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Youth Committee St. John's Lutheran Church February 6, 2012
Present: Kim Lang, Todd Lang, Pastor Greg, June Mikkelson, Stacy Hoffman, Julie Athens, Dawn Richards Absent: Julie Albert, Peg McAllister, Marty Balmer, Allyn Anderson, Taylor Renken
Opening Devotion - Pastor Greg lead a 10 minute devotion.
January Minutes - January minutes were read and approved.
Food and Fun on the Farm - We went to the Albert's Farm for food, games and watching football on January 8th at noon. We promoted through bulletin, newsletter, flyers in Sunday School, Catechism and e-mails. Food was supplied by many different families. Approximately 20 kids attended and hung out most of the afternoon and had a good time.
Annual Meeting Soup Lunch - We asked Charlotte Lubben to supply a cooker full of Chicken/Rice soup. We paid Charlotte for the ingredients. The Lang's supplied another cooker full of Vegetable Soup. Rand's donated 20-21 lbs of hamburger and 3 families made tavern from this. We asked for 12 dozen buns and 12 dozen desserts. (ex: cookies, cake or bars) The group going to New Orleans supplied most of the food, crackers and beverages and we had a number of Catechism youth and High School Sunday School participants that also supplied food. These youth also helped set up during the 10:45 am service, serve and clean up. We served approximately 125 people. All was cleaned up by 1:00 pm in time for the Annual Meeting. Thrivent matched $500. Our donations were around $590.
5th Quarter - January 27th we held a basketball 5th quarter. Pastor Greg, Kim, Dawn and Clara Renken chaperoned. We served 8 pizzas, chips, bars, water and pop. We advertised through bulletin, newsletter, flyers at Sunday School, Catechism and e-mails. We played spoons for a time and then the kids played hide-n-seek. There were 30 kids in attendance.
Recharge - This event was held on February 4 from 4 - 11 pm. We used the same format as in the past. Allyn reserved a room for Dan Antoine at the Living Center House. Pastor Greg, June Mikkelson, Stacy Hoffman and Kim Lang helped at the event. We advertised in bulletin, newsletter, e-mails, flyers at Sunday School and Catechism. We had 11 kids at the early session and 7 kids at the later session. With that many kids attending, we still felt it was a worth while event. We noted that some kids signed up and did not make it there and kids that did not sign up attended, so you never know how many will be attending. We discussed possibly asking Dan if he could do a morning session with the Sunday School kids during the Sunday School hour next year. We will also look into having someone come from the camp to run a 5th quarter in the future.
New Business
Easter Breakfast - We will use the same format for the Easter Breakfast as in the past, serving Eggs and Ham, rolls, muffins and fruit. Rich Ellefson has been contacted and will deliver liquid eggs the week before Easter. We will finalize details at a later date.
Easter/Holy Week Event - The movie "Jesus Christ, Superstar" was shown on Good Friday for the 7th thru 12th grades. We did not have a great attendance and kids have a hard time actually watching the show without visiting and goofing. We discussed if we should show another movie and spice it up a bit, with costuming and make the movie more interactive. Other ideas were to have the kids run a "flash mob", "texting bomb", Holy Week Skit, Easter Egg hunt. Dawn will speak to Kay Michaelson to mention this to the High School class and see if they would want to help with any of these ideas or if they have other ideas.
Graduates Gifts - Kim brought an idea to the team for a gift for the graduates. The team liked the idea. We will pursue the idea after checking on another possibility for personalizing the gifts.
Chair Person Replacement - Allyn Anderson will be retiring from the team and we need to try to get some new members on the team. We will look at Sunday School Attendance lists to see which families are participating and try to contact them, to see if they would be interested in joining the Youth Team.
We closed with the Lord's Prayer.
Next meeting will be Monday, March 5 at 5:30 pm.
Submitted by Kim Lang
Youth Committee St. John's Lutheran Church January 3, 2011
Present: Kim Lang, Todd Lang, Pastor Greg, June Mikkelson, Stacy Hoffman Absent: Julie Albert, Peg McAllister, Marty Balmer, Dawn Richards, Julie Athens, Margie Pigg, Taylor Renken, Allyn Anderson
Opening Devotion - Pastor Greg lead a10 minute devotion on "The Apostles".
December Minutes - December minutes were read and approved.
Caroling - The Congregation Christmas Caroling was held on December 11th, starting at 3:00 pm. Pastor Marcia arranged where we would go caroling. Kevin Richards drove us around Le Mars in the bus. We had 17 carolers. We delivered fruit baskets, with fruit supplied by the catechism youth and Lang's supplied the baskets & cellophane. We supplied 11 baskets. We caroled at 12 places. After the caroling, we headed to the Albert's farm and had a light supper. It was a very meaning day. The individuals we stopped by were very touched and grateful to have us.
Food and Fun on the Farm - We will go to the Albert's Farm to gather for food, games and watching football on January 8th at noon. An email invitation was sent out concerning help with supplying food. We had a couple of kids reply. This will be the menu: Stacy will supply 40 hot dogs; Marty B will bring chips, carrots, pickles; Lexa Skov will bring a salad; Alex Cook will bring chips and dip, Hannah Lang will bring buns & salad and Julie Albert will supply paper products, drinks and a dessert.
Recharge - This event will be held on February 4 from 4 - 11 pm. We will use same format as in the past. Allyn will check on getting a room for the leaders. Pastor Greg will be here for the entire event, Stacy will be here to help for the first shift, and June will also help. Pastor Greg will speak to Julie to confirm dates and times. We will advertise in bulletin, emails, and flyers at Sunday School and Catechism and possibly a temple talk. We will re-assess this event later. It was mentioned with the low turn outs the last couple of years, we may want to try something different next year.
Annual Meeting Soup Lunch - Our Annual Soup Luncheon will be held on Sunday, January 22nd at noon. We will work out details with the HS Sunday School kids and those attending the National Youth Gathering. We will also send out emails.
5th Quarter - January 27th we will hold a basketball 5th quarter. Pastor Greg will attend, but we also need 2 other adults to supervise and arrange for food. We have been serving pizza, chips, bars, pop and water. Will advertise through bulletin, flyers at Sunday School and emails.
**Team members please call Kim if you can help at any of these upcoming events. Thanks.
Next meeting will be Monday, February 6 at 5:30 pm.
Submitted by Kim Lang
Youth Committee St. John's Lutheran Church December 5, 2011
Present: Kim Lang, Todd Lang, Allyn Anderson, Pastor Greg, June Mikkelson Absent: Stacy Hoffman, Julie Albert, Peg McAllister, Marty Balmer, Dawn Richards, Julie Athens, Margie Pigg, Taylor Renken.
Opening Devotion - Pastor Greg lead a10 minute devotion on Saul/Paul and vocation. We discussed how we can help the youth discover their vocation.
November Minutes - November minutes were read and approved.
Forward Planning Update - We will continue to look for ways to empower the youth and take on leadership rolls.
Bowling - We had approximately 30 kids for this event. Pastor Greg handled the bill for the shoe rental, which was covered by the youth team.
Budget - The proposed budget for 2012 has been turned in to the office.
Report for the Annual Meeting - Allyn has turned in the report on the Youth Team that will go into the Annual Report.
Caroling - We will hold the Congregation Christmas Caroling on December 11th, starting at 3:00 pm. Richards will allow us to use their bus. Kim will supply tavern and buns, Allyn will bring 2 bags of chips, Julie Albert will supply drink, plates, cups, plastic ware, napkins, June M. will bring a salad, Peg M will bring a salad. Kim will call a few other members for other food items. We will be giving fruit baskets to those we carol to. The fruit will be supplied by catechism students and will be assembled on Wednesday evening, December 7th at 8:00pm-ish. Kim has picked up other supplies for this and Pastor Marcia has a devotional to also be included.
Food and Fun on the Farm - We have changed the date to January 8th. We will go out to the Albert's Farm for a noon lunch. We will call the kids to help with the menu.
Recharge - We heard from Dan Antoine and have decided the first weekend in February would work best for this event. Those dates will be February 4th and 5th. We will hold to the same format as previous years, with the event running from 4:00 pm till 11:00 pm. Drinks and chips supplied by attendees and pizza supplied by the Youth Team. Dan or someone else will speak at church services the next day to promote the Bible Camps for the summer of 2012. Allyn will look into arranging for housing for our guests.
2012 National Youth Gathering - The New Orleans tree in the lobby has given us a couple of nice donations. We are continuing with the Pizza Ranch Tip Nights. We are finishing up on the Hy-Vee coupon books and friendship bracelets sales. We would like to sell sub sandwiches in January. We feel the fundraising has been going very well and are not worried that all funds will be raised without a problem.
New Business
5th Quarter - Checking basketball schedules, it looks like January 27th would be a good date for a basketball 5th quarter. We will finish details in January.
Next meeting will be Tuesday, January 3rd at 5:30 pm. (Note change of date due to holiday) Submitted by Kim Lang
Youth Committee St. John's Lutheran Church November 7, 2011
Present: Kim Lang, Todd Lang, Allyn Anderson, Dawn Richards, Pastor Greg, Julie Athens, Margie Pigg, Taylor Renken. Guests: Beau Ohm, Zach Schuett, Matt Ellefson, Rachel Kehrberg, Allison MaComb, Dayton Rand, Steve Powell, Wayne Heien Absent: Stacy Hoffman, Julie Albert, Peg McAllister, June Mikkelson, Marty Balmer
October Minutes - October minutes were read and approved.
Opening Devotion - Pastor Greg lead a10 minute devotion. We discussed how we can be bold within our youth ministry.
Forward Planning Update - Wayne reviewed the work of the Forward Planning Team and their task of "empowering leadership" and "loving relationships". When St. John's completed the survey of strengths and weaknesses, these were two areas that we, as a church, need improvement. The Youth Team continues to encourage involvement of children and parents of all grades. Also, we will continue to try new events.
2012 National Youth Gathering - Registrations for the gathering and bussing has been sent in. Each participant was asked to pay $150.00 of the $315.00 gathering registration and $75.00 of the $225.00 bussing fee. We will try to raise funds for the remaining amounts. We placed a New Orleans tree in the lobby, showing pictures of those who will be attending. Also, we placed envelopes for persons to use in the event they would like to make a donation to the gathering. We are continuing with the Pizza Ranch Tip Nights.
5th Quarter - Friday, October 7th we held a 5th quarter in the auditorium and youth room. We had approximately 30 kids in attendance. Pizza, bars, chips, candy, pop and water were served. We played a game involving dress up in odd clothing and hide-n-seek. Some kids played outside for a time. Taylor suggested we play more board games. Most kids left by 11:30 while some stayed to just hang out and visit.
Cleveland Castle Event - October 9th we held an event for K - 6 at Cleveland Castle, from 2 - 4 pm. June & Peg were in charge of this event. There were small numbers in attendance. Catechism kids helped. They had an obstacle course set up and they painted pumpkins. The 9th graders suggested having an event like this for Middle School & High School kids.
Lutheran Lakeside Bible Camps - Pastor Greg rented a van to transport 6 kids. Dayton shared they played games, listened to a speaker and a musician, and participated in small group sessions. Dayton shared it was a fun time although he did not get much sleep. (Noisy boys who had too much Mountain Dew J)
Stop and Shop - Julie Athens arranged for us to have a food booth at the Convention Center. We sold taverns, chips, cookies and drink for a meal. Also, we sold baked goods, Hy-Vee coupon books, friendship bracelets, and blue reusable bags. The leftovers were brought to church and sold on Saturday and Sunday. All proceeds are going for the Youth Gathering.
Bowling - Kim reserved 8 lanes on November 13th at the bowling alley in town. We will hold this event from 3 - 5 pm. Youth Team will pay $2 towards shoe rental and the kids will be responsible for paying for their own bowling. Flyers were handed out at Sunday School the week before and e-mail reminders will be sent from the office on Friday before event. Allyn will pay for the shoes and be reimbursed.
Budget for 2012 - We explained the budget to the youth attending and discussed. Although some items were over budget, many items were well under. We will keep the budget the same for 2012 with no changes.
New Business
Thanksgiving Service - Youth have participated in this service in the past. We discussed what we could do this year to participate. Someone shared another church posted items they were thankful for on Facebook. Should we perform a skit? Time is getting short to plan anything.
Caroling - We will hold the Congregation Christmas Caroling on December 11th, starting at 3:00 pm. Richards will allow us to use their bus. A light supper will be held at the Albert Farm after the caroling. Pastor Marcia will be asked to gather names and places to visit. Final detail will be worked out at the next meeting.
January NFL Progressive Dinner - We will change the name to Winter Youth Fun & Food. We will contact Julie if we can hold this at their farm. Date will need to be decided.
Recharge - Allyn will talk to Julie Albert about the contacts for the recharge.
Next meeting will be Monday, December 5th at 5:30 pm.
Submitted by Kim Lang & Dawn Richards
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