School is almost out, which means we're about to kick it up a notch:
-workcamps for middle schoolers and high schoolers
-frisbee every tuesday for high schoolers
-movie nights every wednesday for middle schoolers
-float trips
-and much more
Brace yourself! (and watch your mailboxes and this website)
This Wednesday John Drage, Pastor of The Rock a church on the Mizzou campus will be with us. John always brings a great message. We'll be focusing on how to live with a mission. EVERYONE is welcome!
Today is Earth day and next Sunday our church will be doing it's part to help all of us take care of our planet- God's creation. So there won't be "normal" evening youth activities this weekend. But from 3-6pm we'll have a rock climbing wall and all sorts of booths set up where you can talk with experts, receive information, and get some hands on experience in living green. Of course they'll be food and our spring choir concert is at 6pm. See you there!
Remember, this week there are no normal youth activities this Sunday. We will be having a workday in the new youth room starting at 3pm, also, Middle School Planning Team meets AT Living Word after GAP service from approximately 12:30-2.
It's actually happening!
Since we're in the process of moving, next week we're having a movie night at the Lindemann's house from 6:30-8. Here's a map, simply click on "get directions to here", type in your address, and voila! Bring a soda or snack to share.
To the delight of some and the dismay of others, we are not taking any of the youth room couches to the new building. So, this leaves us with two options:
1. Give the couches to someone who wants them. There are a couple that would be decent, but many of the couches really wouldn't be fit for human use.
2. Destroy them. If you're interested in this option, contact Adam or leave a comment.
It's going down on Friday.
Parents, don't worry it will be supervised and safe, there will not be any fire involved!. But those couches have gots to go!
This Saturday, from 10am-12noon at EUMC, come help us make blankets for the homeless!
*Update* Check out the photos on the right!
On Feb. 3rd our church will be participating in the Souper Bowl of Caring.
So everyone bring money or canned goods and support the cause. This means not just youth, but everyone!
We'll be sending our proceeds and any canned goods to the St. Louis Foodbank but we are also going to donate to KIVA.org helping to relieve poverty in AIDS stricken Africa. Jesus calls us not only to love those around us, but those around the world.
Speaking of which, we've adopted two children from World Vision as part of our youth ministry. Each week we'll be collecting money to help our friends Alan and Jean! So don't forget to bring a little bit every Sunday- go ahead and sacrifice getting that latte and help out a bit!
Sorry everything seems to revolve around giving money, we know thats not all it takes.
On February 16 our youth group will be making fleece blankets to help those who need warmth in our area. It starts at 10am in the Kitchen and should be over by Noon. Stop by, make a blanket, and warm somebody up!
Hey guys, don't forget in two weeks we go to a slightly different schedule:
4-5pm Middle School Youth (nothing different)
5-5:15pm Dinner (shortened 15 minutes)
5:15-6:15pm High School Youth
The reason we do this is because usually everyone is standing around for the last part of dinner and we've got to keep you in the kitchen! So this way you can get home faster, and finish the homework you've put off all weekend.
Also, for high schoolers we're going to be having our 4th Annual (maybe ever longer) SUPER BOWL PARTY. It's goin down at the Wert's house. It starts at 5:15 and ends when the game ends. BRING SOMETHING TO EAT! PREFERABLY SOME SORT OF DIP! Here's a map, click on it and you can enter your address to get directions.
This Saturday at church is our annual Christmas Party. We're "adopting a
family" to shop for, which we've done in the past. But this year the
family is coming to us!
We've showing some love to Nichole, a single mother with 6 kids: Jackie (14), Jasmine (12), Jade (10), George (7), Robert (6), and Noah (1).
Here's the schedule:
10am- Meet at church, go down to the valley to shop from the list Nichole gave us
11:30am- come back to church to wrap presents and eat (lunch provided)
1pm-
Nichole and the kids get to church! We're going to show her kids some
love and give her a break! Here's some of the stuff planned:
-Wii (of course)
-gingerbread houses, only with graham crackers and frosting
-baking christmas cookes
-decorating a tree
-making ornaments
-watching home alone
-having the kids open up a couple presents under the tree we decorate
So this is a chance to not only buy some presents for a family but to really get to know them and share our joy with them. Please bring $10 (or more) to help with buying gifts. You can also bring a Wal-Mart or Target gift card for Nichole. If you have any questions please let me (Adam) know. Looking forward to seeing everyone Saturday! This is for Middle School and High School students. If you'd like to know more, you can download the letter below that was in our newsletter.
Last Friday our High School Youth Planning team was able to take a peek at the new church, and our new youth room in particular! It was very exciting!
We're looking at one huuuuuuuuuge space, with unfinished ceilings
and a great view of the outside with lots of windows.
We look forward to lots of exciting things happening within these walls.
We hope God will use this building as a tool for his kindgom. It's easy to get caught up in all the cool stuff we could fill it with. We need to remember that the church is made of the people, and that our building is going to be nice, but it's not the point, loving Jesus is!Check out the photo album on the right for a couple more pictures.
Middle Schoolers: Dress up and get ready to enjoy Halloween festivities.
High Schoolers: It's our first Monster Mash Bash. Bring canned goods to vote for your favorite Air-Guitarist! The winner will recieve, the brand new, guitar hero 3.
We're going all-out this Sunday!
November 17th from 10am-1pm the ECC is hosting a Carnival! We need energetic students to help man all the games. Maybe a good way to pick up hours for school, or maybe a better way just to do something for other people! You don't need me to tell you this will be fun! Contact Adam at 636.227.3592 if you're interested.
Have you ever wondered what that big book in the middle of the bible is all about? Do you have a cross stitched Psalm 23 in your house? These Wednesday October 3rd we will be having worship in the "red room" from 7-8pm. Our theme this month will be The Psalms, looking into the ancient Hebrew songs and poems. So come take a break from homework, TV, or whatever it is you do on Wednesday nights and be a part of our worshiping community. Of course your friends are welcome, and you can even bring your parents!
You are invited to come make a difference. Each year, church from the Missouri area and beyond gather to assemble relief and care packs, and package up food to be delivered to people who are hungry. October 19-20 is the Festival of Sharing in Sedalia MO and our church is looking to bring students hungry to help a world that needs help. This event is open to both Middle School and High School students. Download the form, or watch for it in your mailbox at home. The cost is $40, we'll be leaving at 5pm Friday October 19 and should be back around 6pm on Saturday. We'll stay the night at a local church in Sedalia after a time of worship, then Saturday it's time to get to work! We need your RSVP by October 4th. Click below to download the form:
Starting September 2nd, High School Sunday School will meet from 9:30-10:30am at Crestview Middle School's Cafeteria! Thank you for your understanding, as we have out grown our youth room! We will still continue a bible study with coffee and conversation.
This Sunday from 5:30-6:30 (normal youth group time)
The ladies will be enjoying a luxurious spa treatment, and doing whatever else it is that girls do. Come get refreshed, rejuvinated, reinvigorated, reinstated, and whatever other words begin with "re"!
The gentlemen will be participating in the 2nd Annual MANLYMPICS. What is the ManLympics you say? It is a multi faceted competition to see who in fact, is the manliest of them all. I mean, just look at the picture: What could be more manly than Steven Seagal, playing a guitar, in a shiny gold kimono? That pretty much sums up the ManLympics right there.
August 4 we're going on a Float Trip to Steelville, which everyone knows is the floating capitol of Missouri. We're inviting the whole family to come! Download the form below, and sign up by THURSDAY JULY 26. This will be a fun way to cap off the summer.
Originally we were going to work and stay in St. Charles, but other opportunities have presented themselves and this summers workcamp should be a great experience for all involved.
We start Thursday morning, meeting at EUMC @ 9am. We will travel by Mini-Van and SUV to Christian Fellowship Baptist Church, where we'll be doing lots of painting, installing window screens, doors, cleaning windows, and shampooing carpet. We'll be staying at Grace United Methodist Church, and showering each day at the Monsanto Family YMCA. All three of these locations are within minutes of each other. You can click on the names to see a map.
Thursday and Friday evenings after work will be time for us to go around to different places in the City. Thursday we will be dining at Fitz's Root Beer and shopping in The Loop, and Friday we will be going to the City Museum.
We hope that you'll take this opportunity to serve with us! Below is the necessary forms with all the information: what to bring, when to be places, and a full schedule. We need an RSVP by July 19. You can RSVP by emailing Adam or clicking the "comment" link and typing your name and clicking "submit".
The Surefire Praise Band Wants You!!
Do you play an instrument? Do you sing? Would you like to explore using your talent as a way to serve God?; If you can answer yes to any of these questions, the Surefire Praise Band might be for you.; The Surefire Praise Band is for students, 6th-12th grade who are interested in learning to play an instrument in a band setting.; We meet from 6:00-7:00 PM on Tuesday evenings in the sanctuary - beginning after Labor Day. Come and explore the joy of playing with other Christian musicians and singers for the glory of God!! If you're interested, please contact Matt Vincent at 636-519-1433. He would love for you to join us.
Tomorrow is the 4th of July and what better way to celebrate than with washers, badminton, BBQ, and fireworks. Anyone not attending's patriotism may be called into question. 5-10pm at Steve Mitchell's house, click here for directions. See you there!
This Saturday from 10am-2pm. Tell your friends that they can come get they' car washed. We need high schoolers to wash cars! We'll feed ya!
Hey high schoolers. Pool party. This Thursday, 7-9pm. If your last name begins with A-L bring a 2-Litre. If your last name begins with M-Z bring a snack or tasty treat. For directions, click here, then click on get directions.
Wednesday at 3:30 meet at church to go meet and serve people in our community! As part of the promotion for Evan Almighty we won $1,000 to go into our community and perform "Acts of Random Kindness" (ARK for short) So we have purchased a boatload of QT gift cards and are going to "randomly" hand them out tomorrow to folks that work at the bank, the grocery store, at Chevy's, and other places around. This will be our first of several "ARK" days this summer. Hope to see you there! Contact Adam (amustoe@ellisvilleumc.org) or Amy (amyjoruck@mindspring.com) with any questions!
Congraduations to all our 2007 graduates! We hope that you can enjoy the next couple weeks! Don't forget to invite your youth workers to your parties so you can rake in more gifts! You'll find pictures on the right. Thanks to Dot, Connie, Jenny, Pricilla, Della, Kathy, Vito, Patty, Jim, and everyone else to helped out.
For anyone interested in downloading Pastor John's message from Sunday, you can download it here.
We've got some new additions to the "reccommended reading and listening" sections on the right, and some new videos should be on their way as soon as Google video starts working again!
I hope everyone is enjoying the last few weeks of school (and by enjoying I mean surviving!) and that as we finish Prom season everyone can remain safe.
Also, our prayers go with everyone in the Virginia Tech community. Go to New Life Christian Fellowship's website on the campus of Virginia Tech to see how the Church is responding locally. Also, check out this page to hear a song in response to the tragedy.
This Sunday April 22 we'll be having a time of Worship in the sanctuary from 6-7:30pm. Living water will be leading us in music and we have a very special guest. John Drage will be talking to us about the importance of community and not getting complacent in our lives. John is a close personal friend of Adam's and Pastor at The Rock, a church on the campus of Mizzou. Check out their website at columbiarock.com More about John:
John Drage has been the pastor at The Rock since it began in January 2001. He is passionate about competing, eating and talking. Some of his favorite movies are “Braveheart,” “The Emperors Club,” and “The Patriot.” Originally from Cleveland, he graduated with a degree in math education from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. John married Amy in 1989, and they have four children: Josh, Jessie, Caleb and Nathanael.
We're inviting anyone from the congregation who would like to join us for worship, and hear John a wonderful and innovative pastor. See you Sunday!
Hey guys. We have lots of parents of kids at church. We have lots of youth at church. Sometimes, these parents need someone to watch their kids. If you're cool to pick up some babysitting gigs and know not to stick your finger in an electrical socket leave a comment or email amustoe@ellisvilleumc.org
The hope is to have a list of people from our church that parents can call when they need a sitter, sometimes at the last minute. So when we get a call here I don't just scratch my head and rattle of the names of the people that have given me bribe money. Babysitting list....sign it!
Rachel goes old school on the sit n' spin, which is a perfect example of random things found in the youth room. | |
Hey guys,
This week is Holy Week, where we hold services to remember Jesus the life of Jesus during last days. Holy week starts with Jesus' entry into Jeruselem (Palm Sunday), remember the last supper (Maunday Thursday), we mourn the death of Jesus through the crucifixion (Good Friday), and celebrate resurrection (Easter Sunday). If you'd like to learn the history of these days you can check that out here.
Our Maunday Thursday service will be at 7pm on....you guessed it....Thursday!
Good Friday service is also at 7pm on Friday. It will be much like a funeral, where we mourn the bodily death of Jesus Christ.
It's makes a huge difference to understand the meaning and historical tradition of Holy Week. I would contest that Easter should be the weekend of the Jewish passover for historical accuracy, but what do I know. Our silly lunar calander makes the date change according to old tradition. So, check out the link, get educated, and we'll see you this week. Blessings to all God's people this Easter, and everyday.
-Adam.
Bonus points if anyone can leave a comment on how easter eggs and the easter bunny came to be cultural symbols this time of year .
Hey guys! The trip to Mexico was a success and we hope everyone had (or will have) a great spring break wherever you are.
This Sunday is Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week. Pastor Michael will be giving his vision for the future of our church, and the palm branches are always fun to hit your little brother with. To see the biblical story from which we derive Palm Sunday check out Matthew 21: 1-11
April 1st we'll have Sunday School and Youth Group as normal, also there is a Spring Choir Concert at 7pm in the sanctuary that you're invited to.
April 8th we will have Sunday School as normal, but no confirmation class and no youth group.
18 high school youth and 7 adults left for the 5th Youth Mexico Mission Trip, we're working with Proyecto Abrigo from March 17-24.
Hey guys. I'm sitting at the compound we're staying at in Juarez, Mexico. We don't have heat in the dorm rooms, but we've got wireless internet!
The trip down was great. A little cramped in the bus, but you really can't complain as it was nicely air conditioned, well equiped with a DVD player/plenty of screens, and great company. Plus, no one threw up or anything.
So on your right hopefully you'll see that we have some photos posted of the trip so far- not too many exciting ones yet but it's been nice to get some down time after traveling. Tommarow we'll start putting the work in workcamp.
Keep checking back as we're hoping to have some blog entries (travel journals) from the kids at least a couple times this week, if not daily.
Much love,
-Adam.
Anyone who's come to book club has heard me harp about the adamsbookclub blog. Well, guess what? I killed it. Now we'll do all the online interactions of book club through this here site. Also, the "Adam's" in "Adam's Book Club" is dead too. It really never was, but definately is no longer, my book club. So "Adam's Book Club" is now simply, Book Club which you can find under the "categories" section anytime.
Here's what I gathered from the previous online and in-person discussions:
So, you can comment on here instead of "adamsbookclub.blogspot.com" and I look forward to what you guys come up with. Book Club is open to any 9-12 grade student, we meet Tuesdsay's from 8-9pm, with location and book after spring break almost determined. As always, post a comment and let me know what you think!
What up! The most exciting event in sports is rapidly approaching- NCAA tourney time!
Go to the ESPN.com tournament page create an espn.com account if you don't have one (it's free). Then fill out your bracket, and join our group. On the group page, search for EUMC and you should see us. Go head, invite your friends.
I'll buy Buffalo Wild Wings for the winner, but no money will be exchanged. We generally don't gamble at youth group, sorry.
Your brackets will be locked in on Friday, so pick em' wisely! Go ORU!
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Here are the praying hands at Oral Roberts University, where my step-Mom went to school. Hard to pick against a school with the biggest, goldest praying hands in the world.
-Adam.
The original and world famous game of ultimate Frisbee played into the dark night with glow Frisbees and glow bands. A full compliment of drinks, pizza, and jams over the DJ speakers are provided. No cost. Bring all your friends, what else do you do on Tuesday nights anyway? May 29, June 5, June 12, June 19, June 26, July 3, July 10, July 17, July 24, July 31, August 7. check out Flashlight to get a preview.
High school students grades 9-12 are important to us at EUMC. Sunday mornings from 9:00-10:30 a disciple bible study class is held at Crestview Middle School (right next door). Disciple Bible Study is a curriculum desinged by the United Methodist Church, a class you can sign up for again starting in August. Also from 9:30-10:30 we hold Sunday School down in room 105, with biblical and topical issues being discussed.
Sunday evenings we have youth group which meets at EUMC from 6:00-7:30. We goof off together, worship together, learn together, and just plain enjoy being together. We would love to welcome you and any friends, any Sunday.
There are also lots of opportunities for high schoolers who are interested in the arts. Check out the EUMC Celebration Arts page for more info.
