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 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!

 

Food and Faith 9.15am: Sunday Morning Youth

 The 6-12^th grade ‘Sunday School’ group will be 

• continuing to explore the real questions offered through the re:Form series AND
• beginning to include the biblical storytelling based Echo: The Story series.    

Re:Form is focused on bigger theological ideas like sin and creation and church, whereas Echo is centered in reflection and creative response to the biblical stories.  

We will revisit questions of last year (cause we have new minds and it is a new day) and keep exploring the fresh stories of Echo.

We would like to offer warm breakfast-y food with our class this year.  

Can you help us fill the formation freezer with heat and eat breakfast casseroles and breakfast bites and pastries???  

Breakfast casseroles should feed about 6 and be labeled with all the ingredients.  

For more information (or recipe links) check in with Jane.