Youth Group This Week
This weekend is one of our busiest of the year. We have a series of projects that add up to being a great service to our community. We hope you can participate in one or more of these opportunities.

December 6 Tonight!!
Cooking baking at Clearlake. We meet at Clearlake from 7-9 p.m. to bake for the Alternative Christmas market. If you have some favorite treats you like to bake feel free to bring extra supplies.

December 7-8
Alternative Christmas Market First UMC. We will sell our cookies on Saturday and Sunday and the money will go towards buying presents for the giving tree and kids at Las Naciones UMC.
  • 9-3 Saturday
  • 9-2 Sunday
We need help staffing our booth, you can sign up here. We particularly need youth help on Saturday morning 9-12 https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0845a8af2fa5fc1-alternative

December 8
Youth group at First UMC (Alternative Christmas shopping). We will have lunch (pizza and soup) at 12:30. Following lunch we will travel to Keizer Station Target to buy presents for the giving tree. Youth can be picked up at Target at 2:30 p.m. (note the later than usual time)

We could especially use a parent driver to Target on Sunday and also a parent and youth (who might not want to go shopping) to staff the booth from 1-2 on Sunday. Let Jeff know if you would like to help.
Sunday School News

Each Sunday morning we have a number of Sunday school options for our youth. See our schedule below.
Salem First United Methodist Church

Sunday school from 10:00-11:00 am in the youth room. This week we will help with the Alternative Christmas Market
Morningside United Methodist Church

Jeff won't be at Sunday School this week because of the Alternative Christmas Market. He will be back on December 15
Upcoming Events
December 6 - Baking @ Clearlake UMC
December 7 - Alternative Christmas Market
December 8 - Youth group at FUMC 12:30-2:30 Pick up at Keizer Station Target
December 15 - Christmas Party
December 22 - Keizer Festival of Lights
February 15-17 - Winter Retreat @ Suttle Lake
February 22nd - Youth Auction
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Suttle Lake Winter Retreat
Date: February 15-17
Cost: $50 per person

Our Open Door Youth Group will once again have the opportunity to participate in the conference winter retreat at Suttle Lake. This is always one of the highlights of our program year.

Join us for fun, games, intertubing (if we have snow), and a chance to meet youth from other churches and grow in our faith.

If you would like to sign up let Jeff know by December 15th and make your check payable to "Open Door Youth."
Turn in Your Permission Forms
If you haven't updated your permission form for 2019 yet, please download the document below and bring to youth group. 
Youth Group Poll!!!!
Which Christmas Carol would you rather sing?
Silent Night
Jingle Bells
Friends of Trees

Friends of Trees is a great organization that plants trees all over the Willamette Valley. They are having a tree planting event at Cascades Gateway Park on Saturday morning (8:45 am). Patty Sloan, a member at First UMC will be there and wanted to invite our youth and families to join in this wonderful event. If you would like to join in the fun or know more about this event go to www.friendsoftrees.org. This month is short notice but we will keep an eye out for future opportunities to plant if youth are interested.
Youth Leaders
Jeff Lowery - 541-654-1878 - directoroflast@gmail.com
Kelly Mason - 503-580-1475 - kelmmason@gmail.com
Maddy Hickerson - 503-999-5077 - maddy.hickerson@gmail.com