If you are coming to the retreat we ask you meet us at church at 9:30 on Sunday morning and we will be back by 4:00 on Monday.  If you need a permission form you can find it here

The Coming Weeks:

Sept 5th-6th:

• Youth retreat (no Sunday evening youth group at MUMC)

September 12th:

• Back to School Weekend—Sunday school begins again at 9:45 for middle and high school!!! Woot!
• FUEL Worship Service come at 6:00 and worship with us (parents and youth are invited) we will have a meal together (bring $2) and end at 8:30.
  We will beginning a teaching series entitled “My Soul Sings” and we will be talking about the book of psalms.  Students will be encouraged to begin thing about ways that they can offer up their own psalms (poems, songs, pictures, videos, dances, pottery…) at our psalms of today evening on September 26th during youth group.

September 19th

• Youth Group 6:00-7:30
  Continuing to reflect on the psalms, we will be exploring the psalms of lament or sorrow.

September 26th

• Youth Group 6:00-7:30
  ”Psalms of Today” evening—Students and adults are encourages to share their expressions of worship thought the Psalms that they have created.  Come and see the creative ways we can all praise God.

October 3rd

• Going to the Corn Maze—We will be going to Thurmont Md for our annual trip to the corn maze.  We will meet at 4:00pm and be back around 8:00pm.  More details are to come.
  Parents: if you would like to drive or chaperon we would love your help.  Let me know if you would like to come.

That’s it for now

Be God’s

Pastor Chris

We talked about what fills our hearts leads our lives.  So if we fill our hearts with demeaning music (even when we are just listening to the beat and not the words), things will begin to saturate our hearts that we might not want in there.  So time with God is one way we don’t just know with our minds what God has for us, but we also begin to fill our hearts with the great and wonderful plans God has for our lives. 

This past week we talked about how we are on the journey of faith together and that we are supposed to walk along side one another and encourage one another.  The mission of our ministry is to journey together (students and adults) toward deeper discipleship.” We know that our ministry and our church have to be a place where all feel welcomed.  We challenged the students to think about real ways we can work on making this a place where anyone can come and be themselves. 

The Coming weeks:

On August 29th we are inviting families to go to the Frederick Keys baseball game.  There will be no evening youth group on this night because we want folks (our youth workers included) to have some time with their families.  The game is at 2:00. 

On September 5th and 6th- there will also be no evening youth group because we will be on retreat at Manidokin retreat center.  We are asking that you drop your child off at 9:30 on Sunday and we will be back by 4:00 on Monday.  What better way to take a break from school than at camp on labor day weekend. 

Be God’s

Chris Bishop

In doing so we want to get the word our to as many parents, students, youth workers and community members as possible.  The main hub of communication is through our Blog at lifeforceyouth.com, but as we post it sends the information to our Facebook fan page and to an email list of subscribers.

Currently we are launching “Ignite” which is set to be a weekly update on the things that are going on with our student ministry.  We will also use this in the event of youth group or programing changes due to bad weather, unexpected uprisings or, I don’t know, roof collapses .  I hope you would check us out and subscribe in some way.  Also, let your friends and community members know about the ways we get the info out too.

You can sign-up for our updates by e-mail on the upper right side of the home page, or by clicking this link

Or you can also become a fan of our Facebook page by going here

There are 3 simple steps to get all the goodness you can handle:

1. fill out your e-mail address on the right side of the home page
2. enter the confirmation code that pops up
3. check your e-mail for a confirmation and click the link in the e-mail.

It is as simple as that.  Use this knowledge wisely and pass it on to friends, family, web-savvy gerbils, and anyone else who would like to know what we at Life Force youth are up to.

This week We are going to get saturated in a different way (Bring a bathing suit and towel and your sense of adventure).

See you at youth group

We have a rough outline of the way that the year is going to shape out:

We are going to be doing the homeless for a night again this year (tough it will be earlier so it will not be 16 degrees with 6 inches of snow), we are going to do another scavenger hunt, the corn maze and much more.

But there is one thing that we are missing…

Some of your ideas.  What are some of the things that you would like to see us do this year?  If you would like to do a mystery dinner theater, a talent show, go to Norway and see the world’s largest paper clip (22 feet tall).  Please let us know, talk it over with your friends and we will try and respond and work it in the calendar.

We have a group of 20 who have gone off to New Castle, PA to work on houses for a week.  They will be painting and scraping, building and demolishing, cutting and nailing.

Our team is made up of Mel Bower, Nick Carter, Taylor Goodie, Carlee Lammers, Samantha Lilley, Casey Lindburg, Kaitlyn Matthai, Amanda Menke, Chrissy Payne, Marina Payne, Nathan Tice, Victoria Tice, Amber Watkins, Evan Wilson, Kristin Wilson, Ladd Bower, Beth Tice, John Tice, Cathy Watkins and Simon Frechette.

Head on over to: http://www.groupworkcamps.com/Workcamps/Pages/EmailaCamper.aspx and send a word of encouragement to our team.

They are at the New Castle, PA workcamp

This Wednesday beginning at 6:00 and going until 8:00 we are going to be having a game night at the Middletown Park (The one by the high school).

The plan is to meet up at the upper parking lot and then we will play a game of football, Frisbee or something super fun.

If you would like to attend please let me know so that I will have a rough idea about how many people are going to be there.

Can’t make it this week?  That’s all right because we are going to be meeting up on July 21st, August 4th and August 18th.

Wear shoes like you would have in gym class and clothes that could get a bit dirty.  Hope to see you there.

If you are going into 6th grade this would be a great time to come and meet some of the youth group gang.

For directions please look in the church directory, or email Chris Chris@lifeforceyouth.com.