News

SMYG's winter retreat went great! Thank you to the community for supporting our fundraisers and to Carol Taunton for providing our cabin!

SMYG is helping with St. Matt's annual Lenten peanut butter drive. Bring in jars of crunchy or creamy peanut butter and may the best kind win!

We will be selling See's Candies from now until March 21. It will be delivered on March 28th, in time for Easter (April 4.) See a youth group member at church to order some. Proceeds go to the church (not the youth group fund.)

Upcoming Events

  • March 21: Pancake breakfast, See's Candies delivery

Meetings

August 23

  • SMYG is hosting the hot dog lunch after mass next week, August 30th. Larry is bringing the hot dogs and chips. Everybody else just needs to worry about showing up and helping cook/set up.
  • Emmanuel House on September 6th! Food sign up:
    Burger patties: Adams
    Salad: Grace
    Buns: Grance
    Desserts: Dylan (brownies)
    Non-caffeinated beverages: Sanders
  • Everybody from SMYG should plan to attend the community forum on October 25th in between masses.
  • We need to remember to make announcements thanking the community for their participation in our fund raisers, such as the car wash
  • St. Matt's Got Talent on for January 30th. Start making announcements in November
  • What service will we provide for the service auction?
  • Check your calendars for what weekends in February you will be free. We need to plan our ski trip!

July 12

  • We are cleaning Mary Ann's house on Saturday July 18th. Meet at the church at 7:30am, and bring cleaning supplies.
  • Car wash planned for August 9th. We start advertising next week
  • We are starting a recycling program for bottles and cans, where we can gain a bit of extra income if we take them to a recycling center. We will be setting up a recycle bin in the gathering room and will take the recyclables to the Ralphs down the street once we get enough stuff.

April 26

  • Try to attend community forum next week at 9:30
  • Check your calendars to see when you are free this summer - we are trying to plan activities and projects!
  • We are now doing childcare upon request for St. Matt's After Dark. Check your e-mail this week to see if we are notified about the May 9th concert.
  • Emmanuel house on Labor Day and Memorial Day weekends
  • Possible summer activities: sailing, theme park, water park, any suggestions?
  • Facebook tutorial between masses on May 17th. Check your Facebook for more information!

March 15

  • Camping trip is set for July 5-8
  • Who is bringing what for the pancake breakfast:
    Bacon: Grace
    -Eggs and plates: Adams
    -Forks, knives, cups and napkins: Moans
    -Sausage: Taylor
    -Pancake mix and milk: Megan
    -Sunny D: Jayden
    -Syrup: Troncos
    -AND if anyone has spoons, bowls, griddles, etc. for cooking, please bring them

March 1

  • Tony's class cancelled this week, will come next week instead
  • We are making pancakes, not crepes, for the pancake breakfast on March 29. We will be arriving at church at 8:30AM to set up so we can sell after the 8:00 mass as well as the 10:30 mass.
  • The budget for the pancake breakfast will hopefully be discussed next week.
  • Come at 9:30 next week (March 8) when Margaret interviews Doris about Xela Aid
  • Possible plans for involvement in Phoenix Families. Suggestions, anyone?
  • March 21 - St. Matt's Afterdark childcare. Arrive at 6:30PM and meet in the classroom that we usually have our meetings in.

February 23

  • March 1 - Come at 9:30AM to hear Daniel Whitehurst speak. Also Tony's class after mass.
  • Pancake breakfast still on for March 29. Also on the 29th, we will be taking a group picture. Very important to be there for that!
  • Make sure you will be free around July 5th, 6th, and 7th, as these are the possible camping trip dates. More about camping trip next week!
  • Possible Yosemite retreat - discuss with Tony next week
  • Try to get to meetings on the 1st of the month EARLY, as these are the days that Tony has his class, and we want to be able to have his class plus discuss youth group stuff without taking forever

February 8

  • SMYG site is up (obviously, since you are reading this!). Council people are reminded to please check their @smyouthgroup.org e-mails!
  • Notes from meetings now posted on this page for convenience if people miss a meeting!
  • We have about $2000 in our account... let's think of things to spend some of this money on before the end of the fiscal year (June).
  • Pancake breakfast planned for March 29
  • Clean windows in the gathering room on February 28, then the day after on Sunday (March 1) host donuts and coffee after mass
  • St. Matt's After Dark babysitting - current volunteers are Sherrae, Raven, and Taylor. We are brining games, movies, and snacks.
  • We will be doing the readings from that one book Tonya has, where one of us leads the discussion and asks questions