Attention !
To All Those Invested in Mission Enterprise and Church Growth:

Bishop Mathes strongly encourages all interested members to attend the February 20 Leadership Academy at St. Bartholomew's in Poway. Three workshops, 75 minutes each, that cover youth ministry, young adult ministry and Latino ministry. Bring your whole team to get everyone up-to-speed on these critical growth areas.

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Details
The day costs $15/person, or $20 on the day-of. Lunch and materials are included. Scholarship assistance is available. Please contact Canon Young for scholarship information. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Saturday, February 20
8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
St. Bartholomew's
16275 Pomerado Rd., Poway, CA 


You may create an account or "Register as Guest." If you have any questions during registration, please contact Registrar Keren Mondaca, 619-481-5455.
Workshop Descriptions

Youth Collaborative: Connecting Youth and Growing in Faith & Fellowship
Presenter: Charlette Preslar, youth collaborative convener
Join members of the Youth Collaborative as we discuss youth ministry in our diocese. Hear about mission trips, service projects, Night Watch, and other projects that you can connect your church and your youth to right now. The Collaborative began in January of 2015 with a vibrant gathering of over 10 churches and is continually reaching out to include more churches and more youth. This is a tremendous offering which enables a church of any size to offer programming for youth. Contact Charlette Preslar with questions.

Campus and Young Adult Ministries: Who Are We?
Presenter: Becky Gleason, diocesan young adult missioner
Are campus ministry and young adult ministry the same thing? This workshop will include a conversation on the distinction and fluidity between campus and young adult ministries and an overview of what we do. We will also discuss how congregations and individuals can connect with young adults, students, and college campuses at this critically important time of life relative to emerging adult faith and vocations to serve Christ.

The Episcopal Church Invites You . . . Te Invita: Strategic Approaches to Building a Healthy Latino Ministry
Presenter: The Rev. Canon Jesus Reyes, congregational growth and development for the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real
Fact: the US is the second largest Latino country in the world. The real question for us is do we feel compelled to do anything about it? The 76th General Convention unanimously approved the reception of the Episcopal Church's Strategic Vision for Reaching Latinos/Hispanics. Here is another fact: the Latino presence in the US requires of us as a church a paradigm shift and challenging paradox. This workshop will address these two perspectives to Latino ministry and will help participants to break away from myths and assumptions, and invite them to engage an intentional approach to create Latino ministry opportunities in their own contexts. Both theoretical and practical information.

Presenter Biographies

Ms. Becky Gleason is the diocesan missioner for young adults and serves as the children's minister at St. Michael's, Carlsbad. She began volunteering with children an dyouth ministries while she was in college at Point Loma Nazarene University. She graduated in 2010 with a B.A. in child development, after which she worked as a lead teacher for a local preschool. In summer 2013, Becky moved to Honduras as a young adult service corps missionary, where she served the Episcopal Church as a high school English teacher and college counselor. After returning to San Diego in summer 2014, Becky began working for the diocese and resumed her work at St. Michael's.

Ms. Charlette Preslar is the Christian education/formation ministry leader at Christ Church, Coronado. She is one of the co-founders of the diocesan youth collaborative which seeks to connect youth from throughout the diocese in mission and ministry with, to and for one another.



The Rev. Canon Jesús Reyes is the canon for congregational growth and development in the Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real. He served as a church planter in Virginia and planted the first self-sustaining Latino Episcopal church there. He was ordained a missionary priest in the Roman Catholic Church. He worked with the Zapoteco Indians in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico and was a missionary in Brazil. He was a social worker for nine years in the areas of economic development, direct assistance, Latino leadership education and empowerment, and housing in Fairfax County Virginia.