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NEW 2018 Youth of Good Shepherd COVENANT:
Our Good Shepherd Community is an adventure with God and each other. We want to be the hands and feet of Jesus in this Church, city, nation, and the world. We promise to support and appreciate this community by loving, helping, forgiving, respecting, trusting, and accepting one another. We desire to take our faith in the Father , Son, and Holy Spirit seriously but not our selves too seriously. We strive to make new friends and to be patient enough to listen to God and each other.
Wednesday nights: 5:30-7:30 in Herlong Hall. We share a meal together, hang out and grow as a community of disciples who are learning the way of Jesus. Programs vary from Lenten prayer to Dead Theologians society, where we learn about saints who have gone before us. Other times we have Film School, art projects, game nights, prayer stations, and often close our time with Compline (a prayer for the close of the day from our Book of Common Prayer).
Liturgy: Sunday mornings at 9:00 in the couches corner of Herlong Hall. Our class represents the Liturgy of the Word portion of the service where we dive into one the stories read each week in our common lectionary and bring it to life in community. We strive to go deep, be real about our lives, and engage in The Great Story God calls us to live. We join in the congregation for the Holy Eucharist. Youth are welcome and encouraged to sit with their families or with the class for the Eucharist. We remain in the service until its dismissal. Our hope it to build bridges between our youth and the whole experience of our worship service as they mature into faith as full members of the body of Christ.
Annual youth activities also include Parent and Youth Gatherings, Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, Chili Cook-off fundraiser, diocesan youth gatherings, retreats, School Year Kick off Lock-in, Progressive Dinner, College-care package assembly, service projects such as: room in the inn, Graceworks fuel bags, youth-led Sundays.
During the Summer months we continue to meet on several Wednesday nights for house parties, or on adventures out in the community to enjoy the special time of summer together.
Each summer, we set off for an adventure to the Cumberland Mountains of TN for a week-long transformational experience of mission. Groups of youth (ages 13-18) and adults join together at a camp called Cumberland Pines to meet the physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of the people of the Grundy County area. We build, sing, play, worship, travel, meet new friends and sit in awe of Jesus working through us at MT TOP as we help with minor home repair projects and day camps for children.
Mountain T.O.P. (Tennessee Outreach Project) is an interdenominational, non-profit Christian Mission affiliated with the Tennessee Conference of the United Methodist Church, dedicated to rural life ministry in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee.
God is continually at work in the relationships and community in our group and the energy is inspiring. It is exciting to see what God will accomplish through the open hearts and giving attitudes of this community. I am enormously blessed to guide and steward the faith formation of the families and youth of Good Shepherd and to all whom God leads us beyond our doors.
-Jill Altom
NEW 2018 Youth of Good Shepherd COVENANT:
Our Good Shepherd Community is an adventure with God and each other. We want to be the hands and feet of Jesus in this Church, city, nation, and the world. We promise to support and appreciate this community by loving, helping, forgiving, respecting, trusting, and accepting one another. We desire to take our faith in the Father , Son, and Holy Spirit seriously but not our selves too seriously. We strive to make new friends and to be patient enough to listen to God and each other.
Wednesday nights: 5:30-7:30 in Herlong Hall. We share a meal together, hang out and grow as a community of disciples who are learning the way of Jesus. Programs vary from Lenten prayer to Dead Theologians society, where we learn about saints who have gone before us. Other times we have Film School, art projects, game nights, prayer stations, and often close our time with Compline (a prayer for the close of the day from our Book of Common Prayer).
Liturgy: Sunday mornings at 9:00 in the couches corner of Herlong Hall. Our class represents the Liturgy of the Word portion of the service where we dive into one the stories read each week in our common lectionary and bring it to life in community. We strive to go deep, be real about our lives, and engage in The Great Story God calls us to live. We join in the congregation for the Holy Eucharist. Youth are welcome and encouraged to sit with their families or with the class for the Eucharist. We remain in the service until its dismissal. Our hope it to build bridges between our youth and the whole experience of our worship service as they mature into faith as full members of the body of Christ.
Annual youth activities also include Parent and Youth Gatherings, Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, Chili Cook-off fundraiser, diocesan youth gatherings, retreats, School Year Kick off Lock-in, Progressive Dinner, College-care package assembly, service projects such as: room in the inn, Graceworks fuel bags, youth-led Sundays.
During the Summer months we continue to meet on several Wednesday nights for house parties, or on adventures out in the community to enjoy the special time of summer together.
Each summer, we set off for an adventure to the Cumberland Mountains of TN for a week-long transformational experience of mission. Groups of youth (ages 13-18) and adults join together at a camp called Cumberland Pines to meet the physical, social, emotional, and spiritual needs of the people of the Grundy County area. We build, sing, play, worship, travel, meet new friends and sit in awe of Jesus working through us at MT TOP as we help with minor home repair projects and day camps for children.
Mountain T.O.P. (Tennessee Outreach Project) is an interdenominational, non-profit Christian Mission affiliated with the Tennessee Conference of the United Methodist Church, dedicated to rural life ministry in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee.
God is continually at work in the relationships and community in our group and the energy is inspiring. It is exciting to see what God will accomplish through the open hearts and giving attitudes of this community. I am enormously blessed to guide and steward the faith formation of the families and youth of Good Shepherd and to all whom God leads us beyond our doors.
-Jill Altom
Photos from our July 2019 mission trip to Mountain Top
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We welcome all 7th through 12th graders into our Youth Community. We would love to have you join us for any of our events or meetings! For more information on who we are and when we meet click here.
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