Burks Youth- July 2021

Welcome to the Burks Youth Newsletter! Your one-stop shop for all things Burks Youth and the only place that we give you a prize just for reading! (Yes, the prizes are for YOU, not your youth! Because you are awesome, and you deserve some swag, too!) Just text or email the secret phrase and your shirt size to Casandra before August 1 to win one of our awesome new service week t-shirts!

I'd like to thank everyone for their support and prayers last month as I traveled to Wisconsin to care for my Dad. I am truly blessed to have such a wonderful, understanding, and helpful church family. Thank you all, but especially:

Dan Boland                   Pat Roza                    Jim Rochelle                Doug Hudgins

Pastor Beth                   Susie Huber              Saundra Sharpe 

These amazing folks took over the project AND are helping to make it happen again this month so that ALL youth who want to participate are able to. If you see any of them, please show them a little love.

Let's try this again...

Our mission week had to be postponed due to a family emergency, but we are back and ready to go out and serve our community!  Pat Roza was able to reschedule all of our projects, including the Mission Guatemala devotions, for July 20-22. We will meet at 8:30 at Burks and be done each day around 5:30.

Please let me (Casandra) know if your youth plans to attend- since some of the projects can only accept a certain number of volunteers at a time, we need to have a count to finalize those projects. 

All good things must come to an end, and summer break is no exception. Join Burks Youth on August 6th from 6-10 pm to send Summer out in style. We will have food, music, games, and door prizes (including a new iPad 8!). Youth who bring friends will get their name entered an extra time for each friend they bring- which means better odds of winning! (This month's secret phrase is "Lazarus, come out!")

As we fully emerge from the COVID pandemic, I have been thinking a lot about the story of Lazarus. How Jesus didn't rush to save him but rather chose to let Lazarus die and be buried before bringing him forth from the tomb. There are important messages in this story about patience, trust, and hope especially in times of crisis. Please join us every Sunday at 6pm for a meal, message, small groups, and games!

This newsletter is pretty comprehensive, but there will still be a few things that are exclusive to Social Media, such as:

- Nightly Devotions on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

- Devotions and ICYMI videos on YouTube

- Fun stuff like games, puzzles, scripture videos, and polls on Snapchat and TikTok

I will try my best to cross-link all of this, but the best way to be sure you don't miss anything is to like/subscribe to @burksyouth on any social media platform you use. If your kid uses social media, have them subscribe, too! (I'm going to guess that they're on social media more than you are.) 

Here are the links*:

* for some reason, there's no button for TikTok, but the link is:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJv5ny11/