Middle School YAR Oct. 15-17

Middle School YAR is coming in October!

Join youth from all over our conference at Lake Williamson in Carlinville for a weekend retreat. It's a great time to get to know other people from all over Illinois and play, learn and worship. The cost is $50 per person.

If you are planning to attend, please have your money and registration form turned in by September 19! You can download the registration packet here.

sign up to help with youth group!

Calling all Middle School parents!

Please sign up to provide snacks or help out at youth group (or both!) this fall. You can sign up here. Also, chaperons are needed for the fall lock in on September 24, you can sign up for a shift here.

Thanks for your help!

ASP Pictures!

As promised, here are the pictures from the high school mission trip to Kentucky!

Thanks to all of the youth and adults who went on the trip for a great week. And thanks to all the great people at Wesley for your prayers and support!

ASP 2010

Back to Youth Group news

It's August and you know what that means...time for youth group to start again!

Let's get together to welcome the newcomers and have some fun before school starts.

High School (incoming 9th-12th graders) we're getting together at Buffalo Wild Wings on Friday August 13th at 5:30 - we'll meet at the church parking lot.

Middle School (incoming 7th-8th graders) are invited to a potluck right after second service on Sunday August 15 at noon in the church parlor. Bring your parents and a dish to share!

See you then!

Back from Kentucky!

Check out this article in the paper about our mission trip!

If you want to see the work that was done all summer long at our mission center in Clay County, you can find it here on the ASP website.

Pictures coming soon!!

Holiday World Trip Info

What better way to end the summer than with a trip to Holiday World in Indiana? We're planning to go together August 10-11! We will plan to be at the park all day on August 10, stay overnight at a church and head back to Charleston in the morning on August 11. Here's the schedule:

Tuesday August 10

   - 6:30am - leave the church parking lot

   - Holiday World all day (lunch on your own at the park)

   - 7:00pm - leave Holiday World for Newburgh UMC (45 min drive)

   - 8:00pm - overnight at Newburgh UMC (we'll have pizza when we get

                        to the church)

Wednesday August 11

   - 8:00am - breakfast and pack up the van

   - 9:00am - leave Newburgh and head back to Charleston

   - 12:00pm - arrive back at the church

The cost for the trip is $30 per person for tickets, plus $5 per person for pizza on Tuesday night. Everyone will be on their own for lunch at the park and anything else they want to get along the way (souveniers, snacks, etc).

If you're planning to come, let me know and get your money turned in to the church office NO LATER than August 1! (Checks payable to Wesley UMC with "youth trip" in the memo line). If you have friends who are planning to go, please make sure that their parents fill out a Medical Authorization Form.

Chaperones/drivers are needed as well!

Holiday World website - www.holidayworld.com

Newburgh UMC website - www.newburghumc.org

If you have any questions, or if you need help with the cost of the trip, please get in touch with me!

Make Youth Group (even more) Awesome

Planning is under way for youth group next year - but what do you think we should do?

Take a couple of minutes to answer a couple of questions about what you like and what you wish we did in youth group. Here's the link to the questions!

Thanks for your help!