"Youth Group Night" this Saturday; Also '27 Mission Trip Rollout!

Hello youth and families.

We hope this email finds you well and enjoying this week's sunshine. Last night in youth group we studied John 4:1-15 with a deeper study method of reading scripture. We noted themes in the book, what was recorded before and after our passage and we observed details of our passage. Following that, we explored what God was showing us through the passage and how it applied to our lives.

Next Wednesday (10/28) is the week our youth are helping to prep and serve the community meal! Please arrive to church as early as 4:00pm and plan to help any time through 6:00pm. Once the meal is served, youth will take turns serving and eating. The remainder of this email includes the mission trip rollout, an invitation from the Fellowship Team to help with childcare for a parents' night out and also repeat information. We are still missing some Youth Community Expectations Forms. I have copies and you can find that form here if you'd like to print your own copy at home.

"YOUTH GROUP NIGHT"

"Youth Group Night" is this Saturday! We're hosting this special event here at HBIC and it's between 5-8pm! We have invited several other local youth groups to join us! We will have large group games, smaller group game options, pizza, snacks and also a worship set. As the hosts, we will be asking our youth to arrive by 4:45pm (if they're able to) to help welcome our guests from other churches. We're asking our youth to bring a side dish or dessert to share. Our youth are also helping to lead the worship set. Youth planning to attend, please register with the button below if you haven't already.

Please Make Note of the Following Upcoming Youth Events/Details:

-Save-the-Date: Junior High Retreat, JumpStart, is scheduled for Feb 26-28, 2027

-Youth Fall Party, Saturday Nov 21, 6-9pm at the Thiesen's home

-Youth Christmas Party, Friday, December 4th, 6-9pm at HBIC

As always, feel free to send any questions, comments, etc. you may have.

In the Peace of Christ,

Pastor Brie

ACCEPTING 2027 MISSION TRIP APPLICATIONS

We are very excited to roll out our invitation to join our HBIC Youth 2027 Local Mission Trip! Our trip is planned for June 21-26, 2027 and we will be serving various organizations here in Harrisburg! Organizations we have partnered with in the past include Bethesda Mission, Brethren Housing Association, Paxton Ministries, Christian Churches United and Samara. We also hope to serve some of our HBIC congregants by helping complete smaller needed projects in their homes. Additionally, we often do some fun activities in the evenings together as a team.

Youth and leaders will likely sleep in homes of leaders/parents to have access to showers. (In the past, we’ve had 3 or 4 smaller groups of the team each housed at a different location.) The cost of this year’s trip is $800 with youth working to raise half of that cost ($400) through raising support. The cost will help cover food for our youth, materials and supplies for our service tasks, some fun activities for our youth and also we aim to give each organization we serve a donation check toward their continued ministry.

Youth, we invite you to prayerfully consider if you would like to be a part of this mission team. If you decide you would like to apply, please follow the button below for the online application.

Applications are due by November 11th, 2026. Youth who apply will be invited to virtual interviews in the month of November.

Click Here to Apply for the '27 Local Mission Trip

SENIOR HIGH RETREAT - MOMENTUM

All youth in grades 9 through 12 are invited to join us for Momentum! Momentum is a high school youth retreat for the Atlantic Conference happening November 13th - 15th and will again be held at Kenbrook Bible Camp. The cost of the retreat to our HBIC youth is $75. (The actual cost per youth is $149 and HBIC will be paying a portion of each youth's registration cost.) The cost covers food, lodging and all of the activities.

Registration is now open! This year, you will register through us (HBIC) and we'll be passing along our registrant info to Kenbrook. Please register your youth via the first link below. Additionally, we will need a printed and signed copy of Kenbrook's Consent and Release form for each participant (linked in the second button below). I plan to have printed copies of the release on hand in upcoming youth gatherings to send home. Please register by November 4th.

Find Kenbrook's Consent and Release Form Here

HELP WITH PARENTS' NIGHT OUT

The Fellowship Team is hosting a parents' night out for parents of young children. This event is at HBIC on December 12th from 5-8pm. They've invited the youth to help care for the children! Youth will be tasked with helping to care for the children, play games with them and help them do a craft activity. This will be a blessing to our parents and families! Email Nicole Hull if you're able to help out.

YOUTH SUNDAY SCHOOL CHANGE

We are reminding everyone here, we are shifting Youth Sunday School to only 2nd and 4th Sundays. For November, we will have Sunday School on 1st and 4th Sundays. (The 2nd Sunday is mission Sunday!)

With the upstairs area approved for occupancy, youth Sunday School will be meeting in the common area (open space in the middle) of our newly finished upstairs! Currently, the path within the church to the upstairs is not accessible to the general public, so we will again be meeting in the lobby to walk upstairs together via the outside.

We sometimes post upcoming events or pics from our gatherings on our Instagram profile! Follow us at hbic_youth.