UPCOMING YOUTH ACTIVITIES!
It’s coming – that “most wonderful time of the year” and here are church events coming up that we hope you all will enjoy!
December
2 ~ Preparation Day for Jr. & Sr. High Youth to Serve Advent Dinner, 3:00-5:00 PM
Meet Mrs. Keiser in the Concordia Cafeteria’s kitchen to prepare food for the Advent supper we will be serving the next day. Menu: Chicken soup/potato soup and charcuterie boards with chocolate fondue and drinks. Please sign up to help by emailing Mrs. Keiser.
3 ~ Jr. & Sr. High Youth Group Advent Dinner Sponsorship Night, 3:00-7:30 PM
Please sign up to help by emailing Mrs. Keiser with when you can help.
- We will need people from 3:00-4:30 PM to help get food ready and to set up our Advent activities for families and children.
- We will need help from 4:30-6:00 PM with serving
- We will need help with cleanup after the 6:00 PM service
5 ~ Decorate the SJLS Locker Room and Have Breakfast Served by R.O.C., 7:20-7:50 AM
This year’s SJLS locker room theme is the Nativity. Come and have fun getting the locker room and the third floor festive for the Christmas season AND enjoy breakfast together! This is an activity for 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.
7 ~ Sr. High Youth Christmas Dinner, Noon-1:30 PM
This is for those in grades 9-12. Come have a lovely Christmas dinner with a Christmas devotional and exchange gifts at at Mrs. O’Connor’s home. This year, bring a Christmas ornament (heritage or new) to exchange. Please RSVP to Mrs. Keiser by November 30 if you are coming.
12 ~ Christmas Program, 6:00 PM
Grades 1-8 of SJLS will be presenting their Christmas program.
13 ~ Middle School Christmas Dance, 7:30-9:30 PM
The R.O.C. members of SJLS will be decorating for the annual Middle School Christmas Dance from 8:30-10:00 AM in the Concordia Cafeteria. The dance will be held from 7:30-9:30 PM that Saturday night. Students in grades 6, 7, and 8 may attend. This is a semi-formal dance. Admission is $2. You may bring a friend if you talk with Mrs. Keiser by December 10.
14 ~ Jr. High Christmas Party, Noon-2:00 PM
Everybody dress up for Christmas in red and green, sparkly, etc. and come to the Annex for a Christmas party! We will give a prize to the person who looks the most “Christmasy.” Bring a gift to exchange – limit is $12 cost – be creative – what would YOU like to receive? Box it up and wrap it for someone! At the same time, bring in a blanket – the type you can get at Walmart for $5 (like Mrs. Keiser has in her classroom) – that we will donate to the homeless shelters to hand out this winter! We will have lunch, activities, and our gift exchange! This is an activity for those in grades 6, 7, and 8!
21 ~ Sr. High Youth Christmas Cookie Fundraiser
This was great fun and a great success last year (we have had many people asking if we can do it again), so we are going to offer our delicious cookies again this year. Last year’s cookie exchange, by the NYG families, was impressive! Each youth participant can donate 4 dozen HOMEMADE Christmas cookies. These will be arranged on tables in the Holy Family Hall from 7:00-8:00 AM and be sold after both of the services that day. Please sign up to bring cookies (say what type) and when you can help (7:00-8:00 set up / 9:30-10:30 sales / 11:30-12:30 sales and clean up). ALL COOKIES must be in the Holy Family Hall by 7:00 AM on Sunday. You can put them in that room before that and label them for “Christmas Cookie Fundraiser.” Please include an index card with cookie ingredients for each recipe. Please encourage your own families and others to buy the cookies for their Christmas goodies–and even for gifts! If you don’t make cookies, you can still buy them! This is an activity for those in grades 9-12. WE NEED MANY BAKERS!
Also on 21 ~ Christmas Caroling for All, 5:30-7:30 PM
The Youth will sponsor an all-church activity of caroling for our church family shut-ins. This is a wonderful activity for ALL ages! We will meet in the cafeteria at 5:30 PM and bag up goodies for our shut-ins and then head out by 6:00 PM. We will have routes to drive. Who we get to bring good cheer to, depends on how many carolers and cars show up! We will carol from 6:00 to 7:00 and then meet back at the church for hot chocolate and donuts! Come join us for this annual tradition to bring good tidings of great joy to all!
24 ~ Christmas Eve
- 4:30 PM – Living Nativity in the Concordia Cafeteria. Please contact Ms. Goodspeed to see how you can help!
- 5:30 PM – Mass
- 7:30 PM – Mass
- 11:00 PM – Mass