Middle School MYF

Upcoming Activities (All Are Welcome!)   

TBD Make Decorations for Parade Float
TBD Week of June 14th End of Season Party / Picnic
TBD Week of June 21st  Work Service At Parsonage
TBD July 3rd Help Assemble Parade Float

 


What Kind of Activities Do We Do? Look at Seasons Prior to 2024/2025

Looking Back At The 2025/2026 Season:
Saturday May 30th 3:00pm-5:00pm  Rock Climbing at the EDGE!
An amazing turnout for rock climbing fun. Learned about the equipment used, leaders and some youth learned how to operate the belay equipment for our fellow climbers! Truly a blessed experience.
Sunday May 17th 5:00-7:00pm  Game Night 
Cancelled due to low turnout and sicknesses amongst you and leaders
Saturday May 9th 9:00am-1:00pm  Annual Plant Sale                                                                  The community came out on a rainy day and purchased over 5,000 plants.  Thanks to all the youth and adults that helped setup Thursday night, pickup plants on Friday, and sell plants on Saturday.  We have sold near $8,000 worth of plants.  Our wholesale expense to purchase the plants was $5,277, so our net proceeds to our youth activities fund is approaching $3,000.  Thanks to Sokolowski’s Greenhouse for their support! 
Saturday April 25th 3:00pm-10:00 pm Coffee House                                                                           A wonderful full day of Fellowship among our youth, our congregation, and the community.  The youth represented well as they setup, served, and helped cleanup during throughout the day.  We enjoyed 31 performers.  Thanks to all that supported this event in some way.  We added $630 to our youth activities fund from donations during the night.
Sunday April 19th 5:00-6:30 pm Gathering at Church                                                                  Pizza and some nice discussion before playing some Big Jenga, Foosball and Sardines
Sunday March 29th 1:00pm-3:00pm Roller Skating @ Guptil’s! (Combined with MS)   Skating easy, free and breezy around the rink! Lots of fellowship with LOTS of other skaters. Capped off with some delicious ice cream
Saturday March 21st Retreat @ Camp Pinnacle!                                                                                      A great day with lots of fun at Camp Pinnacle. A nice lesson on how God sees us, a Photo scavenger hunt, volleyball/basketball/soccer time, smores, telestrations and a delicious dinner!
Sunday March 1st Youth Leader Training (Kids enjoy the day off!)
Saturday February 28th 12:oopm-1:30 pm Bowling at Spare Time Clifton Park                       Lots of spares with some occasional strikes and lots of games surpassing 100 pins! Even our littlest youth got in on the action. Lots of fun, fellowship and relationship building.
Sunday February 22nd 12:00pm-1:00pm Sledding at Kinns Rd Park                                           Fun sledding for kids and adults! Made new friends and some youth learned how to snowboard!
Saturday February 7th 5:00pm-6:30pm Gathering at Church with Food and Fun                  Pre Super Bowl fun and food! Birthday and anniversary cards were made, kids learned about addressing envelopes and some Scattergories fun!
Saturday January 31st 6:00pm-8:00pm  Connect 518 Event @ FUMCV (68 Maple Ave Voorheesville NY)  Combined Middle School and High School event                                            Lots of fun connecting with youth groups from across the area! Lots of food, fun and fun games!
Wednesday December 24th  3:30pm-4:30pm  Setup Luminaria Around Church              Lots of fun setting up the Luminaria to show the Light of Christ! The Church looked beautiful for both evening services! Thank you to all the helpers!
Sunday December 21th 11:00am-1:00pm Selling Luminaria At Church/Christmas PartyLots of fun selling along the roadside, bringing in several sales! Some gingerbread house decorating, PIZZA, and a Snowman wrapping contest where we awarded every group in some positive way. All capped off with some Sardines!!!
Sunday December 14th 11:00am-1:00pm  Selling Luminaria At Church                            Canceled due to sickness amongst leaders and youth.
Sunday December 7th 11:00am-1:00pm  Selling Luminaria At Church                                  We made some slick looking signs that were twirled as Main Street traffic passed by. Lots of fellowship and support for one another. Delicious beef barley / chicken noodle soup for warmth!
Sunday November 30th 10:45am-Noon  Packing Luminaria At Church                                 So much organized chaos as we packed so many boxes and bags with Luminaria supplies! Post activity pizza was also enjoyed.
Sunday November23rd 5:00pm-6:30pm  Gathering With Dinner                                Everyone represented God’s Love during our well attended gathering and Pizza dinner. Went to the Youth room and it’s comfy seating for a good discussion on thankfulness and finding the positive even in a bad situation. We also planted our Gratitude Garden!
Sunday November 2nd Noon-2:00pm  Laser Tag At SpareTime                                             Lots of friendly competition between Red and Blue. Great fellowship and teamwork by the winning team of our 3 competitions. Time in between to visit the arcade for retro classics and new favorites, also requiring teamwork for success!
Saturday October 25th 3:45pm-8:30pm  Serve Turkey Supper                                     Everyone represented God very well as we served our community over 200 sit down dinners over three seatings.  We received many favorable comments on how amazingly our youth served.
Sunday October 19th 5:00pm-6:30pm  Gathering With Dinner                                                       Fun, Fellowship, Food, Games as we got to better know each other.
Sunday September 28th Noon-5:30pm  Jiminy Peak Alpine Slide New Season Kickoff      What a beautiful day on the mountain as we welcomed our 6th Graders to the group.  A few skin burns, but all had fun and enjoyed our ice cream stop on the way back to church.

Looking Back At The 2024/2025 Season:
Sunday June 8th 1:00-4:00pm  Season Ending Picnic At Walt’s House          Unfortunately had to be cancelled due to COVID illness.
Saturday May 17th 3:00pm-10:00pm  Coffee House (Setup, Event, Cleanup)          Another amazing relaxing evening in our transformed Fellowship Hall!  Thanks to all that promoted this event, performed, helped setup and breakdown, served, loaned card tables, baked desserts, facilitated the drinks, put together the slide show, and enjoyed great fellowship with us!
Thursday – Sunday May 8th-11th  Plant Sale                                                                              Thanks to all the people that helped made this a success again this year (setup, pickup, sale, extended sale) and Sokolowski’s Greenhouse for supplying quality plants at wholesale prices.
Sunday May 4th 5:00pm-7:30pm  Movie Night At PJ’s House                                                      Good Food including Popcorn.  Watched and discussed the movie Wonder.  “When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind”.
Sunday April 27th 5:00pm–7:00pm  Outdoor Gathering & Games                                                Fun, Food, and Fellowship.  What does Easter mean to me?  Weather cooperated enough to have a wild kickball game.
Tuesday, April 15 5:45pm-8:30pm  Regional Food Bank Sorting                                                We got to sort frozen foods, tour the facility, and stop for a quick ice cream after serving.
Sunday April 6th 5:00pm-7:00pm  Game Night
A Fun evening of food, fun, and fellowship.  We played various games around discussing how God Is Love and anyone that does not know this does not know God.
Sunday March 23rd 5:00pm-6:30pm  Gathering                                                                                We joined with Middle School youth to complete our Angel Ministry April birthday and anniversary cards.
Sunday February 23rd 5:00pm-6:30pm  Angel Ministry                                                                      We joined with Middle School youth to complete our Angel Ministry March birthday and anniversary cards.
Saturday February 8th  3:50pm-5:10pm  Ice Skating                                                                      Fun afternoon on the ice!
Saturday February 1st 8:10am-10:30pm  Camp Pinnacle Retreat                                           What an amazing day indoors sharing God’s voice about our theme “Love Bigger” and outdoors on the majestic snow tubing hill.  We all grew closer to God and to each other.  Praise God!
Sunday January 26th 4:45pm-7:00pm  Bowling At Sparetime                                                        A fun day of bowling practicing representing God’s Love in our community!
Friday January 10th 6:00pm-7:30pm  Chili Cookoff                                                                       Fun evening helping the 4th&5th Graders serve at our congregation and community.
Sunday January 5th 5:00pm-7:00pm  Winter Beach Party                                                          Fun time in our playing out this theme in our transformed Fellowship Hall.  We feasted on summer foods, listened to summer music, discussed how God was like summer, and played summer themed games, and enjoyed ice cream to cap off the party.  As usual our Beach Volleyball with a Beach Ball was a big hit.
Tuesday December 24th 4:30pm-5:15pm  Luminaria Lighting At Church                        What a joy we experienced lighting about 400 luminaria around our church, in front of the firehouse, and at Vic Temple’s house on a beautiful calm Christmas Eve.  Let us be the light that overcomes the darkness!
Saturday December 21st 9:00am-1:00pm  Luminaria Selling                                              Selling in front of the church this year.  Good Fellowship as we distribute luminaria to our community keeping our 42 year tradition alive!
Saturday December 14th 9:00am-1:00pm  Luminaria Selling                                             Selling in front of the church this year.  Good Fellowship as we distribute luminaria to our community keeping our 42 year tradition alive!
Sunday December 8th 5:00pm-6:30pm Laser Tag                                                                           Fun evening for this well attended activity practicing sharing God’s Love with each other outside of church.  Wyatt rules in laser tag!
Saturday December 7th 9:00am-1:00pm  Luminaria Selling                                                  Selling in front of the church this year.  Good Fellowship as we distribute luminaria to our community keeping our 42 year tradition alive!
Sunday December 1st 11:00am-Noon  Luminaria Packing                                                  Another year of putting quality product together.  Luminaria Spirit was in the air!
Sunday November 17th 5:00pm-7:00pm  Game Night                                                                 Fun, Games, and Fellowship as we practiced finding goodness is everything!  Sardines continues to rule!
Friday November 8th 8:00pm-10:30pm  Lockin                                                                                 An amazing evening of getting to know one another as we practiced sharing God’s love together with an attitude of gratitude.  Many cool games and snacks equals a very fun night!
Saturday October 26th 3:45pm-10:00pm  Serve At Turkey Supper                                               A full day of Fellowship and Service as 26 of our Youth Represented God, our Church, our Youth Groups, and Ourselves to the Community Very Well!
Sunday October 20th 5:00pm-7:00pm  Halloween Party                                                             Fun Night!  Costumes, Tacos/Quesadillas, Blood Punch, Truth Or Scare, Spooky Scavenger Hunt, Balloon Stomp, Glow Sardines, Ice Cream With Blood Syrup, Candy!  The Holy Spirit is the One True Spirit!
Sunday October 6th 1:00pm-2:35pm  SkyZone                                                                            Bounce, Bounce, Bounce!
Sunday September 29th 5:00pm-7:00pm  Game Night                                                                 Fun evening.  We had dinner together, discussed where we have seen God’s love in action, played circle games, basketball, tree climbing, hung out, had ice cream, and enjoyed fellowship with each other! 
Sunday September 15th 12:00pm-5:30pm  Jiminy Peak Adventure Park/Alpine Slide     We were blessed with a beautiful day on the mountain kicking off our new season together, welcoming 7 new 6th graders to MYF, practicing God’s Love, and stopping for ice cream on the way home.