Hello all,
Praying Christ is encouraging you all in your ministries and all you have going on! I pray you find your congregations are well fed in God’s word so that they may continue to grow in their walk of life. I pray that if you have youth, they continue to know God through your encouragement and guidance. That said, I hope you all encourage your youth to attend or sign up for conference youth events. These events are important because they show our youth how, as United Methodists, we are connectional. They also show the youth they are part of Christ’s body, active in the world beyond their local church. I encourage you to follow the Sound District Youth Instagram and Facebook page if you have not already done so. We try to post reminders of upcoming events and ways to sign up. Please also encourage your youth leaders and laity who work with youth to follow those pages. As events come up, I ask that you keep leadership and the youth attending these events in prayer.
Events coming up: Registration link: https://nccumc.org/youth/register/
Global Vision (High School) March 15-17
Kaleidoscope (Middle School) April 12-14
Breakaway (Middle School and High School) June 24-29
Más Diversity (Middle School and High School) Oct. 11-13
Pilgrimage Nov. 8-10
Future of Sound District Youth Ministry:
We have been working on putting together a team of people who would be interested in helping make the Sound District Youth better! If you are interested in being a part of our team, please join our next meeting (we don’t meet a lot, but we need you). Some of the things we want to do is create a network where we can be genuinely connectional, from putting together district youth events to collaborating on mission trips. We hope we can achieve our United Methodist mission statement: making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. Help us by joining our youth team. We are currently working on picking a date to meet; if you are interested, please select a time that works best for you on our doodle poll:
https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/el89Pyle
Anyone is welcome to join this team, including youth, so I ask that you announce this to your congregations to see if anyone is interested. Thank you for the work you do and have done with your youth!
Kuda Kagura
Associate Pastor at Jarvis Memorial UMC
Associate Pastor at St. James UMC
Sound District: District Youth Coordinator
Jarvis Office: (252) 752-3101
St. James Office: (252) 752-6154
Cell: 336-260-0778