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Timothy: Young, Able, and Faithful

January 26, 2019 By Eric Liles Leave a Comment

Please church, welcome, encourage and support the faith, prophetic voices, and ministries of our young people. We need them now more than ever.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: children, church, St. Paul, St. Timothy, youth, youth ministry

Be the blessing you want to see in the church.

November 14, 2018 By Miriam McKenney 3 Comments

How can we help young people feel included in our churches? Miriam suggests ways to include teens in your stewardship campaign by offering them the opportunity to be a blessing to, in, and for your congregation.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Spiritual Practices, Way of Love Tagged With: bless, giving, money, pledge, spiritual gifts, spiritual practice, teenagers, teens, Way of Love, youth

Following the Way of Love with Youth

September 26, 2018 By Miriam McKenney Leave a Comment

Are you practice The Way of Love? Read about Bishop Curry’s call to us to follow the seven principles of The Way of Love: Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bess, Go, and Rest and see how one youth group begins their journey on The Way.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Spiritual Practices, Way of Love Tagged With: church, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, rule of life, spiritual practice, teenagers, teens, Way of Love, youth, youth group

The Power of Youth at General Convention

July 27, 2018 By Claire Parish 3 Comments

My name is Claire Parish and I was one of two youth selected from my province to be part of the General Convention Official Youth […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: General Convention, teenagers, youth

A Place To Run Home To: Camp Gravatt

June 8, 2018 By Dorian Del Priore Leave a Comment

Summer camp was not a norm for me when I was a kid. I was a competitive swimmer, and so my summer consisted of two […]

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: camp, young children, youth

Don’t take a vacation from God! Faith Formation is year-round and lifelong.

May 28, 2018 By Bill Campbell 3 Comments

Every year, the church-going faithful come into Pentecost with their post-Easter glow and then, well…honestly, everyone seems to disappear. The “summer slump.” as my formation […]

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Bible Study, children, lectionary, summer, vacation bible school, youth

Learning who I want to be at Camp McDowell

May 25, 2018 By Margaret Blackerby 1 Comment

“You know how God appears in lots of different ways? Like God takes on different shapes and forms, but they all add up to mean God. […]

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Uncategorized Tagged With: children, summer, teenagers, teens, youth

A Language Practice for Pentecost

May 20, 2018 By Tina Clark Leave a Comment

In the Gospel for this Pentecost Sunday, one line jumps out at me in particular as a parent. Jesus says to the disciples,  I did […]

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged With: children, Faith, Family, youth

Shouting and Sharing God’s Love at Summer Camp

May 18, 2018 By Paris Ball Leave a Comment

Something I’ve learned over the past decade from serving The Diocese of Virginia as the Director of Shrine Mont Camps is that time feels different […]

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: camp, discipleship, love, Prayer, youth

Loving, Belonging & Connecting at Summer Camp

May 14, 2018 By Meaghan Brower 3 Comments

Editor’s Note:  I attended my diocesan camp as a young child, rediscovered God’s presence in my life at that camp as a nineteen-year-old and first felt […]

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: children, God, teenagers, teens, youth

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