Student Ministry

First United Methodist Church New Braunfels offers faith-based, Christ-centric leadership opportunities and activities to nurture the future.  We offer several summer camps to cultivate a community of love, and include our youth in many volunteer ministries throughout the year to engage and invigorate them in the excitement of giving back. 

Latest Student Ministry News:

UM Army Student Ministry Work Camp
We will be joining our fellow UMC Student Ministries at a UM Army camp. It will be a week-long mission/work camp at the beginning of June (1st-6th). We’ll be staying at Schertz UMC and working in the Schertz, Cibolo, San Antonio area to minister to the community alongside fellow UMC students. Since this is our first year participating, the cost is discounted to $75 for each camper. Adult volunteers will have their cost covered by the church. Register now.
River City Work Camp
Register your student for River City Work Camp 2025. Check in goes from 5:00-6:00 on Wednesday, June 18th. Camp will wrap up at the end of the 9:45 service on Sunday, June 22nd. We'll be working in the community to be the hands and feet of Christ. We hope you can join us! River City Work Camp is a camp led by our High School students and adult volunteers to specifically give our student ministry, incoming 6th grade to completed 12th grade, an opportunity to make a real difference in our community. Middle and high schoolers spend the week working on a local low-income housing project, learning, worshipping, and fellowshipping together.  We also need volunteers for overnight chaperones, meal providers, activity chaperones, and fore(wo)men to help out during the week.
Senior Sunday
Senior Sunday is coming up on Sunday morning, May 4th. We want to celebrate your high school seniors! If you have a high school senior in your life who you want to be recognized with us this year, please read this and respond. 
VBS 2025
Can you make time to help us with VBS or Rise Camp this summer? VBS will be June 2-5, and our volunteer sign ups are now open. Adults and youth can sign up to help out the week of VBS or serve during VBS work week starting May 27. VBS will be four days this year, from 9 a.m. to noon. Rise Camp is July 20-23. Registration for participants is now available.
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Camp Eagle Info
We will again be attending Camp Eagle this summer as a group. We will be at their Group Camp, which will incorporate outdoor activities, worship, and preaching to bring students closer to Christ over the course of a week. The dates for Camp Eagle are July 28-August 2 this summer. Read more for details and the registration link.

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METHODIST YOUTH FELLOWSHIP
(MYF)

Methodist Youth Fellowship is a time for our youth to gather to hear the Word of God, play games together, catch up from the week, and get to know one another better. We eat a meal together and then divide up into groups for the lesson. This is a casual and fun atmosphere for kids and parents alike

MYF MEETS SUNDAYS 5:30PM-7:30PM IN WESLEY HALL

We are always looking for volunteers! We need adults to help make meals for our youth each week. You don’t have to be a youth parent to participate.

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CONFIRMATION

Although confirmation is not a sacrament in The United Methodist Church, it is an important marker along our spiritual journeys. In the United Methodist Church, children are baptized as infants by their parents. Confirmation is a time to understand the faith and vows they were baptized into as infants. Confirmands are instructed on the fullness of what that baptism means and decide for themselves to take on the responsibilities of their own faith.  After Confirmation, confirmands have the opportunity to become full members of the local church in their own right.

RIVER CITY WORK CAMP

River City Work Camp is led by our High School youth and volunteers to specifically give Middle and High School youth (incoming 6th grade through completed 12th grade) an opportunity to make a real difference in our community. Middle and high schoolers spend the week working on a local low-income housing project, learning, worshipping, and fellowshipping together.