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Junior High Sunday School (Know)

Junior High, 6th & 7th grades will meet for Sunday School every Sunday morning at 9 am in the Jr. High Youth Room!  Sunday School is taught by some of our finest here at Naperville Covenant Church! Steve Dahl, Julie Dahl, Steve Farmer, Susie Johnson, Paul McLeland, Barry Svensen and co-leader, Julie Dahl.  All our teachers love God, and have the desire to share the truth of Jesus Christ with each of these youth!

CONFIRMATION: The 8th grade students will be in a Confirmation Class each Sunday at 9 am in the Team56 room across the hall from the high school room.  The teachers are: Diana Shiflett, Diane Quagliana, Scot Gillan, Keith Irwin and co-leader, Debbie Morrone. Confirmation is a one year program around the central beliefs of our faith. We have confirmation to help solidify faith and understanding of what being a Christian means. Each student will have a mentor that they meet with an a regular basis and participate in an inner city service project in Chicago in April, 2012. 

SLEEP OUT SATURDAY

Early November of each year the youth are challenged to see that we actually have homeless families right here in DuPage County. The youth collect money ahead of time, and then go to a rally before they take to sleeping outside or on the floor inside to help them relate and understand for one night how hard it would be to be homeless for a night. We talk about the issues of school, and hygiene to get at the real issues of being homeless in America.  SOS will be held on November 3, 2012.

Deep Freeze (Love)

Deep Freeze is the Jr. High winter retreat. We travel up together to Lake Geneva to Covenant Harbor Camp! We spend the weekend worshiping God, sledding, learning about God, playing games, polar bear dipping, playing in the snow, playing broomball, watching skits that teach us about God, and over all having an amazing weekend designed to grow us closer to Christ.  The date this year is January 20-22, 2012. 

30 -Hour Famine (Serve)

In a city like Naperville it’s not very often that we truly experience hunger. The next meal is almost always just a few hours away, and there is usually a snack in-between. The 30-hour famine is a perfect opportunity to teach our youth that they have the opportunity to use being blessed by living in America, and to learn that there is need beyond themselves. We spend the 30-hours not simply not eating, but we take this time to learn about the needs of others, and then we take it one step farther, and instead of just learning about it we do something about it! We pack food for needy families in Africa, we go to a local food pantry, and sort food to be distributed in the area, we do a road rally of mini missions, and play lots of fun games that get us in touch with the reality of starvation in our world. We all start the day thinking there is no way we can do it, and by the end we see how God did it, and we are amazed by his loving touch.  The 30-hour famine will be held on March 9-10, 2012.