Hi All-
I have attempted to put the gospel message in a video format, let me know what you think should be added or taken away.
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
jmiklovic@bex.net
Sunday, May 18, 2008
New Gospel Video
Friday, May 9, 2008
First cut of Youth Video
I think we will be changing the music.
This is the first cut of a youth video. Note that Maumee United Methodist, and specifically the youth program of Maumee United Methodist Church only approves of the intial video shown on this post. All videos that follow in the youtube applet are not created nor necessarily endorsed by MUMC
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
jmiklovic@bex.net
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Lot's of stuff coming up!!
The following is a list of things coming up. Visit the WOW, Sr. High, and Middle School sites for more info as it becomes available.
May 17 - Mission Day
May 30-31 - Sr. High Overnight Relay For Life
June 22-29 - Sr. High Mission
Middle School Rock-a-Thon Fundraiser (Date TBA Shortly)
Camping/Cedar Point Trip (Date TBA Shortly)
Summer Evangelism (TBA)
Pool Parties (TBA)
Summer Bible Studies (Times and Locations TBA)
We are in the process of organizing the above events and will get information as it become available. Keep posted on this site for more info.
In Christ
Jay Miklovic
jmiklovic@bex.net
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Fundraiser Dinner and Servant Auction
Just a reminder to everyone that we are having this dinner to raise money for you and the trips we will be taking in the future. Work Mission, Lakeside, Michindoh... etc.
Invite as many people as you can!!
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
jmiklovic@sermonaudio.com
Friday, April 11, 2008
Prison!!??
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This Sunday we will be baking for the Kairos Prison Ministry, as well has discussing what Christ really meant when He said "I was in prison and you came and visited me"
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
Friday, April 4, 2008
Check the eVANgelisim Link
We will be updating the eVANgelism page here in the next hour or so, check it out. http://evan-mumc.blogspot.com
Please pray for a dear brother in Christ named Walter Smith as he minsters downtown. Check the eVANgelism page for more info on him.
Also pray for the ministry of PC4M (Passion For Christ Movement). They are an inner city ministry in Los Angeles California that is working hard to expose and root out the idolatry that plagues youth in urban areas. Note that this idolatry also affects you as youth in this Church. Check out their site www.pc4m.com and take a look around. You may be suprised what you see. Below is a video clip to show some of what their ministry is doing. I think we are capable of doing similar video type things that are relevant to the culture we live in.
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
jmiklovic@sermonaudio.com
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Sign up sheets will be coming around in the next couple of weeks for this trip. Cost will be under $200 and most if not all of that sum can be covered by fundraising. The first major fundraising event is coming up on the 27th of April. We will discuss that this weekend. There will also be a rock a thon as well as other events coming up where you can raise money for this trip and other events.
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
April 6 YF
We have 384 peeps, a big stack of bibles and a number of video cameras. The rest is up to you!! See you this Sunday at 6pm for dinner with the meeting starting at 6:30.
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Next WOW Tourney is Ready
Adults and Sr. High Youth, we will need help on Wednesday April 23, afterschool for the next big WOW tournament. This time it is team handball. Just when we thought you could not have more fun than dodgeball, we were wrong!!
If you are curious about what is happening at WOW click the WOW link on the side bar, or click here I am actively searching for adult and youth WOW helpers, please contact me if you are interested.
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Want to link to this site??
I am posting a few banners I have made. If you want to link any of these to your facebook or myspace, and so on I can give you instructions on how to create and embed the links. (after I have figured it out.) If any of you know how to do that, let me know. It would be cool if people would be able to click these images on your myspace pages and be directed to this site. Let me know if you would be willing to try this, on your personal site.
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
jmiklovic@sermonaudio.com
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
jmiklovic@sermonaudio.com
Friday, March 14, 2008
eVANgelism - move
eVANgelism info will now be posted at http://mumc-evan.blogspot.com/ check it out for all the latest eVANgelsim updates, as well as thoughts from the streets that the youth will be compiling. Give it a few days here to develop and all the links to be made.
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
What's been going on
State of Youth Ministry Address
I hope to post this occasionally (a few times a year) just to examine where we are at.
It is hard to believe it is the middle of March, and the end of the school year is only a few months away! We really only have about 12 more weeks of standard programming before we launch into summer ministry (something I personally am very excited about.) Now is a good time for us to reflect on where we have been, and where we are going.
WOW
Let's look at some of what has happened. WOW was a large part of youth ministry last school year, and many 8th graders who are now freshman attended. Sadly to this point the vast majority of those youth have gone their own way, and we to date have not made a direct effort to create programming for them, and draw them back in, however that will be changing in the near future. We struggled for 3 months to get WOW to be vibrant ministry with a sizable group of youth in attendance, and after much prayer WOW has finally taken off. Just a month and a half ago we averaged about 5-7 youth each week, and in this past month we have seen 8 fold growth with 42 youth in attendance last week, and no sign of slowing down!! Most of the attendance is 6th graders, but we are now starting to get a small foothold in both the 7th and 8th grade class, and we expect massive growth as it catches on in these age groups. This is an exciting time for WOW. We have had a lot of success engaging the youth in small group conversations, and the youth appear very open to the truths that are presented.
Sunday School
I cannot say enough about our Sunday School teachers and students this year. It is common that we have 40 or more youth from 6th thru 12th grade in Sunday school. The amazing thing is that if we change the time like we do on the 1st Sunday of the month they will alter their schedules to be able to come. The teachers are presenting sound biblical truth and the youth are engaged in it.
Youth Fellowship
We have a number of stories from youth fellowship this year. From ski trips, to room renovations, sledding, going to camps, picking apples, baking pies, making cakes, witnessing at Meijer (and getting kicked out), doing service projects, helping with benefits, hanging of the greens, moving playground equipment, serving dinners, and many many more things. We have a mission trip planned for this summer. We have had failures in YF as well. We have had a number of meetings that, even though they were fun, lacked biblical content, and this group while robust and consistent has plateaued in size. We have anywhere from 30 to 40 youth typically. Certainly size is not the measure of success, but we hope to reach even more youth in the future through this program.
Carpe Diem
Morning fellowship has been outstanding in the High School group. Granted everyone seems to tired at 6:30 to think much, but nonetheless they are faithful in attending. We meet Thursday mornings at the Rohloff's and typically have 8 youth and have had up to 13. We think it is a testament to the faith of these youth that they rise up as early as they do to be in fellowship with each other. The Junior High group is struggling a bit to get off of the ground. We have had up to 5 youth but lately only 1 or 2 have been coming. The location is going to change for this, and some new tactics are going to be implimented, and we believe that before years end Jr. High Carpe Diem (it will be renamed) will likely exceed the Sr. High in attendance. Keep posted for developments in this area.
eVANgelism
This is a totally new minstry this year. It was born out of a leading of the Lord after one leader came back from a mission trip. After a very brief discussion we determined that it was time to head out, serve the community and pass out prayer squares and pray for and with people. The very night of that conversation eVANgelism was borne. I think it has run for about 7 weeks, we have encountered many people, passed out around 80 prayer squares, got the names of 57 people for prayer. We have given gallons of Cocoa, full size quilts, cookies, sandwiches, swiss cake rolls, stew, fruit, and more. We have been downtown, and to the University of Toledo, and have plans to hit the malls in the coming weeks. We are at the very beginning of a major shift in youth ministry at our church, and eVANgelism is a primary example of the types of things that will be occuring. This program has also engergized the congregation as well, and our hope is that we would be an encouragement to those in the congregation who are not yet actively involved in sharing their faith.
A few things in progress...
Coming very soon is the 'Uprising'. This is a program that is in the initial planning stages. The city of Maumee, and the Superintendant of schools are currently open to our idea. Respectfully we must go through all the proper channels to make this ministry possible, and we want to be biblical by respecting and submitting to all the existing authorities. We live in a fantastic community that is open to endeavors such as this. The primary goal of the Uprising is to connect youth with Christian adults to do service in our community. Assuming we can get all the logistics in order, and the blessing of the various powers that be, we will be serving a pancake breakfast every Thursday morning outside of the High School that will be free to all students and teachers. From there we will proceed to engage youth with oppurtunities to serve in their community and transform their world. They will be the Uprising and we hope they will alter history! We do have dreams of this spreading to other communities as well. This program will also in its initial stages be used to directly engage those who were involved in the WOW program last year.
We also have an idea brewing that I am initially calling 'MONback' short for 'Come on Back', with a capital MON because it will occur on Monday. The plan is to have a group of youth head out in a van or car with an adult and visit various youth who have not attended in while, or missed a week or two. The adult will never leave the car. This will be fun, plus lets face it, nobody wants a postcard, or a call from an adult asking "Hey where have you been" but if the youth engage each other it promotes community and will show the missing youth they are valued by more than just their leaders. We will have literature, goodies, and such that we will pass out as well.
Carpe Diem will be renamed for the Jr. High youth, and will be moved to Church grounds. This will draw a number of WOW youth who have already expressed interest in this. Later in the year we will even be able to do this outside, and possibly have a Junior High Uprising.
There are a number of summer activities in the works as well, some will involve daytime street evangelism, local mission work, non local mission work, and of course Cedar Point, Baseball Games, Pool Parties, and so on. The summer could very well be more busy than the school year. There will be more oppurtunities for Christian action and service, and less standard programming.
Of course there is more brewing in my head, as well as the other leaders and hopefully I will be able to post in a few months about how amazing all these events have been.
Warmest Regards in Christ,
Jay Miklovic
jmiklovic@sermonaudio.com
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
eVANgelism - Update
This past Thursday we went to the University of Toledo of eVANgelism. We did not encounter a lot of people, and we later learned that it was because they were on spring break. Go figure. We did get prayer squares and cocoa to three people and encountered a few more. Click the list above to expand it, and please pray for some of those on this list.
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
jmiklovic@sermonaudio.com
Friday, February 29, 2008
Pictures from Ski Trip Available
We did not get a whole lot of pictures of the ski trip, and unfortunately we did not get pictures of most of the skiers, nonetheless we had a great time, and here are the pictures we did get.
Warmly,
Jay Miklovic
jmiklovic@sermonaudio.com
eVANgelism - Update from 2.28.2008
Click on the image above to see the names of the people we have encountered, please pray for at least a couple of them! Last night we spoke with a number of people and got the names of 7 new people. This week we also passed out cookies that were prepared at 6:30am by the youth who attend Carpe Diem at the Rohloffs, as well as sandwiches that were made from the leftover meat from the ski trip.
Please look at the youth bulletin board if you are at the Church to see the map of where we have been, where we plan on going in the future.
As always please contact me if you are interested in participating, or learning about eVANgelism.
Warm Regards in Christ,
Jay Miklovic
jmiklovic@sermonaudio.com
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Sunday School This Week - Lifesongs
7th Thru 12th Graders this week, as well as the 1st Sunday of every month to follow we will be worshipping together at the Lifesongs contemporary service at 9:45. We will still be having Sunday School, but that will be at 11 in your normal Sunday School room. We will be doing this for the rest of the year to see how it works out.
Let me know your thoughts.
Jay Miklovic
Friday, February 22, 2008
Hoodies, T's, and Longsleeve T's available
OK, everyone has been asking when they can get there hoodies and shirts, and what the prices are. Well here is the deal.
For right now all items will be black. We may deviate from this later in the year, but not now.
Hoodies - $28
LS Tees - $18
SS Tees - $13
You can order just by e-mailing me and telling me what you want, or there will be an order form going around the next few weeks at Church, and various youth meetings. If you are not a youth, but still want a shirt you are more than welcome to order one.
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
eVANgelism Update from 2.21.08
Last night was a great run at eVANgelism, and we encountered a number of people who were open to prayer, and graciously received the Cocoa from us. We also passed out 3 quilts which were given to us by a member of our congregation. Our time of prayer both before and after the trip was excellent, and we trust that the Lord is pleased with what is occuring so for.
Please click the picture above to expand it and consider praying for at least some of those who are on this list.
Contact me if you are interested in helping with this ministry in any way.
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
jmiklovic@sermonaudio.com
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Youth Room Version 3.0
Click on either of the above pictures to see images of the youth room complete with it's new floor!! The cross you see will be hanging on the wall, and lit up in some way. I want to especially thank the youth and adults who helped with this project, and want to remind the youth who use this room that there is a large group of people who love and support you and that is evidenced by the work they put into this room, and the funding they have provided for it.
I am not going to list the names of those who helped because I trust they would rather have their recognition in heaven then here on earth, but praise God for what they have done.
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
eVANgelism - Update
Last Friday a team of youth and adults went downtown to continue eVANgelism. Here is the updated prayer list. Please pray for these people by name. The greatest evidence that Christ is in you is that you love others, because if God is in you, and God is love, surely you will love. One of the ways you can evidence that love is by praying for the people on this list.
In His Service,
Jay Miklovic
Monday, February 18, 2008
Entire Michindoh Album Uploaded
Click on any of the above pictures to see the entire Michindoh Album.
We had a great time this weekend as I think you will see by the pictures. The Lord brought our group very close to each other and to Him.
Please check out the pictures, if you have any questions feel free to send me an e-mail
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
jmiklovic@sermonaudio.com
http://picasaweb.google.com/yfmaumeeumc/JrHighMichindoh
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Middle School Michindoh Pictures Available.
We have uploaded the first day photos for the 6th 7th and 8th grade Michindoh trip. I am actually sitting in the lodge on a wireless connection at 12:30am making this post. Do not worry the kids are getting close to sleeping back in the cabin, and there is plenty of leadership with them.
Click the Above picture to go to the michindoh album.
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Uprising
Uprising site is under construction. This site is all about youth having their voices heard. Stop in and check it out. Look out for UPRISING events coming up later in the year. This is still in the visioning stage, but I hope the Lord will use this mightily. Click the picture above to see the new Uprising site.
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
More Photos Uploaded
Just a reminder, you can always check to see the latest youth photos @ the following address.
http://picasaweb.google.com/yfmaumeeumc
Have fun and enjoy.
Jay Miklovic
jmiklovic@sermonaudio.com
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Just a reminder
Youth,
Remember to check out the sidebar to the left for important links to pictures, and activities that you can be involved in. As always you can contact me for more information, or to communicate any ideas you think the Lord has given you for youth ministry.
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
jmiklovic@sermonaudio.com
Thursday, February 7, 2008
eVANgelism Prayer List
Click on the picture to see the list full size. The plan is to keep this list up to date on this page so that you can pray for those whom we have encountered, served, and offered prayer for.
This list is not about putting feathers in our caps and getting people to look at how many people we have encountered. We assume that this list will get very long, but this is not about a list. It is about serving people, and praying for people, if you have no intention of praying for the people on this list please consider just leaving it be. We desire no honor or accolades for this simple service to our King.
Remember to keep the eVANgelsim team in your prayers each and every thursday evening.
In Christ
Jay Miklovic
Thursday, January 31, 2008
The Next Step -- eVANgelism
High School Youth, prepare to hit the streets of Maumee and Toledo on Thursday nights for 'eVANgelism. We will load up the church van and head to a destination to serve people in need and spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A few of us have already begun, let me be the first to tell you, it is a God pleasing, Spirit-filled, adrenaline packed good time. Expect to see more on this in the next few weeks.
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Liability Form
All who are going on the Ski Trip this weekend must have a completed liability form or they will not be allowed on the trip!! Follow the following link and print it and bring it with you.
Liabilty Form
This must be complete
Looking forward to seeing you this weekend!!
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
Friday, January 11, 2008
New Photos Available
It has been awhile since we have posted, check out some of what has gone on!!
http://picasaweb.google.com/yfmaumeeumc
Also a reminder, Junior High, I need you to get me your money and permission slips for Camp Michindoh by Feb 5!
Next weekend the 20th is the ski trip, please let me know if you plan on coming.
High School - Mark your calendars, we will be going to maumee bay on the 24th of February for a day retreat with swimming raquetball, wallyball, hanging out, and other good stuff.
As always feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you may have.
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
jmiklovic@sermonaudio.com
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Video Available
There is camp michindoh video available on the High School YF Page. It is a little crude, and need some work, but it is a start. Also, I am going to begin to upload youth photos onto Snapfish where you will be able to look at them and order them if you would like.
Let me know if you have any questions about this. Snapfish allows you to order prints and pick them up at walgreens for 19cents per pic, or have them sent to your house (cost about 18cents per pic when you figure shipping.) To top it off, if you pick them up at Walgreens you never have to send you Credit Card over the web.
Snapfish does require you to sign up with a user name, and an e-mail, but they do not give it away, and the site is safe. (It is run by HP).
Anyway here is the link to some pictures we have uploaded so far.
http://www2.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=190272122/a=114906587/t_=114906587
Friday, November 2, 2007
See Link List on Side Bar
From here on out the pages are divided. This page will be the MUMC Youth main page, you will follow links along the side of this page to get where you want to go. This should be self explainitory. Keep posted, this page will be changing alot over the next week.
In Christ,
Jay Miklovic
jmiklovic@sermonaudio.com
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