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How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Be a Volunteer Leader for a National Summer Event
Danielle Tietjen
In my opinion, the perfect summer vacation would be hanging
out with amazing people, hearing great bands and motivational speakers, getting
to play fun games, and strengthening my faith through service and worship. Want
to join me? I have two fabulous opportunities for you to meet new people and
have the time of your life, and it’s virtually FREE! All you have to do is get
there.
Spend a week in the beautiful city of Kansas City for Youth
Encounter’s high school National Youth Event, EDGE. There are tons of opportunities
to serve this July 20-24 with our on-site and off-site service projects, our
production team, sales and bookstore team, labor and workshop teams, and
volunteer staff team. Almost 22 people are needed to make this Event happen,
and we need you!
[CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY]
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2007-2008 Community-Based Team Host Sites Chosen
Recruiting for Teams Currently Underway
Lisa Rykken Kastler
This year, Youth Encounter
launched a new kind of team ministry, bringing the musical and relational
skills of a traveling team to a congregation for an entire year. First Lutheran
Church in Brookings, South Dakota and Trinity Lutheran Church in Stillwater,
Minnesota requested to host our first two Community-Based Teams, and God has
been faithful in using the host churches and the team members for His glory. As
news of the teams’ great ministry has spread, we have received requests for
more information from over 40 sites and got written applications from nine
sites. We are so delighted with this response! Someday, we hope to be able to place
Community-Based Teams at all sites who request one.
We are pleased to announce
three hosts for 2007-2008 at this time. These sites include a range of ministry
opportunities–campus ministry, urban ministry and suburban congregational
ministry development. Youth Encounter will be partnering with Ohio State
University Lutheran Campus Ministry in Columbus, Ohio, three ELCA churches in
Racine, Wisconsin (Our Savior’s, Atonement and Emmaus), and Trinity Lutheran
Church (LCMS) in Crown Point, Indiana. Plans are currently underway for a
fourth site, which will be announced as soon as possible.
[CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY]
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Looking to Change Your Life?
Join a National, International, or Community-Based Team!
Gary Korpi
Hello from the Recruitment Department! Right now our International
Teams to Denmark, West Africa, South America, Papua New Guinea and Australia
are approaching the halfway point of the international tours. I’m excited to
think about all the ministry opportunities they have had already and for those
that they will still have. It is great to be a part of this.
In 2007-2008, our International Teams will be visiting the countries of Kenya,
Tanzania, and Uganda; Ecuador, Venezuela, and Colombia; the Philippines and Taiwan;
Denmark; and Germany. Can you imagine the impact these teams will have as
ambassadors for Christ in these countries? Can you imagine yourself being a
part of it? You might have a role in how the church in Africa responds to local
poverty, or you might go to the Philippines and help a local pastor witness to
an entire village. How about the challenge to traveling to a country like
Denmark, once considered a Christian nation but now caught in the grips of
secularism and paganism, and having the opportunity to affect the youth of an
entire nation for Christ? You can be involved in all this and more as a member
of one of Youth Encounter’s international ministry teams.
[CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY]
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GoodSearch Supports Youth Encounter
Every Text Search Raises Money
Gary Korpi
Looking for something on the Internet? Instead of using some
other search engine, try using GoodSearch.com!
GoodSearch is a search engine which donates half of its revenue to the
charities and schools designated by its users. It's a simple and compelling
concept. You use GoodSearch exactly as you would any other search engine.
Because it’s powered by Yahoo!, you get proven search results. The money
GoodSearch donates to your cause comes from its advertisers—the users and the
organizations do not spend a dime!
It’s easy to use. Just go to www.goodsearch.com, choose Youth
Encounter as your favorite cause, and search away! Approximately $.01 per text
search will be donated to Youth Encounter at the end of the year. This
e-newsletter is currently received by about 20,000 people. If each of our
readers does one search a day for the rest of the year, we can raise over
$61,000! Please take advantage of this easy and beneficial way to search the
Internet and support Youth Encounter!
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Good Things to Come
Anticipating God's Work at Events
Jennifer Miller
Anticipation.
Webster defines it as “the act of looking forward” or “pleasurable
expectation.” We anticipate many things in life—some of us anticipate gathering
with friends or family; during Advent, we anticipate the celebration of the
birth of our Savior; as we enter this season of Lent, we anticipate the death
and resurrection of our Lord. As I write this, my husband and I are
anticipating the birth of our new niece or nephew, as well as our second
child.
As an Event Director, I anticipate the coming of
Event Season each fall. For the Event Division at Youth Encounter, this is when
all the planning of the previous several months comes to fruition. I look
forward to actually being on site with the church groups that I haven’t seen in
a year and visiting with the speakers and musicians who I’ve become friends
with over the past many years at our Events.
[CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY]
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Never Will I Leave You; Never Will I Forsake You
Read Excerpts from Captive Free North Central's Online Journal
Captive Free North Central
Tuesday and Wednesday we stayed at Park River Bible Camp in
Park River, ND. This is actually our second time here, and it was really cool
to get to do a program there. We had a little bit of free time there, so we
took the time and practiced a bit and just hung out with the people at the camp
and our teammates (and actually, also my parents because they were over here
for Christmas and stayed for a few days into the new year so that they could
see us play). We played at the school in town Wednesday night, and we had a
pretty good turn out. Our program went pretty good, and it was a lot of fun to
talk a little with the youth after our program. After the program, we tore down
our stuff because we had to leave early Thursday morning.
Wednesday evening ended and Thursday morning came quick (a
bit too quick, after my opinion, but that’s team life). Thursday morning we
left the camp at 9 a.m. We said goodbye to the people at the camp and to my
parents (it’s sad to say goodbye to your parents when it’s your birthday)… We
drove from Park River, ND, to Minot, ND. On our way there we took a picture by
the geographical Center of North America–in Rugby, ND. In Minot, we played at
Dakota Boys Ranch. Our program went really well, and it’s really awesome to see
the work the people there do to help the young people. It’s amazing to see how
they never give up on the youth there and just keep on trying to help them. I
truly admire how people keep on working with something or someone, even though
it’s really hard at times.
[CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY]
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I Wish I Could Bottle It Up and Take It Home
Read Excerpts from New Dawn's Online Journal
New Dawn
Well, I'm finally doing what I went to college for (of
course I haven't graduated yet, and my major is now different than what I
started with for the tenth time, but that's beside the point)...I'm teaching
twelfth grade English here in PNG. Whoever would have thought that this would
happen to me, and in a foreign country? God works in amazing ways. It's
allowing me to see things in a new light. To start with, boys here in PNG are
shy. If you call on a boy in class, he will most likely mumble (that's if you're
lucky) and then put his head down on the desk and pretend that he is trying his
hardest to disappear. And they are all so quiet in class. Hard to believe,
right? The crazy thing is, they know the answers. They are smart kids who
genuinely want to be here. But manners have been taught to them at a very early
age, and they respect their teachers. It's great to see kids who love to learn,
who work hard at learning, and who are appreciative of the classes that they
are taking. It makes me smile.
[CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY]
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Development Professional Wanted
Youth Encounter Seeks Dynamic Fundraiser and Division Head
Youth Encounter seeks a dynamic person to fill the role of
Development Division Executive. This person will also direct the Lutheran Youth
Encounter Foundation. Youth Encounter is a non-profit with a mission of strengthening the Church through the
Christian faith, ministry, and leadership of its youth. This is done in a
variety of ways, including sending out relational music ministry teams both
nationally and internationally, regional youth events, national youth events,
and international and national work crews. Youth Encounter’s annual budget is
approximately $6 million.
[CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STORY]
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