San Angelo, Texas, Sierra Vista United Methodist Church

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Our Sunday evening youth program is one of the strongest in the city. We believe that ministering to and with youth is a very important aspect of the ministry of the church.

Our UMYF groups, which include youth in grades 6 - 12, meet on Sundays from 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.. during the school year.

FALL UMYF HOURS

Beginning Sunday,September 12, UMYF will be from 4:30 - 7:30 p.m. - Come join us!
A meal will be provided.

UMYF & YOUTH UPCOMING DATES & EVENTS


September 4 & 5	Unite & Conquer Concert & spend the night at SVUMC
September 8	Wednesday night Bible studies begin
September 11	Youth Garage Sale
September 12	1st Fall UMYF -- 4:30-7:30 p.m. (meal provided)
September 23	GRACE & GRUB at Emmanuel Episcopal
September 26	6-PACK Progressive Dinner
October 2	Harvest Festival
October 3	Pumpkin Unloading at 1:00 p.m.

March 11 - 16	Ski Trip to Crested Butte, Colorado

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FUND RAISING
It is time that our Youth begin fund raising for trips, events, or projects that they are involved in. Many of these fund raisers are available to you if you’re interested in the “merchandise”. Items our Youth will sell through the church this fall include:

                 Pansies, Daffodils & Red Tulips
                 Christian t-shirts
                 Christian calendars
                 Sierra Vista note cards
                 Town & Country Car Wash tokens
                 Pumpkins
                 Poinsettias
                 Luminaries

UNITE & CONQUER CONCERT - SEPTEMBER 4
The Youth from SV will go as a group to the River Stage for the Unite & Conquer Concert. The tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the gate. After the concert, we’ll come back and spend the night in the church gym and then go to the 8:30 am worship service on Sept. 5th. Call Tina with questions.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT BIBLE STUDIES
Attention youth families - Wednesday night Bible Study is starting back on Sept. 8th.

6th Grade Bible Study is from 5:15-6:00 pm. Dinner is from 6:00-6:30 p.m.

7th-8th Grade Bible Study is from 7:00-8:00 pm (if you want dinner, come at 6:30 p.m.).
Teachers are Alicia Wilder & Michelle Perkey.

9th-12th Grade Bible Study is from 7:00-8:30 pm (come at 6:30 p.m. for dinner).
Teachers are Tina Glass & Dale Middleton.

GARAGE SALE
It’s time for the Youth Garage Sale. It will be Saturday, Sept. 11th from 7 am-1 pm in the Sierra Vista Life Center. Youth are responsible for bringing and marking items they want to sell. HOWEVER, if you have any items you’d like to donate, we have Youth who need your “treasures” to help with their fund raising efforts. Your items would be a big help. Contact Joy or Tina at 944-4041.

GRACE & GRUB
Thanks goes to many Sierra Vista volunteers for baking desserts for over 200 teenagers on May 13th. These wonderful volunteers were: Sharon Felts, Evonne Teague, Lynette Ott, Cindy Zafero, Marsha Housley, Nancy Kloboucnik, Karen Marks, Billie Meyers, Cydnie Worley, Jolena Miller, Gina Johnson, Dinky Atkinson & Michelle Schweitzer.

We’re finished serving until September 23rd. Thank you to all who, throughout this school year, have participated in helping in whatever way you gave. The Youth thank you, Emmanuel Episcopal thanks you, and I thank you.

God Bless You, Joy

6-PACK PROGRESSIVE DINNER
The 6th Graders will be kicking off their new program with a Progressive Dinner on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 26th. Sharon Felts & Kim Meyer will be hosting the main dish and dessert. Look for more information coming in the mail.

YOUTH NEEDS FOR HARVEST FESTIVAL & TRUNK OR TREAT
The Youth are in charge of the Children’s games during Harvest Festival. We need these items:

                 2 liter drinks for Ring Toss
                 Bags of candy
                 Loose change for the Gold Mine
                 Colored hair spray
                 Canned goods for CROP Walk

YOUTH SPRING BREAK SKI TRIP TO CRESTED BUTTE
The annual Youth Ski Trip has been scheduled for March 11th - 16th, 2011 (Friday night - Wednesday Morning). We will be going again to Crested Butte. The trip is for 56 people (youth and adult sponsors.) The cost of the trip will include lodging, travel, lift tickets, ski rentals, food, and insurance. An $75 deposit is due as soon as you can give it, in September, to Tina or Joy. Anyone in the 7th - 12th grades is invited to sign up. We’ll need around 14 to 16 adults to help be sponsors. The trip is open until deposits for the 56 spots are received. The beginning cost of the trip is $575 but extra money will be needed for snowboards, high performance skis and lessons.

SR. HIGH MISSION MOMENT
Our Sr. High Youth were the working hands of Jesus at the Cutter Church on an Indian Reservation near Globe, AZ! The trip to Globe took about 14 hours (I think), I can’t say for sure because I had two watches giving me 3 different times. Some parts of Arizona don’t recognize Daylight Savings Time, so we gained 2 hours on the trip!

The good news is the air conditioner and brakes on the bus worked good on the first part of the trip. The bad news is that we were taken on a sight seeing trip over a fairly high mountain range in our bus. The trip which was supposed to be a 20 minute drive actually took over an hour and we used up half a tank of gas. The bus A/C stopped cooling and the brakes got hot causing a minor fire near the right front wheel. The gas tank was nearly empty and it was 49 miles back to a gas station. We came up with several good plans, but prayer ended up being the best one.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. A family drove up and drained 8 gallons of gas out of their four wheelers (this got us back to town)! Thank you God!

The work projects went as planned. We divided into 3 groups with one group tearing off the old roof, another group tearing out the old sheet rock inside the church and the third group hauling scrap sheetrock, shingles, lumber & metal to the dump.

The church wasn’t air conditioned, there was very little shade and the temperature was 109 degrees! But, everyone worked hard a few extra hours each day to complete the job we traveled so far to do! Mission completed - new roof/ceiling sheet rocked/area cleaned!!

The Sierra Vista Youth worked as a team which made me proud.

Dale Middleton

SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES
9:45 - 10:30 Sunday Morning

6th GRADE
Primary Age Range	6th graders
Meeting Location	(check with person at the Information Center in the Narthex for location)
Teachers	Laura Moore, Mary Kate Stout, Ruben & Lorie Cantu
Curriculum	"Claim the Name...39 weeks"

7th & 8th GRADES
Primary Age Range	7th & 8th graders
Meeting Location	(check with person at the Information Center in the Narthex for location)
Teacher	Butch Baker
Curriculum	Varies

9th - 12th GRADES
Primary Age Range	9th through 12th graders
Meeting Location	(check with person at the Information Center in the Narthex for room location)
Teacher	Paul Michalewicz and Holly McSpadden
Curriculum	Varies

*MAC & CHEESE 500...2009*

Mac and Cheese 100 was such a tremendous success in 2008 that the 7th and 8th grade Sunday School Class, led by Butch Baker and Joe Lee, decided to see if they could top the 300 boxes they collected last year. They brought boxes; they invited the Sierra Vista family to join them. They were hoping for 500 boxes. They raised over 700 boxes and $150.00 cash with which they purchased peanut butter, rice & other staples.

CLICK ON THE BUS ABOVE TO SHARE THE FUN OF
SKI TRIP 2010

THE EMPTY BUS SOON FILLED UP. CLICK ON IT TO SEE THE PICTURES FROM
SKI TRIP 2009

Click on the camera below to visit our Sierra Vista Photo Album where you will find links to more pictures of youth activities.