• Jenae Parkey gave a report about the Teen Bible Study program that has started with encouragement for all to attend.
• Marci Russell reviewed the “Walk for Life” plans for January 23rd.
• Janice Davis talked about the plans for the upcoming retreat planned for February 14th-15th.  The theme is “Love Your Faith, Live Your Faith”.  Sign-up deadline is Thursday January 28th and 15 participants are needed to make the program happen.
• The Parish Food closet committee needs help!  Those wishing to help can meet at 10:00 a.m. on Youth Group Sundays to organize the food closet and pack grocery bags.
• Janice talked about Camp Re-Creation opportunities this summer for high school teens in our Diocese.  Information was handed out.
• We will meet for Ash Wednesday breakfast on February 17th at 6:45 a.m. at the Waffle Shop.  After breakfast we will attend the 8:00 a.m. Mass at St Patrick.
• Janice read the card that we received from Raymond, our adopted child in the Philippines.
• Janice read the Christmas card from an Anonymous Donor.  This person has twice given  our Youth Group money to sponsor our child, Raymond.  Included in the card was a donation of $650.
• It was decided that since we received enough money from our Anonymous Donor to sponsor Raymond for another two years, our group will be conducting the recycling program for the next two months and the money will be given to the family of Katie Rose.  That recycling program was going to start to raise the money to sponsor Raymond for next year.

We had an icebreaker activity called “Pile of Hats.”

For today’s lesson we talked about two topics related to the Bible:

• When you read the 14 narrative books in order you begin to see the “big picture” of salvation, the “big story” from beginning to the end…as if you were reading it from start to finish.  Those narrative books are: Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, Ezra, Nehemiah, Maccabees, Luke, Acts.
• The group was split up into four small groups and each group was given a scripture reading and a situation.  The groups came up with a lesson about the information that was given and presented the lesson to the whole group.

For any general questions about the High School Youth Group, contact Janice Davis at 223-0168 or jdavis@stpatparish.org

Youth Group Committee Members
Janice Davis, Coordinator:  223-0168
Rosemary Bergson
Maja Johnson
Marci Russell
Carolyn Stremfel
Marge Vicari
Susan Zaffarano

View slideshows from past years' Youth Group activities:

• Photos from the Youth Group's 2009 "Last Fling Before Lent" dinner dance, held at the Jackson Senior Center
• Meetings and activities, 2008-09 school year
• 2008 Tri-Parish Mass, Howard Park, Ione. Includes photos of our Youth Group, who helped prepare the BBQ meal that followed the Mass. PHOTOS BY THE POST FAMILY and DAVID RICH
• Meetings and activities, 2007-08 school year
• Christ the King retreat weekend, February 2008
• The YouthWorks Mission Trip to Yakama Washington in June 2007. This is a downloadable PowerPoint presentation (.ppt format), approximately 5.4 MB in size.  If you do not have the PowerPoint program, you can download and install a FREE PowerPoint Viewer from Microsoft here.
• February-March 2007events
• September-October 2006 events
• 2006-07 Youth Group meetings
• 2005 Harvest Party
• 2005 Dinner in a Bag Fundraiser

St Patrick Parish recognizes that "Youth Ministry is the response of the Christian community to the needs of young people, and the sharing of the unique gifts of youth with the larger community." *