Youth Ministries
Food, Faith, Garden Projects and Snow
Here in Minnesota we are caught in an April snowstorm that is predicted to drop 6+ inches of snow. A good day for reading. I received a timely email post yesterday from Cindy Coe’s blog titled Food & Faith book resources. In her blog post she references several books that I think may be good […]
EYE 2014 Mission Planning Team meeting concludes
Saturday was the last day of the initial meeting for the Episcopal Youth Event 2014 Mission Planning Team. Considering that most of the Team arrived as strangers it is heartening how quickly these young people have undertaken the task of supporting each other and functioning as a real team. Our day began with prayer, after […]
Resources for Responding to Yesterday's Tragedy
I’m pulling this in from Sharon Ely Pearson’s blog, Rows of Sharon. It is a good quick guide to available resources for responding to yesterday’s tragedy at the Boston Marathon. I encourage you to join me in prayer for everyone affected by the violence. —————————– Again, churches, schools and families are looking for resources to […]
Article Underscores the Importance of Youth Ministry
https://cdsp.edu/ is engaged in discernment about youth ministry. Yesterday’s article from Episcopal News Service offers some interesting perspectives. Here are a couple of provocative excerpts from the article with a link for the full text. “Responding to discouraging reports, some church leaders recommend paring down youth investments. Other church leaders think like contrarian investor Warren […]
Holy Mischief
I am really looking forward to this particular Christian Formation Conference, Holy Mischief: Christian Formation for What is Next. Timely topic, impressive lineup of speakers, and, of course, a beautiful location. I will be presenting a workshop titled “Five Marks of Mission in Multigenerational Formation.” Here’s the workshop description I submitted to Kanuga: Never heard of […]
Resources, guidelines for talking with young people in the wake of tragedy
As you most likely already read, Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori called for prayer following the explosions in Boston, MA, and offers the following prayer: Gracious God, you walk with us through the valley of the shadow of death. We pray that the suffering and terrorized be surrounded by the incarnate presence of […]
Guest Blogger, the Rev. Vincent Black, reflects on EYE Mission Planning Team discernment process
Today I welcome guest blogger, the Rev. Vincent Black, Canon for Christian Formation for the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio. Vincent is a member of the Episcopal Youth Event (EYE) 2014 Mission Planning Team and played a key role last weekend in helping us begin to discern the shape of our work. (That’s Vincent in the […]
Bridging the Gap series: How a simple phone call can change a life
Today I welcome as guest blogger the Rev. Canon John W. Newton, Canon For Lifelong Christian Formation for the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. This is the first of several blog posts focused on how the church can “Bridge the Gap” for graduating high school seniors to whatever is next in their lives: be it a gap year, an […]
The DREAM is Now
Today, my guest blogger is Katie Conway, Immigration and Refugee Policy Analyst for the Office of Government Relations of the Episcopal Church. In this piece, Katie presents an overview of a recent documentary on the DREAM Act and provides links to supporting resources that you might find useful for organizing a youth or intergenerational group discussion […]
Registration deadline is upcoming for the SOUL 2013 Conference
The deadline for registering for the SOUL Conference is Monday, May 6. Scheduled for May 23-27 at St. Augustine’s University, Raleigh, NC, the SOUL Conference (Spiritual Opportunity to Unite and Learn) will provide a safe place for Episcopal youth and young adults of African descent to meet and grow together, in relationship with one another and with […]
