Dear Pastors and Youth Directors,
What a joy it is to be writing you to share in what
our conference and district will have coming up for our young people in the
coming year. First I would like to tell you a little bit about myself. My
name is Matt Seals and I am the Director of Youth at Salem UMC in Simpson,
NC. I have just finished up my first year at Salem and God is doing amazing
things through the program here. I have worked at two other churches before
this as youth and music person combined. I am easily reached at any time by
e-mail or by phone and all that information will be at the bottom of this
page! I am now the Greenville District Youth Coordinator and I am very
thankful to Beth [Hood] for asking me to do this for such a wonderful
district. I would like to take a moment to throw out some ideas and
information for your youth in your church as well as for us on a district
level. As you all know one of the biggest youth events in the conference is
this coming weekend in Fayetteville, I hope to see some of our district
churches at Pilgrimage this year as it is a very enjoyable time. Here is a
list of the 2008 dates, if you would like myself or a group of youth to
share more about these events please contact me.
2008
Events and Dates
Summer Breakaway - June 23-28 at Louisburg
College
Appalachian Trail Hike - July 12-19
ACS (Annual Conference Session for Youth) - July 21-26 at Methodist
University
in Fayetteville
Pilgrimage - November 7-9 at the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville
These are great events for our young
people and they are not only fun but you learn a lot and you meet a lot of
really great people!!
One of the things I would love to see
happen is that the Greenville District Youth become an active part of the
North Carolina Conference as a whole again. One way to do this is by
forming a District Youth Council. If we had at least one youth and one
counselor from each church in the district we could plan events such as: all
night bowling, 30 Hour Famine lock-in, and then the easy events like a rally
day at one of the local churches. I would love to see this start in the
Fall of 2008. Please contact me if you have any questions!
Our young people are no longer the Church
of the future; they are the Church of today!!
In His Name,
Matt Seals
Greenville District Youth Coordinator
(252) 864-6488
matt@salemmethodist.org
