The Event

January 21

10am-3pm


NEW

Youth Small Group

Grades 8-12

January 22

10am (see info below)


College Scholarship Applications Due

January 20


Church-wide

Soup Potluck

January 22

After Worship Service


Youth Group

Service Project

January 29

11:30-1:30


Confirmation Retreat

March 10-11

Camp Koronis

2023 Youth Calendar Updated

To get the revised Youth Calendar, click HERE.

Happening in January

January is shaping up to be a busy month! 


Saturday, January 21 is The Event, a Conference-wide youth event. This is for all youth, grades 6-12 and it is a requirement for our Confirmation Class (unless it interferes with school or an extracurricular activity). I need you all to REGISTER on REALM ASAP if your students are joining us so that I can register our group with the Conference, and so that I can determine if we need to plan a car pool.


Sunday, January 22 is a Church-wide Soup Potluck following the Worship Service. I hope your entire family will plan to attend! We will have the Church of Youth open for youth to hang out. As life returns to Koinonia Hall for social events, I hope that life will return to the Church of Youth space as well! If you can bring food or volunteer to help, click HERE.


Sunday, January 29 is Youth Group! In addition to eating lunch together and hanging out we will be putting together Valentines Day care packages for our HAUMC college students. 

Confirmation 

Our Confirmation class joined Reflections on Sunday for the first 45 minutes of class and it was a good experience. Some of your students even said they'd go again! Reflections is a discussion group that meets every Sunday at 11:30am in the Harrison Room (off the art gallery). Anyone is welcome to pop in any Sunday they'd like. You as parents are welcome to attend while your teens are at Confirmation and during the weeks we don't have Confirmation, I'd encourage the students who enjoyed it to continue to participate. 


Our next Confirmation meeting is when we go to The Event on Saturday, January 21. REGISTER this week on Realm so that I can get our group registered with the Conference. Thanks! 


Also note that our Confirmation class has begun planning a Service Project to lead the Sunday School kids in on Sunday, February 5 during Worship. They will continue planning this event via our newly formed group text. 


Save the date for our Confirmation Retreat, March 10-11 at Camp Koronis. More details coming soon. 

Hennepin Scholarships 2023:

Call for Applications

Deadline January 20

Looking for support to continue your education? Whether a little extra money for college or that one class that is just out of reach, we invite you to apply for a Hennepin Scholars Award for the 2023-2024 academic year.


Scholarships are awarded in modest amounts to students pursuing seminary, college or university degree programs, or other post-secondary degrees or certificate programs. Applicants may be Hennepin members, employees or others.

Application deadline is January 20, 2023

Award notices by February 6, 2023.


For more information and application forms, go to www.haumc.org/scholars or contact Jack Fistler by email or by phone 612-435-1321.

Introducing a New Youth Small Group

January 22 • 10am

We are excited to try something new for our youth at HAUMC. This will be a pilot program that we hope will turn into a meaningful time of connection and conversation for HAUMC's youth, grades 8-12. Youth Small Group will meet on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month beginning on January 22 at 10am. Some key members of our Youth Committee will be leading this Small Group. The format will be informal and will center around relevant discussion topics. We hope that you will encourage your students to join! Please reach out if you or your students have any questions! 

Care Packages for College Students

January 4-29

Our HAUMC youth will be putting together Valentines Day care packages to send to HAUMC students who are away at college. We are collecting the following items to go inside the care packages: Valentines Cards, candy, and snacks like microwave popcorn, ramen, instant mac and cheese, etc. Collection bins will be located in the East Entry through Sunday, January 29. And on January 29 our Youth Group time will be spent putting the packages together. 

Join Us!

Hennepin Avenue UMC is on Facebook! Please "like" us at www.facebook.com/HennepinAvenueUMC.To find out more about Hennepin Youth, go to haumc.org/youth.

For any questions regarding Youth Ministries,

please contact Keesha Sedgwick at keesha@haumc.org