Double-Decker Overnight called New Beginnings!

If the first thing that comes to mind when you read the word 'retreat' is monastic, then you might not know what to make of a 'teen retreat weekend.' 

Maybe we could call New Beginnings an 'experience' or an 'adventure'. 

Perhaps we could call it a double-decker overnight with a hearty filling of love and topped with pop rocks! Hmm. 

For now however, we know it is a retreat for young people.  This adventure we call New Beginnings isn't monastic (although it has contemplative parts) and it isn't solitary (NB is all about Christian community); however it is a retreat for middle school or junior high (6-7-8th graders) youth.

It is an offering of two evenings and the surrounding hours to learning and growing as a young teen in Christ's church. A peer-led 'experience', New Beginnings offers young people the blessings of a broad and connected church that no single congregation can offer. Through games, prayer, talks and skits the New Beginnings retreat will play and pray with topics like growth and family and how those complications connect to Christ's call to live with unbounded love.  Furthermore NB encourages young people to return from the retreat with the will to serve God with the local church community.  

We invite you to offer this unusual gift to the middle school or junior high youth in your life.  PLEASE COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE (or print and mail) with a personal invite to the families of middle school youth in your life.  It is a Christian weekend with prayer, sacramental worship, biblical teaching and more. 

New Beginnings is coming up quickly...November 15-17 at the Cathedral in Spokane. Pre-registration is crucial and can be done online at spokanediocese.org/youth.   If you have any questions please contact Jane Gober via email janeg AT stpaulsww.org  .

W2: JAG is part of the leadership team for this event and she will need to be in Spokane independently of our young people.  Therefore Walla Walla friends...we need to find an adult(s) who can help with transportation of young people for New Beginnings.  Perhaps one person could deliver and another retrieve?  Any safe-church-current adult is welcome to stay with us at the Cathedral for the weekend and help in the background (or the deep deep background).