The worship page is for ideas for corporate worship that you can tweak to use in your context. Currently, the downloads are a form of evening prayer taken from the Book of Common Prayer, and tweaked to make them more usable in a youth group context. Currently, the contributions are selections from the daily office for Sunday, if you like the format but want the scriptures from another day, simply get the psalms from the translation you use with your youth and copy and paste them in, remember to divide the verses for call and response if you are using that. If you are uncertain of where to divide the verses, you can reference the prayer book
Daily Office, Year One:
–Proper 11, July 22, 2007 (doc) (pdf)
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The discussion on space, and Suzanne’s comment in particular, got me thinking about something I’ve wondered for a long time: namely, what does youth ministry look like in an Episcopal/Anglican context?
As I think I mentioned in my introduction, I have a lot of youth ministry experience, but it was all in various Churches of Christ. I’m sure there’s a lot of commonality in youth groups all over the church, but as St. Francis doesn’t have our youth ministry operating yet, I haven’t had any experience in our tradition. The liturgy we have is a huge part of what attracted me to the Episcopal Church, and I’m wondering how folks use liturgies in youth ministry. Or is there much emphasis on liturgy?
I feel so ignorant. I know that it would probably be a good idea to visit another church and see how they do it. I’m so excited by the possibilities that we didn’t have in my former tradition.
Adam,
I’ve seen Youth Ministries in the Episcopal Church do all kinds of things, liturgically speaking, from straight up evening prayer, rite 2 to a sort of loosely structured kind of evening prayer to a kind of Montessori for the Soul experiential worship, compete with manipulatives. All have their appeal.
One of my favorite liturgies is one that our youth group wrote collaboratively–incorporating our own Creed, Prayers of the People and collects. We only used it that one year, but it was pretty powerful spending the time together to put our offering to God into our own words and then using them until they became familiar.
I’m sure just about any of the Youth Ministries in the diocese would be happy to have you come by and visit. Just be sure to bring a friend!
Anna can get you set up with contacts.
Tis true, in fact, anyone who’s interested in visiting around and getting ideas, I’d love to do some road trips with (around the diocese, of course… not too many all at once so we don’t invade the youth time, but it would be valuable input and good idea sharing…
My experience in youth ministry is also mostly outside the Episcopal church, but what I’ve expereinced is that kids like the rhythm of a repetitive liturgy as a whole, you just need to figure out the right (or rite!) dose of it for your group and howit fits in to the other things that are working for you… (well, theoretically in the case of St. Francis…
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