Suggested date: May 4, 2025
Theme and worship resources will be posted later.
2024 theme: Your Life, God’s Direction
Jeremiah 29:11
Worship Resources
The files below are all PDFs.
Theme interpretation
Suggestions for inclusion and participation of all youth
Call to worship
Scripture jam
Prayer
Call to giving
Children’s story suggestion
Creative worship elements
Hymns and music suggestions
Sermon building notes
Benediction
“Stand up, even if you stand out”
Romans 12:2 (New Living Translation)
Benediction – Autumn Sauder
Call to giving – Felisha Diamond
Call to worship – Calla Stoltzfus
Children’s story – Felisha Diamond
Creative elements – Nik Gameti
Invocation – Nik Gameti
Litany – Sebastian Eikler
Offertory prayer – Sebastian Eikler
Prayer – Autumn Sauder
Scripture jam – Calla Stoltzfus
Sermon notes/resources – Pastor Tony Price
Theme interpretation – National Youth Cabinet
Hymns/music – National Youth Cabinet
More than “Standing Up”: a note about metaphors
– Becky Ullom Naugle
Logos – JPEG | PNG | PDF
2022 Worship Resources: Foundational
“For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, and I rejoice to see your morale and the firmness of your faith in Christ. As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.” Colossians 2:5 – 7, NRSV
2022 Worship Resources
The Youth/Young Adult Ministries Offices gives permission for any and all of the original resources posted below to be used for streamed services.
Benediction – Ben Tatum
Call to Worship – Ben Tatum
Call to Worship 2 – Kayla Alphonse
Call to Worship 3 – Luke Schweitzer
Children’s Story – Hayley Daubert
Commissioning – Erika Clary
Hymn Suggestions – Luke Schweitzer
Invocation – Elise Gage
Litany – Hayley Daubert
Offering Suggestion – Erika Clary
Offertory Thought – Kayla Alphonse
Scripture Jam – Jason Haldeman
Theme Interpretation – Bella Torres
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2021 Worship Resources “Lonely and Afflicted”
The YouTube video below should be used according to the YouTube Terms of Service
- Benediction by Chad Whitzel
Posted on 3/30/2021 - Benediction by Alton Hipps
Posted on 3/30/2021 - Benediction by Rachel Witkovsky
Posted on 3/30/2021 - Call to Worship by Chad Whitzel
Posted on 3/30/2021 - Call to Worship by Rachel Witkovsky
Posted on 3/30/2021 - Call to Giving by Alton Hipps
Posted on 3/30/2021 - Invocation by Rachel Witkovsky
Posted on 3/30/2021 - Prayer by Rachel Witkovsky
Posted on 3/30/2021 - Scripture Jam by Rachel Witkovsky
Posted on 3/30/2021 - Call to worship by Meghan Knight
Posted on 3/26/2021 - Prayer by Meghan Knight
Posted on 3/26/2021 - Scripture Jam by Kara Miller
Posted on 3/26/2021 - Music suggestions by Kara Miller
Posted on 3/26/2021 - Theme interpretation by Becky Ullom Naugle
Posted on 3/26/2021 - Logo
JPEG | PNG | PDF
The following video, “Numb,” is a 4-minute film produced by a Canadian 9th grader named Liv McNeil. She created it for a school project, alluding to the experiences of isolation that many teens have experienced as a result of COVID-19.
National Youth Sunday – May 3, 2020
“Through my fear, I trust in God”
Psalms 56:1-4
The Youth/Young Adult Ministries Offices gives permission for any and all of the original resources posted below to be used for streamed services.
Children’s Story for younger kids
Children’s Story for older kids
2019 Materials
- Call to Giving 1
by Grace van Asselt - Call to Giving 2
by Grace van Asselt - Children’s Story
by Rachel Johnson - Creative Elements
by Madison Kreps - Litany 1
by Grace van Asselt - Litany 2
by Grace van Asselt - Offertory prayer
by Rachel Johnson - Scripture Jam
by Madison Kreps and Eric Finet - Sermon Notes/Resources
by Dennis Beckner - Theme interpretation
by Eric Finet - Skit
by Eric Finet and Tristen Craighead - Hymns/music
by Leslie Lake
2018 Resources
Bound Together: Clothed in Christ – Colossians 3:12-15
The following files are in pdf format.
- Call to Worship
by Erika Clary - Call to worship
by Hannah Buck - Children’s story 1
by Emilie Deffenbaugh - Children’s story 2
by Haley Dulabaum - Creative elements
by Kelsey Murray - Invocation 1
by Trevor Haren - Invocation 2
by Trevor Haren - Offertory prayer
by Becky Ullom Naugle - Prayer 1
by Connor Ladd - Prayer 2
by Trevor Haren - Prayer 3
by Kelsey Murray - Scripture jam 1
by Haley Dulabaum - Scripture jam 2
by Hannah Buck - Sermon and Scripture Reflection
by Nathan Hollenberg - Theme interpretation
by Erika Clary - Hymns/music
by Carol Elmore - Commissioning for NYC participants
by Carol Elmore
2017 Resources
- Benediction
by Dana and Karen Cassell - Benediction
by Rachel and David Witkovsky - Call to Giving
by Dana and Karen Cassell - Call to Worship
by Rachel and David Witkovsky - Children’s Time
by Tyler Roebuck - Logos
- Scripture Jam
by Rachel and David Witkovsky - Sermon reflections
by Josh Brockway - Sermon reflections
by Mark Myers - Activities outside of worship
- Litany
by Becky Ullom Naugle - Invocation
by Becky Ullom Naugle - Hymn Suggestions
2016 Resources
- Theme interpretation (PDF) by Jeremy Hardy
- Theme interpretation (PDF) by Olivia Russell
- Call to worship (PDF) by Jeremy Hardy
- Call to worship (PDF) by Yeysi Diaz
- Invocation (PDF) by Digby Strogen
- Invocation (PDF) by Olivia Russell
- Scripture Jam (PDF) by Olivia Russell
- Children’s story (PDF) by Krystal Bellis
- Creative elements (PDF) by Digby Strogen
- Litany (PDF) by Emily Van Pelt
- Litany (PDF) by Krystal Bellis
- Call to giving (PDF) by Digby Strogen
- Call to giving (PDF) by Olivia Russell
- Offertory prayer (PDF) by Krystal Bellis
- Prayer (PDF) by Becky Ullom Naugle
- Prayer (PDF) by Yeysi Diaz
- Sermon resources (PDF) by Glen Bollinger
- Skit by Resurrection