infinity Groups and dates

Next infinity Group night - December 14th at 5:30 from 8:00 PM at the Third Space in Peterborough.

Junior Youth meet first and third Sunday of the month for lunch, lessons and games.

- Michael

Upcoming Events

Ida youth. The following events are upcoming:

Junior youth will be meeting for skating on November 16th. We will eat lunch together and then head on down to Millbrook for some fun and games. December 7th and 21st are the next days we are meeting for after church activities.

Senior youth continue to meet on Tuesday nights and once a month for the iG (infinity Groups) 'Youth Social Justice Nights'. Seen below are some of our incredible youth hanging out in the freshly painted youth room. The upcoming Youth Social Justice Night is on November 16th at exactly 5:30 at the Third Space in Peterborough. We will also be meeting on Sunday, November 30th, after the morning service, for lunch and games. Rachel R. is leading this up so details will be shared as we hear from her.

Poster for Oct. 19th Event

The Dream Youth Event

On Sunday October 19th, 2008, from 5:30 to 8:00 PM, there will be an epic youth event entitled, The Dream Youth Event, held at the Third Space Church in Peterborough.

The purpose: To inform, inspire, and engage Peterborough youth in social justice activities.
Let's define these things for you:

social justice: The belief that every individual and group is entitled to fair and equal rights and participation in social, educational, and economic opportunities. The agenda is to increase understanding of oppression and inequality and taking action to overcome them.

engage: Carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in

The format will be pretty simple, giving you, the youth, a chance to tell us, your leaders, the things that you care about, that strike you as unfair. We will facilitate discussion and encourage you to think about certain things going on in Peterborough. We will then break up into smaller groups with similar concern and discuss how to be informed and given opportunity in this direction.

There will be some form of dinner between 5:30 and 6:00 and the main event from 6:00 to 8:00. Please start thinking about the world around you, what injustice do you see that makes you upset? Think. Write those things down. The Third Space Church is located at the corner of Park and Wolfe in Peterborough. Go to this link for a map.

Christian Harvey of St. John's Anglican Church in Peterborough, Carlo Raponi from the Bridge Youth Centre, Becky Rodin from Auburn Bible Chapel and myself, Michael VanDerHerberg from St. John's Ida are organizing the event. And we expect you to be there.

Painting the Youth Room Photos

Good times had by all with Image Blue. Next post... Hot Pepper.

Sexual Health Awareness Seminar

This Thursday evening at 7 PM with Carol Anne and all the Senior Youth girls. Carol Anne will be speaking on the issue of sexual assault and what preventative measures you can take against it. Thank you Carol Anne for speaking on this issue.

Paint and Send a Message Around the Church

This Sunday was another successful and entertaining time with the Junior and Senior youth groups at St. John's Ida. We made pizza together with the beautiful Andrea leading the crew. We consumed the pizza together and stuffed ourselves with raw carrots. And we head off in different directions, Andrea with the seniors and myself with the juniors. I heard that a second coat of Image Blue was put on as well as the primer for the Hot Pepper and that it is looking good. With the juniors, we played a game by trying to send a message around the church from upstairs to downstairs and up the other stairs one word at a time. The worst was 3:45 with missing words in the given phrase and the best came in perfectly at 1:00. But before this, I challenged them with various questions along the lines of if Jesus would be the type to get arrested, push over tables, get people to drink more, hang out with prostitutes and give someone $2 if they asked for $1. If you're catching the spirit of what I am saying, the encouragement is not to get arrested or drunk, but to rethink the person of Jesus, who he was and what he did. He was a revolutionary in his age, and also in ours. He was strong through his weakness. He was powerful by submitting. He loved sinners and despised the proud. Imagine if we, the church, started to live like he did. Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.

-Michael

Colours

Ida Youth,

Here are your selected colours.

Hot Pepper and Harlequin. To fit the corresponding shade, I think we will go with Hot Pepper, the most popular choice, and Image Blue, one shade darker and on the same level as Hot Pepper. And I don't know what the older folk would think of as having Harlequin in the youth room. Hah!
So, Hot Pepper and Image Blue. I will have the paint cans ready with supplies for Tuesday evening, September the 23rd.

On another note, the prayer packages were well received by the congregation and all the packages were taken. I was thinking of sneaking one of mine in there, but maybe I'll do that this week.

Michael

Come and See Sunday

Youth,
I am going to have a few colour swaths ready to show you this coming Sunday. I will also prepare what I am calling 'Prayer Packets' for people in the congregation to take for a week, pray for you and then bring back to me. If you're not OK with this, let me know and I will take you out of the list. See you then,
Michael

Road Trip Nation

At the cafe today, I was speaking with Ella, an Aussie now living in California. She is working with Road Trip Nation. Check out the link and let me know what you think.
http://www.roadtripnation.com/

Michael

Sunday

Sunday was a lot of fun. We ate together, played a few games together, took photos in the graveyard and ended with a game of 'big-disc' throwing in the field up the hill. From my perspective, I would say that these are great kids, respecting boundaries, willing to try new food and wanting to have a lot of fun. I look forward to getting to know them more as we go along.

Michael

Sunday, August 31st

We will be having the inaugural youth meeting with the new youth worker, Michael VanDerHerberg, on Sunday, August 31st after the Sunday morning service. There will be lunch for all and a vegetarian option called the “Vanderburger”. The intention is to stick around for the afternoon and make our way over to the McCamus farm to help out with the corn roast. Come one, come all, tell your friends who are 10 to 20 and we’ll have a good afternoon together.

Michael

St. John's Ida Youth

This site is meant to be a meeting place facilitating community between the youth of St. John's Ida Anglican Church. I am Michael, the moderator of this site and you are you, a contributor, a spectator and a fellow moderator. I am a fellow sojourner on this road and in need of some moderation myself sometimes as well.

Here are some healthy links to follow:
http://www.thesimpleway.org/index2.html
http://www.vanderherberg.com/
http://pwrdf.org/
http://peterboroughcareers.blogspot.com/ (for employment help, must sign up through me)

I will start coming to church on Sunday mornings as of this Sunday, August 10th, and I’ll keep you posted as to how well I was welcomed by you, the youth. And if nobody says hello to me, my first teaching will be on welcoming strangers into our midst. You won’t read this until that time so you won’t know that you are being tested.

Cheers,

Michael