PCUSA@UD
Alternative Spring Break
Service Trip
To
Meridien, Mississippi
Sunday, March 28 – Saturday, April 3
A group of ten to twelve will work with the local Habitat for Humanity affiliate. Meridien, Mississippi, though located more inland on the Gulf Coast, still experienced a need for housing after Hurricane Katrina, when 30,000 displaced folks fled there. Ten thousand remain in the area.
Spaces for this trip will be available first to students at the University of Delaware and then to other adults in the Presbytery – college age and beyond.
For more information, please contact PCUSA@UD campus pastor, Rev. Nona Holy at nholy@udel.edu , 302-299-9077(cell), or 302-454-7801(work).
DON'T WAIT TO DECIDE ABOUT SENDING YOUTH TO TRIENNIUM!
SPACE IS LIMITED!
READ ALL ABOUT IT AT:
http://www.presbyterianyouthtriennium.org/home.php
2010 Youth Triennium
July 20-24
Purdue University
Lafayette, Indiana
The theme for the 2010 Triennium is “For Such a Time as This” from Esther 4:14.
See below for application information or call Laurie Hiller Brumbaugh (302) 629-9077
TRIENNIUM 2010 LETTER OF INVITATION.pdf(click to download)
TRIENNIUM 2010 YOUTH INITIAL APPLICATION.pdf (click to download)
Leadership Development Unit celebrates the diversity of programs experienced by the recipients and reminds campers and sponsoring congregations that we want to hear about your adventures. Please e-mail your stories and photographs to Michelle Woodson at the NCP office at mwoodson@ncpresbytery.org. While email is preferable, you may also mail your info to Michelle at the Presbytery office: 256 Chapman Road, Newark, DE 19702.
Download youth application here: Scholarship Youth application 2009.pdf
Following the Star
Daily online devotions for youth and young at heart
Visit this daily devotion site written specifically for youth and youth leaders but enjoyed by many seekers — it’s a few minutes of your day well spent. Enjoy this holy season through the guided meditation, prayer and biblical reflection included in each day's devotion.
Following the Star is the Advent and Christmas theme of d365.org, a free daily online devotion sponsored by the PC(USA) Ministries with Youth program, Ministries With Young People (The Episcopal Church) and Youth Ministries (PASSPORT CAMPS — Cooperative Baptist Fellowship) offered 365 days of the year. Devotions are written by youth workers, educators, professors, pastors and practitioners. Each season features a new theme and a new musical background as well as tools to connect the devotion to a variety of applications (including Facebook, newsletters, bulletins, mobile phones and email).
Welcome to OSSS II!
Watch the YouTube video of last year’s event:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP_YOnD6FKA
Download OSSS flyer here: OSSS2 FLYER.pdf
Download OSSS Leader’s Tally here: OSSS2 Leader Tally.pdf
Download Release Form here: OSSS Release Form.pdf
Download HFHNCC Insurance Waiver here: HFHNCC Insurance Waiver.pdf
Download HFHNCC Youth Insurance Waiver here: HFHNCC Youth Insurance Waiver.pdf
Download HFHNCC Sexual Harassment Policy here: HFHNCC Sexual Harassment Policy.pdf
SUPPLY LIST:
Hospitality supplies: (Red Clay, Hanover)
- Coffee
- REGULAR tea bags (not green tea, earl gray, etc., etc.)
- Sugar
- Powdered creamer
Paper goods: (Westminster, Limestone)
- Bathroom tissue
- Facial tissue
- Paper towels
- Napkins
Cleaning supplies: (First & Central, Trinity)
- Dish soap
- Bleach
- Disinfectant
- Bathroom cleaners
- General household cleaners
Hygiene items: (Calvary, New Castle,)
- Soap
- Shampoo
- Deodorant
- Toothpaste
- Tooth brushes
- Lotion
- Hand sanitizer
Non-perishable food (Concord, Elsmere)
Welcome to an OSSS-some experience for your congregation's youth, and for our community! We are so grateful for your interest and commitment to participating in this year's ONE SHOT SERVICE SUNDAY II on Sunday October 25, 2009. At the start, here are some things we want you to know:
- We are thrilled and grateful for your participation, whether you bring 1 kid or 21. Particularly for our smaller congregations, this is a great experience to engage with other church youth. So don't worry if you only have 1 or 2 kids --- in fact, encourage it all the more!
- We have 10 participation congregations this year! They are Red Clay Creek, Calvary, First & Central, Elsmere, Trinity, Westminster Wilmington, Concord, Hanover, Limestone, and New Castle!
- With that many churches, the reality is that we will have to limit ourselves --- to the first 100 kids (and corresponding adults in the 5:10 ratio). So don't delay in registering!
- About those forms.....Leaders will receive flyers, tally sheets, and release forms via snail mail by September 1. These forms are also available for download above.
- About those work sites..... We're very excited about adding Friendship House as one of our OSSS community ministry partners! We'll send OSSS teams to various men's and women's shelters, Andrew's Place/Women's Day Center, Clothing Bank, Urban Promise and (also new this year) Habitat for Humanity!
- Donations - we've asked for a participation donation of $50/congregation. That can be sent at any time before the September 28 registration deadline. Checks should be made payable to First & Central, marked OSSS, and sent to the attention of Jenny Warren, First & Central Presbyterian Church, 1101 Market Street, Wilmington, DE 19801. Other donations (food, cleaning supplies, etc.) will be determined after further contact with our community ministry partners --- but know that your kids from your congregation will be asked to donate one type of item (i.e., Calvary and Concord will bring cleaning supplies --Windex and sponges). Stay tuned on that one.
- Lastly, a word about what to expect. Some of you have participated in week long work camps and accomplished great things. This is a different kind of service project. No one, not even the Extreme Makeover Home Edition team, can build a house in 3 hours. Our goal is to engage youth in making a connection with a community ministry, to better understand the need and the response this ministry makes. Shampooing a carpet, or organizing a tool trailer, or planting bulbs or scrubbing kitchen cabinets may not seem like much of an accomplishment --- but it does make a connection. It does make the needs of the poor and the response of the faithful real. And it does get kids -- all of us -- drawn out of ourselves, with our eyes, and our hearts, a bit more open.
- Ok, so this is the real lastly. With our numbers increasing, we who launched this idea in 2008 know that we are going to need some help. We would really like to engage youth leader/church contact people in some of the planning -- ideally, to have one adult leader as a point person for each of our work sites (in addition to the agency staff). We're not talking about a lot of unnecessary meetings -- just one necessary one -- on THURSDAY OCTOBER 8, 7:30 p.m. at CONCORD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND LET US KNOW YOU'LL BE THERE!
So again, welcome to OSSS II ----- it's going to be OSSS-some for all!
Gratefully,
Jenny Warren (First & Central)
Nate Phillips (Red Clay)
Christina Pressley (Concord)
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