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
Youth Group Meeting
Due to the fact that May is such a busy month at school, we WILL NOT have a youth group meeting in May. Wait!! Don't get too upset! Our next youth group meeting is Wednesday, June 1st from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.!! Weather permitting, we will dust off the gaga pit and the disc golf for some outdoor gaming fun!!
Good luck on your finals!! Have fun at the Trojan March festivities, the Spring Fling, and the Prom! Good luck in all the spring sports!
Good luck to Kelsey with graduation! You're going to do amazing things!! Nothing is out of your reach!!
Strawberry Festival
The strawberry festival is Wednesday, June 8th. If you haven't already signed up to help, please see Jeff Lehman to find out where he can use additional support. Or, if you want to walk away from the strawberry festival with a nice tan, Matt is always looking for help parking cars.
St. John’s Children and Youth Ministry: facebook.com/childrenandyouthministry
ELCA Gathering Website: www.elca.org/youthgathering
Youth Group Meeting
Due to the fact that May is such a busy month at school, we WILL NOT have a youth group meeting in May. Wait!! Don't get too upset! Our next youth group meeting is Wednesday, June 1st from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.!! Weather permitting, we will dust off the gaga pit and the disc golf for some outdoor gaming fun!!
Good luck on your finals!! Have fun at the Trojan March festivities, the Spring Fling, and the Prom! Good luck in all the spring sports!
Good luck to Kelsey with graduation! You're going to do amazing things!! Nothing is out of your reach!!
Strawberry Festival
The strawberry festival is Wednesday, June 8th. If you haven't already signed up to help, please see Jeff Lehman to find out where he can use additional support. Or, if you want to walk away from the strawberry festival with a nice tan, Matt is always looking for help parking cars.
Escape Room in March 2022
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Easter Egg Hunt in April 2022
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2022 ELCA Youth Gathering
The following is an announcement from the ELCA regarding the 2022 Youth Gathering:
"After much prayer, conversation and tears, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2022 Gathering, MYLE and the tAble due to the ongoing pandemic, the recent COVID-19 surge and public health considerations.
We know there are thousands of young people who will not get to experience the Gathering, and our hearts break for them. This was not an easy decision, and we ask for your prayers and your grace. We understand the impact this decision will have on our youth, volunteers and planning teams, and we hope to return to Minneapolis for a future Gathering.
Registered congregations can visit their registration accounts starting Monday, Feb. 7, to select their desired refund option. For more information and FAQs, please visit elca.org/Gathering.
With God’s power at work in and through us, we can do far more than we dare ask or imagine! The ELCA is fully committed to supporting the young people of our church and to seeing that the ministry of the Gathering, MYLE and the tAble continue for years to come. With that assurance, we are turning our attention toward 2024 for the next Gathering. Stay tuned to Gathering communications for a location announcement this summer.
Grace and peace."
Even though the 2022 Gathering has been canceled, the advisors are planning an alternative option for the week of the Gathering. The Lower Susquehanna Synod, Lutheran Camping Corporation, and LutheranHANDS have come up with a couple different options for us to consider. Once we gather all the details, we will pass it on to the senior high youth group members. Anyone currently in 8th through 12th grade are eligible to attend the alternative option this summer. Just to keep you in the loop: we are strongly leaning toward the option provided by the Lutheran Camping Corporation to attend a program at Camp Nawakwa.
As always, watch those emails for any updates!!! Have a great March!! And remember, it doesn't matter how you come into March, always go out with the Lamb!
The following is an announcement from the ELCA regarding the 2022 Youth Gathering:
"After much prayer, conversation and tears, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2022 Gathering, MYLE and the tAble due to the ongoing pandemic, the recent COVID-19 surge and public health considerations.
We know there are thousands of young people who will not get to experience the Gathering, and our hearts break for them. This was not an easy decision, and we ask for your prayers and your grace. We understand the impact this decision will have on our youth, volunteers and planning teams, and we hope to return to Minneapolis for a future Gathering.
Registered congregations can visit their registration accounts starting Monday, Feb. 7, to select their desired refund option. For more information and FAQs, please visit elca.org/Gathering.
With God’s power at work in and through us, we can do far more than we dare ask or imagine! The ELCA is fully committed to supporting the young people of our church and to seeing that the ministry of the Gathering, MYLE and the tAble continue for years to come. With that assurance, we are turning our attention toward 2024 for the next Gathering. Stay tuned to Gathering communications for a location announcement this summer.
Grace and peace."
Even though the 2022 Gathering has been canceled, the advisors are planning an alternative option for the week of the Gathering. The Lower Susquehanna Synod, Lutheran Camping Corporation, and LutheranHANDS have come up with a couple different options for us to consider. Once we gather all the details, we will pass it on to the senior high youth group members. Anyone currently in 8th through 12th grade are eligible to attend the alternative option this summer. Just to keep you in the loop: we are strongly leaning toward the option provided by the Lutheran Camping Corporation to attend a program at Camp Nawakwa.
As always, watch those emails for any updates!!! Have a great March!! And remember, it doesn't matter how you come into March, always go out with the Lamb!
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.
