For the parents

FOR PARENTS NEW TO BUMY:

As a member your child will have opportunities that 'til now they have probably only dreamed about or watched on television. Brooklyn's youth have traveled all across the United States as well as to Israel and Egypt. Your children will get to do things like climb mountains, white water raft, rappel, zipline, para-sail, ski mountains, fly and travel.

Now, before you get too excited (or concerned), there are many things that you should know. So read along on this page and never, never be afraid to ask questions.

Student leaders watch out for Brooklyn United Methodist Youth (BUMY) and each other and report any problems to adult leaders. Then all adults report to Eric Olsen, Youth Director.

E-mail Youth Director Eric Olsen at eolsen@bumy.org

PARENT INVOLVEMENT:

At BUMY we believe we join with parents as partners in impacting a student's life. It is the tremendous assistance and devotion of our parents, which has enabled us to develop a program that is both exciting and life changing. With this in mind we expect that all BUMY parents will support our program as well as their child's participation. This is done both by your own words and actions of encouragement, and by upholding your child in prayer. Further, we expect that all BUMY parents will make it a point to become actively involved in the Brooklyn Youth Program, cheerfully volunteering whenever able.

The BUMY youth program pays great attention and takes great pride in the quality of it's program. We firmly believe that the God we represent, and the kids we serve, deserve no less then our best at all times. At times this may seem unusual and the crossing of a "T" not that important. We feel however, that it is an important part of our earning the right to be heard by our students, and paves the way for our enjoying the privilege of incredible youth involvement. We feel that every student deserves the opportunity to see (through our activities) and us, and hear the plan of God, which they are free to accept or refuse. As partners with God, we take seriously the responsibility to present what we know is truth in the most effective way. In this way our students will be able to fairly judge this truth for themselves.