The Conference Council on Youth Ministries (CCYM) is the decision making body of the conference youth ministries. Its purpose is to make connections with local churches and districts with conference youth events, to organize forms of ministry, evangelism, discipleship, and worship beyond the local church, to develop new forms of ministry, and to serve as the official voice of the youth in the Wisconsin Conference of the UMC.

The Mission of the Wisconsin United Methodist Youth is to promote the ministry of GRASE:

GRASE stands for "God Reaches All Students Everywhere."
G = God - WORSHIP (We seek to worship God.)
R = Reach - EVANGELISM (We strive to reach students for Jesus Christ.)
A = All - DISCIPLESHIP (We seek to empower all young people in ministry.)
S = Students - FELLOWSHIP (We seek to bring students together for God.)
E = Everywhere - we find MINISTRY (We seek to be in mission and ministry everywhere.)

Click here to find out more information about CCYM and how you can get involved!

Want to receive information, youth ministry resources, and updates about what is going on in youth ministries in the Wisconsin Annual Conference? Sign up for the CCYM listserve. To subscribe to the listserve, email a message to listserver@WisconsinUMC.org.

Don’t type anything in the subject line, but in the body of the message type: subscribe ccym_list <your name> When typing this in, just don’t use the brackets around your name. For example, if Jane Doe wanted to subscribe, she would type: subscribe ccym_list Jane Doe

United Methodist Youth Workers have a new resource!!

Youthworkermovement.com is a site developed by Rev. Terry Carty and the General Board of Discipleship to help connect and resource UM youth workers. Free charter memberships are being offered until January 2007. Join the almost 30 members from Wisconsin and register today for a number of benefits. This resource will continue to develop over the next year, and will greatly benefit from your input. Questions? Email Terry Carty at Tcarty@gbod.org.

Positions Available

• The South Milwaukee United Methodist Church has an immediate opening for a Youth Ministry Coordinator. The position, based on 15 hours per week, at $9 per hour, reports to Staff Parish Relations Committee & Pastor. Applications may be picked up at the church office, 1327 Marshall Ave. South Milwaukee, WI 53172, or mailed out to interested persons who make a phone or email request to the church: 414-762-6030, smumc50@sbcglobal.net.

Looking for resources

• The Conference Youth office often hears from Design Teams, groups, and churches looking for groups to share their gifts and talents in service to God through a number of ways. Praise and worship bands, Christian specialty music, ethnic/multicultural/multilingual groups, human video, drama, puppet ministry, and other worship and youth oriented groups are encouraged to respond. We are putting together a list of resources that the Wisconsin Annual Conference has to offer. Please drop the CCYM office an email and tell us about your group: what you offer, who is in the group, where/what church you are from, and the name of an adult contact/reference.

• Safe Sanctuaries:
  

  Trainers are still needed for Safe Sanctuaries and Boundaries Workshops. The conference is seeking more people to be trainers for one-on-one consultations on the Safe Sanctuaries Workshops. If you have been trained in Safe Sanctuaries, or are interested in being trained, please email Tina Itson at tinaitson@wisconsinumc.org.
  

  We are in the planning stages of another round of Safe Sanctuaries trainings for the conference. Please stay tuned for upcoming training dates in your region. If you have questions about Safe Sanctuaries and your church, please call Tina Itson at 1.888.240.7328 or contact her by Email.