Youth Connect Calendar

Welcome to our YOUTH CONNECT Calendar!

News for Lent, Easter, Graduation, Summer Quest events & more!

CURRENT CALENDAR for grades 6-8 (MS) & 9-12 (HS) – please check back regularly for updates!
For Questions Contact: Tracy: tortlieb@fumcnorthville.org

Announcements:

• Youth Communications: Parents receive a monthly email, and Students get twice weekly text links for calendar updates & announcements. If you or your student is not getting these communications, please contact the church office at 248-349-1144, or Tracy.
• SundayNight Live – 2025: Food, fun, faith, friends and more!   All youth must have a current Permission/Health Release form on file with the church. In April, we shift to our SNL monthly gatherings on the 4th Sunday, contact Tracy to get all the details and sign-up information! tortlieb@fumcnorthville.org
• GAMERS in your family? Do the words Dungeons and Dragons, anime, Discord, or Twitch mean anything to you or someone you love? If you’d like to be connected to a UMC “For Nerds, Geeks, and Gamers” group that plays together online, contact swheatley@fumcnorthville.org
• Spring Break ACT LOCAL: We are so grateful for our many youth and adult volunteers who participated in our ACT LOCAL outreach and service event. The group worked outdoors at the Living and Learning Enrichment Center, Oakwood Cemetary, and our church grounds to do much needed spring cleanup and prep. They bagged over 150 compost bags of yard waste, filled multiple tarps for farm field tilling, made piles of natural compost for weed control, took a chainsaw to downed limbs, topped bare ground and then re-seeded, and more!    After that, they worked inside the church, scrubbing all 35 of the plastic tables housed in Fellowship Hall, prepped some old, stained furniture for reupholstery (to repurpose for children’s ministry), and then helped set up for and make the mid-week dinner!

Current Calendar:

Wed, April 2

• GRADUATES; Watch for your FUMC SCHOLARSHIP GIFT application via email! Save the date, Wed., April 30th will be our Dinner Celebration, Grad Recording Event, and Scholarship Gift Presentations, then May 18 is Graduation Sunday (see more below).
• Mid-Week Dinner, 5:30pm, Register on the church app!
• Dessert and Devo, 6-6:30pm Fellowship Hall – Join us for a Lent special topic: We turn toward God this season, and will discuss how our screens and life might be making that harder to do. You can sit with your family or other youth and youth leaders, and enjoy meaningful conversations over yummy desserts!

Sun, April 6

• Servant Sunday April 6, College Connect Easter cards in Fellowship Hall
• Worship Service – 10am
• Connections Time, 11am
• Youth Music/Choir, 11:15-Noon, in the Youth Choir room

Wed, April 9

• Mid-Week Dinner, 5:30pm, Register on the church app!
• Dessert and Devo, 6-6:30pm Fellowship Hall – Join us for a Lent special topic: We turn toward God this season, and will discuss how our screens and life might be making that harder to do. You can sit with your family or other youth and youth leaders, and enjoy meaningful conversations over yummy desserts!

Sun, April 13

• Cantata, Palm Sunday, 10am (Rehearsal on April 12) Youth participate or remain in service this week (no Sunday School).

Wed, April 16 – Holy Week 

• Graduation Scholarship Gift Appplications are DUE!
• No Mid-week dinner this week.

Sun, April 20

• Easter Worship, 9:15  OR 11:00 (2 services to select from, no Sunday school))
• Easter breakfast served between services in Fellowship Hall, 10-11am

Tues, April 22

• Registrations due: Last chance to register for our May 3, Hands with Detroit, see below.

Wed, April 23

• Mid-Week Dinner, 5:30pm, Register on the church app!
• Dessert and Devo, 6-6:30pm, Enjoy meaningful conversations over yummy desserts. You can sit with your family or other youth and youth leaders!

Sunday, April 27

• Worship Service – 10am
• Sunday School – during 10am service
• Connections Time, 11am
• Youth Music/Choir, 11:15-Noon, in the Youth Choir room
• Sunday Night LIve, 6-7:30pm we meet on the 4th Sunday of the month, Spring and Summer: This month, we have pizza & Salad in Fellowship Hall at 6pm, then go up to the chapel for dessert and a U of M Athlete discussion of the challenges and opportunities of practicing faith on a college campus (two student-athletes from the UM women’s basketball team). Planned format is a brief talk by both students, followed by a Q&A session. All ages welcome, so your family can meet you in the Chapel at 6:30. Contact Tracy for questions!

Wed, April 30

• GRAD CELEBRATION & RECORDING EVENT!!! High school graduates and their families are invited to join us for dinner, followed by a video recording event in the chapel area, and we will paint ceiling tiles for room 12 too!  Celebration Schedule: Dinner 5:30, RecordingEvent & Scholarship Gifts 6:00pm. Contat tortlieb@fumcnorthville for details.
• Mid-Week Dinner, 5:30pm, Register on the church app! Come celebrate with our graduates!
• Dessert and Devo, 6-6:30pm, Enjoy meaningful conversations over yummy desserts. You can sit with your family or other youth and youth leaders!

Other Dates to SAVE

• HANDS WITH DETROIT MISSION DAY AT CASS SOCIAL SERVICES, Sat, May 3, Youth with parent event, RSVP by  April 22: We need our church  family  to get involved! This is a wonderful opportunity to show our love and support for the community through service projects and much-needed donations. You have two ways to help: Be part of the hands-on service doing anything from kitchen help, grounds clean up, maintenance projects, document destruction, tiny homes, painting, hygiene kit assembly, or warehouse sorting. There are two shifts, 9:00am –Noon or 1:00-4:00pm. Join us for one or both!  Donate essential items of new twin size bed sheets, blankets, and towels. All donations should be placed on the silver shelving unit by Fellowship Hall by April 22. For more information or to sign up, contact Al Johnson by April 22 by text at 734.718.2183 or email aljohnson619@gmail.com.
• Grad & Glad Sunday! May 18, We lift up our Graduates and our volunteers. A special Connections time will be offered!

Registrations/Surveys/Support:

Youth Support/HELP: FUMC is here for you! If you are suffering from grief, depression, anxiety, etc, your leaders & pastors want to help! Contact Tracy 248-982-0513 or a pastor (Pastor Sarah 248-996-5070 / Rev. Marsha 248-349-1144)