Thank You Thank you Thank you

 Thank you, thank you, thank you for contributing to the ongoing work of Sitka Young Life as we week to reach and support kids in Sitka and around the state.  Your prayers and financial support are having a great effect!

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The Time is Now!

The Time is Now!

What was life like five years ago?  Do you remember?  Our world is different.  Navigating cultural events and their impact on our local communities has required a lot of extra energy. Today kids find themselves dealing with many hard issues and looking for answers- this is where a Young Life leader can make such a difference.  Young Life leaders now have an even greater opportunity to reach kids since many of the COVID restrictions have been lifted.  Now, more than ever, young people need to hear and experience love and peace, and they need committed adults who will live life alongside them.  The Time is now!

This November we are beginning our fall fundraiser.  Our goal is to raise $65K to help us meet our fiscal 2022-23 budget. These funds will help cover health care expenses and help pay for a part-time administrative assistant and allow us to continue to grow in needed areas.  A generous friend of Sitka Young Life is offering a matching gift of up to $20,000 to help us reach our goal.  Over the next few days we will be sending emails that will describe: what has been happening in Sitka Young Life, where we are headed, and our financial need.  Please consider helping us with the remaining goal of $45K.

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The Financial Need- The Time is Now!

Fundraising Goal

• Our total fundraising goal is $65,000

• A generous friend of Sitka Young Life has volunteered to do a matching gift of up to $20,000 which leaves us needing to raise $45,000 to make our annual budget

• This includes our goal to:

• reach our normal fall fundraising of $20,000

• additional resources to provide needed health insurance for full-time staff

• additional resources to pay for a part-time office administrator: in order to free up the area director to spend time developing the people and ministries including teams to serve high school, middle school, young adults, and church partners.

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Where we are going- The Time is Now!

 Where we are going

• Continue quality work with high school and middle school students including, contact work, club, campaigners, and new camping strategies

• Young Adult ministry- Continue developing a fuller ministry to young adults as they face an increasingly complicated world.  These people are actively seeking answers and want to know how to live out their faith

• Partner with churches: in two ways

• Increase understanding in church leaders about Gen Z and effective ways to outreach and disciple

• Collaborate and support each other’s ministries as the faith community of young people continues to expand 

• 100 kids in our community who would be mentored in their faith by a praying/caring adult.

Participants in our collaborative Gen Z training representing 8 different churches in town.

What has been happening- The Time is Now!

What has been happening

• Prayer team- a team meets together every week to pray for our kids, community, churches, and ministries around town.

• High school student gatherings.  We have been having weekly club since march and weekly campaigners since January

• Middle school student gatherings. Every week since September our Wyld Life team has been meeting together with middle school kids.

• Church partnerships

• Monthly Youth leader training with leaders from up 5 different churches in town.

• Monthly combined youth events 

• A collaborative Summer weekend camp with kids from 3 different churches

• Reaching Generation Z  training with up to 8 churches participating

• Building collaborative friendships and providing a space where local youth ministers can work and plan together.

• Young adults ministry

• Meeting with young adults and encouraging them in their faith

• Encourage and equip current young adult leaders

• Working to build a formal  collaborative town-wide young adult ministry

  
  

Girls MEHS breakfast campaigner group

SYL Rolling 2022

Here is a picture from our first Young Life gathering of the year last week.  Our middle school team will meet with students tonight at Wyld Life for their first function of the year.  The picture below is from this last weekend when we met with leaders from 8 different churches to discuss how to better serve and reach people from Generation Z (people younger than 25 years old). In the near future I will be sharing about our fall fundraiser. Thanks for your faithfulness in prayers and support! 

SYL Gearing up

(Gathering together for a recent leaders meeting)

 We are excited to begin another school year meeting with young people as we work toward our mission statement of "introducing adolescents to Jesus Christ and helping them grow in their faith."  In addition to meeting with high school and restarting our middle school ministry, we will begin reaching out to young people older than 18 years old.  This year we will continue partnering with church youth workers as we try to reach all of the youth in Sitka and beyond.  Thank you for your prayer and support!

First Summer Blast- 2022

 

This past weekend we had kids and leaders from 4 different churches come together for times of laughter, adventure, singing worship, and growing closer to Jesus. We went to the driving range, had Christmas in July, hiked to a remote mountain lake, and talked about Jesus's love and our response to him.  It was a great weekend and we look forward to doing it again. Thanks for partnering with Sitka Young life!

Feeling Good!

Feeling Good! Thanks for your prayers and support.  The first picture is from our weekly club with high school kids, and the next picture is one out of our three campaigner groups.

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Here we go!

 

MEHS girls Campaigner breakfast group

We got cleared that we can do a combined Young Life Clube with Sitka and Mt. Edgecumbe!  This week will be our 2nd combined club in two years and we are very excited. We have also started our campaigner Bible morning Bible study groups.  It is so good to have the ability to meet freely with kids again! Thanks for your prayers and support!