{"id":118,"date":"2015-11-03T05:41:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T05:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2025-08-20T02:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:11:15","slug":"junior-youth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/?page_id=118","title":{"rendered":"Junior Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\u00a0\u00a0 GERMS<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4544\" src=\"https:\/\/tumc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/junior-youth-for-web-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/junior-youth-for-web-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/junior-youth-for-web-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/junior-youth-for-web.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>TUMC\u2019s Junior Youth (grades 6-8) are affectionately known as the <strong>GERMS<\/strong> (Great Evening Recreation for Mennonite Students).\u00a0 In addition to meeting weekly during Sunday School to discuss faith-related topics, the GERMS get together regularly to get to know each other, share life experiences in a supportive faith setting, and have a lot of fun!\u00a0 Past GERMS events have included games and movie nights, progressive suppers, hikes and bike rides, pool parties, and an annual winter retreat \u2013 always a highlight of the year.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions regarding the GERMS, contact <a href=\"mailto:audrey.wichert@tumc.ca\">audrey.wichert@tumc.ca<\/a>.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4547\" src=\"https:\/\/tumc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/junior-youth-with-kids-story-feb12-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/junior-youth-with-kids-story-feb12-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/junior-youth-with-kids-story-feb12.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Junior Youth are also encouraged to participate in our <a href=\"index.php?page_id=121\">mentoring program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click to see the <a href=\"index.php?page_id=636\">upcoming events<\/a> calendar, and then click on the &#8220;GERMS Jr Youth&#8221; category below the calendar to see the events for GERMS, which are highlighted in green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 GERMS TUMC\u2019s Junior Youth (grades 6-8) are affectionately known as the GERMS (Great Evening Recreation for Mennonite Students).\u00a0 In addition to meeting weekly during Sunday School to discuss faith-related topics, the GERMS get together regularly to get to know each other, share life experiences in a supportive faith setting, and have a lot of fun!\u00a0 Past GERMS events have included games and movie nights, progressive suppers, hikes and bike rides, pool parties, and an annual winter retreat \u2013 always&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":116,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12518,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/12518"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}