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- 1. ` 2015 ELCA Youth Gathering
- 2. ELCA Gathering Mission The ELCA Youth Gathering, a unique community by size and scope, exists to accompany young people in their faith journey, to claim their baptismal identity and articulate their faith in Jesus Christ.
- 3. Gathering Plan • Proclaim Community • Proclaim Justice • Proclaim Story
- 4. Proclaim Community [synod day] Act in a way that reflects God’s value for everybody, engaging one other’s story with respect and love. We will be spending this day with other students from the South East Iowa Synod.
- 5. Proclaim Justice [service day] Live boldly in the face of injustice, crisis and suffering We will be serving alongside citizens of Detroit. We will be building relationships along with serving them.
- 6. Proclaim Story Demonstrate the capacity to articulate their unique witness as part of God’s story. This will be a very experiential learning day. We will be at the Interaction Center all day.
- 7. Community Life Community Life happens wherever the community gathers This will occur mainly in our hotel. Where will build community as a church and also with other churches at out hotel.
- 8. Mass Gatherings Music, speakers, dancing, inspiration! We will be Ford Field for these with over 30,00 other Lutherans!
- 10. ALL of the Gathering July 12-15, 2015 •DAYLE - Definitely-Abled Youth Leadership Event •MYLE - Multicultural Youth Leadership Event July 15-19, 2015 •ELCA Youth Gathering
- 11. Travel We will be leaving on July 14 in the morning. We will be back late in the night of July 20. The drive to Detroit, with stops is a comfortable 14 hours of community building.
- 12. Housing • Hotels are throughout the city and suburbs • We will take our buses into and around Detroit
- 13. Food • We will be responsible for meals • $40/day x 7 days = $280 • Food trucks being contracted
- 14. Costs Registration Fee = $325 Travel = $250-$350 Housing = $200 (4 nights, triple) Food = $280 Total estimate = $975-$1,075/person Also: Offering & Spending Money We are planning on the cost to families being around $600 with fundraising.
- 15. Registration • Registration Available Online Through My Holy Trinity • $150 at registration (non-refundable) • $200 by October 31 (non-refundable)
- 16. More Information/Questions • Contact Tim • timj@holytrinityankeny.org • 515.418.3328 [call or text] • www.elca.org/gathering
- 17. ` 2015 ELCA Youth Gathering
Editor's Notes
- 2015 ELCA Youth Gathering will help young people understand that to know Jesus through his death and resurrection is to know Jesus as the fullness of God’s love, and that they are called, through their baptism, to follow Jesus’ way of the cross. They will return to their home communities, in all of its varied forms, with a renewed commitment to proclaim resurrection by: ● Living among God’s faithful people,● Hearing the word of God and share in the Lord’s supper,● Proclaiming the good news of God in Christ through words and deed,● Serving all people, following the example of Jesus,● Striving for justice and peace in all the earth. (ELW, Page 236)Values● Exercise “active listening” with the people of Detroit● Respect differences and seek diversity● Surrender control● Recognize and challenge unjust systems● Suspend habitual assumptions● Reflect three priorities of the ELCA Churchwide Organization• Connect youth and young adults with who we are as church, and strengthen them for evangelical witness and service in the world.• Provide experiences that teach youth and young adults how to accompany and empower impoverished and vulnerable people by addressing the challenges of poverty, injustice and emergencies in their communities.• Ground youth and young adults in Lutheran theology and train them to serve the church we are becoming, especially serving the ELCA’s aspiration for cultural, generational and socio-economic diversity in its members and leaders.
- Proclaim Community (Interactive Learning)Act in a way that reflects God’s value for everybody, engaging one other’s story with respect and love.Behavioral evidence will include…● Recognizing the presence of God in all relationships and working toward reconciliation in Christ. ● Listening before speaking.● Proclaiming the Good News in their communities.
- Proclaim Justice* (Service) Live boldly in the face of injustice, crisis and suffering Evidence of “living boldly” includes… ● Participants will engage in Detroit’s unique story of tenacity and hopefulness● Participants will see God at work through transformative experiences of accompaniment● Participants will return home seeing themselves as agents of change in their own communities and in the world in life-giving ways Specific areas of focus: Care in Communities, Cultural Immersion, Education, Environmental Sustainability, Food/Food Justice, Housing
- Proclaim Story (Synod Day)Demonstrate the capacity to articulate their unique witness as part of God’s story. This witness will include… ● Proclaiming that everything we do is “The beginning of the Good News that is Jesus Christ...” and we get to live out the rest of the story.● Claiming and valuing their baptismal identity.● Learning to engage each other’s story.● Framing our story within God’s story.● Living together in the Resurrection promise, we rise up and Build Bridges, Bear Burdens, Break Chains and Bring Hope. Held in the Cobo Center and in several other hotel ballrooms
- Starts in the morning and goes throughout the day Using Cobo Center as the hub of activity
- Held in Ford Field
- DAYLE is the Definitely-abled Youth Leadership Event, held just before the Gathering opens. There is an additional registration fee to attend, which covers housing and some meals. DAYLE is a leadership development event designed to bless and empower young people who live with a wide range of physical, cognitive and emotional disabilities so that they might grow as faithful, wise and courageous witnesses in God’s church and the world. The event also offers time for participants and their caregivers to acclimate and orient themselves to the city of Detroit before the Gathering begins. MYLE is the Multicultural Youth Leadership Event designed to empower young leaders of color for the ELCA’s mission in the world. It takes place just before the Gathering and there is an additional registration fee to attend, which covers housing and some meals. MYLE is specifically for high school youth and adults from communities of color and/or communities whose primary language is that other than English. Congregations who have 20 percent or more of young people of color and/or those whose primary language is that other than English are also invited to attend.
- Assigned in January, ideally before the Extravaganza Congregations submit housing lists & pay deposits between March 15th & May 15th