Youth Ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Hawai'i

2004 OAHU EPISCOPAL SUMMER YOUTH VOLLEYBALL LEAGUE
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Details: The trip will cost approximately $1200. This includes transportation, room, food, and a PYE ’04 T-shirt. The cost of the trip will be paid in the following way: The Diocese will pay 1/3, the youth’s local church will pay 1/3, and the youth will be responsible for paying the other 1/3. Your portion of the fee will be due upon your selection to the Hawaii delegation to PYE.

Selection of Cadidates for PYE
Any student currently in grades 9-12th should apply to attend PYE. A selection committee will select 12 youth. These youth will represent the cultural, ethnic, and economic diversity of the Diocese. It is important that each youth carefully fill out the essay form as this will be the main determining factor for the selection of candidates. Those youth who have not attended the Provincial Youth Event or the Episcopal Youth Event in previous years will be given first priority. Those chosen for the Hawaii delegation must attend an organizational meeting with Bishop Chang on Saturday June 12, from 9am-3pm at the MaCray Center.

Travel
The delegation from Hawaii will depart to Portland by plane on Monday evening, July 19. The participants will return to Hawaii mid-day Monday July 26.

Chaperones
Three chaperones will accompany and supervise the 12 youth to the Provincial Youth Event. These chaperones are experienced youth workers in the Diocese and as part of their requirement as youth workers, have taken the Sexual Misconduct Awareness Training.

Accommodations
The Provincial Youth Event will take place at Concordia University in Portland, Oregon. Everyone will be assigned a place to sleep upon arrival on Tuesday afternoon. Bedding will be provided. Individuals will need to bring their own towels, personal hygiene items, and appropriate clothing. We will be outside at times for activities, and during free time, so please make sure to bring closed-toe shoes, hiking boots,or good tennis shoes etc. You may bring a swimsuit and other sports equipment. You might want to pack a sweater or jacket for the evenings. All meals will be provided for the duration of the trip.

Registration
All applicants must complete the following forms.
1.) Diocese of Hawaii Provincial Youth Event Application Form (remember the priest from your church must sign the form)
2.) Diocese of Hawaii Permission and Release Form
3.) Diocese of Hawaii Conduct Covenant
4.) Diocese of Hawaii Essay Form
5.) Provincial Youth Event of Province VIII Application Form
6.) PYE ’04 Activities Permission and Medical Authorization Form

All completed registration forms are due Monday,May 10. Late applications will not be considered- no exceptions. Applications should be sent to:
Nancy Tourk
1515 Wilder Avenue
Honolulu, HI 96822

After review of the applications, youth will be notified of their selection for the PYE delegation no later than Monday May 24.

Download complete information and all of the Forms needs for this event HERE

EYE 2005 Get ready!

The website for the Episcopal Youth Event (EYE 2005) is now live.

EYE 2005 will be held at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, July 26-31, 2005.

As  “Can You Catch The Spirit Off The Beaten Path?” takes shape over the next 14 months, http://www.eye2005.org will be the place to get the most current information.

Visit the site regularly for updates.

Auditions for the EYE Music Team are underway. Interested youth and young adult musicians are asked to complete a brief written application, and to submit a tape and/or CD recording.

Detailed information about the audition process is available on the Music Team page of the EYE website. An online registration packet is posted to download. In it you will find a description of what the music team does, the application form, sheet music and MP3 files of the required songs all applicants are asked to perform.

Music applications must be postmarked by June 30.

The audition packet in downloadable from is at: http://www.eye2005.org/music_team.html

If you have difficulty downloading the materials, please call the Youth Ministries office at the Episcopal Church Center. A packet will be mailed to you: 1-800-334-7626 x6156.

Please direct question to coordinator, Lisa Kimball at lisakimball@visi.com or national church staff officer for youth, Betsy Boyd, bboyd@episcopalchurch.org.
 

When: October 8-10, 2004
Where: Camp Mokuleia,Oahu
Cost: $65 per person.
Fee must accompany application with checks made payable to the Episcopal Church in Hawai`i

A Unique Program
New Beginnings is a unique weekend specially designed to respond to the issues, concerns, and needs of teenagers in grades 7, 8, and 9 (mature 6th graders may also attend). The program is designed to help participants grow in their love of themselves, others, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

A Program for Teens
Any appropriate age teen may attend a New Beginnings weekend. Participants do not have to be Episcopalian, but must be recommended through an Episcopal Church and have the backing of an adult sponsor from that church who will be attending the entire weekend.

Accommodations and Cost
Camp Mokuleia is located in Waialua, Oahu. Everyone will be assigned a place to sleep on arriving Friday evening.
You need to provide your own bedding (sleeping bags are preferable), towels, personal hygiene items, and appropriate clothing. Mostly we will be indoors, but there is free time to be outside, so bring appropriate clothing, including a bathing suit and towel and closed toe shoes.

Three meals on Saturday and two on Sunday will be provided. PLEASE EAT BEFORE YOU ARRIVE ON FRIDAY.

The weekend cost will be $65 per person (including adult sponsors and team members) and is refundable only if the weekend is filled or canceled. Please make checks out to the Episcopal Church in Hawai`i. Please enclose the Diocesan Conduct Covenant (signed!) with your registration form. Air reservations will be made upon receipt of your application, signed covenant, and fee. September 3 is the deadline for requesting air tickets.

Sponsors
Every church that sends two or more participants to New Beginnings must send at least one adult sponsor (over the age of 21) with them who has received the Diocesan Sexual Anti-Misconduct Training. The adult sponsor will be responsible for bringing participants to the weekend, serving as a support person to the Family Group Leader during the entire weekend, and then taking the teenagers home at the conclusion of the weekend. Responsibility includes sleeping area and free time supervision. This weekend usually touches each sponsor in a very special way. Because of the importance of the sponsor, no young person’s application will be accepted without a sponsor’s name and address. A follow-up book with resource materials is handed out to each sponsor on the weekend to be used by your church when you return and incorporated into youth programs.

Weekend Format
New Beginnings starts on Friday evening at 6:00 p.m. and continues until Sunday at 2:00 p.m. There are a series of songs, skits, tapes, talks (by youth and adults), and small group discussions. These focus around the following subjects: Self, Friends, Parents, Siblings, School, God’s Love, Prayer, Who Is Jesus, and the Church. There is also lots of time for playing, laughing, creating, exploring, and sharing. Participants will not only learn and grow, but will have the time of their lives!

Bishop Chang will be with us for our Sunday celebration of the Eucharist.

Download complete package of forms here.

Please mail all completed registrations to New Beginnings, Calvary Church, 45-435 Aumoku Street, Kaneohe, HI 96744.

THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS September 22, 2004 for Oahu churches. September 3 2004 for neighbor island churches! (The maximum numbers of registrations is 125, then a waiting list. Space priority will be given to those youth for whom this is their first or second New Beginnings weekend.

Any questions, please call Cindy Liberato at 808-247-2733 ext. 17or email: CalvryChHI@aol.com.

Jump 25 feet into sapphire blue water; snorkel among flitting yellow butterfly fish; praise God in a top deck sunrise Eucharist, squinting as light strikes towering, volcanic cliffs; hear the reading of the Gospel of “Bruddah” John; sing and dance to guitar, bongo and ukulele; discuss the hierarchy of needs set out by psychologist Abraham Maslow.

This is a new day for youth and adults in the Diocese of Hawai’i as they work together to form a new leadership network to spark youth and family ministry in the churches across the islands.

Under cloudy skies, but with bright spirits, 22 young people and 14 adults cast off March 22 from the Aloha Tower Marketplace docks in Honolulu on Rapture Marine Expeditions, bound for three days of building awareness for youth ministries in the church and fun activities on the sea.

For four days and three nights the 36 people took part in an unusual offering from the diocese—building leadership skills, learning concepts of commitment, religious faith, and sharing ideas how to spur youth and family participation in congregations. 

“We want to get to know each other well enough so we can give support and challenge each other in the ministries we have when we get back home, “ said the Rev. Dr. David Moore, chaplain at Iolani School, member of the planning committee, and the clergy presence on the trip. “We’ll be a stronger group of folk who care about ministry in our congregations, especially ministry about and with youth.”

Ferdinand Cajigal, Good Shepherd, Maui, also on the planning committee, provided lively music leadership, sharing with young musicians as he told the gathering he hoped “to plant a seed that you can take back home.”ome.”

Also on the planning committee were Jenny Wallace, director of Christian formation of St. Andrew Cathedral, who was on the trip, and the Rt. Rev. Richard Chang, who was unable to join the group as he was at a House of Bishop’s meeting in Texas. Keynote program leader was Lisa Kimball, longtime youth leader from Provinces VIII and VI, PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota, and program planner for the 2005 National Episcopal Youth Event. Kimball provided materials and activities which included discussing stages of faith and forming community; conceptual models of youth and family ministry; how we learn; principles of relational ministry; making yourself a leader; and uniqueness of regional and diocesan youth ministry.

Numerous hands-on and group activities moved people around the “salon” level of the boat, where most formative sessions were held.

Adults from across the diocese participated and helped support the spiritual formation and leadership education alongside youth from their churches, while the Rapture crew provided water sports and introduced elements of the Hawaiian sea life.

Traveling on the 150-foot boat with a crew geared to serving Christian youth retreats and presenting programs in marine environmental education to school groups, the event provided safety, security, and a place to stretch the limits in mind, spirit, and physical activity.

The ship moored off the island of Lanai— in Hulopo’e Bay and at southernmost Palaoa Point in the shadow of 1,000-foot lava cliffs.  Here the group snorkeled in bays, kayaked along lava shores and caves, visited the 350-foot high cliff diving site of historic Kahelilis Jump, and the archaeological sites of Halulu Heiau, being researched by the Bishop Museum. While on board all engaged in supervised water activities, jumping off two deck levels, rock wall and rope climbing, and swimming deep blue waters.   

“What’s going to happen is totally God inspired,” Kimball told the group as she launched into the four-day program. With music, worship, prayer, study, laughter, full days of water activities, nutritious, plenteous food, and surrounded by supportive adults, it is the hope that the participants in the leadership cruise will return to their churches inspired to be leaders, work with their clergy and lay leaders to jump-start new enthusiasm for youth and family ministries in their midst and across the diocese.

For information on Rapture Marine Expeditions: http://www.rapture.cc