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Leadership Training Camp Registering NOW!
For 21 years, young leaders from congregations throughout our synod have gathered at Camp Nawakwa to explore what it means to be a servant leader in the manner of Jesus, in a 21st centruy world. LT Camp is scheduled for July 28 - August 2, 2013.
Leadership Training Camp (LT Camp) continues to be a FREE event for first-year participants, thanks to generous grants from Gordon Lamb, and from LT Camp alumni and staff. Applicants simply print and fill out the LT Camp Registration Form, including the recommendation of a youth worker or pastor, and mail it to the synod Office for Children, Youth & Family Ministry. Deadline for application is July 1, 2013.
Applicants must have completed 9th grade to be eligible for camp, and should be young people who have exhibited leadership gifts and qualities that you feel would benefit from intentional Christian mentoring in utilizing those gifts to serve our Lord, our church, and the world around them. The camp combines faith formation with fun, and a commitment to building Christian community.
Alumni of the experience have gone on to serve in many leadership roles in their home congregations, the larger church, and in their vocational lives. Sometimes even ore valuable is the confidence that many young people gain from the experience, that has proven transformative in their daily lives and relationships. Visit the LT Camp web page, for more details or to download registration.
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Summerfest 2013: Saturday, July 27
For years, youth & congregational adult leaders have asked us to host some kind of event that has the same energy and presence of the Spirit, as Winterfest, but with a price point affordable to more youth and families.
Here comes Summerfest! Priced at $15/person, this day-long event, to be held at our beloved Camp Nawakwa, will include games, crafts, hikes and labyrinth prayer walks, a BBQ meal, worship with Holy Communion in the great outdoors, and a concert by David "Agape" Scherer. Pre-school children may attend for FREE.
This will be our first synod-wide "family-oriented" event, with activities geared for all ages. So, youth can bring their friends or family members. Youth leaders can bring their children, and fiends who may have never excperienced the kind of energy fostered at a "youth" event. In fact, this kind of "Lutheran revival," could become an annual tradition if we get a good response, and we hope we will!
Limited to the first 450 participoants, we ask that groups "register" by using the Summerfest Registration Form. Please send along checks made payable to Lower Susquehanna Synod, with your registration form to the Synod Office for CYFM, 900 S. Arlington Ave, Room 220B, Harrisburg, PA 17109. The event is limited because in case of rain we will move into the pavilion for our worship and concert.
An offering will also be taken at the event to help support our shared ministries with children, youth, young adult and families. An offering is not required, but encouraged.
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