Softball Game Monday Night

Our third game of the season will be Monday night, 7/6, at 6pm at Heritage Park on Field 1. Please come and cheer us on. If you're playing please be there by 5:30pm. Questions? Call Ed Johnson at 360-572-4585 or email at sodatown@gmail.com.

Talent show

You know i have some wonderful videos of each act done at the talent show. What an amazing Body of Christ. When someone with diabetes gets sick from doing too much, and asks for help, watch the Methodist Church Pull together, knit a community of Love and grace toward one another in love! Amazing.

Sara and Annalisa, yours is the one i wanted to put up, but it is 158mb and the program only allows 100. I am going to burn all of the acts on to one cd. I will get it to Carol. (in office) and she can get you each a copy.

I was graced to work with each youth this past 6 months. You are a delight, a child of God and loved by me and by the congregation. I know that they will keep the Tuesday, Friday and Sunday Highschool Going, they will not let you down. See how they rallied and put on a wonderful Talent show for you. That is your nest egg for a mission trip for YOU. Dont forget it, they did that for you. It was how excited the Church body is to have you with them.

Friday Bon Fire Night May 15

Fun night!
Amanda came to be extra chaperone. Thank you Amanda. Matthew was more entertaining for all the youth! He needs to grow up fast (10 more years) and join the next generation of SUMY group.

My daughter Jessie came down with baby Saige and we all took turns holding her. Babys are sweet with they sleep.


I treatened music. Actually i did not think it was a threat, tried to find our camp song books, but they enjoy more just visiting, eating hotdogs and s'mores. So all that research for words and sounds for "the boa constrictor song" wasted. And I still cant remember the hand motions to "Little Bunny Foo Foo". Well I guess they are happy I have forgotten them! haha. Well, here is some pictures for you who missed it.







Amanda and Matthew

Abbie holding baby Saige


Kyle trying his hand and holding a baby

Abbie and Sara silly girls
Maybe holding a baby is not that scary?

Best Friends

Hail hail the gangs all here, and I did not bring out guitar and teach them the boa constrictor song! Probably good, i am sure it ends with teaching them how to force a burp!

Sara...hummmm A babysitter!

Next Friday we are taking a break. But May 29th, Nancy is coming to our Wii night to teach us songs for First Service. So ...maybe we can become a Worship Band??

Silent Auction/Talent Show

Saturday at 6:30 Youth FundraiserSilent Auction Pastor Dan has heroic-ly offered to take on

Talent show Mary Munson will take charge

This will be wonderful with these two at the helm.

See you ALL there!

10th-12th Grade SUMY May 17th 6:00pm

Me again,

We have a couple of high School youth who want their own study group. So, May 17 at 6:00 pm we will meet. I am trying to get from the Pacific NW Conference Resource Catalog Marcus Borg's dvd series Experiencing the Bible again for the first time. If you want to listen to Marcus borg to get an idea of his theology check interfaith voices , and after marcus borgs blup is an interview with Janell Miller a senior at Winnooski High school in Vermont. " High school senior Janell Miller ponders parents, the afterlife and a secret wish to sing in church. This commentary was originally created for her world history class where she was asked to answer, "What is God?" Would love to know what you ALL think of it. Which is why you middle schoolers are getting this also. Click on the link and listen a bit, and tell me what you think! I would really like to know.

For the seniors, if i get this dvd this is the subject topics

Preview comments by Rev. Marshall Campbell--This program in "adult theological re-education" is based on the book of the same title by Marcus Borg. In each of the ten sessions Borg develops issues in which the scriptures are taken seriously but not literally. Some of Borg's phrases may be forbidding at first, i.e. "precritical naivete" and "postcritical naivete." Bottom line: participants should be willing to engage the Bible at deeper levels. Reward: uncovering biblical truth which is insightful, persuasive, and powerful, all-beit metaphorical and not literal. Each of the ten sessions assume a class time of 2-hours inorder to take full advantage of the interactive and experiential aspects of the lessons but each DVD segment is only between 7-12 minutes in length. Includes guide.

1. Reading Lenses: Seeing the Bible Again
2. Reading Lenses: The Bible and God
3. Reading Lenses: History and Metaphor
4. Reading the Creation Stories Again
5. Reading the Pentateuch Again
6. Reading the Prophets Again
7. Reading Israel's Wisdom Again
8. Reading the Gospels Again
9. Reading Paul Again
10. Reading Revelation Again and the Epilogue

• To read an excerpt from his book, click on "reading the bible again for first time".
  
  See you....
  wii night friday May 8th
  SUMY Tuseday Night May 12
  Fundraiser Talent show/Silent auction May 16th (could really use HS youth to help set up!)
  High School SUMY May 17 6:00pm
  
  
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Donna Potts-Walling
Stanwood UMC Youth Minister

Friday May 8th Wii gaming night

6:00-9:00pm This friday

Wii Night

Movie Night

Pizza night

YOUR NIGHT TO CHOOSE

See you there!

May 5th SUMY meeting

Tonight we did some rating 1-5 (five a favorite and one least interesting), our programing. And we starting to pray about calling those from the congregation to be volunteers, or come and talk to us about their gifts, and experiences. We contiue to pray as we process those names before God.

here is a game we played called YURT CIRCLE; We joined hands and expaned the ciricl until everyone felt some pull on their arms from those on each side. We counted off by 2's and the ones leaned forward and twos backwards. I found this a good game to learn coopoerating with one another as each person exert quit a strong pull on each other. It wont work if we did not work as one body.

needless to say it took a few tries. Here is one: