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Special Activities and Events:
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Big
Trips planned for this Summer
2009:
The ELCA National Youth Gathering begins this week, and Pastor Al will be leading four adults and 13 youth to New Orleans for a week of fun, adventure, service, and worship. Keep them in your prayers!
Youth Groups in our church
Junior
Lutherans
LYON
(Lutheran Youth of Nebraska)This group is for 7th-12th Graders. Come as you are, ALL ARE WELCOME!
This group has plans in the works, so keep checking here and on the News page for the exciting events for the LYON!
SWAT
(Sponsors with a Testimony)LYON has a team of sponsors, called the "SWAT Team" (Sponsors With A Testimony)-an elite group
of outstanding people eager to reach teens and train them to live as disciples for Christ. The SWAT Team is headed up by Kelli Limones, with help from Art Limones and Bev Miller.
The SWAT Team plans a monthly activity for LYON, and helps our teens grow into responsible, grace-filled adults.
If you would like to help out for any upcoming activities, or join with the SWAT team to plan events, contact Kelli!
PWAP
(People With A Purpose) PWAP is the fund-raising body for the youth programs that go on here at Immanuel. The Jr. and Sr. High youth are allowed to raise funds to go on youth trips.
The way these youth and their families can raise money is by donating and participating in PWAP fund-raisers. Each item you donate helps you to earn money for your child's account. Also, in working fund-raisers, every hour worked by the child earns them 1pt. Up to two adults can work at any given time to help a youth earn points as well, only every adult hour is only worth a 1/2 a point because we really want to encourage the youth to help out. At the end of a fund-raising period (normally runs the same as the school year), all the money that has been raised is divided by the total number of points that have been earned by youth and adults to determine how much money each individual has. Each youth might also have some personal sales they have made such as selling Butterbraids, in which they will get all the money they have earned from their personal sales:
Below is an example of how this might work/look:
Katie is an 8th Grader who wants to go to the Confirmation Camp.
Katie works the Spaghetti Supper for 4 hours and her mom works there for 4 hours too.
(This means Katie has earned 4pts. and her mom has earned 2, giving Katie 6pts. so far.)
Katie works the Palm Sunday Breakfast for 2 hrs, her mom works 2hrs, and she donates 4 dozen eggs (Katie earns 2pts, is given 1 pt for her mom's help, and earns 1 pt for the 4 dz. eggs, for a total of 10 pts.)
Kate sells 5 Butterbraids for $8 a piece, with a profit of $3.50 for each one sold (Katie earns $17.50 for her personal sales.)
Now it is May. The total money not held in personal sales, totals to $3000 and the total points earned for everyone is 200. Making each point worth $15.00
Katie's Total PWAP Account looks like this:
Carryover: $24 (funds she earned last year and hasn't spent)
Personal Sales: $17.50
Points earned: 10 pts = $150
24 + 17.50 + 150 = $191.50 in Katie's PWAP Account
The Camp costs $340. Katie's parents have to pay the deposit of $75. She gets an early bird discount by registering before Sept. 30th and then she gets $150 for half the registration cost (minus any possible discounts like EB Discount) through the church camp fund for CJH. This would mean her due balance to CJH would be $75. She could pay the remainder of this balance ($75) off with her PWAP funds, and then she will have $116.50 left to spend on other youth events or retreats that come up during the summer and the school year.
Here
are
pictures of "Talk like a Pirate Night"
Here
are pictures of our trip to Life Lite Fest in Sioux
Falls South Dakota September 2002
Here
are pictures from Thunder Bay Canada Mission trip
Summer 2001
