Youth and Family Ministry at St. Paul's
SPYs | SPARKs | Family Ministry | 3 & 4-yr-old Sunday School | Rotational Sunday School |
5th & 6th Grade Learning and Service | Confirmation Ministry | Youth Coffee'n Chat Sundays
St Paul's Director of Youth and Family Ministry is Vicar Kathryn Irwin. We thank Sister Jennie Myers for her two-year ministry at St. Paul's.
SPYs (ST PAUL'S YOUTH)
SPYs are a group for high school youth. They are focussed on service projects for the community, and on having fun doing it!
SPARK
SPARKs are a group for middle school youth. This group has energy and spirit and has the spark of the Holy Spirit. So we call ourselves the SPARKS!
This is the fun and fellowship side of Confirmation--for seventh and eighth graders—who want to continue getting to know each other and hanging out together while having fun.
Possible events to look forward to:
- Game nights
- Movie afternoon at church
- Go see a movie
- Lock-in: sleep over at church
- Devo-lunches: hang out at each other’s house for lunch with a short devotion/life discussion
- Hang out with youth groups at surrounding churches
- Community service projects
- And more!
FAMILY MINISTRIES
This is an opportunity for the people of St. Paul’s to have fellowship time together and continue getting to know each other on a deeper faith level and a personal level.
We define family as the collection of individual families that come together at St. Paul’s to worship and praise God; but family is also who God sees us as a community. Family ministry events help us get to know each other with both of these ideas of family in mind.
Possible events:
- Advent Festival
- Easter Family Breakfast and Egg Hunt
- Mardi Gras Pancake Dinner
- Family Talent Show
- New Year’s Eve Family Party
- New Member’s Potluck
- Summertime Movie Ministry
- Annual Church Picnic
- Picnic on the Patio summer picnics
THREE AND FOUR YEAR OLDS SUNDAY SCHOOLl
We have a separate class for the three and four year old children of the congregation.
Children will:
- Play together
- Learn about a Bible story
- Do a craft together that relates to the story
- Snack time
**Parents welcome to stay with their child if they think their child will be more comfortable
Sunday school is for children in Kindergarten through fourth grade. The children of St. Paul’s have the opportunity to learn all about the Seasons of the Church by discovering each season through different activity learning stations. Everyone learns and takes in information differently and this model of Sunday school honors and embraces this theory of learning.
The children have different activities planned each Sunday:
-music
-cooking
- science
- drama
- storytelling
- arts & crafts
- puppets
- games.
In Sunday school the people of St. Paul’s are welcome and invited to explore and use their gifts and talents to teach and learn along with the children about God.
FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADE LEARNING AND SERVICE CLASS
The fifth and sixth graders have a class of their own to learn about the Bible in more detail often through interactive projects and activities, but also will have the opportunity to help with some service projects around the church and in the community.
Confirmation is a time for the seventh and eighth grade youth of St. Paul’s to come together to talk about God, the Bible, and their faith and how it affects their everyday lives. This is a time for them to ask questions or to at least know that it’s ok to question their faith—a normal part of being a Christian.
Confirmation is relational ministry. It is about having fun, being together, getting to know each other, and exploring how God is a part of our everyday lives.
Most of the class is held in the church building using an interactive power point curriculum, which makes use of popular media and interesting hands-on activities that all draw in the story/theme of the day.
The youth help create their experience in Confirmation—especially with choosing the kind of monthly community service projects they want to participate in.
YOUTH COFFEE ‘N’ CHAT SUNDAYS!
Each Sunday the high school youth will meet at a local coffee house to drink coffee, hang out together, and talk about whatever! We’ll meet in the Great Room at 9:30 am each Sunday to carpool over.
September and October we’re headed to Daryl’s Coffee Shop. Call Louann Cunningham with any questions