Mission Trip Update
To better serve our community, the price for Mission Trip Birmingham, the high school trip, will now be $375. The final payment has been adjusted to reflect the reduction in cost. |
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New Beginnings Team Training was last week at the Cathedral. Get signed up as a participant.
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This is our middle school retreat open to all 6-8th grade youth. Come hang out with other youth from across the diocese at Camp Mikell.
This is a fun weekend about community, love, and making new friends.
All youth and sponsors, adult chaperones,
can register
here. Registration closes on
Jan 31.
Happening 65 | Feb 19-21
Candidate and Celebration Team registration are open! Click here for candidate and here for Celebration Team. All 9-12th grade youth are eligible to attend as candidates, and please remember you must serve on Celebration Team before regular team! Registration closes for both on Feb 15.
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We had over 300 people come to Eucharist to start the day. Be a part of something bigger this year and register!
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Hunger Walk | Mar 13
Register for the youth team, eycdioatl,
here!
Chaperones can use the same registration. We will start with
Eucharist at 10:30am
at an indoor facility near Turner Field. The Emmaus House Chapel congregation will join us. Bishop Whitmore will be with us to celebrate. Come for fellowship and a continental breakfast starting
at 9:45.
After the Eucharist, we will head to the food trucks for lunch before the Hunger Walk.
Last year we raised $5,300 as the Youth Team of the Diocese of Atlanta. Let's do more this year! Once you register, please remember you can ask people to sponsor you. Registering will provide greater detail.
Graduation Celebration | May 1
Join us on May 1 for our first Graduation Celebration. The diocese will host this event at Holy Innocents'. This is for anyone graduating! Please plan to be there from 3:30-5:30pm. Join us and the Bishop for a great afternoon. Seniors can register, here. Please know party size. Youth that wish to attend as friends can use the same registration. April 27 is the registration deadline.
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All remaining slots will be first come first serve. Space is limited! Get signed up!
Birmingham | July 10-15
Diocesan Mission Trip Birmingham is our
high school youth trip. Each participant will spend half the week doing labor based service work that includes a coop garden and soup kitchen, while the other half of the week will be relational, including volunteering at a local VBS. You can find
registration
here. You can find more information about the trip here.
atlSERVE | July 10-15
The diocese has also partnered with All Saints' Atlanta to provide an Atlanta based mission trip for middle school youth. We have already partnered with Emmaus House, Meals on Wheels, and the Atlanta Food Bank to provide a good mix of service work. You can find registration here. You can find more information about the trip here.
The middle school deposit is $50, and the high school deposit is $60. The deadline has passed, but we will continue to take youth until we run out of space, so get registered today!
All online payments for both mission trips can be found
here. There is a deposit and 3 payments.
Payments can also be mailed to the diocese. Please make the check out to the diocese and ear mark it Mission Trip atlSERVE or Birmingham. Check can be mailed to Youth Missioner, Easton Davis. The address is in the footer at end of this e-newsletter.
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Youth Workers' Meeting | Feb 9
The next Youth Workers' Meeting will be on Feb 9, from 12-2pm at the Cathedral of St. Philip in room 122. If you are able to attend, please email Youth Missioner, Easton Davis, here.
Youth Workers' Retreat | Aug 5-6
The Diocese will host the 2016 Youth Workers' Retreat Aug 5-6 at All Saints' Atlanta. You have the option of starting the retreat on Friday night with dinner and staying through 6 o'clock Saturday, or coming Saturday morning at 10am for the day portion. Registration opening soon!
Social Media
Help us begin to track what all our youth groups are doing across the diocese. Whenever you post a photo from your youth group, please hashtag #eycdioatl. We want this be a new way that we can all stay connected and see what other groups are doing.
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Vocare Feb 19-21
Easton Davis, Youth Missioner, and 3 other young adults will go to the Diocese of Alabama's Vocare. If you are a young adult and interested in attending this Episcopal Young Adult Retreat, please contact us
here.
It is free!
A Bridge from Congregation to College
Are you a high school senior? Please let us know. Fill out our form,
A Bridge from Congregation to College, and let us know where you are going to school. This is the best way to stay connected to the Episcopal Church as you transition.
Chaperones
We will continue to take college students and high school graduates as chaperones once they are 1 year removed from high school for all Diocesan Events. If interested, please contact us
here.
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Youth Calendar
- Feb 5-7: New Beginnings 35
- Feb 18-20: Happening 65
- Mar 13: Hunger Walk
- May 1: Graduation Celebration
- June 4: Diocesan Tubing Trip
- July 10-15: Mission Trip atlSERVE
- July 10-15: Mission Trip Birmingham
- Aug 27: Youth Service Day Retreat
- Oct 1: New Beginnings Team Training
- Oct 7-9: New Beginnings 36
- Oct 28-29: Happening Team Training, location TBA
- Nov 11-13: Happening 66
- Nov 18-19: Youth Lock-In at Council
- December 10-11: DYC Staffing
Would you like a PDF of the schedule? Click here to view.
Have you been to Camp Mikell on a youth retreat but not summer camp? You are missing out on an entirely awesome time where youth come together to worship, play games, dance, and jump in the pool! Don't miss out on a session.
- June 5-11: Youth, rising 10-12th
- June 12-18: Performing Arts, rising 4-9th
- June 19-25: Intermediate, rising 8-9th
- June 26-July 2: Junior, rising 6-7th
- July 18-23: Work, rising 10th thru just graduated
Youth Workers' Calendar
- Feb 9: Youth Workers' Meeting at St. Philip's, 12-2pm
- Mar 8: Youth Workers' Meeting at St. Francis Macon, 6-8pm
- April 12: Youth Workers' Meeting at St. Philip's, 12-2pm
- May 10: Youth Workers' Meeting at St. David's, 6-8pm
- Aug 5-6: Youth Workers' Retreat, All Saints' Atlanta
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here.
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