Jamestown youth group invites grades 6-12 to weekly Slater Center activities
Jamestown First Assembly’s Emerge Youth opened its Slater Center doors at 5 p.m. for games, then gathered grades 6-12 at 6:30 p.m. each Wednesday.
Jamestown teenagers had another weekly place to land at the Slater Center, where Jamestown First Assembly’s Emerge Youth invited students in grades 6 through 12 to gather each Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. The doors opened at 5 p.m. for games and hanging out, giving middle school and high school students a supervised place to spend the hours after school and before the evening service.
The gathering took place at the Slater Center, 805 17th St. SW in Jamestown, right next to Arby’s Restaurant. Emerge Youth, also identified by the church as Emerge YTH, was built around a familiar weekly rhythm rather than a one-time event, with community calendar listings showing the program appearing repeatedly across 2025 and 2026. That consistency matters in a city like Jamestown, the county seat of Stutsman County, where families often look for regular options that are structured, social and easy to reach.
The setup showed a program designed to be more than a drop-in room. Jamestown First Assembly said adults could serve in the snack shack, greeting, computer, sound, worship team, games and service-host roles, signaling a larger volunteer network behind the youth ministry. The mix of roles suggested a church-backed environment with both social time and organized activity, not just supervision by name alone.
For parents and guardians, the appeal is straightforward: a recurring place where students in grades 6-12 can spend time with peers, stay engaged and be part of something established in the community. The structure also bridges age groups, giving early adolescents and older teens one shared setting across several school years.
In a city of 15,849 people at the 2020 census, even one dependable youth program can make a difference in the weekly rhythm of family life. With Jamestown High School and the University of Jamestown anchoring the city’s education-centered identity, Emerge Youth added another local option for students looking for a place to go on Wednesday nights, and another steady presence in a familiar building already woven into Jamestown life.
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