ZYouth

Sunday Night Youth Group

Every Sunday Night

6th-8th grade, 4:30-6:00pm and 9th-12th Grade, 6:00-7:30pm

Meets in the Chapel

Vision: The goal of Sunday night youth group is to create a safe space for students to be their true authentic selves while growing in their faith and having fun.

Program Overview: Sunday night youth group will be an age level club based program that will meet each Sunday night from 4:30-6:00pm for grades 6-8 and 6:00-7:30pm for grades 9-12. Each Sunday night will include game time (grades 6-8) and snack/hang out time as well as a short lesson. Age levels will be kept separate except for when activities will work better with both groups in the same space. Lessons for Sunday night youth group are be based on our Roots and Brances scope and sequence. This scope and sequence is based on the idea that middle schoolers will be learning the roots of faith: Old Testament, New Testament, and Theology. High schoolers will be using those roots to engage with their lives theologically, studying a curriculum based on topical studies and real life application (branches).

Summer Mission Trip

July 7-12 | Charlotte, NC | $400 | Registration Deadline: 4/7

This summer Z Youth will be partnering with St. Luke's UMC for a summer mission trip called Bridge! The goal of the Bridge model is to bridge mission work, education, and spiritual formation to give students a more contextual, theological, and socially sound vision of what mission work is and how they can be a part of it. Students on this trip will take time to learn about the community they are serving in. What are the social problems facing this community? How did these problems come about? And they’ll have the chance to meet the people in the community working to solve these issues. All of this is directly tied into the work students will do on the job site and the spiritual formation work they’ll be doing at camp that emphasizes participating in God’s action. Plus we’ll be getting out and having fun in the community too!

Not only are these trips truly amazing discipleship experiences that can be hugely formative for you/your youth’s faith, but they’re also so fun, like, the most fun thing you can do in youth ministry. Like, remember how fun the lock-in was? Imagine six days of that plus it’s an adventure in a new city! Friendships are built, faith is given substance, this trip is going to be amazing and we really hope you’ll consider joining us. A trip like this is an essential part of the youth ministry experience.

This year we will be traveling to Charlotte, NC. The trip will be July 7-12. This trip will be open to current 6th-12th graders and we will be looking for adult volunteers to serve as chaperones and team leaders (so let me know if you wanna go with us!) The cost of the trip is currently set at $400/person but we may be able to get that price to come down with some fundraising efforts.

Trips like this are so important that if anyone is unable to go for financial reasons we will find a way to pay to get that student on this trip and that information will be kept extremely confidential.

You can register right now by clicking here.

For more information, please email Zach at zcheeseman@zumc.org.

Sunday Mornings

We believe the best practice for youth on Sunday Mornings is to be in service. Studies show that youth who participate in worship, either as servers or congregants, are more likely to continue in their faith after high school. We encourage all youth to be present and in community with the whole church on Sunday morning.

What is Confirmation?

Class meets on Sunday Evenings during youth group from 4:30-6:00. Open to youth, 8th grade and older, who have not been through confirmation before.

Meets in the Chapel

Open to youth in 7th grade and older who have not been through confirmation before.

Vision: The goal of confirmation is to give students essential teaching and spiritual formation they need to become professing, participating members of the church congregation.

Program Overview: Confirmation will consist of several different elements which will all contribute to the overall formation and teaching of the students participating in the program. To read the whole program overview click this link: Confirmation Blueprint

The next confirmation class will start in Fall 2024.

Registration Form and Waiver

Can you help us update our records and stay in touch with you? Keeping up-to-date records helps us know who's in the group, who might be missing on a Sunday night, and it helps us follow reach out a hand of love and hospitality if we haven't seen you in a hot minute. Help us update the ZUMC records by completing this handy-dandy form: Registration Form

Questions?

Do you have questions about ZYouth? Please connect with Zach Cheeseman, Director of Youth Ministry (zcheeseman@zumc.org).