A BRAND NEW YEAR!!!!

SATURDAY JANUARY 17 th

3:30pm-11pm

COTTONWOOD STAKE CENTER

For local leaders planning an activity for youth on or around New Year’s Eve, a special DVD resource is being prepared by Church headquarters. This DVD, titled A Brand New Year: A Celebration for Latter-day Saint Youth, will contain highlights from a youth celebration held at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City.

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The DVD will feature three segments:
A message to youth from Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve (16 minutes in length)
A celebration of youth activities around the world in 2008 (36 minutes in length)
An introduction of the 2009 Mutual theme by the Young Men and Young Women general presidencies (40 minutes in length)
In this celebration, youth will be strengthened by inspiring stories of faithful LDS youth around the world and through fun, uplifting music, including an original song introducing the 2009 Mutual theme. Youth will also be invited to make their own commitments to be “an example of the believers” (1 Timothy 4:12) in the coming year.

*If desired, leaders may use any or all of these DVD segments in their local activities.

Tentative Itinerary:

3:30-5:00 pm~Service Project

(We are looking for indoor humanitarian projects, possibly unfinished ones for R.S-we are looking for volunteers to gather and run these tables too!)

5:00-6:00 pm~Spaghetti Dinner

6:00-6:15 pm Message Elder Holland

6:15-6:45 pm~Media Slide Show of stake activities

(Every ward needs to submit 35 pictures to President Prince on CD by December 31st)

6:45-7:15 pm~DVD Segment 2

7:15-8:30 pm~Games/Ice Cream Sundaes

8:30-9:00pm~ DVD Segment 3

9:00-9:30 pm~Pres. Johnson Comments

9:30-11:00 pm~Dance for 14 and up

Games for 12-13 yr old's at Backus Home

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Let it Snow
Ring in the New Year!
Stake Youth Dance

*Wednesday, December 31, 2008

* 9:00 p.m. – midnight

(EVERy ward please provide 1 chaperone-we will begin the new chaperone policy in the new year)

*Casual Dress

* Bring a Winter Accessory and your Dance Card
*14 years old and up

* Cottonwood Stake Center, 1377 Hombre Drive

FIRESIDE Sunday November 16th

~STAKE FIRESIDE~

When: Sunday November 16

Time: 7:00pm

Where: Stake Center

What: The RM's!!!

Collin Blair, Joe Moore (convert), and Micheal Kleinman...will be speaking about their mission experiences they have recently returned from. Collin and Joe were able to speak at a fireside in the MTC, that we have heard was phenomenal. We look forward to hearing their stories and getting excited about missionary work. What a great time to get help to stand strong!

We are getting them right before they leave for school-we are lucky. They are such studs! Don;t want to miss it!

FYI- SYC WILL BE MEETING right before the fireside at 5:30pm in the high council meeting room!

Come follow in HIS footsteps!

~Stake Auxillary

Leadership Training~

Thursday November 12, 2008 @ 7pm

This is our chance to meet with all the wards collectively to introduce next years theme,answer questions, train new presidencies, and share ideas. PLEASE plan on being there with your entire presidencies (including secretaries) We will make it worth your time!

BTW...Don't forget to bring one example (of your wards assigned topic-i.e...Fatih, Conversation) of a girl who shows these qualities. As well as 7 copies of 5 activity night ideas centered around this same topic!

We can't wait to be with you!

MAKE SURE AND CHECK CHANGES ON THE CALENDAR!

Mindy Gledhill Stake Fireside

Do you love the music at EFY? or at Time out for Women/Teens? Then you will LOVE this fireside!!! .....

We have had LDS music artist Mindy Gledhill agree to come out from Utah and perform for the Cottonwood stake (on her way back from a performance in Mesa)! We are so excited and priveledged to have her. Please mark on your calendars Sunday October 26th

Bring ANYONE-it will be a stake fireside for everyone. (we are also letting the other stakes know about our 'guest').

We want great attendance to thank her for her sacrifice.Also for your benefit-- It is not very often we get 'travelled' guests!!! It is an opprotunity for the youth that we do not want you miss!

If you want a sneak peek at her music, and more information on her then click here:

www.mindygledhill.com

SYC MEETING!!!!!

Attention all Stake Youth Committee Members!!!!

Meeting Tommorow Tuesday October 14th

@ 5:30pm

meet in the High Council Room

See You There!!!

Please have a representative present-- so your ward's 'voice' will be heard!

FIRESIDE SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21st

DON'T FORGET THE NAU student Musical FIRESIDE THiS SUNDAY!!!!!

....BRING FRIENDS AND PARENTS--it is going to be SUPER GOOD (Brother Martin was the awesome speaker we had Sun. evening at GIRLS camp)!!

*FYI-YW Presidents make sure your bishop has submitted SYC rep names to President Prince!!

SYC reps report to the High council room at 5:30pm

SYC Reps!!!

There IS STILL a Stake Youth Committee! We are organizing it to ensure proper shadow leadership and improve communication between stake and wards !!! EACH ward needs to submit a Young man and Young woman name to represent their ward. Have your bishop contact President Prince with the name~ and the stake will approve, call, and set apart these representatvies. They CAN be someone with a calling already, and it needs to be someone who it reliable and ABLE to attend the meetings. IF this person is not able to make a meeting they need to ensure that there is someone there to take their spot, and report information and minutes from the meeting. Please have these names submitted well before the SEPTEMBER 21st meeting!!!

STAKE DANCE

The Stake Dance will be held this Saturday in CAMP VERDE. The dance will have an HAWAIIAN theme so feel free to dress the part. (NO FLIP-FLOPS OR SHORTS, PLEASE). The individual Wards will be responible for transporting all of their youth. Please contact us for any questions.

Check the Calendar!!

Just a note: PLEASE BE SURE TO CHECK THE CALENDAR on the right (side bar) frequently--as ANY changes will appear there!!!! Also note that you now have a YW stake presidency member assigned to your ward (also labeled on the right side bar).

BTW-Roadshows scheduled for November are cancelled due to stake changes, lack of time, and lack of funds BUT DO NOT WORRY-there is plenty of GREAT things in the future!!

WHAT DO YOU NEED?

We are holding our first presidency meeting this Wednesday August 13. Is there anything we need to talk about, or concerns you want us to address!!!? Please let us know!!!

August 10th- Fireside for Seminary in Cottonwood

The fireside on Sunday, August 10th will be held at the Stake Center at 6:00 p.m. It is all about Seminary! The fireside is for ALL '08 and '09 Seminary Students AND their Parents. Special Guest Speaker~Brother Terry Leisek from the Flaggstaff institute.

Reminder:
Early Morning Seminary starts Monday, August 11, 2008 at 6:30 a.m. Brother Dan Sorensen is the teacher. All grades are combined this year, you will be meeting in the seminary building. Park at the highschool if you have a spot there.

Release Time starts Thursday, August 7, 2008. Sister Marie Zwart is the teacher.

CAMP VERDE SEMINARY does not start UNTIL Monday, August 25, 2008