This week we are deep into planning our Youth Led Thanksgiving Eve Service (Wed Nov 23^rd at 6:30).  Please LET ME KNOW IF YOUR STUDENT(s) PLANS ON ATTENDING THE THANKSGIVING EVE SERVICE.  Once you let me know if your student will be attending we will get them a part of the service to help with.  We would like to have as many youth participate as possible, and we would love to see all the families come and worship with us.

Big Events this Week

Middle School Youth Group “DO YOU HAVE SOUL?” Wednesdays (Nov 16 - 6:15-7pm.)  We will have a special guest this week speaking about how she finally listened to her soul and where it took her.

Upcoming Big Events

Thanksgiving Eve Service (Led by the Youth for the Church Family and Community) Wednesday Nov 23^rd at 6:30pm.  I need to know if your student is participating so I can assign parts of the worship service.

Live Nativity Saturday Dec 24^th after the 7pm Worship Service – The youth stand outside in costume and the congregation comes into the Nativity scene with candle light.  We are excited to offer this for a second year in a row.  

Ongoing Weekly Events

Middle School Youth Group “DO YOU HAVE SOUL?” Wednesdays (Nov 16, and 30^th) from 6:15-7pm.

Parents Help Needed

Christmas Party Host – (Friday December 9^th 6:30-9pm) We would like to have someone volunteer their home for our annual Christmas Party.  The party is for Middle School Youth and their Families.

Keeping you Informed and help us grow

I did some work on our Youth Web Site Last week and I hope it is a place you can find useful info.  You can visit it at the following link https://sites.google.com/site/jwyouth/ 

If you have friends who are looking for a youth ministry for their middle school student please forward them this email to them, and tell them to send me an email and I will be happy to add them to our mailings.

We had a great time at the MS Lock-in on Friday Night.  We had 23 of us locked in the building all night.  I think the highlight of the night was hide and seek in the dark halls of the church.  A special thanks to Brantley, Cary, and Sandi for making the night possible by staying with us all night.  Sunday Night 9 of us traveled to Hibben UMC to meet up with over 100 other youth from the Charleston District to Worship together.

This week we are celebrating our pumpkins sales by going to Jack Cosmic Dog.  Ms. Margaret is out of town so there will be no choir.  This gives us the opportunity to have youth from 5:30-7pm.  So we will meet at John Wesley at 5:30 go to Jacks and the youth ministry will buy your dinner.  This is a small way of saying thanks for making pumpkins a great success. 

 The youth participated in a national program called “Souper Bowl of Caring” where youth are challenged to raise money for organizations in their area that are making a difference in the fight against hunger.  After each worship service at John Wesley the youth asked that everyone who attended to donate at least one dollar, and the total amount collect was over $500.  The John Wesley Youth Ministry decided to donate half of the money to the Charleston Crisis Center and the other half to the Star Gospel Mission.  The youth thank everyone who donated to this year’s “Souper Bowl of Caring”.

We had a blast at the all Youth Bowling Party on Sunday January 18th.  We had over 25 youth and adult volunteers at the event.  High Scorer for the night was Rick Fleming with a 153 that he says that if the lane did not break and have to be repaired in the 7th frame he would have bowled much higher.  Also we saw a ball get stuck behind the bumpers on one of the middle school lanes.  Drew Costa was entertained by watching David knock his ball in the gutter, and Charlie Black had the shot of the night as his ball bounced over the gutters onto another lane.  Don't miss our next All Youth Event the 2nd Annual Flag Football game February 1st at James Island County Park at 1:30pm.