St. Philip’s Youth Group
This is one incredible group of young people!! A group that loves to serve together, worship together, play games together, laugh together, fundraise together, and learn together! You won’t find any other youth group like this one! We are so proud of and love our young people. We pride ourselves on having a top-notch and innovative youth group curriculum and calendar of events. All are welcome!!
We love our young people and we work hard to help them build lasting relationships with God and each other, and to cultivate experiences and formative curriculum that enrich their faith for the rest of their lives. With our youth group we have 3 components:
1. “Breakfast Club” (Sunday School) in between our worship services in our Youth Room (9:15-10:15am). On Sunday mornings we get together to eat yummy food, have conversations about God and the things that matter in our lives, and to have plenty of laughs along the way! WE are the St. Philip’s Youth Group. WE are community. And YOU are a vital part of it! For the first half of our year it’s all about DONUTS! Well, the “Dozen Disciples” (donuts may or may not be involved in the learning process)!
2. We have a full program-year of youth events on Sundays after church: PJ game nights, blind taste tests, trips to Main Event, ice skating, mini-golf, Synod retreats, lock-ins, apple-picking, our big fundraisers (like our annual Spaghetti Dinner + Bingo Night & our Easter Sunday Breakfast), and so much more! Trust us, you won’t want to miss ANYTHING! You can find our full calendar of events down below!
3. Summer of Service: each summer we travel and serve the community. We go and rebuild homes and buildings in places that need help, we work to provide hurricane relief to devastated areas in our country, we connect with different communities and form lasting relationships, and learn to see God better in one another and in our serving. Every third year we go to the ELCA National Youth Gathering – in 2027 it will be in Minneapolis, MN! Serving is something we greatly value and our young people look forward to it every year.
The Middle School and High School years of our young peoples’ lives can be a time of great turmoil, discover, excitement, and challenge. We have always believed that this is the time when youth most need to hear the gospel, the good news, that there is nothing that can separate us from God’s love in Christ Jesus our Lord. Too often, at school our young people are caught up in trying to be who other people want them to be. Too often, they see themselves through the lens of who other people tell them they should be. We know that God sees us as he created us – beloved children of God.
As such the youth group experience at St. Philip’s is designed to give youth a safe space to be welcomed, accepted, and nurtured for who they are and who they are discovering themselves to be. We run the youth program on three pillars: building relationships with one another; building relationships with God; and building relationships with the Community. As such we engage in events throughout the year that help us have fun with each other, learn about God, and serve the World.
Along with a cadre of loving adults, we work to provide role models and faith experiences in these most important years of our young peoples’ lives. For more information contact Pastor Amy in the Church office.
For the Schedule of Events for this coming year click the button below the picture.
