Doing the Right Thing and the Hard Thing. My letter of resignation from Youth Ministry.
This is not an easy letter to write. Thinking about the words to use to express my joy, gratefulness, and sorrow brings back so many memories of the last three years at Ignition youth ministry. I actually did not set out to do this but rather to do just a simple Bible study with some Shorewood students to tie in one school year to the next. God, of course, had other plans.
As we began the summer doing a Bible study of the letter to the Philippians, I realized that I enjoyed teaching even outside of the classroom setting and I enjoyed teaching the amazing youth that would show up every Tuesday evening. As the weeks went on, I believed God was calling me to do this as a youth ministry and to not be like a typical youth ministry, but one that was about Jesus.
I know that last statement could be taken as a bit harsh, but I had seen other youth ministries and how they made it all about games, or food, or just happy-fun -time-hang out-yay! I also saw how those ministries lost most of their youth attending as soon as the Holy Spirit brought conviction to teach about Jesus. God told me specifically that this ministry would not be about that, and God willing that is what I had intended to do. It is and always should be about Jesus. Period.
During the last three years I have seen God grow our youth, use them in mighty ways, mature them, help them through very difficult times, convict them of sin and lead them to repentance. God always showed up, and He always revealed His everlasting love on our youth. I know it had nothing to do with me, but I am joyful to be a part of it! Praise be to God!
Leaving all of this is not easy. It's a "Do Hard Things" thing. I am leaving to spend more time with my family and to focus on home. This year my wife and I have had some challenging moments in our marriage and because of that, I believe my attention needs to be on my marriage. The Bible makes it clear that a man of God must have an orderly household first - meaning he has to be a pastor at home, taking care of the needs of his family first, before a ministry at church. What man would be effective elsewhere in his life, if his family suffers at home? I don't want to find out the answer. I have always said that I order my life this way: 1. Jesus, 2. Wife, 3. Kids, 4. Ministry. It is how I will continue to prioritize my life.
The Ignition youth ministry has also not been abandoned. It is still very much alive. In the interim, Pastor Joe Turner will be filling in. In the following weeks you will get more information about when youth group is starting back up, and upcoming events. I repeat, youth group at Ignition Youth still lives!
I want to encourage you all to continue to live out your youthful lives with it! Not only has God built an amazing ministry, but He has built an amazing community of believers at Ignition - that's you! Please continue to maintain that community that you have helped build, and continue to meet and pray and share burdens and love each other just as you always have had. Remember it's not about a person in charge, it's about Jesus!
Finally, thank you all for allowing me to serve you and minister to you. It has been a gift of God to know you all. I will still be teaching at Shorewood Christian, still available to talk to you all, take phone calls, emails, texts - still available to pray for you and intercede for you. I have not abandoned you, and of course neither has God. So know that I love you all very much, but keep it about Jesus and His love for you.
I thank God for a you all - more than you'll know,
Wes Olsen
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Ignition Youth News 4/12/2011 30 Hour Famine Update!
| 30 Hour Famine Information!by Wes Olsen It's time again for our youth ministry to participate in World Vision's 30 Hour Famine! Last year our youth collected over $1400 for aid and supplies to Haiti! It was awesome! Now there are a few changes to this year's 30 Hour Famine. I originally sent out permission slips stating that this weekend was the Famine date, but it turns out that the High School and Junior High both have track meets this weekend and leaving a lot of our youth out of the Famine. So we have gone back to the schedule and have set a new date that will not conflict with the sports schedule. The new dates are May 6th and 7th. New permission slips with the new date will be going out tomorrow and I am ordering more collection envelopes. The fasting information is still the same: We will start the fast at 8:30am Friday, May 6th and end Saturday, May 7th at 2:30pm. We will meet at 6:00pm on Friday evening at Cornerstone, where we will do Famine games, have a time of prayer and worship, and listen to two speakers. Also, with this new date our youth get some extra time collect donations for the 30 Hour Famine too! Thanks again for everyone's flexibility with this and if you have any questions please feel free to email me:Wes Olsen Email 30 Hour Famine Website: 30 Hour Famine  | |
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We are so very excited to be serving the youth, sharing time with them and growing together as we hear Gods call in our lives! Part of our evening is to provide the youth with a snack. Not only does a snack give them something to munch on, but provides them with valuable time to socialize and build relationships. To do this, we need your help! How can I Help? We need every family to help by providing snack one evening throughout the year. Since we have an average of 50-60 youth, we are asking 2 families to bring snack each night. Your responsibility will be to bring enough snack for 30 youth. We have lots of families so if every family contributes; we should only need your contribution once this year. What do I need to do? Please contact Wes Olsen at 206-353-0164 or wesolsen@shorewoodfoursquarechurch.org. He will work with you to set up a date for you to bring snack on a week that will work for your schedule. What should I bring? This can be homemade or store bought. Fruit and vegetables, cheese and crackers or cookies, brownies etc. Shop the sales! What's in the pantry? (Hint: They are teenagers, they love it all!) Should I bring drinks too? You may provide drinks if you like, but we can provide water and that seems to work well. How would you like the snack to come? Please bring the snack prepared and ready to serve. Also, please remind your youth to bring home your containers. My schedule is crazy and I have a hard time preparing a snack, is there any other way I can help? Yes! If you would like to help and just don't have the time to provide a ready to eat snack, you can donate $10 to our snack fund. This fund can be used on days when we don't have anyone scheduled to provide a snack. Thank you so much for coming along side us to help us love on and serve your kids! If you have any questions or comments, please contact Trina God Bless You! | |
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4/13/2011 -Youth Group! 4/20/2011 - No Youth Group! - Spring Break 4/27/2011 - Youth Group! Birthday Night! 5/4/2011 - Youth Group! 5/6/2011- 5/7/2011 - 30 Hour Famine!!! | |
| We thank God for each and every one of you, Shorewood Foursquare Ignition Youth Ministry Staff |
Monday, January 24, 2011
Ignition Youth News 1/24/2011
| Repentanceby Will Traynor | |
| "But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, ʻYou brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not presume to say to yourselves, "We have Abraham as our father," for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.ʼ" -Matthew 3:7-12 Many preach repentance as a means to escape fire. That is a lie. Repentance and faith in Jesus Christ is not an escape from fire, but the means by which we go through it. Every human will go through fire. In the text we see a the eternal fire that Jesus throws the chaff and unfruitful trees into, and we see a refining fire of sanctification that accompanies baptism. Make no mistake Jesusʼ sanctifying fire is a scary and sometimes lonely road marked with suffering, but also with hope. The hope of Jesus Christ, our salvation, our justification and our Lord who sends us on our journey through this road, not as punishment, or so that we may prove ourselves to Him (for there is no need to, His death is proof of our value to Him and His love towards us) but so that He might make us more like Him and that we may learn to love him more deeply. The only way to move through sanctification is repentance. Many modern churches today teach that repentance is the turning away from sin or being ʻnot worldly.ʼ I think it is more the practice of continually turning towards Jesus at all costs. We are not only called to repent of the things we have done (saying that word, or thinking that thought) but also from the things we have not done (not caring about the destitute and marginalized, or not paying attention in church) and even our general nature (pride, apathy, worry). The goal is not as much maximum distance from sin (or more accurately the certain sins that happen to convict us) as it is intense closeness with Jesus. Godʼs highest call for us is to be wholly His, not to be wholly ʻun-worldlyʼ. The Pharisees and Sadducees attended one of Johnʼs baptisms in hopes that the baptism of the baptism would add to their assumed righteousness through the law so that they could escape the ʻwrath to comeʼ and were rebuked by John and called sons of Satan. The first element in repentance is realizing our spiritual bankruptcy and our inability to be righteous. The Pharisees and Sadducees were open to the baptism, but only as something to add to their own righteousness. They were not interested in being close to Jesus, they only sought to be sinless and were not interested in knowing Messiah. They were not willing to undergo the fire that comes along with baptism and repentance towards Jesus which ultimate doomed them to the fire reserved for fruitless trees. Are you seeking to merely not sin as much, or are you wanting nothing more than to fully know Jesus Christ? Element two is an unstoppable hunger and pursuit for Jesus that will stop at nothing until it has Him. Please donʼt assume that there is something in your life that is the cause of sin that God is willing to work around. There isnʼt. God will remove every hindrance at any cost until He has you because He loves you. It is better that God breaks every bone in your body and He has you than you being comfortable and belonging to Satan. The four Gospels recall Jesus referring to the ʻKingdom of Heavenʼ or the ʻKingdom of Godʼ about 86 times and the application of most of the teaching surrounding the topic of the Kingdom is repentance. Not as a ritual done when convicted or caught, but as a daily lifestyle.We repent because, at all costs, we must know Jesus and seek to be as close as possible to Him, not as a way of meriting righteousness, but as a response to the mercy, grace, and love displayed on the Cross and the hope brought by the resurrection. We repent not because sin makes us feel bad, but because we are deeply undone by any actions that would break fellowship with our Savior. Because we are captivated by Jesus. Because we are in love. 1 Dan. 12:10, Isa. 48:10, Psalm 66:10 2 Matt. 9:12 3 Rom. 3:10-18, 23 | |
| Your Best life...later, Crazy Love Chapter 7 by Wes Olsen Are you still trying to do this on your own? Are you really still trying to find fulfillment outside of God's love? Have you not surrendered fully yet to this love? It's very true that there is great cost to ourselves to follow Jesus. We die to our selfish wants and needs to bless others and show the love of Christ. Some have given up 6 or 7 figure incomes to follow with complete abandon this Jesus. Some have given up their lives to fulfill a great and better calling - even to death! But why? Who would do this? What do they get out of it that it's so great to give up so much? They get Jesus. They get the greatest treasure of all - Jesus. With Jesus they get peace, joy, security, love, oh immeasurable love!, hope, strength, wisdom and these are just the things we receive here while we still suffer in a fallen world! Oh there is suffering and rough waters, but for those surrendered to Jesus it's always coupled with amazing miracles, peace beyond all understanding, power to walk through the most heart-wrenching trials, to quite honestly suffer with Jesus! Those surrendered truly desire to please God and get to see His glory - get to see Him do the impossible! Oh how amazing! Then there is eternity. What treasures will await us? What joys not ever experienced may we feel? What new thoughts might our minds enjoy? And we still get our greatest treasure Jesus! The thought makes me want to stop right now and worship Jesus! Does this sound out of reach for you? Too hard and too tough to go through with? Pray for faith and read the scriptures, so that God may show His glory and that living your best life later for an abandoned-to-Jesus-for-His-glory life now is worth your life - now! Helpful scriptures -Philippians 2:6-11 -1 John 2:6; 3:16-20; 2:28 -Matthew 12:50; 25:31-46 -Hebrews 11:6 -Romans 8 | |
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We are so very excited to be serving the youth, sharing time with them and growing together as we hear Gods call in our lives! Part of our evening is to provide the youth with a snack. Not only does a snack give them something to munch on, but provides them with valuable time to socialize and build relationships. To do this, we need your help! How can I Help? We need every family to help by providing snack one evening throughout the year. Since we have an average of 50-60 youth, we are asking 2 families to bring snack each night. Your responsibility will be to bring enough snack for 30 youth. We have lots of families so if every family contributes; we should only need your contribution once this year. What do I need to do? Please contact Trina Mannery at 206-550-9298 or trina.david@clearwire.net. She will work with you to set up a date for you to bring snack on a week that will work for your schedule. What should I bring? This can be homemade or store bought. Fruit and vegetables, cheese and crackers or cookies, brownies etc. Shop the sales! What's in the pantry? (Hint: They are teenagers, they love it all!) Should I bring drinks too? You may provide drinks if you like, but we can provide water and that seems to work well. How would you like the snack to come? Please bring the snack prepared and ready to serve. Also, please remind your youth to bring home your containers. My schedule is crazy and I have a hard time preparing a snack, is there any other way I can help? Yes! If you would like to help and just don't have the time to provide a ready to eat snack, you can donate $10 to our snack fund. This fund can be used on days when we don't have anyone scheduled to provide a snack. Thank you so much for coming along side us to help us love on and serve your kids! If you have any questions or comments, please contact Trina God Bless You! | |
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| 1/26/2011 - Youth Group, Chapter 7 Crazy Love, Birthdays 2/2/2011 - Youth Group, Chapter 8 Crazy Love 2/9/2011 - Youth Group, Chapter 9 Crazy Love 2/16/2011 - Youth Group, Chapter 10 Crazy Love 2/23/2011 - Youth Group, Birthdays | |
| We thank God for each and every one of you, Shorewood Foursquare Ignition Youth Ministry Staff |
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Ignition Youth News 1/03/11
| Serving Leftovers to a Holy God - Chapter 5, Crazy Love by Wes Olsen | |
| Happy New Year Ignition Youth! 2010 was a great year and I am praying that 2011 will be an even more blessed year. I hope that you have taken time to pray to God to anoint you for another year of battle and joy! One of the things I enjoy about the day after Christmas or New Years is the leftover food. Leftover turkey taste great as a sandwich or turkey chowder - yum! Leftover Chinese food after a New Years Eve dinner is also very yummy. But I also know that leaving the leftover food for too long is not yummy, but gross. I once knew a man that wouldn't even eat leftovers. Just the thought of eating day old food made him gag. It had to be fresh or not at all. Maybe it was a bit weird or maybe he only wanted the best. We tend not to like it when people don't give us the best. How many of you would have been upset if you received a broken guitar or video game for Christmas? How many of you would like it if instead of being fed a fresh, hot meal, you got to eat off the plate of whomever was finished with the meal first? I know I wouldn't, I would want the fresh meal. God wants the best too. He doesn't want the best food we can give him, He wants the best of us we can give Him. Instead we give God our cold, clammy, day-old leftovers, and we often don't think twice about it. This is the attitude of the lukewarm. Let me ask you another question. Are you more concerned about your salvation than your relationship with Jesus? See lukewarm people are more concerned about their salvation than loving Jesus, which is ironic considering lukewarm people don't make it to heaven, because of this! Jesus wants relationship, and He wants you to give him all of your life. Jesus calls us to be disciples or students of His. Not just "christians" who are by name only, but disciples who become like their teacher, Jesus. Don't know what this looks like? Pray and read through the gospels and let Jesus teach you the way, the truth and be led by the light! Go to Jesus first in everything, just talk to Him, ask Him questions and give Him time to answer you. Stop whining, and complaining and blaming Him about life and give it to Him to teach you through it. Give Him everything and your best! Doesn't Jesus deserve our best and not just our leftovers? | |
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| SOS - SAVE OUR SNACKS!!!!!!! by Trina Mannery | |
Fall is here and we are all settling into our new schedules - school, sports and youth group! We are so very excited to be serving the youth, sharing time with them and growing together as we hear Gods call in our lives! Part of our evening is to provide the youth with a snack. Not only does a snack give them something to munch on, but provides them with valuable time to socialize and build relationships. To do this, we need your help! How can I Help? We need every family to help by providing snack one evening throughout the year. Since we have an average of 50-60 youth, we are asking 2 families to bring snack each night. Your responsibility will be to bring enough snack for 30 youth. We have lots of families so if every family contributes; we should only need your contribution once this year. What do I need to do? Please contact Trina Mannery at 206-550-9298 or trina.david@clearwire.net. She will work with you to set up a date for you to bring snack on a week that will work for your schedule. What should I bring? This can be homemade or store bought. Fruit and vegetables, cheese and crackers or cookies, brownies etc. Shop the sales! What's in the pantry? (Hint: They are teenagers, they love it all!) Should I bring drinks too? You may provide drinks if you like, but we can provide water and that seems to work well. How would you like the snack to come? Please bring the snack prepared and ready to serve. Also, please remind your youth to bring home your containers. My schedule is crazy and I have a hard time preparing a snack, is there any other way I can help? Yes! If you would like to help and just don't have the time to provide a ready to eat snack, you can donate $10 to our snack fund. This fund can be used on days when we don't have anyone scheduled to provide a snack. Thank you so much for coming along side us to help us love on and serve your kids! If you have any questions or comments, please contact Trina God Bless You! | |
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| 1/5/2011 - Youth Group 1/12/2011 - Youth Group 1/19/2011 - Youth Group 1/26/2011 - Youth Group | |
| We thank God for each and every one of you, Shorewood Foursquare Ignition Youth Ministry Staff |
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Ignition Youth News 12/13/10
| It's an Ugly Sweater Christmas party, Ignition youth! by Wes Olsen | |
| This week we will be having our youth group on Tuesday, to accommodate the basketball game on Wednesday and this week is our Ugly Sweater Christmas Party! What will we be doing, you ask? Great question! We will be celebrating the gift of life through the remembrance of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. This will be accomplished by worshiping Jesus, wearing ugly sweaters, sharing food, and a gift exchange game told through the nativity story. I am praying that even though we will be having fun and fellowship, that we will not lose sight that we are celebrating the incarnation of God, Jesus. The Incarnation of God, literally means God in flesh. This means God became a man, Jesus, came down to us, to do only what He can do - rescue us. Through Jesus Christ, the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, so that if we repent of our sins, put our trust in His saving grace, we will have eternal life! That God's rescue plan was finally put into motion one late spring/early summer day over 2,000 years ago as an obedient young lady, Mary, and a courageous man, Joseph, submitted themselves to God's great plan. They became parents to Emmanuel, God with us, and He certainly was. I thank God this Christmas season, as I look past the decorations, Christmas trees, Santa Claus, and gifts and see Jesus, not as a baby but as Glorious Savior, Lord and King of Heaven and Earth! I encourage you to give thanks too, by stopping everything and thinking about what life would be like if Jesus had never been born, and give Him praise that He did and is still alive and active today! Amen. We will meet in the North Foyer and Sanctuary of Shorewood Foursquare Church at 6:30pm on Tuesday. Everyone needs to bring food and drink to share and a wrapped gift that is gently used or new and no more than $10. Please do not bring bad gifts like an empty box of donuts, because God does not give us empty or useless gifts. Also, just for fun please wear the ugliest sweater you have to the party. This is mostly for laughs, but also so you don't have to lie when your relative that gave you the sweater asks you this Christmas season if you ever wore it, you won't have to lie (which is a sin). It will be fun! | |
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| I spent a lot of time early in my Christian walk, thinking about Christmas and all the ways we turn good things into god things and thus making them bad things. This included what I tell my kids about Santa and if I should have a Christmas tree. I did not want to be an idol worshiper because honestly I love God and I think stones would hurt if they were hurled at my head. Maybe you too are always wondering or thinking about this and what we should do as Christians in this culture and especially what we should do about the non-Christ things that Christmas sometimes becomes. May I submit to you this wonderful article by Mark Driscoll, of Mars Hill Church from the Washington Post. Enjoy: What We Tell Our Kids About Santa Also see: Why Christians Go Postal Over Facebook, Jay-Z, Yoga, Avatar, and Culture in General | |
| SOS - SAVE OUR SNACKS!!!!!!! by Trina Mannery | |
Fall is here and we are all settling into our new schedules - school, sports and youth group! We are so very excited to be serving the youth, sharing time with them and growing together as we hear Gods call in our lives! Part of our evening is to provide the youth with a snack. Not only does a snack give them something to munch on, but provides them with valuable time to socialize and build relationships. To do this, we need your help! How can I Help? We need every family to help by providing snack one evening throughout the year. Since we have an average of 50-60 youth, we are asking 2 families to bring snack each night. Your responsibility will be to bring enough snack for 30 youth. We have lots of families so if every family contributes; we should only need your contribution once this year. What do I need to do? Please contact Trina Mannery at 206-550-9298 or trina.david@clearwire.net. She will work with you to set up a date for you to bring snack on a week that will work for your schedule. What should I bring? This can be homemade or store bought. Fruit and vegetables, cheese and crackers or cookies, brownies etc. Shop the sales! What's in the pantry? (Hint: They are teenagers, they love it all!) Should I bring drinks too? You may provide drinks if you like, but we can provide water and that seems to work well. How would you like the snack to come? Please bring the snack prepared and ready to serve. Also, please remind your youth to bring home your containers. My schedule is crazy and I have a hard time preparing a snack, is there any other way I can help? Yes! If you would like to help and just don't have the time to provide a ready to eat snack, you can donate $10 to our snack fund. This fund can be used on days when we don't have anyone scheduled to provide a snack. Thank you so much for coming along side us to help us love on and serve your kids! If you have any questions or comments, please contact Trina God Bless You! | |
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| 12/14/10, Youth Group - Ugly Sweater Christmas Party12/22/10 & 12/29/10, No Youth Group - Have a great Christmas!1/05/11, Youth Group | |
| We thank God for each and every one of you, Shorewood Foursquare Ignition Youth Ministry Staff |
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Monday, November 8, 2010
Ignition Youth News Encounterfest Edition
 ENCOUNTERFEST 2010 is this weekend!!! I am so very excited for this year's Encounterfest at Camp Berachah. Last year's Encounterfest was such a turning point for a lot of students and though I am not expecting God to repeat himself, I do know that God wants to change lives and grow us to be more like His Son, Jesus! Will you please pray for us that God will make Himself more glorious and more famous and that we will be able to worship Him with purer hearts! Here is some important info if you are registered for Encounterfest: Friday, November 12th Please make sure that your student arrives at Camp Berachah between the hours of 4:00-5:30pm. We will be staying in the Hillside Lodge, which is near the very back of the camp. There will be people to direct you to the drop off site. Please make sure to register your child at the Check In tables. Please note: If your student takes any medication it needs to be checked in, in its original packaging. Sunday, November 14th Check Out will be at 1:30pm. Your student will have been fed lunch and please be sure to pick them up at the same site that you dropped them off at. Please be advised that a parent will be responsible for physically checking out their children. If your child will be driving home with another person/family, make sure that staff is aware during Check In. What to Pack: Accommodations have changed since our first letter. Your child does NOT need to bring a sleeping bag, blanket, or pillow; linens will be provided by the camp. -Change of clothes for 3 days (weather appropriate) -Toiletries (shampoo, deodorant, ect...) -Modest swim suit (Boys: longer swim shorts, Girls: 1 piece bathing suit, or a long dark shirt that covers the stomach and lower back.) -Towels ( at least 2 ) -Extra spending cash for Snack Shack -Bible, journal -Athletic wear (optional: There is an open gym available to us) -Medication (In original packaging) Electronic Devices: I would advise students to NOT bring any form of electronic devices to camp so as not to be a distraction. Please be advise if they are lost/stolen Shorewood Foursquare Church will not be responsible for their replacement. However, if students bring (IPod, cell phones, ect...) they must be used only when appropriate. If they are used during Chapel times or other group activities they may be confiscated and returned at the end of the weekend. Parents, please have conversations with your children regarding this matter prior to our retreat. Directions to Camp: For specific directions to Camp Berachah please go to: www.campberachah.org  |
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Fall is here and we are all settling into our new schedules - school, sports and youth group! We are so very excited to be serving the youth, sharing time with them and growing together as we hear Gods call in our lives! Part of our evening is to provide the youth with a snack. Not only does a snack give them something to munch on, but provides them with valuable time to socialize and build relationships. To do this, we need your help! How can I Help? We need every family to help by providing snack one evening throughout the year. Since we have an average of 50-60 youth, we are asking 2 families to bring snack each night. Your responsibility will be to bring enough snack for 30 youth. We have lots of families so if every family contributes; we should only need your contribution once this year. What do I need to do? Please contact Trina Mannery at 206-550-9298 or trina.david@clearwire.net. She will work with you to set up a date for you to bring snack on a week that will work for your schedule. What should I bring? This can be homemade or store bought. Fruit and vegetables, cheese and crackers or cookies, brownies etc. Shop the sales! What's in the pantry? (Hint: They are teenagers, they love it all!) Should I bring drinks too? You may provide drinks if you like, but we can provide water and that seems to work well. How would you like the snack to come? Please bring the snack prepared and ready to serve. Also, please remind your youth to bring home your containers. My schedule is crazy and I have a hard time preparing a snack, is there any other way I can help? Yes! If you would like to help and just don't have the time to provide a ready to eat snack, you can donate $10 to our snack fund. This fund can be used on days when we don't have anyone scheduled to provide a snack. Thank you so much for coming along side us to help us love on and serve your kids! If you have any questions or comments, please contact Trina God Bless You! | |
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| 11/10/10, Youth Group, 6:30-8:3011/12/10 - 11/14/10, Encounterfest 2010 @ Camp Berachah11/17/10 & 11/24/10, NO Youth Group - Enjoy your Thanksgiving! | |
| We thank God for each and every one of you, Shorewood Foursquare Ignition Youth Ministry Staff |
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