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Join us after the 10:45am worship services for lunch and a discussion of Pasor Adam Hamilton’s sermon series “When Christians Get It Wrong.” This series explores some of the reasons many young people across the nation are avoiding church and looks at some of the information from David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons’ book unChristian. Cost is $10 per person per session and includes a catered lunch.  You can register at www.cor.org/lunch.

Satuday, January 17 at 7pm in the Student Center.

Mark your calendars for Justice Jam, a benefit concert featuring Waterdeep. John Shirley from The Gathering will lead worship, and Rob Morris, co-founder of Love146, will explain how the organization works to fight child sex slavery and exploitation.  Also, you can check out the Facebook event and help spread the word by inviting your friends to the concert! 

A suggested donation of $10 will be accepted at the door.

It was an awesome weekend for Resurrection Young Adults!  We had our very first Christmas Sweater Party, which produced some amazing Christmas outfits.  Check out some of the outfits below.

This weekend was the Hillcrest Transitional Housing Open House for their newest facility.  Over the past several months, dozens of young adults at Resurrection have put in a lot of hard work into this facility.  It was really cool to see some of the apartments finished and ready to house residents.  A group will be going back to Hillcrest on Dec. 20 to work on finishing up a couple more of the apartments.  Let me know if you’re interested in serving there! 

Young Adult Ministry at Resurrection is partnering with Connections Ministry, Resurrection West home-based Small groups, Resurrection home-based small groups, and Westport UMC to create Winter Care Bags for the homeless in KC!  Our Goal is to collect 175 bags!

You can help reach this goal by bringing gallon zip lock bags filled with a toothbrush, chapstick, and deodorant to our Christmas Sweater Party on Dec. 7.

If you cannot attend the party, please drop your bag/s off at the Connection Point by Dec. 14.  There will be a Christmas gift box there for your donations.  Thanks so much for serving!

Here we are just a couple of days away from Thanksgiving.  I hope that everyone has a great time with family and friends and that everyone travels safely.

Don’t forget that on December 7th we’ll be having our Tacky Christmas Sweater Party at 6:30pm in the Student Center at Resurrection.  We’ll be providing dinner, but people are welcome to bring desserts.  We’ll be playing some Christmas games, listening to Christmas music, and having a contest for the tackiest Christmas outfit. 

So, mark your calender and start looking for some outfits!

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!

I constantly get young adults asking me the question, “What kind of Bible studies or small groups do you guys offer?”  So, I thought I would share with everyone my answer to this question…

Alpha is a great place to start!  Alpha is a course that I faithfully go to and lead groups, because I fully believe in it.  Alpha is a 10 week course and it starts at Resurrection on Sep. 8.   You will be able to grow a great deal, while meeting other young adults!  You can register at www.cor.org/alpha. 

The next step, after checking out Alpha, is go through a Learning Community.  Learning Communities are 6 week classes that center around knowing, loving, and serving God.  These classes start at Resurrection on Sep. 7.  You will be grouped with other young adults at your tables. You can register at www.cor.org/lc. 

The next step is our Group Life Ministry.  Group Life ministry is the place where people can commit to long term small groups together.  After going through Alpha and Learning Communities, this is the next place to go deeper in your faith.  We’ll equip you with great “young adult friendly” curriculum and help get you started doing life together.  For more information on this ministry, go to www.cor.org/smallgroups.

Don’t forget that the August Young Adult Worship Experience will be this Thursday night, the 28th at 7pm!  The Worship Experience will be held in Room 300 of the East Building at Resurrection.

Come check out the music, hear some teaching, and enjoy community with other young adults!  See you Thursday!!!

I just wanted to give you’ll a quick reminder that we’ll be having our first Coffee and Connect this Sunday evening immediately following the 5pm worship service in the Spring Cafe at Resurrection.

This will be an opportunity to find out what is coming up in Young Adult Ministry this fall, and also to learn more about the exciting new Learning Communities, and the new Vibe Worship Venue.

Come by for this brief informational get together on Sunday night.  It will only take about 20 minutes and we’ll provide some coffee and cookies.  See ya then! 

This is a big weekend for Young Adult Ministry at Resurrection!  We’ll be serving again Saturday at Hillcrest Transitional Housing in Kansas City, KS.  We will meet in the Narthex of the West Building at Resurrection at 9am and work till around noon.

We will also be having 90’s night on Sunday night at 6:30 in the Student Center in the East Building of Resurrection.  Come check out your favorite 90’s music, food, drinks, TV shows, and all kinds of amazing 90’s action.  We’ll be meeting in the loft of the Student Center so there will also be all kinds of games to play.  The best 90’s outfit will be awarded a gas card.

Feel free to come get involved in service and community this weekend!  See you then!

It’s official.  The 90’s Night is on like donkey kong.  It will be on Aug. 17 at 6:30pm at the Student Center.  You can click here and find all kinds of good music suggestions.  Feel free to keep on making suggestions.

Also, does anyone have any original NES or Sega game systems they would be willing to share that night?  If so, send me an email or facebook message.  I think the more Double Dragon and Sonic the Hedgehog we have, the better. 

Keep suggesting music and anything else that you think is fitting for 90’s Night!  See you then!

For the next Young Adult Get Together, our team is planning on doing a 90’s Night.  For this night, we will have music, games, food, trivia, and other things that represent all that is the most wonderful decade of all time…the 1990’s.

More details will be put up on the web/blog soon, but I’m wanting to start getting some music suggestions now.  So, what are your favorite 90’s songs or some of your favorite 90’s artists?  I’m looking for secular and/or Christian suggestions. 

Comment on this post, and I’ll be looking at it regularly to put together a song list for the night.  I’m looking forward to hearing suggestions…

In the words of Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch (c. 1991):

“Vibrations good like Sunkist
Many wanna know who done this
Marky Mark and I’m here to move you
Rhymes will groove you
And I’m here to prove to you
That we can party on the positive side
And pump positive vibes
So come along for the ride
Making you feel the rhythm is my occupation
So feel the vibration

Come on come on
Feel it feel it
Feel the vibration”

(The comments aren’t showing up on this page, but they are going onto the post.  So click on “no comments” to read and write more song suggestions!) 

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Young Adult Cookout last Sunday!  I thought it was an awesome get together.   A special thanks to Andrew Conard, who was the master griller.  Also thanks to everyone else who helped out.

Here are a few pictures.  You can find a bunch more on the Resurrection Young Adult Facebook Page. 

The Young Adult Worship Experience at Resurrection is a place where you can check out some great music, hear relevant teaching, and meet other young adults. 

This monthly event will be held on Thursday July 24 at 7pm in Room 300.  For information about childcare, contact Lori Trupp (lori.trupp@cor.org) or if you have questions about the event, contact Nathan Webb (nathan.webb@cor.org).

The July Worship Experience will try to answer the question, “Why do we worship?”  This question will be answered through teaching, music, and interactive worship experiences. 

Come check it out!

I just wanted to remind you all that we’ll be working at Central UMC Soup Kitchen in Kansas City, MO this Saturday, the 19th.  We have an amazing opportunity to serve the homeless and show God’s love in very practical ways.  We’ll be working with FaithWork again this month to serve in the community.  If you’re interested, drop me an email at nathan.webb@cor.org and then just show up Saturday morning at 9am in the Narthex of Resurrection.  I’m looking forward to serving with you this weekend!

Proverbs 22:9 - Generous hands are blessed hands because they give bread to the poor.

This Sunday night, the 13th, we’ll be having a Young Adult cookout after 5pm worship.  The cookout will be located on the lawn just to the north side of the East Bulding at Resurrection, right by 137th Street.  We will provide the burgers, hot dogs, and some ice cream for dessert.  All you need to bring is a lawn chair and a side dish or drinks.  There will be a volleyball net set up and there will also be some other games going on. 

So, stop by and check it out.  You can never have too much BBQ, and this is great way to meet other young adults!  See you Sunday!

I thought I should let you know that I started a personal blog today.  The new blog is called blogaliciousnathan.wordpress.com.   Feel free to stop by every once in awhile to check out my rambling.

I will most definately continue to blog about what is going on in Young Adult Ministry on this blog.

I hope everyone has a great 4th of July weekend!

Last week, one of our young adult leaders let the Sunday Night book study know about a pretty sweet event going on last weekend.  So, on Friday night several young adults from the church headed up to Free Friday Night Flicks at Crown Center to watch the timeless classic, The Goonies.  It was a very eventful night filled with one of the all-time great flicks, a pretty intense thunderstorm, and some great food.

So, if you’re a young adult at COR and are wanting to get the word out about an event/get together like this one just let me know!  I’ll put it up on Facebook and/or blog about it. 

On Saturday, a group of young adults went up to Kansas City, KS to work at Hillcrest Transitional Housing.  We worked on a new facility that will be able to house five families at a time.  During their time at the facility, families will learn basic life skills that will help them transition from being homeless to having their own apartment and being able to hold down a job. 

It was an awesome experience and I’m looking forward to working with Hillcrest again.  We’ll be doing another Young Adult FaithWork on July 19th.  Let me know if you’re interested in serving! 

Hey everyone!  Welcome to the new home of the Resurrection Young Adult Blog.  Feel free to make yourself at home and look around.  I hope you find the information you’re loooking for!  Be sure to come back in the next few days to check out the personal blog that I’ll be starting up. 

- Nathan

Next Saturday,the 21st, Resurrection Young Adults will be heading to KCK to work at Hillcrest Transitional Housing.  We’ll be working on a new facility that the organization will be opening up soon. We’ll also have lunch and get to know some of the homeless families that work with the organization.  Hillcrest’s mission is this: ”to be a transitional housing program providing a Christian environment that helps homeless families become self-supportive, self reliant contributors to society.”

Proverbs 14:31 says this, “…whoever is kind to the needy honors God.”  I think this will be a great opportunity to show our Christian Faith and kindness in a practical way.

I was blessed to work with Hillcrest a couple of months ago and had an awesome experience.  If you’re a young adult, I would encourage you to come out next weekend and serve others.  It’s also a great opportunity to meet other young adults.  If you’re planning on coming out, just send me an email (nathan.webb@cor.org  or Facebook message and let me know.  We’ll be working with FaithWork on this project and meeting at 9am in the Narthex of Resurrection.  I’m looking forward to serving with you!

It’s been a busy 5 weeks in Young Adult Ministry as I’ve been meeting as many people as possible, making summer plans, and trying to develop the vision for the ministry.  All the busyness has been well worth it, as I’ve been able to meet dozens of young adults who are both eager to get connected and to help out.  I feel like the first 5 weeks were spent getting ready to dive in, and on Sunday I just went for it…right off the deep end.  I have to admit, it was nice to get things going…

We kicked off the summer study of Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz on Sunday night.  The turn out was great and the discussions were awesome.  If you couldn’t make it last week, I would love to have you come check it out this Sunday or any other time!

I’ll leave you with a quote from Miller’s book that we discussed on Sunday night.  It really got me thinking about my own spiritual journey and how I’ve come to be a follower of Christ:

“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve.  But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxaphone.  I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.

After that I liked jazz music.

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.  It is as if they are showing you the way.

I used to not like God because God didn’t resolve.  But that was before any of this happened” (ix)

Okay, I know what you’re probably thinking.  Who is a “young adult” and do I still qualify? Why is somebody blogging about this, anyway?  Let’s try to answer a few of these questions…

First off, my name is Nathan Webb and I’m the Minister to Young Adults at The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in the greater Kansas City Area.  I’ll be the primary blogger for this page, but I invite you to join in on the conversation…it’s way more fun when I’m not just talking to myself.

Alright, to the perceived questions.  First of all, who is a young adult?  I know that “young” is a pretty relative term, so I thought I’d help you out.  The ministry to young adults at Resurrection is designed for those post college age to early thirties.  So, if you fall in that life stage category, then yes, you do qualify.

Question two.  Why blog about this?  Resurrection is a big church with a lot of young adults.  It’s my job (and passion) to connect young adults with each other and to God, so the blog world is a great place to tell you where and how to get connected.  The blog will give you information on what’s going on in Young Adult Ministry and provide an easy place to talk about faith. 

Stop by anytime and look around.  You can also check out the Young Adult website  or check us out on Facebook.  I look forward to hearing from you!