AYM Twin Cities

We experienced the joy of serving and giving during the holiday season as we purchased, wrapped, and delivered gifts on behalf of incarcerated parents to their children.

We hosted our first ever AYM Friendsgiving, inviting our friends to a delicious dinner and student-driven GOSPEL presentation, followed by Turkey Bowling for the middle schoolers, and an epic Captain Ball showdown for the high schoolers.

We joined teens nationwide equipping ourselves on how to share the G.O.S.P.E.L. Then we went out into our community and put what we learned into practice. We went to the Mall of America to take spiritual surveys and share the Gospel with our neighbors.

We welcomed the fall with a fun outing to Sever’s Fall Festival. Hot apple cider. Corn pit. Corn maze. Corn on the cob. Pumpkin blasters. Pig races. The best of the midwest!

We had a great time working hard to pack food to feed kids in need. Along with the other volunteers, we packed 36,288 meals into 168 boxes to feed 99 kids for a whole year. Talk about impact!

In September we met at the Jimmy Lee Rec Center for weekly volleyball clinics and short coach talks.

We welcomed everyone back after an eventful summer break. As school picks up, let's together stand firm against our fears and represent God well to our friends and classmates.

We hosted our first ever Level Up middle school STEM enrichment camp for students in our community where we learned robotics and built trebuchets, along with an epic water balloon fight.

We had a relaxing day-trip to a retreat cabin just across the border in Wisconsin for some arrow tag, campfire, and awesome food.

The high schoolers came over to Mike & Winnie’s house to welcome the 9th graders with a grill and get to know you time.

We celebrated the high school grads finishing high school and officially welcomed the rising 9th graders into high school.

We also ended our time by making a tunnel for the grads and then praying for them as a group as they make this big transition.

The bros went ice fishing and for some it was their first time. We didn’t catch much, but we also didn’t catch frostbite.

AYM partnered a local youth group to host a joint Christmas party where we learned about the true meaning of Christmas and how Jesus descending into our “stinky” lives to save us from our sins. We finished the night with an epic relay race and gift exchange.

AYM spent a Saturday afternoon at Valleyfair riding all the rollercoasters and screaming as loudly as we could!

Our high school girls met up one night with some of the mentors to hang out and go bowling together!

We had a special Bible Study focused around the theme of purpose where we learned that knowing our purpose in life is related to knowing our creator.

The students acted in a skit for our friends, then we ended the night with an epic round of Cardboard Camelot where our fearless knights represented their teams in a series of battles!

Contrary to what many may believe, we learned about how science and faith are actually compatible!

In July, we met at a local indoor soccer field for a beginner/intermediate camp! We had a lot of fun playing different mini games and doing drills to improve our dribbling, passing, and shooting skills. On the last day, we even had an all stars scrimmage against the coaches and college mentors!

We had a one day Worldview Camp near the University of Minnesota where some college students gave presentations about how to think like a Christian in our modern day world. We also had a blast playing games and watching skits during a message on the facts about Jesus’ resurrection!

To show love to the elderly on Valentine’s Day, we painted pots, then filled them with succulents. We also wrote heart-shaped letters to remind them of God’s love for them!

To give back to the community, we gathered at a local Salvation Army to help them weed their community garden plots!

After a message on David and Goliath, we wrote our giants (aka our fears) on glass, then in an act of defiance, covered them with paint balloons!