TYM News
TYM Sunday Morning Sessions: 9:15am – 10:15am
Everyone will all meet together in the large youth room for a message, then they will split off into discussion groups. We will follow this format through the summer.
Wednesday Night – Boiler Room
Small Groups: In August
· 8th No Small Groups
· 15th 5:30pm to 7:30pm @ Twickenham
· 22nd First Pres. Youth join our youth @ Twickenham for combined worship
· 29th TYM Family Night with Big Idea
TCM/TYM Big Meeting – The children’s ministry and youth ministry will join forces for a volunteer meeting on August 14th from 9am to 12pm. Coffee and donuts will be provided in the morning and lunch will be provided at the conclusion of our meeting.
Open House – On August 29th, there will be an open house at Darren and Summer’s home for all incoming 6th graders and their families. This open house is also for TYM families who have placed membership within the past year. Details coming soon.
Outback America – September 24th – 26th
Overflow (Middle School Retreat) – Apparently there have been some problems with the retreat center and booking. This date may change. I’ll be in contact with the other churches next week and we’ll try to work this thing out and get a set date asap.
Youth: A State of Mind
Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. It is not wholly a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips, or smooth knees. It is a temper of will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life. It means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of an appetite for adventure over love of ease.
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideas. They don't desert their playfulness because they grow old; people grow old only because they desert their playfulness. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair. These are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
Whatever your years, there is in every beings heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing child-like appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. And when the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then have you grown old.
