High School Youth Ministry

1st & 3rd Sundays from 5pm-7pm at ULC
First Fall Gathering is Sept 15th!

If you have any questions, or need additional information about HS Youth Ministry programming,
please email Pastor Zachariah.

High School Youth Group

Our youth plan time for fellowship, mission trips, and service opportunities throughout the year. Students can also get involved in the wider church through local and national gatherings, including Living Water Ministries and the ELCA National Youth Gathering. To offset the costs of camps and trips, our youth and families organize congregation and community fund-raising projects and park cars for MSU home football games.

At the conclusion of their senior year all of our high school seniors receive prayer quilts lovingly created by members of our Prayers and Squares Quilt Ministry.

Youth Group Hosted at Brody Hall

Ann Booren sponsored the HS Youth group at Brody Hall on May 5th, and it was a lovely time! Thank you!

Bring Them A Meal!

We meet on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month from 5pm-7pm at ULC. Included in this gathering is a meal. Would you consider making a meal for our high school youth? Click here to sign up!

We Went to New Orleans!

The ELCA National Youth
Gathering is held every three
years in which all 8th -12th grade
youth in the ELCA are invited to
gather together for worship,
service, learning, and fellowship.
The theme this year was “Created
to Be,” exploring how God has
created us to be brave, authentic, free, disruptive, and
disciples.
ULC had 7 students and 4 adult leaders attend the 2024 ELCA Youth Gathering this July in New Orleans, LA. We gathered together with 16,000 other high school students for worship, service, and learning.
We headed down early and took in a few memorable experiences: The National WWII museum, a music and history tour of New Orleans, riding on the street car system, and a paddleboat dinner and cruise on the Mississippi River. During the Youth Gathering itself we had the opportunity to worship together in the Smoothie King Stadium, explore the service learning conference center, and learn about some of the history and importance of marching bands in the New Orleans area.
Throughout our time in New Orleans, we were able to eat amazing food and experience a variety of cuisines. We saw God at work through the joy and mutual respect of those attending the event as well as the New Orleans community, we saw God at work in the midst of a great thunderstorm, wherein we took shelter in an ACE Hardware as well as a local coffee shop, through the events of the Gathering itself, and we saw God at work amongst our group as we grew closer together and learned how to not only tolerate one another (16 hrs in a van one way) but even to love and care for one another.
Many thanks to ULC for making this trip possible! Thank you to those who worked football parking shifts, donated money, and helped with fundraisers. We are grateful to have been able to do this with your assistance! Praise God for unique opportunities to learn, serve, and grow within a loving community!