Youth Connect Calendar

Welcome to our YOUTH CONNECT Calendar!

News for SNL, 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

Current Calendar:

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 at 6:30 and we will enjoy 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 to the presentation, so your family can meet you in the Chapel at 6:30. YOUTH: For youth Benito’s PIZZA dinner, please RSVP to Tracy, by noon! (text or email)

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!

Saturday, May 3

  • 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.

Sunday, May 4

  • Worship Service – 10am
  • Servant Sunday  – during 10am service – Your choice: Help prepare for a used book sale to support Youth Outreach projects or practice music with Scott!
  • Connections Time, 11am
  • Youth Music/Choir, 11:15-Noon, in the Youth Choir room

Wed, May 7

  • 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, May 11

  • Worship Service – 10am  Mother’s Day!
  • Sunday School – during 10am service – Join us during service in Room 12!
  • Connections Time, 11am
  • Youth Music/Choir, 11:15-Noon, in the Youth Choir room

Wed, May 14

  • Mid-Week Dinner, 5:30pm, Register on the church app! OUTDOOR Celebration event as we move to our summer calendar.

Sun, May 18

  • Grad & Glad Sunday! We lift up our Graduates and our volunteers. A special Connections time will be offered!

Other Dates to SAVE

  • Sunday Night Live, May 25 special event; Tentative Fire Pit!

Registrations/Surveys/Support:

QUEST 2025 Youth Community Outreach Registration OPEN
Motown Mission — June 22-26
We’ll travel to Detroit to volunteer with our partners, helping to improve conditions in our greater community. We will lodge dorm style in a partner church and go out each day to do good. Evenings are filled with devotions, fellowship, and fun! Please reserve your spot by Feb. 9. Our group van has limited spots so don’t delay! Cost is $300, mission credits can be applied and sponsor assistance is available. Note, reservations with transportation after 2/9 will increase to $330.
Give365 – July 8
We will meet in Ann Arbor, launch from the Argo livery at 3:00pm to canoe and clean out the Huron River, ending at the Gallup livery, making a positive impact on God’s creation!  This is a super fun way to spend an afternoon, recommended for age 16 and up or youth with a parent.
—-Contact Tracy Ortlieb at tortlieb@fumcnorthville.org to reserve your spot or for more information.—-
SUMMER CAMPS at Lake Louise: Visit their web site to see what is a good fit for you!  https://lakelouisecommunity.org/current-year-camps/

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)

“Our mission is to be a community in which our children and youth can find, experience and share their purpose in life through God’s unconditional love and the teachings of Jesus Christ.” …First United Methodist Church, Northville

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