…ANOTHER NEW THING…
When the Youth, Young Adult and Family Ministry Team met in October, the group divided into three smaller groups. One is focusing all its attention (for now) on youth ministry. Here’s what they came up with for this summer!
From July 16-17, the synod is sponsoring a World Hunger Lock-In which will be held in nine different locations throughout the synod – one in each mission district. This event will be open to 7th through 12th graders. Here are a couple of amazing things about this event:
- We hope to engage the efforts of EVERY congregation in the synod whether or not they have youth to send to the lock-in. We are going to ask congregations to donate supplies for participants to assembly health kits for Lutheran World Relief.
- We hope to be involved in World Hunger issues at a churchwide level (donations to ELCA World Hunger), local level (collect canned goods for a local food bank), and the host church (take part in the worship in some way with prayers for hunger or a skit or ??)
- We hope to SKYPE each other at each of the nine locations – maybe for worship! Maybe to hear the same keynote speaker!
Other activities will include watching Bishop Sam Zeiser address the groups via DVD, playing games, possibly do a service project locally, pray together, fast together, and more!
Within the next few weeks, the planning team will have additional details prepared – including the locations for each of these events AND information about a follow-up celebration for ALL participants which will most likely be held at Bear Creek Camp in late August or September!
God is on the move in Northeastern PA Synod….
SAVE THE DATE!
