New Youth Spaces This Fall

The school year is about to begin, and soon after that our fall programming at First UMC will be starting up!
This year we have several exciting new changes to our program - we are joined by Kristin Johnson as youth ministry specialist and several new volunteer leaders, we will have new programs and new topics and materials, as well as new spaces for most of our programs!
You'll be receiving more information on the activities and people of our youth program soon, but I want to focus now on the spaces.

As First UMC moves forward in our building project to expand our ministry spaces we first have to give up some of our old spaces. As the annex is demolished we will move most of the work that our church did there into the main building. This will be tight at times, but will also have some benefits.

In order to make room for all of our programming, our youth programs will all move into the lower level of the education wing. This will give us some great benefits - including a more centrally located, easy to find youth space, more recently updated rooms, and fewer stairs to climb!

The Up With Puppets program will continue to meet in room 101, all high school Sunday school and youth group will meet in room 102 (formerly the Art room), and middle school Sunday school and youth group will meet in room 103 (formerly the Quilters room). Reel to Real will meet in room 102 starting this Sunday, and Confirmation class will meet in room 103 on Wednesday afternoons.

Right now, though, we need to move some supplies and furniture into these new rooms. I would invite all who are able to come and help, especially in moving items from the balcony classrooms to the education wing. We will begin to move out of the balcony at 10:00 this Saturday, the 14th, and we should be finished before noon. There will be other people moving items out of the annex, and you would certainly be welcome to help with that effort as well.