St. Nicholas Youth & Family Ministry

I was doing what many a smart person gets sucked into when they don't know what else to do with their time: scrolling through my Newsfeed on Facebook. A cute picture here, a funny meme there... just your typical flick through the news of the day. At one point, however, a post from one of the SSMI caught my eye. It's called, "The Moment You Never Noticed in A Charlie Brown Christmas." Now this article on GodUpdates was published a couple years ago, but its message still rings

It has come to my attention that I haven't written a blog post in a while (aka one of my youth accosted me after our "God's Word & Me" session saying in a very disapproving voice, "Um, you haven't written anything in months." So, here I am, trying to figure out what I should write about as I wait for the bank to take my call (I've been on hold for 21 minutes... and counting). So, now that it's November and we've been 100% thrust into winter, I've got to say that Christmas is

Okay, so I'm almost two weeks late, but better later than never – I mean, well-wishing never expires, does it? All that to say, Happy New Liturgical Year! That's right, as of September 1st we are in the new year, according to church tradition. What does that mean for our St. Nicholas Youth? It means the start of Fall programming! Yay! So, what have we got starting up? First of all, we've got the ever-classic Sunday School program for the little ones, Bozhi Dity or "God's Chil

Happy Wednesday! With this heatwave on temporary hiatus, I hope you're all enjoying the grey gloom as much as I am (it was just way too hot for me over the weekend). I felt pretty much like Donald Duck here: But I digress. Two days ago I had the pleasure of visiting Camp Oselia, where my brother, Damian, is the camp director. I had been looking forward to going to camp because I wanted to experience the kind of work being done out there with the youth of our church so that I

With June comes the end of the school year and with it the last youth events of the season. Wanting to keep things simple and fun for the Junior Youth's year end event, I tossed out a couple options to the youth to vote on. The verdict? A classic: bowling. The decision made, I went about organizing the event and finally last Saturday the day arrived! It was a small group of junior youth members that met at Bonnie Doon Bowling, but during the two games we had a great time chee