Welcome to St. John’s Senior High Youth Ministry Web Page. Please take your time to browse the web pages found here. To find a description of the weekly ministry Programs for Senior High Youth Ministry please go to the Senior High Ministries page. You will find the latest information on Youth Ministry for the High School youth at St. John’s Lutheran Church.
Click here for CALENDAR: Important Dates in Youth Ministry FALL 2011
Below you can find some of the important information on our programs.
Important News and Upcoming Events!
FAITH 404 was Sunday, April 22nd. If you missed this event, the PACKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE so that you can do this at home! Please contact Steve if you would like packets.
Homeless Night for Habitat for Humanity is Sat/Sun May 12/13 at the Church. We are gathering on the east side of the Church. All youth are asked to bring your own cardboard. Also – this year you must bring a canned good to donate for every luxury item (such as blankets, pillows, sleeping bags). It could rain so plan on bringing something to help with being wet and cold! Get your permission slip here: Homeless Night Permission Slip 2012
Leadership Lab Summer 2012 This year’s Leadership Lab is July 30 – Aug. 4 at Augustana College. We will be taking TEN youth for this year’s Leadership Lab. This is an awesome week of learning leadership skills in small groups – making awesome friends with teens from 13 states – great relevant worship with a rocking Christian band from Las Vegas – incredible talks by awesome Pastors – and lots of fun! Sign up NOW by downloading these forms and contacting STEVE at stve@stjohnsbloomington.org.
WORK CAMP 2012! The next Work Camp meeting is Sunday, May 20th at 11:45 in the PLC. This is a Mandatory Meeting. At this meeting we will be looking at how to pack – talking about the community of Birmingham – making final preparations for our Wednesday afternoon off – and handing in our PAPERWORK! Please make sure you are writing your sponsor letters!
Information for the Fall Rite of Confirmation is available on this site’s webpage Confirmation. Please go there to see the latest version of the Faith Share Schedule.
Past Events Updates!
The EASTER EGG HUNT was on Saturday, March 31st starting at 10:00 AM until 11:00 AM in the Fellowship Hall of the Church. We had lots of teens and a number of adults helping with this year’s event. The weather was perfect which helped bring out about 90 children and their parents and grandparents. Our Easter Bunny was awesome as she welcomed children for photos and helped hide over 1000 eggs for the children. Games and activities were available in the FH including face painting, coloring, pin the tail on the bunny, bunny bowling, bunny buckets and Hot Easter Egg. Go here to see many of the photos of the event: Easter Egg Hunt 2012 Photos To go the the gallery of this year’s photos, sign in with easteregghunt@yahoo.com and password: easter. Then go to My Gallery and click on this year’s photos. Kirk Fagerland took over 155 photos of kids on the lap of the Easter Bunny and kids finding eggs.
The POLAR PLUNGE 2012 was a huge success! St. John’s senior high youth were again this year a large part of the local Polar Plunge raising money for Special Olympics. 10 teens and Steve Terry raised over $1800 and then donned pink tutus as they jumped into 38 degree water on a sunny and windy Saturday afternoon. The temperature was a frigid 11 degrees wind chill. The Plungers were: Jackie Schell, Dashiell Koester, Jane Moore, Kaydee Parker, Joe Sutton, Taylor Barron, Ian Stanley, Ryan White, Rikka Skillrud, Chris Collins-Terry and Steve Terry.
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St. John’s Lutheran Church encourages our senior high youth to attend Lutheran Colleges. There is help with tuition through a Thrivent Financial Scholarship for Lutheran Schools. Please apply here for the form to fill out: Scholarship Request Form. Contact Steve at steve@stjohnsbloomington.org if you have questions. Return this to Steve or to the St. John’s Business office ASAP.
Please go to the latest “Ramblings From Steve Aves” to read some of Steve’s thoughts on CHAOS and the latest Trunk or Treat and Stewardship. Steve has been involved with teens from St. John’s for over 10 years and he and his wife, Ruthanne, are very active in CHAOS, special activities and the Youth Ministry Leadership Board. Go to categories to find his webpage, or click here: Ramblings From Steve Aves.
Stories to consider…
The Ragman – A story about Jesus’ choice to take on our sins.
Dandelions – A story about how to deal with conflicts.
Lessons From Geese – A story about leadership and community.
I Would Pick More Daisies – A story about how to live your life without regret.
Click here for CALENDAR: Important Dates in Youth Ministry FALL 2011
I am a 21 year old junior in college and have just recently started attending worship again on Sundays regularly. I was wondering if any of the senior high activities such as mission trips, work camps,LIGHT worship, etc. would be available for me to start getting involved in or if there is something else more fitting for my age group?