One of our favorite Joint Youth Ministry traditions has been our mall nights where we buy presents for different families in our community at the mall together, then return to church to wrap and sort them.This year we will be shopping primarily for families from the Casitas De Esperanza community.

We know that we also have families in our own youth group community who may need some extra help this holiday season. If your family, or a family you know, would like us to purchase Christmas gifts for you (or them) please e-mail Lisa and Kat, we can help and will of course keep your information private.

How it works: We will meet at Oakridge mall at 3:30pm (exact meeting location TBD) Student will break into groups of three or more, and be given several envelopes with cash and wish lists attached. They will then go into the mall to complete their shopping for every name they received.

At 4:45pm they should be finished shopping and we will all meet in the food court. Students will buy themselves dinner there.

At 5:30 we will carpool to Willow Glen UMC with their gifts. There we will wrap and sort everything.

7:00pm we will be done and everyone can head home!

Adults - we need your help! We need some parents to help drive students from the mall to the church. We would also love some help with some of the younger student shopping groups (we may also need some adutls to shop on their own depending on how many students we have), and some help with wrapping gifts at the church. If you can help with one or all of these jobs, please sign up on the document linked below.

Cost: Students will be buying their own dinner at the mall so they should have $10 - $15 for that, they will keep that with them. For gift buying, we ask that people donate what they can. We do not have a certain amount you must give, we know everyone has different financial restraints, and that our financial situations can change easily from season to season. If you would like to donate you can do so online here, or by bringing cash with you on Sunday that we will collect. Our goal is to buy everyone on our list about $40 worth of presents

If you have any questions not answered here, feel free to e-mail us! If you plan to join, please sign up today!

Student & Adult Sign-Up for Mall Evening Service project

Lastly - We would love some donations of gift bags, tissue paper, wrapping paper, and tape. If you have some bring to any JYM event from now until the 12th!