Park Terrace UMC Youth Group

We will be ice skating on Saturday March 15 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the BCC Ice Center. Following ice skating will be a lock-in, sleeping–yes sleeping–in the youth room. Bring church clothes to change into for Sunday morning. You will still be having Sunday school and going to service. Bring also your sleeping bag, pillow, toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, etc.

After the service on March 16th is the Easter egg hunt, and Mrs. Bogdan has asked for your help. I know most of you are planning on helping anyway since it’s fun.

Remember, let Stacy know this week if you can work at the Home Show this Sunday after church!

Coming soon (Sunday) to a fellowship hall near you (yours, actually)–it’s Baked Potato Bar.

This may be the first baked potato bar Park Terrace has ever experienced, and it’s for certain the first baked potato bar that was advertised using a dancing potato wearing chef’s hat, so the pressure is on! Don’t screw it up!

Anyway. We’ll be wrapping our taters in tin foil during Sunday school this Sunday at 9:30. They’ll bake during the service. Then we’ll provide our church with another awesome free (will) lunch. If anyone asks, the potatoes are $25.00 each. They’ll believe you. But if the asking person calls them taters, they get to eat for free (will).

See you Sunday!

In Sunday school last Sunday the vote for the Christmas play was unanimous for “The Christmas Competition.” This Sunday, we’ll pick our parts, so read through the play and decide who you’d like to be. The Web link to the play is a few posts below this one.

We’ll use Sunday school time to practice–so no need to try to find a week night for practice. Phew! This does mean you must attend Sunday school regularly

Get psyched.

Mrs. Snover is teaching Sunday school this Sunday and she said she will be showing Hotel Rwanda.  If you haven’t already seen this movie, here is some information:

It’s PG-13 for some violence and language, violence because it is a story about genocide, and language, well, because some people let some bad words slip when other people are trying to kill them (but it’s still PG-13). 

The movie is about Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel owner in Rwanda (a country in Africa) who saved many people’s lives by letting them take refuge in his hotel during the genocide, risking his own life to do so.  The movie does not glorify violence (it in fact does the exact opposite) and presents the story very well. 

If you’d like to know more about the genocide, read this Human Rights Watch article.

If you’d like to know more about Paul and about the movie, read this National Geographic article.

If you’d like to know more about the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation, go here.

Let me know if you have any questions.  I’ll be watching this movie again this week as a “refresher.”  See you Sunday!

First off, Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a great break!

This Sunday, January 7, is Confirmation Sunday (woo hoo!).  We’ll be running through the service again during Sunday school, just for a little more practice, and for those of you who weren’t there last Sunday.

See you Sunday at 9:30!

 

I’m glad you asked!  For the next two Sundays (December 17 and 24) the junior and senior high Sunday school class will be joining the adult class to learn about Advent…and to get even more excited for Jesus’ birthday.

Class is cancelled on December 31 because of New Year’s, but once again feel free to join the adult class if they have it!

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

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

Attention PT Cruisers! 

You have a very serious mission to fulfill this Sunday (11.12.06) for Sunday school class.  Think about what you want to study in Sunday school for the rest of the year, and  then bring your ideas to class.  We will be BRAINSTORMING, and then, since it’s election week after all, we will be VOTING on what we want to do.

For example, we can study a person in the Bible, or study the Apostles.  We can study Biblical mysteries, or even learn about another religion altogether.  You come up with some ideas.  We don’t know what you want to do unless you tell us! Now is your chance!

See you Sunday (if not before)!