Resurrection Young Adults

Hey everyone!  This is Nathan writing again, after getting back from Africa a few days ago.  We had an absolutely amazing trip and I’ll be posting some pics on my personal blog in a few days.  Also, feel free to email me or ask me about the trip!

I wanted to remind everyone of a couple of things coming up this weekend.  First off, any young adults who are interested can spend a few hours serving others this Saturday morning at 9am.  We’ll be doing painting at one project and then serving food at another project.  Second, we’ll be having lunch every week after this Vibe, starting this Sunday.  It’s a great way to meet some new people and hang out together in a smaller group.  Just meet by the rock wall in the student center at noon.

One of my favorite things to do after a worship service has always been to go out with friends and share a meal. Beginning on November 16, join with other young adults after The Vibe (this worship service begins at 10:45am in the Student Center) for lunch. We’ll meet immediately following the service in the cafe area in the back of the Student Center to choose a local restaurant - or two or three if there’s a lot of us! - for lunch. Don’t worry if you’ve never been to another Young Adult gathering; we’d love to have you join us. This will be a great time to discuss what we experienced in worship, to find out what’s going on in the Young Adult Ministry, and, most importantly, to meet new people and connect with each other. I look forward to “breaking bread” with you!

Our next Young Adult Get Together is this Saturday, October 25. We’ll meet at 5pm in Parking Lot C at the church (that’s the southeast lot near Roe Ave) to carpool to the Liberty Corn Maze. This is the “largest corn maze in Missouri” with several miles of paths throughout the 4 mazes in one. Weather Saturday should be cool and clear, but all the rain these next few days will make the maze pretty muddy - be sure to dress with that in mind!

We’ll spend about two hours navigating the maze, and then head to a restaurant for a late dinner. This will be a great way to enjoy the fall weather and connect with other young adults. See you there!

This year's maze design is a tribute to the KC Zoo.

Hello Resurrection Young Adults!  I want to let you know that I (Nathan) will be gone for the next few weeks on a mission trip to South Africa.  I’ll be leaving this week and won’t be back until November 8.  Angela will be blogging while I’m gone and keeping you all informed on what is going on for young adults at Resurrection.  I would really appreciate your prayers while I’m gone!

Also, during your prayer time, I want to remind you that our daily GPS guide is available via email.  You can sign up to receive the GPS every morning.  I, like you, sometimes struggle with remembering to spend time in daily prayer and scripture reading.  So, receiving the GPS in my inbox every morning is a huge help!  If you would like to receive the GPS every day, then you can sign up here.

Thanks, in advance, for all your prayers while I’m in Africa!  I’ll see you in a few weeks!

I want to say thanks to all of you who came to check out the first Vibe service last Sunday!  It was an awesome worship experience and I look forward to making that my regular time to worship.  If you didn’t get a chance to check it out, I highly recommend giving it a try some Sunday.

I also want to remind you that we’ll be serving at two different locations this Saturday, partnering with FaithWork.  We’ll be serving at two of our regular places: Hillcrest Transitional Housing and Central UMC Soup Kitchen.  If you’re looking for a way to help the community, then this is a great opportunity.  We’ll meet at 9am in the Narthex of our West Building and work till about 12:30 or so.  If you know that you’re going to come serve, then shoot me an email at nathan.webb@cor.org.  If you don’t get around to sending an email, feel free to show up anyway.

I’m very excited to invite everyone to check out the new Vibe Worship Service, starting on October 12 at 10:45 in the Student Center. Vibe is a new weekly worship experience for people of all ages. This worship service will be edgy, casual, and contemporary, designed to reach non-religious and nominally religious people and help them to become deeply committed Christians. 

It’s 11:11pm on the first day of the Leadership Institute, and it has been quite the first day!  I have been able to connect with dozens of leaders from all over the country.  The pre-institutes all seemed to go really well and tonight’s session was great!  My prayer is that connections will continue to be made and that people will be blessed and encouraged the final day of the conference. 

If you’re an attendee of the Leadership Institute and you were directed to our blog via the conference, thanks for stopping by!  Feel free to look around and make comments!

I hope that everyone is enjoying the beautiful fall weather today!  It’s finally beginning to feel like Kansas in October!

I wanted to write a quick blog to ask for everyone’s prayers and support as we will be hosting around 1600 church leaders for our annual Leadership Institute.  Please keep our guests travel in your prayers.  Also keep our staff and volunteers in your prayers as we try to help equip other church leaders to better lead in their churches! 

I’ll be presenting to approximately 50 people in a workshop on the subject of, “Young Adult Ministry: What Young Adults Really Want Out of Church.”   I would most definately appreciate your prayers for that! 

Peace!

David Kinnaman heads up the Barna Group - a research firm focused on spirituality.  He and co-author Gabe Lyons studied young adults ages 16 to 29 and found that 40% of this age group were disaffected from the church.  They went on to study this group of disaffected young adults in more depth, and their findings are captured in unChristian.  If you are interested in reaching your friends and other young adults, this book is a must read.  

We’ve invited David Kinnaman to speak on the book and the research behind it on Tuesday, September 23 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.  in the Student Center at Resurrection. He’ll speak for an hour, then answer questions for 30 minutes.  Then we’ll invite you to sit around a table with other leaders, to discuss how we can more effectively reach out to this group.

Contact angela.lavallie@cor.org for more info or to reserve your spot.

This Friday night, the 12th, bring your A Game to Room 221 of the East Building for Game Night.  We’re going to be playing games and eating food with Senior Adult Ministries at Resurrection.  So, bring some food and be prepared for some intense competition!

You’ll have the opportunity to hang out with other young adults, but will also have the opportunity to hang out with some adults in a different life stage.  It’ll be a great way to bridge some gaps, while having fun doing it….and the food will be AMAZING!  See you Friday night!