NB Live Packing List

Each Guest should/ may bring:

l  One small overnight bag

l  One sleeping bag

l  One pillow

l  One sleeping pad/air mattress (if you choose)

l  One bag/box of snack food to share

PACKING LIST: Be efficient in packing,   Do not bring anything that is your best or most favorite. All clothing should be modest and modestly worn.  Furthermore clothing should not have inappropriate sayings/advertising.  

CLOTHES FOR 2 days and 2 nights. We will primarily be inside, but check the weather forecast!!!

·        one jacket        

·        water bottle

·        towel

·        journal

·        flip flops

·        bathing suit

·        pajamas

·        needed toiletries: toothpaste, toothbrush, shampoo, etc.

·        needed medications with proper identification and instructions

·        if you play a jam band instrument and want to bring it, you may

           

 

·        Mp3/ipods/phones/ipads are allowed, but only at strictly designated times.  They are in no way ‘needed’.  We suggest leaving them at home. 

·        No laptops or dvd players.  These MUST remain at home.

·        No weapons, explosives, illegal drugs, smoking products or explicit materials!

New Beginnings: Live! November 13-15

NEW BEGINNINGS 
IS THE JR/MID HIGH 
YOUTH EVENT OF THE YEAR!

All 6th-8th graders are invited to celebrate the love of God at New Beginnings: Live, which this year is at St. Luke's, Coeur D Alene.

NB:5x5 is fun and fellowship, worship and service, community and faith formation. It is peer led and adult supervised.  Who could use this mid year faith and fellowship encounter?  
Can you send this to them? 

The time to register for New Beginnings is now! 

We need local leaders to help get young people to and from the event.  How can you help?

Arrival time begins at 6.30pm on Friday at St. Luke's (and given our travel distances, will go until all are here).  We finish around 12 noon on Sunday, and all families of teens are invited to join us and St. Luke's for the Eucharist at 10.30am. 

The registration form is on the diocesan website.  When you register you may get a response email that is from a previous event.  Please ignore any info that does not say what it says here!!

If you have any questions contact JAGober youthministries@spokanediocese.org
 

 

NB: LIVE Jr/Mid Hi Youth Event Leadership Team

If you are in Middle School/Jr Hi and you attended a previous New Beginnings event you may apply for the team.  You can also go to NB again and not serve in the leadership team.

Teen Team Members should have one of the following qualifications:

• Attended NB before
• Attended TEC before
• Been to LIT at Camp Cross

To Join the Team: click this link!

Adult Team Members:

• Safe Church training complete
• Recently active at a congregation in the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane or Camp Cross
• Age 18 and up.

TEEN Team members MUST BE AVAILABLE FOR THE WHOLE EVENT IN CDA

We will be focusing on digital prepwork: email, phone, video conference; instead of an overnight. 

Questions...contact JAG youthministries@spokanediocese.org

SPOKES: Spokane Diocese Youth Presence at Convention 2015

Episcopal congregation active Senior High teens are encouraged to apply to be a part of the SPOKES team for convention.  This is not a typical youth event or weekend.  It is service and learning about how we make our decisions and set the boundaries for our life together as the diocese of Spokane. 

We will serve as pages, help with a media project, assist the voting process and bring a bit of frivolity to the occasion. 

We are seeking homestay locations for out of town teens.  If you live in Spokane and can meet the safe church standards (training and participation in parish), AND can get teens to and from the Cathedral during convention..please contact youthministries@spokanediocese.org

If you have any other questions, please do the same thing.  
To apply please fill out this form: https://spokanediocese.formstack.com/forms/spokes

New Beginnings:5x5 Songs and Videos 2014

The Scripture
Good Samaritan

Songs:
Hello
 We are Going to Be Friends by the White Stripes

The Videos:
Hurt

Help

Human

Hands

A complete set (plus a few) is here: http://youtu.be/nwAYpLVyeFU?list=PLiEKciTZzrWVmPPbLyZCkdOB7-PNeCA5n

NB:5x5 Leadership Team Message 1

Leadership Team Overnight is November 1-2 at All Saints in Richland!!!!

We will begin at 10am.

• We know some of you will still be on your way at that moment!   
• Please keep Jane posted about your travel.   
•  If you need help arranging carpools…contact Lucas K if you are in the Spokane area..and Jane or Colin if elsewhere. 
• We will have dinner available when you arrive.   
• We will finish up after lunch after the worship service on Sunday morning, WHERE THE BISHOP WILL BE PRESENT!!  So 2-3ish.

Where are You Going: All Saints Episcopal Church in Richland, Washington

To BRING

• Sleeping on the floor stuff            
• Comfy appropriate clothes and shoes
• Church clothes  (as you choose)           
• Toiletries and stuff               
• Water bottle
• Mobile device (if you use one) and if you have a TABLET OR NOTEBOOK COMPUTER that you regularly use.  (If you don’t regularly use one then don’t worry about it).
• A paper notepad and writing implements

THEME THOUGHTS FOR YOU

5X5: It is radio code for being all clear.  Sort of like the ‘can you hear me now’ commercials.  For the Buffy fans in the crew it is also something that Faith commonly utters which seems analogous with ‘cool’.  What brings the ‘all clear’ to your life and the lives of your peers? What causes the static and the not ‘all clear’??

The scripture for the event is the parable of the Good Samaritan.  Do you know it as well as you imagine?  Have you really read it?  Can you search for cool online videos of the story?  How about children’s bible versions of the parable??  What is the primary question of the parable and what is the answer??????  How does this speak to the life of young people right now??