YOUTH TRIPS

Middle School Ski Trip

For: Middle School Youth
Dates: January 10-12, 2025
Cost: $385, includes lodging, lift tickets, and ski rental
Where: Glade Springs, WV; Winterplace Ski Resort

Our Ski Trip encourages the construction of a support network highlighting our similarities and enjoying the recreation time we share. There is time to play on the different slopes and time to reflect and pray as a group, experiencing God’s multiple gifts – including the beautiful creation around us! This trip is an excellent opportunity to cultivate faithful friendships and develop spiritual growth.

Register here.

Contact Allison with questions.

High School Escape

For: High School Youth
Dates: January 10-12, 2025
Cost: $325
Where: Montreat, NC

Escape to Montreat for a weekend of rest and renewal. Hike, play and study scripture together. Start the year with a focus on your core values and a deep understanding of God’s love for you. Our speaker this year is former PC(USA) Moderator, Bruce Reyes-Chow.

Register here.

Contact Rev Michelle with questions. 

Charleston Youth Mission

For: Open to all current middle school youth
Dates: June 10-14, 2025
Cost: $540
Where: Charleston, SC

Spend a few days serving with us at Charleston Youth Mission. We will immerse ourselves in one of the oldest cities of our nation to learn about the area’s rich history as well as the current situation of the city. From slavery to today’s racial-economic disparity, we will look at the common threads, serve our neighbors, and reflect on God’s call for justice and equity for all.

Youth will need a twin sized air mattress for this trip. 

Register here.

Contact Allison with questions.

CROSS Missions

For: Current 5th-7th graders
Dates: June 16-19, 2025
Times: 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. daily
Cost: $125
Where: Myers Park Presbyterian Church

Embark on a journey of mission right here in Charlotte through our church’s CROSS program. This is a half-day program where youth will serve in different mission locations throughout the week. This is a great opportunity for rising 6th graders to jump into youth next Summer. It is very different from Mission Kids at VBS so it is the perfect step up for our middle school youth. They will live out their faith in action right in their own backyard. This is an incredible experience for our youth in middle school and much loved in previous years.

We will need a few parent volunteers and drivers for this week, contact Allison Billings at ABillings@myersparkpres.org.

To register here.

High School VBS

For: Current 8th-12th graders
Dates: June 16-19, 2025
Times: 8:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. daily
Where: Myers Park Presbyterian Church

VBS is an opportunity for our youth to guide our youngest church members as they learn stories from the Bible and all the ways God loves them.

Youth will guide a classroom of eager children, help lead recreation, music, and share the love of Christ during the amazing four-day experience.

Every year, 40 youth participate as classroom assistants, sharing their faith with the children of MPPC. It’s a great start to our summer as well as an opportunity to earn service hours.

To sign up, email Jodi.

Sailing Trip

For: Current 9th-12th graders
Travel Dates: June 20-27, 2025
Cost: $950
Where: Chesapeake Bay, Annapolis, MD

Each year, we take a pilgrimage with our high school youth. Pilgrimage is a faith practice and not just a travel experience. It invites us to savor every step of the journey of life, not just the destination. We are on a faith journey and we know we do not move through the world alone. A pilgrimage opens our eyes to people in our life that offer us encouragement and inspiration for this journey.

Sailing the Chesapeake Bay, youth will have the opportunity to learn to sail, quiet their minds, and deepen their faith. We will practice mindfulness daily. Mindful eating, mindful seeing, mindful listening. Mindfulness helps us be present, ease anxiety, notice grateful moments and connect with God. We will learn the art of centering prayer that we can carry back into our everyday lives.

Register here. 

Contact Rev Michelle with questions. 

Montreat Youth Conference

For: Current 8th-12 Graders
Dates: July 12-19, 2025
Cost: $895
Where: Montreat, NC

Montreat Youth Conference affirms youth in their calling to be and to shape the church of today and tomorrow. It is a place where authenticity, community, connection, and God’s truth thrive.

Through daily worship, keynote, recreation, and small groups with hundreds of other young people of faith, Montreat helps youth form deep, spiritual, and intentional relationships with God, themselves, and others. It is the perfect time for our current 8th graders to prepare for high school and just as perfect for graduated seniors to take a week to prepare for college.

Register here.

Contact Rev Michelle with questions. 

Confirmation Immersion

For: Current 7th Graders (Class of 2030)
Dates: July 28-August 1, 2025
Cost: $750
Where: Holston Center, Banner Elk, NC

Confirmation Immersion is Confirmation Camp. This is designed for youth that would like to do confirmation in the summer, instead of through the school year. Youth will do 12 Confirmation lessons, create some rituals and practices they can incorporation into their daily life, and reflect on their own faith journey. During the week, we will swim, hike, zip-line, play four-square, and other camp activities.

During the year, this group will be their own small group and participate only on 2-3 nights of the regular Confirmation schedule. They will join the church with the whole class on February 22, 2026.

Register here.

Contact Rev Michelle with questions.