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Youth BIG Games Night – NEXT FRIDAY!
Hey Parents, The youth BIG Games Night is NEXT Friday! We’ll be playing a ton of classic youth games. Think strategy, teamwork, torch-lit madness, and lots of fun. Details: Friday 10th December Time: 7 pm – 9.30 pm (Grade 6’s and Year 7’s are invited to a special dinner at 6 pm before everyone else arrives. This is a chance for Grade 6’s to suss out St Johns Youth, get to know some of the youth leaders, and make new friends) Location:…
Youth BIG Games Night (Last event for 2021!)
Hey Parents, This year our final youth event will be held outside at Youth Minister Andi’s place in Kangaroo Ground (my house). We’ll be playing a ton of classic youth games. Think strategy, teamwork, torch-lit madness, and lots of fun. Details: Friday 10th December Time: 7 pm – 9.30 pm (Grade 6’s and Year 7’s are invited to a special dinner at 6 pm before everyone else arrives. This is a chance for Grade 6’s to suss out St Johns Youth, …
Youth Hangout THIS FRIDAY
Hey Parents, This Friday, 19th Nov we will be having a Youth Hang-out night! Invite along friends for a night of playing fun games, eating pizza, and hanging out *IMPORTANT* If we reach 90% double vaxed before Friday we will have a bonfire night at a youth’s house in Research OR if the weather is too wet we have another back-up location! Details: Friday 19th November Time: 7 pm – 9.30 pm Location: Most likely in Diamo, but if we can have a…
Free Youth School Holiday events
Hey Parents, With term three holidays just around the corner, we’re looking at another at home vacation. If your youth is looking forlorn and bored at this prospect, you might like to get them to check out the free Online School Holiday events being put on by Banyule Youth Services. They have a Spring Zoomfest, Werewolf Game, Home Recording workshop and more lined up! For more information and to enquire, visit their website here. Have a great week, Andi Photo…
Online Youth Event – 4th September
Hey Parents, Our Online Youth Event is this Friday! We’ll be getting together for a fun night of hanging out, playing games, and discussion – all via ZOOM! The team at Youth Unite have put together a short video to encourage us during this period of social isolation. We’ll watch this together and spend some time discussing what they have to say. This is a good event to invite mates to, so ask your youth who they might like to invite…
Online Youth Event – 4th September
Hey Parents, Our next youth event is coming up in three weeks time! We’ll be getting together for a fun night of hanging out, playing games, and discussion – all via ZOOM! The team at Youth Unite have put together a short video to encourage us during this period of social isolation. We’ll watch this together and spend some time discussing what they have to say. Youth Unite is a bunch of churches that come together as a UNITED movement…
Our next youth event: Bonfire night!
Hey parents, Our next youth event is our Youth Bonfire Night! This is a great night for inviting friends. We’ll be playing fun games, getting toasty around the fire, hanging out and eating good food. Details: Friday 9th August Time: 6 pm – 10 pm We will meet in the St Johns foyer at 6 pm before carpooling to Research for the bonfire. We will then carpool back, ready for pick up at St Johns by 10 pm. Years 7-12…
Heaps of important information!
Hey Parents, Our Youth Games Night is this Friday! Details: Friday 10th May Years 7-12 Location: St Johns Time: 6.30 pm – 9.30 pm Cost: $10 Dinner included Please RSVP here. This week, 12th May (Mothers Day) we will have no Youth Life Groups. We’ll be back and running the following week 19th May. There will also be no Sunday@6 Service this week. Please join us at the 9.30 am Service instead as we continue our Come and See themed services. This…
Easter + YOUTH EVENTS SURVEY
Hey parents, At St John’s we’re all about Jesus so we think that Easter is great – a week all about Jesus’ death and resurrection. We have a number of services to mark His victory over sin and death. Click here for details of all our Easter Services. Also, a reminder to please complete this survey with our proposed dates for youth events in term 2 and 3. This gives us a great head start to plan these events knowing that…
Youth Life Groups start THIS SUNDAY!
Hey Parents, Youth Life Groups start this week, 4 pm Sunday, 17th Feb (Arrive from 3.45 pm). Groups will transition straight into the Sunday@6 service, we recommend pick up after the service finishes (we aim to finish by 7:10 pm). We recommend bringing your own personal bible to Life Group each week. Please fill in this brief survey so we know who to expect! Thank you, St John’s Youth Ministry Team [mc4wp_form id=”5448″]
Youth Life Groups 2019
Hey Parents, Planning for St John’s Youth in 2019 is well under way! We’ve been doing some planning the last few days and we have a question for you. We think it might be possible to have all our Youth Life Groups meet 4pm Sunday’s before our Sunday@6 service. We reckon this would have a large number of benefits with only a couple of drawbacks. So our question is, does Sunday arvo work for your kids? If you could please fill in this…
Still looking for some help on June 29
G’day Parents, Recently I wrote asking if you might be able to help bless some local youth leaders on the night of June 29. If you missed it, or want to help but haven’t let us know, please click here to get the details and fill in the online form. Any help you can offer will help make it a great night for our hard working volunteers. Text messages went out today to those who have registered for this Friday’s…
Youth Unite – May 11
G’day Parents, Three times a year we meet up with other youth groups in the Northern Suburbs for an all-in event called Youth Unite. They are a great example of people from all different backgrounds getting together because of Jesus. Here’s the details. Date: Friday 11th May Start time: 7pm drop off at St. John’s (we’re hosting) End time: 9:30pm pick up Food: Supper provided Cost: $5 Grade 6s welcome. It should be a great night, we hope as many St.…
A Youth Ministry Update
G’day parents, We put together this little video as a bit of an overview of youth ministry this year. For some reason I seem a bit grumpy at the start even though I was not in a bad mood! Sorry about that. Click here to register for Camp Crave. Subscribe to get Parents’ Blog updates Email Address
Classic Youth Games – July 16
G’day Parents, First up, I’m about to go on leave for a few days so there will be no post from me next week. However, I’m back on Sunday 16th for our 5pm CLASSIC YOUTH GAMES. This is going to be one hour of people’s favourite youth group/youth camp/school camp games; at least the ones that fit in our building and are legal 😉 We’ll have a mix of high intensity and low intensity so there should be a good…