Confirmation Age Youth, Parents and Leaders

When: Sunday, November 1, 2009
Time: 3:00-6:00 p.m.
What: Live band, games, fellowship, pizza, worship and more!
Where: Saint Luke Lutheran Church, 9100 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910 map

Senior High Youth Parents and Partners

You are invited to join Bishop Graham, the Vocation Team, and other Lutheran leaders for dinner to explore ways to serve the church as a rostered or lay person.

When: Sunday, January 31, 2010

Questions?

Please contact:
Pastor Darcy Tillman – Vocation Team Chair
703-768-1112 or dtillman@nativitylutheran.org

Attached is a brochure and a flyer for the Youth Ministry Certification School at Gettysburg Seminary. This 14-day course in youth and family ministry includes four days of adventure education emphasizing small groups, community development and relational youth ministry. The 10 days of classroom work includes Biblical and theological training, cultural analysis, long-range planning, family ministry, Christian Education and lots of how-to strategies.

This past year, two Metro DC Synod Youth Directors were members of the class (Andrew Buck, Emmanuel, Vienna and Becky Conrad, Peace, Waldorf); there have been many others in previous years. I am also a graduate (2001) and our own Barbara Harner currently serve as one of the Coach – Instructors for the course.

Please take a look at the brochure and prayerfully consider who you might ‘invite’ to join this year’s class. Sometimes it just takes someone saying, “Hey, I think you should consider this.” Feel free to forward this information to anyone you think might be interested and if you have any questions, please give Barbara a call at 301.963.6236.

Brochure
Bulletin Insert

Christ the King Lutheran Church is in Great Falls, Virginia, part of the fast-growing, high-paced Washington D.C. Metropolitan area. About 50% of the congregation’s baptized membership is 18 or younger, thus Youth and Family Ministry is the ministry of this congregation.

The successful candidate will have a solid understanding of Lutheran Theology. This person will have a strong passion for youth and family ministry who is organized and able to recruit, equip, and mentor others in youth and family Ministry.

This person will be an enthusiastic leader who models mature discipleship and can work well in a team environment with other staff and congregation members. Salary and benefits are offered using the ELCA Youth Ministry Network’s 2008 Salary Survey as a guide.

Full Job Description

Electronic submissions of resume materials should be sent to Pastor Scott McAnally at . no later than Friday April 3, 2009.

For further information, please contact Pastor Scott McAnally at 703-759-6068.

Our theme this year is Oh, The Lessons You¡¦ ll Learn¡K and we¡¦ll be using some familiar stories
from Dr. Seuss to help us think theologically.

SHEMA will be held Sunday afternoon, April 19, from 1:30 – 4:30 PM at St. Luke Lutheran Church, Silver Spring, MD.

SHEMA will provide a wonderful opportunity for your upper elementary youth to join with other Lutheran
youth outside of their home congregation for an afternoon of faith-forming activities, fellowship, food and
fun! Activities may include storytelling, music, worship, games, a service project, craft, and a snack.

Enclosed is a registration form for your congregation. Please note the following:

• The event is open to youth in grades 3, 4, 5, and 6.
• One adult is needed for every five (5) youth. This adult is expected to remain onsite and to assist, when asked and where possible, with the activities.
• The event will cost $10 per participant. A congregation check – made out to Metro Washington, DC Synod – SHEMA 2009 – must accompany the Congregation Registration Form.
• The registration deadline is April 1, 2009. The maximum capacity of this event is 200.
• The Adult in Charge from each congregation is responsible for bringing the individual Youth and Adult registration forms to the event
• As a service project, we will be collecting new and gently used children’s story and chapter books for The CARing Project, a service ministry of the Lutheran Campus ministry at the University of Maryland, College Park, working with Children At Risk in the Langley Park area. Please bring these with you to Shema.

Expectations (Youth and Adults)

• All registrants – youth and adults – will participate fully in all activities at the event.
• Participants are expected to respect the property of others and of the event site, to clean up after themselves, and if responsible for damage, to pay for it.
• No alcohol, weapons, tobacco, drugs (other than prescribed medication), or fireworks will be
  brought to or used at the event.
• iPods, electronic games, etc. will not be brought to the event; cell phones will be used for emergencies only.
• Lutherans throughout Metro DC will be proud of the way in which our community represented them.

The congregation registration form and payment – congregation check made out to Metro Washington, DC Synod – SHEMA 2009 should be mailed to:

SHEMA 2009
Barbara Harner, Registrar
23 Dellcastle Court
Montgomery Village, MD 20886

If you have questions about the event, please contact Pr. Shelley Simmont:
ssimmont@stluke.us (301-588-4363) or Barbara Harner.

Forms (PDF)

• Overview Letter and Congregational Registration
• Youth Registration
• Adult Registration
• Flyer

When: June 28 – July 4, 2009
Who: Youth completing 9th – 12th grade (June 2009) and Youth Ministry Adults
Where: Neon, Kentucky
Why: To rebuild homes/cabins and lives, to share God’s love, to have fun while we work, and to learn more aboutChristian servanthood and compassionate justice.

CHI RHO is designed to benefit both the youth and adults involved and those we serve. Youth may participate as
individuals or as part of a small congregational group. This event is not designed to substitute for or replace a congregational YM servant event, but rather to enable those youth whose congregations may not be offering such an event an opportunity to participate in one.

It is important that all participants should understand that, while planned as a fun and spiritually enriching event, CHI RHO is first and foremost a working camp. IT WILL INVOLVE CHALLENGING PHYSICAL LABOR FOR MOST OF THE WEEK. Participants need not have a background in building or construction, but they must be willing to work hard and give of themselves for the benefit of others.

Expectations (for Youth and Adults)

• All participants will respect the personal property of others and of the event site(s) and if responsible for damage, to pay for it.
• Full participation in all activities is required.
• Participants are expected to return to and remain in their rooms at lights out, respecting the need for rest.
• Directions from adult leaders will be heeded.
• Alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, weapons, and fireworks are prohibited.
• All participants will respect the feelings and viewpoints of others, and will keep in mind they are representing Lutherans throughout the Washington metro area.
• Participants will make sure that an adult leader knows where they are at all times. If it becomes necessary for an individual or small group to go somewhere, they will discuss with a leader before going.

Failure to comply with these expectations can result in termination as deemed by the trip coordinator. If necessary, arrangements will be made for the participant(s) to return home early at additional parental/guardian expense.

Registration Information

• Registration is limited to 24 youth, completing 9th through 12th grade, and 6 adults. (All adults attending must have a confirmed Background Check on file with the synod office.) Youth and adults can register as individual participants.
• The full cost of the event is $375.00 plus personal expenses (meals during travel on Sunday and Saturday).
• A nonrefundable deposit of $200.00 per registrant, Registration form and Permission, Health History and
  Medication Consent form must be received by April 15, 2009. Make checks payable to “Metro Washington
  D.C. Synod – Chi Rho 2009.” Payment in full must be received by June 1, 2009.
• Direct questions and concerns to Barbara Harner
• Plan to attend a pre-trip information and planning meeting (tentatively scheduled for June 7, 2009 at King of Kings Lutheran Church, Fairfax, VA, from 4:00 – 5:30). At this important meeting, you will have a chance to meet the other participants and we will review what to expect and what to bring, ensure paperwork is complete, collect any balance due, and answer any last minute questions. Even if you have gone before, plan to attend this meeting!
• Registration and Permission, Health History and Medication Consent forms are included; there are separate
  forms for youth and adults. In addition, a photocopy of the volunteer’s medical card is required.

Return registration forms and deposit payment of $200.00 to:

Chi Rho 2009
Barbara Harner, Registrar
23 Dellcastle Court
Montgomery Village, MD 20886

Forms (PDF)

• Overview Letter
• Youth Registration
• Adult Registration
• About the HOMES program