Dear Grant Recipients & friends, I want to touch base with each of you and tell you what a privilege it’s been to work with you since I’ve been in this position as Grants Administrator with Young People’s Ministries. Your commitments and passions have been tremendously encouraging in my professional and personal life. I’m thankful [...]
You may be like me in this case, when you hear the word stewardship, you don’t necessarily cringe, you just immediately see the boring light flicker in your brain. I should blame childhood for that instant word association. Sitting in the pew on the kids row during big church and hearing the pastor preach on [...]
What a year it was! I don’t know about your year, but 2011 for Young People’s Ministries was jammed packed with traveling, events, resources, and transitions. Taking time to reflect is something I definitely encourage. It requires focus & sitting still which often seems to take a backseat in today’s busy culture. I’ve done some [...]
As of October, the top 5 highest giving conferences in order: 1. Virginia 2. North Carolina 3. West Michigan 4. Cal-Pac 5. West Pennsylvania Make sure your conference has sent in their YSF money and we’ll keep you updated on November and the end of the year! Ya’ll are a great reason to be thankful. [...]
For many of us, we don’t have to go somewhere to use a computer because we have at least one in our home. The situation is a little different for this group of people in the DRC. A group of students run this computer centre and use it to help empower poor people and teach [...]
DMYP Grant: Segundo Barrio Outreach As the year is quickly coming to a close, there are so many more projects I want to share information with you about. Segundo Barrio Outreach is a great example. This is a project in El Paso, Texas and i’ve learned through their reporting that the community there is the [...]
Young Adults are still around! I was really excited to be able to visit a grant recipient program (Grants for Ministries with Young People) this past February. I went as a Young People’s Ministries representative and took away more than I could’ve of imagined. Maybe it’s because I’m a young adult or maybe because I’m [...]
I was going through some old files yesterday and stumbled upon this vintage YSF resource. The logo is in the tree at the top of the picture – almost psychedelic looking – which I think is pretty cool. I wanted to share part of this with you because we all know fundraising can be kind [...]
One of our current projects receiving funding from Grants for Ministries with Young People is a project in Burundi. Burundi is pretty central on the continent of Africa. You will find it directly below Rwanda on a map – it’s always a good time for a geography lesson! The project funded is title Workshop [...]
Guess what! I just received an email update about the Virginia Conference Youth Rally that I wanted to share with you. I love hearing what you are doing in your local UMC &/or at annual conference events to strengthen and encourage youth in the church. There was a youth rally that had over 100 youth [...]
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