nb Team stuff: friday

drafts as of october 30!

schedule friday

When	What/supplies	Who	Where
asap	Team Arrival
	Prep ·        Small Group Tents ·        Nametag stuff: laminator, notecards, stickers, markers, scissors, yarn, hole punch
6.30p	Nb Guest Arrival ·        Covenant and forms and nametags and lite food Icebreakers ·        Planned games: ·        Explain Object Like an Alien Archeologist; Group Objects.
7.30p	Dinner Church ·        Guests get head of table seats, Candles, Liturgy sheets ·        Job Skit		Tables HP style
	Sing Along Session  (from you tube or karaoke site) ·        What’s Goin On (Marvin Gaye) ·        Good People (Jack Johnson) ·        Big Yellow Taxi ·	Audio Visual Team
	Talk 1: Precious ·        Film Clip   Wall E   doing his job ·        Talk…precious ·        Song or video?
	Small Group 1 ·        Get On Board §  Name, where from, name three things that might be meaningless to others but precious to you ·        Group boxes: crayons, markers, scissors, objects, construct paper, poster paper, magazines o   Using poster paper, draw and cut a circle o   Fill in the circle with group member names, o   Choose a group name that is an acronym like the robots in wall-e o   Read Job section o   What do you think is precious to God? §  Do you think the Wall-E world is a prediction of our future?  Why or why not? §  What would it take to prevent such a future? o   Fill in circle with group name and things that are precious in God’s heart
	Responses 1 ·        Share posters		Library
	Surprise 1 (with snack)
	Compline (creation-trust-compline: DPAS)	Worship Team
12 midnight	Bedtime ·        Team check in while guests get ready for bed

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

SF Mission Trip Slide Show

In July we headed to the great big city for a five day trip of mission, service and adventure.  Learn more about this valuable journey in the slideshow.  Check in with our mission participants to discover more about their own experience of the journey.
Lastly, help us begin to refill the youth mission fund with your generous donation.
www.stpaulsww.org

Fall Youth Group Schedule

The time is upon us again, TBTG!  We once more can be AWESOME.

We are funny and dorky and playful.  We are smart and friendly and faithful.   We strive to be awesome and honest.

We are gamers and players and readers and singers..we are young and we gather on Wednesday evenings at St. Paul's (Birch and Catherine, WW).

Date	What	Details
Sept 9	Wild Water Games!	Wear clothes that can get wet!
16	CinemaSport: Rudy	A ‘watch the whole movie’ evening...so we might run a tad bit late.
23	Crash Course	Humane Society
30	Project Serve	Take Home Paks and Cleaning out the Coats for Kids closet.
Oct 4	St. Francis Blessing of the Animals	1pm on the Lawn
Oct 7	Game Day	Human Chess
Oct 10	Scholarship Dinner: All Youth and Families are Needed to Help Serve the Meal	5pm to Learn How To Serve Tables Professionally
Oct 14	Crash Course*	King of Instruments
Oct 16-18	SPOKES: Youth Presence at Convention	Senior High Teens are eligible to help make our Diocesan Convention flow smoothly
21	CinemaSport: Remember the Titans	Might run late!
28	Project Serve	tba
Nov 4	Game Day	Mystery game day
11	CinemaSport: Bend it Like Beckham	Might Run Late
13-15	New Beginnings: Live	6-8th Grade Diocesan Youth Gathering in Coeur d Alene
18	Crash Course*	Tools, part 2
25	No yG: Turkey Week

Open to any and all compassionate 6-12th graders, we make no exceptions for what you think, or wear, or your heritage or your identities.  We begin with food, then we work together to clean up from dinner.  After which our activity or guest or topic of the night is explored.  When we have time there is free time for games, and we always end with check in and liturgical night prayer. 

Folks are welcome to come early and hang around to do homework or help with the tasks of the church. We always need families and friends to offer dinner for our yG crew.  Please sign up online at this link.  We are also looking for volunteer assistant leaders and chaperon's (age 19 and up). 

Generally yG follows this pattern:

• Dinner
• Clean Up
• Topic
• Free Time
• Night Prayer

Under Empire: Star Wars Rebels, Bonhoeffer and Exile

When I was very young I went to Army base daycare after school.  About once a week they would show us current movie clips.  This was a long time ago so these clips were actual film, on a reel to reel machine that made noises while it played. 

When I was older I realized there was a battle theme to all the scenes; they must have been sent to be shown to servicemen and women, and then were passed down to the daycare.  The scenes I recall were the race scene from 'The Love Bug', the duel scene from 'The Sword and the Stone', and the battle scene where the Millennium Falcon escapes the Death Star in the original 'Star Wars: A New Hope'.  This is to say that my Star Wars universe saturation began at its earliest possible point.

One night last year I was looking for something new but easy, comforting but fresh.  So I chose to check out the new animated series, Star Wars Rebels.  The music is familiar, the ships and uniforms of the Empire are recognizable, a style much closer to the original trilogy than the more recent experiment.  This is aimed at young people; but it doesn't take more than the first 20 minutes to discover that the driving question it seeks to answer is why is there a Rebellion at all.  What is so dreadfully wrong about the functioning of Empire and what are people of conscience to do about it? 

I do not know if the faith based social justice allusions are intentional, but they are impossible to miss.  With names like Zeb, Ezra and Kanan (said like the biblical region), or Sabine (frequent name for early Christian saints) and dialogue that could be copied from Scripture, I do have to wonder. Maybe the force is with us. 

So the Sunday morning youth formation class is going to dive in.  We are going to leap into the series and into the Biblical Exile, and into the life and witness of 20th century martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer.  It will be fun and faithful, serious and silly, and hopefully challenging.  Even if you could care less about that galaxy far, far away, if you care about this one, then make a point to gather for UNDER EMPIRE on Sunday mornings at 915, starting September 13.

While certainly the 'youth' class, we will be issuing false 'youth' credentials to interested adults.  As much as I understand the desire for age based groupings, we learn and grow in the faith better through the sharing of multiple generations.  Our youngest friends need the witness and relationship of more than just the youth leader.  So, those of you who feel the force, contact the Rebel leader for your credentials. 

Under Empire will meet most Sunday mornings this fall, downstairs at 915am.  

• We need donations of frozen or refrigerated breakfast treats (like toaster strudels and cinnamon rolls) to fill cold morning tummies.  
• We can also benefit from the gift of various Star Wars paraphernalia, like posters and pencils and action figures and especially more Lego minifigures.
• We could use some better quality art materials like fancy drawing pencils and paper.
• Lastly, Keurig Hot Chocolates and Teas and Ciders never go wasted.  Our young friends don't usually choose the coffees.