Come One! Come All!

To the Senior High Youth Group’s entertainment extravaganza! An evening of food, friends, family, church family, laughs and entertainment!

The Annual Spaghetti Dinner & Variety Show

Saturday, January 28 at 6:00 p.m. in the community room

All proceeds benefit the SHYG’s 2012 mission trip to New Orleans, where we will be working with Youth Rebuilding New Orleans, a non-profit organization dedicated to rebuilding distressed and foreclosed homes. The finished homes are sold to teachers to stabilize neighborhoods and positively impact the education system.

If you have an act or a talent that you’d like to share in the variety show, the SHYG would love to hear from you! Contact Pastor Carol at 673-3231, ext. 14 or revcarol@ccamherst.org.

Rent-A-Teen — A new twist! Call when you need us!

Senior High Youth Group is putting a new twist on Rent-a-Teen this year. Instead of services available only in the fall, we are now available year-round. If you need fall or spring cleanup, wood stacking, or other household tasks, give us a call. The cost is up to you—this is one of our fundraisers for our annual mission trip.

Contact Ninette White at 672-2217 for more information or to get on our schedule.

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2011 Mission Trip – Litttleton (NH) Workcamp Foundations

The SHYG traveled to Littleton NH this past June to work with the Workcamp Foundations group. They helped homeowners with home repairs and fix-ups and enjoyed the fellowship of the people they helped.

Littleton has been hit hard with job losses in recent years; tourism remains a mainstay of the region’s economy, and unemployment is high. On this mission, our group brought some help where it’s needed most. There were 23 teens and 6 chaperones on the retreat.

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Our work–and play

Local

We maintain a relationship with residents of the Granite Square Apartments in Milford. This ministry is rich and life-affirming for both the residents and for the members of our group. We are expanding our local missions work.

Mission Trips

Our yearly mission trips focus much of our work for support and planning.

2010: Maine Seacoast Mission
2009: Washington D.C. working with the YSOP (Youth Service Opportunities Project)
2008: New York City
2007: we visited Atlanta, GA with the Outreach and Advocacy Center of the Central Presbyterian Church.

Teaching and Christian Education

Many of us teach and assist teachers in Church School. Additionally, part of our Sunday evening programs includes planned conversation to deepen understanding of Christian belief.

Community

An essential part of the Senior High program is the building of community, centered in God’s love for us, and His call to love others. Practically speaking, this means that we continually and consciously work to take the risks to be real with each other, to speak truth in a spirit to lift others up, rather than put them down.

Music

We share our musical gifts through the young adult choir–Voices of Creation–which includes grades 7-12. Additionally, Saturday Worship provides an excellent worship setting for us to use our musical skills.

Worship

Sunday evening youth programming includes worship and prayer in the sanctuary. In this way, we stay in right relationship with God and receive the gifts that strengthen us for life’s hard journey.

Contacts:
If you are interested in learning more about our Senior High Youth Group programs, please contact Pastor Carol.