THE YOUTH PROGRAM AT THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION

A message from our Youth and Family Minister

Our new youth program will focus on S.W.E.A.T. This stands for Service, Worship, Evangelism, Activities, and Training. We will be doing service work on the church campus as well as in the Austin area. We will be focused on Worshiping together at ECR as well as become active participants in the liturgy. We will participate in Evangelism by bringing friends to ECR’s EYC and other activities. We will be doing many fun activities as a community. Training will occur when learning about God during the Sunday morning hour.

Youth Sunday Schedule:

9:45 – 10:45 Youth Sunday School (Breakfast with the Bible)

11:00 Worship

4:00 - 5:30 Youth Group

ECR Youth Activity Calendar for February 2012

February 4 – Saturday at ECR’s Thrift Shop, 11:00-12:30.

February 12 – EYC at ECR in the Youth Building, 4:00-5:30.

February 19 – Check-in/ Evaluation Meeting, Parents Strongly Encouraged to Participate, 12:30.

February 26 – No EYC. There will be no Breakfast with the Bible on February 26.

We continue to meet Sunday mornings from 9:45-10:45 for Breakfast with the Bible to talk about life and how God fits into it.

For grades 6th – 12th, our Sunday School program is Breakfast with the Bible, at 9:45-10:45 in the morning in the youth Building . Come by, have some breakfast and learn about, who the disciples were and what they were really like.

The Breakfast with the Bible topics will be based on the book Twelve Ordinary Men by John McArthur: A Study of the Disciplesnally,

PROJECT CARE CASE - A YOUTH AND FAMILY MINISTRY OUTREACH

In Dedember, the Youth Group solicited suitcases, stuffed animals, blankets, and personal items to be given to children in foster care programs where they may be moved around frequently. This gives the child something comforting and something they can truly call their own during this difficult time in their lives. The congregation generously supported the youth in this initative. Below is a picture of several members of the youth group, Susan Burnham, Youth and Family Minister at ECR and Connie Bellows, founder and director of Project Care Case.

I ask for your prayers;

Almighty God, who called Jeremiah and Timothy as youth to be your servants: assist us to live into our Baptismal vows; to be responsible for seeing that the children and youth present in this congregation are brought up in the Christian faith and life; that our continual prayers and witness will help them grow into the full stature of Christ; and guide and empower us, to do all in our power to support them in their lives in Christ, who with you and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns now and forever. Amen.

I will be in the Church office on Mondays and Wednesdays, but can be reached via email or phone at other times.

Director of Youth and Family Ministries:

Susan Burnham, 2200 Justin Lane,Austin, TX 78757, (512) 459-0027

E-mail: youth@ecraustin.org