It was awesome to see all of you who joined us yesterday morning for the Youth Parent Meeting and Confirmation Parent Meeting!
Volunteering with teenagers is not a box you have to check or simply fulfilling your parental duty – we promise that is it not only impactful and worthwhile, but it can be life-changing.
Right now, I think we could all use a little grounding. Especially because things are constantly changing — between changing with expectations with the pandemic, not knowing who’s in and out of quarantine at any given time, uncertainty with our schedules and seemingly no way to plan for the future.
Our Drive-In Movie was a total success — we had a full (socially-distanced) parking lot with over 60 people in attendance, no technical difficulties (except for the sun not setting fast enough) and an excellent showing of The Princess Bride.
What will fall look like for our FUMCFW Youth Ministries? Every three weeks, we are planning some kind of in-person event which will be hosted outside, with social distancing and masks required. Join us on September 13 at 6:30 pm in the East Parking Lot for our Fall Kick-Off 2020 drive-in movie!
We’re not perfect, and we’re tired. But we’re not going to stop trying. We will keep showing up, for your teenagers and for your family. We’ll keep coming up with things for you to show up to. We’ll keep holding up the light of these promises – God is good, and here, and loves us, and it will be ok.
Lent is the liturgical season (church time of year) that we use for the 40 days from Ash Wednesday till Good Friday, and is a time of fasting in preparation for Holy Week.
I have to pray out loud a lot. It’s part of this job, and I’m fairly comfortable doing it. But for the first few months I worked here, I found myself stumbling over the beginning of the prayer. And no matter what I tried, it never quite felt right…