Park Terrace UMC Youth Group

In Sunday school we read Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss. Yertle decided one day that he wanted to be the greatest turtle not just of his pond, but of all he could see. Being king he ordered the turtles to stand on one another’s backs, raising him higher and higher and letting him see more and more. Thousands of turtles high, Yertle was a very great king. Then one day Mack, a turtle on the bottom of the stack, burped, and Yertle’s kingdom crumbled.

We realized that basing our success on a stack of turtles wasn’t the best plan of action (kind of like the man who built his house on sand). We cut some turtles out of poster board and wrote on them some of the things we shouldn’t build our life on, for example, one turtle was “clothes,” another turtle was “popularity,” another “grades,” etc.

So what should we build our lives on? We went out and collected rocks (like the man who built his house on rock) and wrote on them some better things to build our lives on. Then we made an inuksuk, an Artic Inuit rock art form, out of our rocks.

See the photos here: www.flickr.com/photos/tbarnes

 

As you know, this Sunday at 2:00 (after Confirmation class) we will be making Christmas cookies to give to a local nursing home(s).

Don’t forget, this Sunday, December 3rd, we will begin to shoot some of the video for Confirmation Sunday.  You don’t have to wear dresses and three piece suits, but you should wear something that looks kind of nice.

See you then!

Pastor Nick

Stacy’s given me some of her pictures from this Sunday’s AWESOME Fire and Ice lunch.  They are, as always, posted here: www.flickr.com/photos/tbarnes

More to come!

–Tara

  

The title of this post is your first clue to what type of food we are making in Sunday school this Sunday (11/26).  Stay tuned for more hints.

P.S. A HUGE thanks to Kyle for the suggestion!

P.P.S. Don’t forget to bring your fact/tidbit about Moses.  We will be christening our first youth-room-wall person by hanging (somehow) on him all the cool information we find.

P.P.P.S. Leave a comment on this post telling everyone what “P.S.” stands for and you will be the coolest person in the greater Binghamton area.  Officially.

 –Tara

The PT Cruisers have made it onto the Wyoming Conference Web site! 

Check it out here:

http://www.wyomingconference.org/news_detail.asp?PKValue=80

Let me see your funky chicken!

Here are some fuzzy phone pictures from Youth Alive.  I’m not sure my phone is to blame–I think maybe all the bouncing to the band may have something to do with it…

–Tara

I posted some pictures from last year’s Spaghetti with Santa here: www.flickr.com/photos/tbarnes.  Go check them out!  

–Tara 

 

  

Your leaders need help!  (As if you didn’t know.)  We e-mail you, myspace you, sometimes even instant message you, but sometimes a good, old-fashioned phone call works the best when we have information to share.  So I’ve e-mailed everyone a PHONE TREE.  I’m not posting it on the Web site since we are local celebrities and our fans would be calling us all the time. 

On the phone tree is simply a list of everyone’s (so far) phone numbers.  So it’s a very straight tree.  One of the leaders will call the first person on the list.  Your duty (haha I said “duty”) is to call the person below you on the list.  If they don’t answer, leave a message and call the next person.  Keep doing this until you talk to a human being who can then call the next person

So check your e-mail is all I’m sayin’.  Peace out.

–Tara