Buzz (Gr 7-8)

Our Youth Calendar at is planned with YOuth in mind.  If you click on the name of any event you can discover more specific details.

We're celebrating a great year with hilarious group games, food, decorations, music, and did we mention hilarious group games?!  Come Join the Fun, 6-8 PM in Room 200 at the church! 

Sunday Mornings for Youth
As we gear up for the second half of our program year we will focus on worship at 9:00 AM and Sunday School at 10:30 AM. Sunday school classes will be held as follows:
7th & 8th graders, Room 200
9th–12th graders, Room 201
10:30 AM Youth Sunday School will sit together in worship the first Sunday of each month.

Here's a way you can improve your vocabulary while providing rice to feed hungry people of the world. As you play the word game, Free Rice will donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program, for every word you answer correctly. If you don't think this adds up you'll be surprised to know that on October 7, 2007, this hot internet game had 830 grains of rice. By November 14. 2007 participants had generated 1.897.053.670 grain of rice - that's almost 2 billion grains in less than 6 weeks. The warning that with the game reads: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, and job performance. You can play the word game or learn more about its purpose by visiting www.freerice.com.

REGISTER NOW for Sunday School
You can Register NOW for Sunday School by filling out the 9 & 10:30 am - Youth Sunday School Form

REGISTER NOW for Youth Choir
You can Register NOW for Youth Choir by filling out the Youth Choir Rehearsal Form

Youth Health Form 2007-2008
Since every student who wishes to participate in a youth event must submit a 2007-2008 health form, you can now download the Youth Health Form. This one form covers ALL youth group gatherings, activities, retreats, trips, etc. for the entire school year. Health forms can be mailed to Jean or dropped off at the church office.

Marc Saltzman, a writer for Microsoft Home Magazine has compiled the following "homework help internet sites."

http://www.FactMonster.com - The Fact Monster Homework Center includes help in geography, history, math, science, language arts and social studies.

http://www.Bartleby.com - Great Books Online Students in high school or college will find Bartleby.com extremely helpful. The site contains a large volume of documents - from the complete works of William Shakespeare to Roget’s Thesaurus to Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body. You’ll also find free fiction and non-fiction books, short stories, and poetry anthologies here.

Last spring the youth in Good Samaritan’s Confirmation and Senior High Youth Group were offered an opportunity to make a difference in their world. In a project call LightQuest, those who chose to participate were challenged to identify a cause that they were passionate about, where they felt they wanted to make a difference, where they could shine their light into the world. Then, with a plan of action in hand, they were each funded with $100, the monies made available through a private investment. One of the rules of this project called for them to make their donation in person. The kids were also encouraged to volunteer some time if that was appropriate to their project. Seventeen Good Samaritan young people decided to take up the challenge!

Acolytes help with the Sunday morning worship services by bringing in the light which represents God’s presence in the service. Acolytes wear robes and carry a candlelighter down the aisle and light the candles on the holy table at the beginning of the worship service. Then as the service ends, acolytes take the light from the candles and carry it out of the sanctuary on the candlelighter symbolizing that the light of God goes with us out of the sanctuary and into the world.

Two acolytes are needed each week, one for each service. If you are interested in serving as an acolyte, please contact Jean@good.org.

During the school year, September through May, Youth Choir meets in the Choir Room on Wednesdays (6:00 - 6:45 p.m.) and sings for worship about once a month. Periodically, on special occasions, the Youth Choir joins forces with the Chancel Choir. Bring your friends - we have robes from short to long! Snacks are always welcome for after the rehearsal. Youth Choir Director is Marilee Stevens