vast our God is? What does it mean, what does it look and feel like to live a life “filled with all that God is”? How can young people find themselves within the boundlessness of Christ’s love?
MYLE, the tAble and the Gathering are unique opportunities to invite young people into a deeper relationship with a God whose possibilities are boundless. Through one-of-a-kind experiences, this ministry stretches and affirms young people’s gifts and calls. They experience the power of the Spirit within them, that frees them to live in the grace of God’s boundless love in Jesus Christ.
Finally, we are excited by the connections this theme offers to our host city of Minneapolis and the surrounding area. Known as the "City by Nature," Minneapolis is an earth-minded city in many ways. The Minneapolis Area Synod also names advocacy around care for creation as a top priority, which would allow us to learn from and support the local expression of the church.
20-21 I pray that Christ Jesus and the church will forever bring praise to God. [God’s] power at work in us can do far more than we dare ask or imagine. Amen.
We are bound. Bound by our sin, by the expectations of others, by poverty, by -isms that try to divide us, and by so much more. In a life that often feels as if it has young people in a suffocating grip, we want them to imagine the boundlessness of God: boundless love, boundless mercy, boundless freedom, boundless creation, boundless strength. All offered from a gracious and loving God who knows and adores them. All so abundant and endless it cannot be measured.
What are the stories of God’s people, both in Scripture and modern-day, that share the awe and wonder of just how vast our God is? What does it mean, what does it look and feel like to live a life “filled with all that God is”? How can young people find themselves within the boundlessness of Christ’s love?
MYLE, the tAble and the Gathering are unique opportunities to invite young people into a deeper relationship with a God whose possibilities are boundless. Through one-of-a-kind experiences, this ministry stretches and affirms young people’s gifts and calls. They experience the power of the Spirit within them, that frees them to live in the grace of God’s boundless love in Jesus Christ.
Finally, we are excited by the connections this theme offers to our host city of Minneapolis and the surrounding area. Known as the "City by Nature," Minneapolis is an earth-minded city in many ways. The Minneapolis Area Synod also names advocacy around care for creation as a top priority, which would allow us to learn from and support the local expression of the church.
