Dear Sound District of The North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church, I hope this message finds you well! As I continue saying this, I hope you hold it in your hearts that the youth are not the church of the future but the church of TODAY. I thank each of you who support youth ministry because, without people like you, I would not have truly lived into my call to ministry. Your intentional care for our youth is very important to the work God has called us all to.
After having an awesome weekend at Kaleidoscope this year, I have so much hope for our youth ministry. There were so many new faces, so I want to encourage all of you to keep encouraging your youth to attend conference events. I truly believe it can help you and, even more importantly, help lead a youth to be closer to God. I believe it can help you because I have seen it myself. One of my younger members once invited a friend solely to experience a Kaleidoscope event, and that friend subsequently became enthusiastic about participating in other youth conference events and activities within the youth group. I want to extend an invitation to you and your church for the opportunity to boost our Sound District Youth. We would like to expand our team more and ask if you are able to be on our Sound District youth team if you could or would please come to our next meeting on May 13 @ 12 PM. We will not have a lot of meetings and they are over Zoom.
Coming up:
- Breakaway 2024 (Middle & High school) June 24-29
- Fall Beach Clean up (More Details to Come)
- Spring Mission Event (More Details to Come)
- Pilgrimage Nov. 8-10
Speaking of Pilgrimage, it becomes more meaningful when we do it together. I have some ideas about what this can look like.
+ Having Saturday lunch together, field day activities, kickball, or whatever as a district.
+ Staying in the same hotel. This can be a way to build community and be a resource for one another. This would allow for group reflection over the sessions, building a stronger district community, and extra supervision.
If you are interested in this, please let us know as soon as possible through this Excel sheet.
In thanks and His Grace,
Kuda Kagura
Associate Pastor at Jarvis Memorial UMC
Associate Pastor at St. James UMC
Sound District: District Youth Coordinator
Jarvis Office: (252) 752-3101
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