Youth Group

6th - 12th Grade

Youth Hangout

Join us on Sundays at 9:15 am for Youth Hangout! We cook breakfast, make connections, and play games. Meet us in the Martha's Room!

For upper elementary, middle, and high schoolers.
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Led by Daniel Yeargan and Madison Owen.

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Grace First - Youth Group with FUMC

Sunday nights are open to all 6th -12th graders. Youth meet at the First United Methodist Church for games, small groups, worship, and a meal together. Small groups are led by our high schoolers - every youth has a place! Come join us from 5-7:30PM on Sunday nights in the Youth Area.

​Contact Madison for more info.

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Rite 13 for Middle School Youth

6-Week Series starting April 24th @ 12 pm
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April 24th, May 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29
12 pm @ Grace

​Click here to learn more.

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Youth Acolytes and Lectors

All upper elementary, middle, and high school youth are invited to serve at God's altar on Sunday mornings as acolytes and lectors. Acolytes assist in leading worship alongside with clergy and eucharistic ministers to help the service go smoothly. Youth lectors are typically assigned to read the New Testament.

There is no experience needed! We have wonderful eucharistic ministers that make excellent mentors to our young acolytes as they grow into this new role. Contact Madison Owen if interested in setting up a training.

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Check out this awesome video from Winter Retreat!

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Baking with the Bible

Parable of the Leaven
“God’s kingdom is like yeast that a woman works into the dough for dozens of loaves of barley bread—and waits while the dough rises.”
All Jesus did that day was tell stories—a long storytelling afternoon. His storytelling fulfilled the prophecy:
I will open my mouth and tell stories;
I will bring out into the open
    things hidden since the world’s first day.

In our story today, a woman mixes just a tiny bit of yeast into a large amount of flour—about 35 pounds of flour in total. When yeast works its way through dough, it is called leavening the dough, or raising the dough. Sometimes yeast is called leaven. It takes a long time for the leaven to work its way through that much flour, but when it does it grows from the byproduct of gasses that the leaven produces. Like all things that grow, you have to be patient for the growth and transformation to take place. You cannot rush growth.

Yeasts are actually microbes. They eat their way through the toughest parts of flour, the parts that humans cannot digest well. The more slowly the bread rises, the more flavor it develops. Sourdough, which uses a starter created from wild yeast, takes a longer time to rise than bread made from a commercial yeast. This gives it lots more flavor than the average grocery store loaf. The woman in the story would have used this kind of leaven.

In what way is the kingdom of God like leaven? How can we help God's love to spread like the leaven? One of the ways we can spread love is by baking bread to share with others. 

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Interested in volunteering with Children and Youth?

Contact our program director, Madison Owen, to learn more.