UPCOMING YOUTH EVENTS
UPCOMING YOUTH EVENTS
All Youth Game Night
Sun., Oct. 26
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Grades 7-12
Invite your friends to join us for dinner and games in Fellowship Hall. Please bring $10 for dinner. Please register here.
Feed My Starving Children
Wed., Nov. 5,
4:15 - 7:30 p.m. p.m.
Grades 7 & 8
Christmas Pageant Sign Up
thru Sun., Nov. 30
All Ages
This will be at the Aurora site. Please sign up by sending an email to Pastor Scott.
Do you see Christmas Trees and Decorations in the stores already? Wait a minute... Where’s the Manger?
We have the answer! This year everyone is invited to participate in the Faith Formation/Children’s Church sponsored All Church-Come to the Manger Christmas Play. Please sign up here to let Children's Church Director Jenni Hallman know you are interested in participating. We need adults and teens to sign up for speaking parts, to be guides and we also need a costume maker for a few costumes. You can sign up through November 30. Let's make this the Best Play Ever! More information to come!
Confirmation Class Schedule - 7th and 8th grades
Wed., Sept. 24
Wed., Oct. 1
Wed., Oct. 8
Wed., Oct. 15
4:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Wed., Oct. 22
Discover more about our faith and what it means to be a follower of Christ during this two year journey to Confirmation.
Work with a mentor for weekly classes, monthly breakfast discussions, Christian service outings, and visits to explore other
faith traditions. You do not have to be a member of UCCDG to participate.
Classes start on Wed., Sept., 24 and meet weekly. Games and gathering from 6:30 to 7 p.m. Class from 7 to 8:15 p.m.
8th Grade Curriculum
Wed., Oct. 29
How do we read the Bible? Is it literal? Allegory? History? How did it come to be? Who wrote its books? A journey in Genesis and the Creation accounts.
What is truth? Who decides?
Topic: Baptism
Happy Halloween - Pumpkin Patch outing - weather permitting.
Cost is $25 per student, includes dinner.
Topic: Light and Dark - the problem of evil and sin
Special homework - watch the movie The Shack. End in candlelight prayer.
Jesus Cafe & Jesus Jeopardy Schedule - 7th and 8th grades
Sun., Oct. 5
Sun., Nov. 2
Sun., Dec. 7
Sun., Jan. 4
Sun., Feb. 1
Jesus Cafe meets before Sunday Services, from 8 to 8:45 a.m.
Jesus Jeopardy meets immediately following Sunday Services, from about 10:45 to 11:15 a.m.
Both meet monthly and begin Sun., Oct. 5 with your mentors. You do not have to be a member of UCCDG to participate.
Curriculum
Sun., Mar. 1
Topic: A Common Table - Communion
Topic: What is a saint?
Topic: Incarnation
Topic: Trinity
Topic: Forgiveness and repentance. How does it work? Does God forgive everything? Should God?
Topic: Shaping of Christianity and how the Church took shape
Questions? For 7th grade, email PastorRamona@uccdg.org; for 8th grade, email PastorScott@uccdg.org.