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
 

 

Ash Wednesday Prayer Centers

The practice of repentance and confession isn't just for adults.  Even young children can name things they do and say that keep them from being who they are supposed to be.  Beginning the season of Lent with Ash Wednesday practices is an ancient practice that has nurtured Christian formation for over a thousand years.   However, we also know that family schedules are difficult to negotiate.   So in 2015, on February 18th we will offer several self guided Ash Wednesday prayer stations. 

These centers/stations will include:

• the Burning of Sins, 
• Ashes to Go
• Biblical Story and
• Weaving of prayers.  

These stations are come-and-go as you need, they do not need to be encountered in any particular order, and they do not require the ability to read.  That said they are meaningful for people of all ages.  The prayer stations will be open after school until just before the evening liturgy.

Ash Wednesday Youth & Family Prayer Stations
3-6.30pm                     18 February 2015

St. Paul's Episcopal Church
303 Catherine Street Walla Walla, Washington
www.stpaulsww.org

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

New Beginnings: 5x5 November 14-15-16 in Richland!

5x5 is the radio code that means ‘all clear’.   

This New Beginnings weekend will be exploring how Christian practice and community can bring a sense of '5x5' when your life seems anything but clear. 

New Beginnings: 5x5 will include at least 5 of each of these:

• talks/small groups on issues important to teen life right now
• prayer/worship events
• games
• meals
• snacks
• new friends
• songs
• surprises!

This year's event will be held at All Saint's Episcopal Church in Richland, Washington.

New Beginnings: 5x5 is supported by the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane and reflects this tradition and our commitments.  That said, all are welcome, no exceptions needed.   
Registration is online, required and will be available at this link!

•  6-8^th graders who want to attend this New Beginning’s event may do so, even if they have gone before.  
•  7-8^th graders who attended previously are eligible to be on the Leadership Team . 

9-12^th graders who have attended New Beginnings, TEC, or served as a Camp Cross counselor (or something very similar) will be well prepared for applying to join the leadership team.   9^th-12^th graders who are active in an Episcopal congregation may certainly apply as well.  

All adults who are currently leading and serving in any Episcopal congregation in the diocese (lay/ordained/paid/volunteer) and are current on safe church training are invited to help assist and chaperone the NB5x5 event.  

Click the email me button to the right if you have any questions. 

If you need a flyer...do the same!

 

Once More with Feeling: Yg Fall 2014

The fantastic St. Paul’s Youth Group will continue its adventures on Wednesday evenings starting on the 10^th of September with the ‘Big Watery Game’.  

As in previous years, we will need adults to sign up to offer dinner for our crew of 10-20 teens.  The sign up is here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c094ea4aa29a5f94-stpauls

We are also looking for adults who can help us monitor incoming door traffic as ‘doorkeepers’. It might be awesome for volunteers to sign up to both offer dinner and watch the door.  The sign up is here:www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C094EA4AA29A5F94-youth

We also have a few material needs.  For example...the very old TV in the youth room died this summer.  We would like to replace it with one with HDMI ports (so something that is no more than 5 years old).  If you want to upgrade your set or if you would like to make a donation towards a brand new TV...please contact JAG soon!!!

We now have our very own freezer!!!!  I think it should be filled with Otter Pops, Fat Boys and breakfast casseroles (for Youth Sunday School).  

Finally we deeply need to discern regular volunteers that can help JAG with the weekly program.   We want to be able to divide up into smaller dialogue and project groups, sometimes by age, sometimes by gender.  Who would you like to share time, faith and fellowship with our young people??

The regular pattern is as follows:

6p         Dinner and Clean Up       

6.45p    Nightly Focus (MiddleSchool/SrHi split)   

7.45p    Night Prayer      

8p         Done!