Yakima Valley Youth Groups
Hello once again from the St. Dominic Team!
Besides the normal retreat ministry that Reach teams do, our team this year is running two youth groups. Our first youth group is in Grandview, WA, and it is a continuation of the youth group started there last year by the Reach team. The second group we have started up is in Sunnyside, Washington.
We have been ministering in Grandview since the beginning of this Reach year, and it has gone really well. We have about ten to fifteen youth who come, but in January we have an event in Grandview that will hopefully draw in more youth from the community. We have had a great time getting to know the youth, and we really enjoy hanging out with them and ministering to them.
Every Wednesday in Grandview, we go over to the high school during lunch time and we have pizza with the students. We have a decent turnout most of the time. While eating, we carry on discussions about different topics. We’ve talked about things like doing service for the church, saints, and what it would be like to die for one’s faith. It is really cool to hear everyone’s opinions and beliefs on the different subjects.
Our group in Sunnyside is only about two months old (we started in the beginning of November). We have been at the religious education class twice, where we did games, praise and worship, talks, dramas, testimonies, and small groups. Those have been really fun, and there were sixty to eighty youth each time. From there we have asked the youth to come to our youth group, which has had from ten to twenty youth depending on which day. Once again, we really enjoy getting to know the youth, and we look forward to ministering to them for the rest of this year.
Our youth group ministry has been a huge blessing in our lives this year. We have met so many wonderful people, and we are learning as much, if not more, from the youth as they are from us. We thank all of those in the Sunnyside and Grandview communities who have been so generous in making us feel welcome, and for those who have been helping us in our ministry there. And the youth in our youth groups- thank you so much for coming and for striving to go deeper into the faith… you are an inspiration to us.
God bless you and have a Merry Christmas!