Saint Paul's Lutheran Church Youth Blog

High Seas Adventure Video

Saint Paul's Lutheran Church Vacation Bible School had a high seas theme this year. The video slide show is now available for all to see.

Just click here...

Shirts are in

Great news...our first t-shirt order has arrived. If you ordered one of them, please see Tammy. If you did not order a shirt, you still can. The design is awesome! Remember, this is a fundraiser for the youth's summer mission trip. I placed another order yesterday which will be ready in two weeks. So it is definitely not too late. Purchase your shirt today!

We will be having Vacation Bible School for preschool-grade 5. Dates are June 13-17. Please let me know if you plan to attend. We will serve dinner each night!! Bring a friend.

Fundraisers

We are busy planning our fundraisers for the next few months. Our plan is to go whitewater rafting this summer in the mountains and stay in a cabin. Hopefully, we can take some time to help out at a local food pantry or shelter while we are there. Here are our fundraising plans/ideas:

St. Paul's Lutheran T-shirts are for sale NOW:
$10.00 for youth-adult sizes
$12.00 for x-large sizes

We have an order coming in soon, but will order more if we need to!

Krispy Kreme doughnut sales: Planned for MAY
Students will pre-sale as many as possible and then sale some at local stores. The cost for each box will be $5.00. I hope we sell a bunch.

Car Wash/Yard Sale/Bake Sale: Possible, but not definite
This sounds like a good idea, but past records do not show that these events are profitable. Still weighing our options.

Luau (is this spelled right?): June fundraiser
We would love to host another dinner similar to our Winter Wonderland. Except the theme would be a luau, of course. Haven't worked out the details but everyone likes to eat!!

If anyone has any great ideas, please share them with us.

Paintball trip

We recently took a trip to Red Fox Games in Woodruff, SC. They have multiple fields and challenges for the paintball enthusiast. We were invited by West End Baptist Church (thanks Justin). The two youth groups really learned a lot about each other and had a great time playing together. I think my guys (my girls stood me up) were surprised to find out that I was going to play paintball with them. What were they thinking? That I was going to sit under a tree all day and do Suduko? Come on. I won't lie, that sounds good to me too. But anyway, I survived with only one HUGE bruise on my arm. It was nasty. Can't wait to go back this Fall.

Fund Raising Update

Our Winter Wonderland was a great success.
Thank you so much to everyone that bought
tickets, brought a cake, donated money or food,
and to those that worked the event.  A special
thank you to Daddy Joes and J Michaels for
donating the delicious chicken for the event.
Cathy did a great job of helping us decorate and
cook.   You guys are awesome!

We will have our annual Egg Hunt at the 
Cazel residence on April 3, from 2-4 p.m.  LCY
members are asked to attend the event and help
hide eggs for the children.  We will be giving
away lots of goodies and prizes!  In order to
make the event successful, we are asking for the
following donations: bags of candy, prizes (small
toys), monetary donations, chocolate bunnies, 
egg shells(clean, crushed and placed in baggie - 
to be used for an art project). 

The LCY will be selling St. Paul�s Lutheran
Church T-shirts to raise money for our summer
mission trip.  If you are interested in purchasing
one, please fill out the form and return to Tammy
or an LCY member.  T-shirts are $10 -Adult Lg.
and $12 -Adult 3XL.

___Youth sm.    ___Youth med.    ___Youth lg.

___Adult sm.    ___Adult med.    ___Adult lg.

___Adult XL     ___Adult 2XL     ___Adult 3XL

Impact weekend

The youth have been looking forward to Impact weekend. It was an awesome event, as usual. The Standing Rock Solid Youth Ministers Association really worked hard to put together a moving weekend. What a great opportunity to worship with friends. I believe we put out almost 1,000 chairs for the event. Imagine 1,000 young adults singing and praising God together. LOVED IT!! Already looking forward to next year. By the way, we were the first runners up in the Impact Olympics for volleyball. We will keep practicing for 2011.

Happy New Year!!

I hope that everyone had a happy holiday season. The youth stayed busy in December with our Youth Production, Lock in (late November), and trip to Hollywild. We will continue to stay busy this month. The LCY will be starting the new year off right by volunteering our time to help a local organization in our community. Details are not final at this time. Parents will receive information soon. We would love for you to join us. Please let me know if you are interested.

Thank you to everyone who brought desserts to the youth Production dessert reception. Delicious!!

We want to spread the good news that St. Paul�s Lutheran Church is awesome. We will be selling

St. Paul�s LCMC t-shirts to raise money for our youth. If you are interested in ordering a shirt, please let a youth member know. We will also have our Winter Wonderland tickets on sale. Please consider attending this event.

Have a wonderful and peaceful New Year.

Love, Tammy Hodges (490 7040)

Youth Update

What a wonderful year it has been! I feel that the youth here at St. Paul's have accomplished so much. I look forward to the Christmas season that is drawing near. Our annual Christmas Production will take place on December 23. Following the production, there will be a dessert reception. This will be a time to congratulate our youth for a job well done and to fellowship with other church members during the holiday season. It is also a great way to share a new holiday dessert with everyone. If you are willing to make a dessert or two, please let me know as soon as possible. We will begin practicing in November. Parents, please make sure that your child is present on Wednesday nights to practice. If anyone can come and help with costumes and practice that would be wonderful!!

We will go caroling December 20. Please plan to meet at the church at 3:00. Following our caroling trip, we will go visit Hollywild's Christmas display. I will be sending information home to parents soon. This will be open to LCC and LCY. I will need some assistance with transportation for this event. PLEASE consider helping! If you want to make sure that we visit you on our caroling trip, please call me.

St. Paul's will have a live nativity scene this year. The date will be 19 December in the Evening. The specific details have not been finalized, but what an awesome idea. The church is facing the busiest street in Gaffney! I'm excited. If we have any youth that would like to participate in the live nativity scene, please let me know. Acolyte training will take place soon. Please sign your child up to serve in 2010!

Have a wonderful holiday!! Your friend in Christ,

Tammy Hodges
490 7040
THodge@spartanburg3.org

MARK YOUR CALENDAR:
December 2 LCC & LCY 6:30 7:30

December 9 LCC & LCY 6:30 7:30

December 16 LCC & LCY 6:30 7:30

December 19 LIVE NATIVITY 5:30 PM ... at Saint Paul's Lutheran Church

December 20 LCC &LCY Caroling Trip 3:00

December 22 LCC & LCY practice 5:30PM to 7:30PM

December 23 Youth Christmas Production 7:00 PM

Jerusalem Project

Jerusalem Project 09 - Schedule for the Week

Monday - Thursday
8:00 am � Arrive at Broad River Electric / Leave for worksites.
12:30 pm � Return to BRE for Lunch.
1:30 pm � Leave BRE for church projects**. (this will be your youth family)
5:30 pm � Meet for supper at the designated church - info below.
Dinner Schedule: Monday �East Gaffney
Tuesday � Macedonia
Wednesday � Temple
Thursday � Grassy Pond
Friday � St. Paul�s/ Cherokee Creek (at Broad River Electric)

6:30 pm � Meet back at BRE for Worship Service. ( Band: MyCalvary)
There will be a different speaker each night.
Monday � David Toney
Tuesday � Nathan Ellis
Wednesday � Phil Gallman
Thursday � Justin Cook
Friday � Flop Goodson
Friday Schedule will be announced.

� Crew Devotion material will be given to you . Crew chiefs or a student will lead the devo approx 5-8 min.
� ** Church Projects are totally up to you. You can do Back Yard Bible Clubs, More Construction or yard work, Evangelism, Etc. This is an opportunity for your youth family to work together.
We will find out more information Monday. Call me if you have any questions.

Tammy

July newsletter entry

I hope everyone�s summer is going well. We recently took a trip to Paramount Carowinds with the LCC and the LCY. It was a wonderful time for us to fellowship together with our friends and fellow Christians. July will be dedicated to serving our community. The LCY will participate in the Jerusalem Project July 20-24. Students must have their money in by July 4 to participate. The cost for participating is $40.00 and it will be well worth it. See Tammy for more details.

I am still trying to plan something for the LCC in July. I would like to visit the new water park in Duncan. I will get with parents soon to plan a date. Don�t forget to bring your loose coins on the first Sunday of each month for the �Noisy Offering�. Last month we collected $49.00. That is awesome. Thank you to everyone that brought change. A special thank you to Pam and Linda for helping to supervise children for our first event. Children�s church is going well. If you�ve been busy and unable to attend, please plan to do so. It is a great chance for me to connect with the children of the church.