Youth Ministry E-News January 2010
Southeastern Synod Youth Ministry E-News
January 2010
This e-news and other youth ministry resources and event forms are available online at www.elca-ses.org and on the website www.sesyouth.org.
If you need further assistance, please contact
Rachel Alley, Director of Youth Ministries, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Mark Your Calendars for AFFIRM 2010
June 20-25, 2010 New Location! Berry College, Rome, Georgia
Staff Applications are due January 15. You can fill out your application online at www.sesyouth.org. You will be notified if you are on staff by February 15th.
Registration for AFFIRM is OPEN! For Youth who have finished 6th-12th grades and College Freshman and Sophomores interested in Youth Ministry!
Go to www.sesyouth.org to register!
Cost is $350 before May 1 and $400 after May 1. A deposit of $200 is due when you register.
Scholarship Deadline is March 1, 2010
Join us for the Martin Luther King Service
at 3 PM on Sunday, January 17th
Trinity Lutheran Church, 1829 Killian Hill Road, Lilburn, GA.
(phone number 770-972-4418, website www.tlc-lilburn.org)
Our theme this year is "Unity through Diversity". The music will be wonderful, beginning with our processional song, "Come Together"! Many groups will participate that day: Korean Dance Troupe, Team Lutheran Choir, Sagrada Familia Mime Troupe, St. Paul Choir and Dance Troupe, Trinity Bell Ringers and Band, and a Conference 3 Children's Choir. The color for the day is red, all pastors and rostered lay leaders are invited to vest.
A financial offering will be collected for the Atlanta Union Mission, but we also ask that you bring at least one canned good to go to a local food pantry. (meats, vegetables, pasta and sauce, and peanut butter are especially welcomed.)
We look forward to seeing you at the service. If you have any questions please contact Emma Clark at 404-457-9356.
February 7, 2010 Souper Bowl of Caring
www.souperbowl.com
The 2009-2010 SESLYO Board
(Southeastern Synod Lutheran Youth Organization)
invites at least 2 youth voting delegates from each ELCA Southeastern Congregation to the 2010 SESLYO Assembly.
February 19-21, 2010
Cherokee Retreat Center, on Lake Allatoona, Cartersville, Georgia
I am Glorious! Fearfully and Wonderfully Made!
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works. And that my soul knows very well. Psalm 139: 14
Registrations are available online at www.elca-ses.org and www.sesyouth.org
Lutheran Happening of the South #27
February 12-14, 2010
Trinity Lutheran Church, Tullahoma, TN
Registration forms are available online
at www.elca-ses.org and www.sesyouth.org
All-GA
Lutheran Youth Gathering
“Keep it Tov”
(a Hebrew word that Means Good)
with keynote speaker and special musician AGAPE
March 12-14, 2010
6th-12th grades
FFA Retreat Center
Covington, GA
We will leave All-GA on Sunday, March 14th and journey together to Walk in the Atlanta Hunger Walk at Turner Field!
Enjoy a weekend of fellowship, faith-building, and SKIING!
Let us do all the work of coordinating ski rentals and lift tickets and enjoy our group rate discount! We will also supply group building games, an evening campfire, and youth-friendly worship. Come on Friday evening. Enjoy an early breakfast and all day Saturday on the slopes. End the day with supper, fun, and worship and have a good breakfast on Sunday before traveling home. Adults must accompany and supervise youth. Groups are responsible for transportation to and from ski slopes. Lutheridge guests ski at Wolf Ridge. Guests staying at Lutherock will ski at Sugar Mountain. For dates and costs go to www.llmi.org
Join Southeastern Synod Staff at Lutheridge for the 2nd annual Faith Alive Campfirmation Retreat
June 6-12, 2010 www.llmi.org
Bishops School June 20-26, 2010
Southern Seminary in Columbia, SC
Mark your Calendar!
Alasissippi Lutheran
Youth Gathering
For 6th-12th grades
July 30-Aug 1 at Gulf Shores!
Win Our World (WOW) is a youth ministry experience that packs a life-changing potential! Combining faith formation, leadership development, and urban mission, this camp is for the teenager who is ready to consider radical discipleship, who is ready to make a difference in the name of Jesus Christ.
What makes WOW distinctive? A camp for teenagers, it is led by teenagers! Guests work alongside team leaders, moving into leadership roles as the week of worship, study, fun, and ministry unfolds.
WOW 2010 Schedule ... tentative, but 95% firm!
June 6-11 ... WOW Week I
June 13-18 ... WOW Week II
June 27-July 2 ... WOW Week III
July 6-9 or 10 ... WOW Mini-Week (probably intense Leadership Dev.)
July 11-16 ... WOW Week IV
July 18-23 ... WOW Week V
July 25-30 ... WOW Week VI
We've had fifteen--14 new and 1 returning--churches contact us about WOW 2010, so now is a great time to start conversation about how you and your youth group would like to participate. Whether praying from your hometown to being up close and personal here in Knoxville, we know we are all in this beautiful mess together! http://www.sjlcknox.org/ministries/wow.html for information and to register!
ELCA YOUTH TRIP TO THE HOLY LAND (different from the Region 9 Walking Holy Trip)
Youth (ages 15 through 22) are invited to join in a leadership and peace-building trip to the Holy Land July 8-22 of 2010. See www.elca.org/peacenotwalls
Walking Holy
A Region 9 Youth Holy Land Pilgrimage
to Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Galilee, and the Dead Sea
This is an Educational Trip that will bring the Bible to Life!
Thus says the Lord: Stand at the crossRoAds, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies: and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. Jeremiah 6:16
December 20, 2010-January 2, 2011 Approximately $3500
Application IS posted to the synod SITE At
www.sesyouth.org and www.elca-ses.org
DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED to August 30, 2010 or until Trip is Full
All Things New Ministry exists to assist churches through youth and adult programs to discover passion in serving by equipping and nurturing their members to grow spiritually through ministry to people affected by disaster.
Disaster Response TeenCorps
Disaster Response Teen Corp designed to teach youth ages 14-18 on how to respond after a disaster next training event is February 11-15, 2010 at Lutheranch. Cost is $400.
Check out their website at www.allthingsnewministry.org
or contact Hal Shope and Marianne Zotti at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Renewal: The Extravaganza is church. It’s where the people gather to be fed by the Word and to receive the sacraments. Every day we will gather at the table and worship together. There is great music…powerful preaching… there is a prayer chapel… we experience the love and the grace of God. For many of us in ministry, who are tending the faith journeys of others, these experiences don’t come along often.
Education: We bring together the best of the best. Our learning is designed around two primary venues. The large group sessions bring forward a keynote speaker who challenges and enlightens. The large group sessions are less about the tactics of youth and family ministry, and are more about the heart of the person in ministry. The workshop session get down to the nuts and bolts. They are skill and tactic oriented and will include lots of “take-a-ways”, things you can make use of right away in your ministry. Connection: You are not alone. There is a dynamic, vibrant community of colleagues who share in the same struggles and joys that you do. Some of the most powerful moments at the Extravaganza happen not in the formal sessions, but in the lounge areas and restaurants of the hotel, as you sit across the from someone with the same job description and ask: “so what works for you?” “what brings you joy?”
The Network and the Extravaganza is stronger because you will be a part of it.
If you are going to the Extravaganza please contact Rachel at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Let her help you connect with others from the synod to share travel and lodging expenses!
Simply Youth Ministry Conference 2010
Hyatt Regency (Chicago/O'Hare)
Feb. 26 - Mar. 1, 2010 http://conference.youthministry.com/
Registration $359 before Oct 31 plus travel, hotel, and food
The Premier East coast Youthworkers event and convention dedicated to training, renewal and networking.
www.gatheringintheeast.org
April 16-18, 2010
Holiday Inn, Harrisburg, PA
Youth in Mission Conference: A conference for Youth Ministry Workers
Sacred Stories: Youth Faith Formation in an Interfaith World
April 12-14, 2010
Location: The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
1100 E 55th St
Chicago, IL 60615
Keynote from the Interfaith Youth Core:
There are millions of young people with different religious and philosophical perspectives interacting with increasing frequency around the world. This interaction tends toward either conflict or cooperation. Come for amazing dialog on strengthening faith, creating partnerships that equip young people for action and nurturing leadership in a multifaith world.
http://yim.lstc.edu/conference
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Trinity Lutheran College, Everett Washington offers degrees in Children Youth and Family Ministries. In 2011 they will offer a Continuing Education Opportunity for Children’s and Youth Ministry Leaders. It is a 3 week Certificate program to equip participants to lead effective ministry programs in their churches.
The Orange Conference for Children, Youth, and Pastor’s Training.
4/28-30/2010 $260.00
Gwinnett Civic Center, Duluth, GA
Young Adults
Thinking about Staffing at a Lutheran Summer Camp! Check out this site for a list of camps http://www2.elca.org/camps/
In December, go to www.llmi.org if interested in serving at Lutheridge or Lutherock.
Check out the details of Project Connect Events at www.projectconnect.org
15th January, 2010 to 18th January, 2010
Vocational Discernment Retreat at Calumet Lutheran Camp & Conference Center, New Hampshire
1st February, 2010
First Deadline for Immersion and Competitive Mini-Grant Applications
5th March, 2010 to 7th March, 2010
Vocational Discernment Retreat (primary Language Spanish) in Buayamon, Puerto Rico
Lutheran Volunteer Corps (LVC) has come to Atlanta! LVC is a national volunteer service program that partners with full-time volunteers and over 100 social justice organizations and ministries in several cities in the United States. www.lutheranvolunteercorps.org. In addition to working for justice, LVC Volunteers live together in intentional household communities of 4-7 people, deepen their spirituality, and encourage simple, sustainable living.In Atlanta, we are busy identifying social justice and peace organizations in need of a one-year, full-time volunteer. If your organization or agency is interested in exploring what LVC has to offer, or if you are interested in committing one year of spiritual service in the interest of social justice and peace, contact Pamela at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Are you looking for Volunteer Opportunities in your area? Check out these great websites. All you have to do is enter your zipcode!
Hands on Network www.handsonnetwork.org
Volunteer Match www.volunteermatch.org