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Category: Youth and Young Adult

What comes first; children in church or a space to welcome them in church? How do we create appropriate spaces in our sanctuaries, in our worship, in congregational life in general? What makes a space truly welcoming for children? These are some of the questions that the First Third Ministries Leadership Team is actively exploring. The goal is to provide communities of faith with ideas and resources to create and maintain family friendly spaces. Shanna Bernier (Regional Council), Martha Randy...

The date of the special YAYA Worshiplude service is February 4 at 4:00pm at Rideau Park United Church. Worshiplude is a weekend youth event organized by our colleagues to the West in Eastern Ontario Outaouais Regional Council. During the Ottawa Winterlude festival, Rideau Park United Church is host to a massively fun afternoon of Worship, Pizza and activities for youth and young adults. Youth Groups from across Ontario and Quebec had been attending this event for over 10 years before the...

What is Youth Forum? YoFo is a weekend retreat for high school and CEGEP youth organized by folks from the United Church of Canada.  It is planned by youth and young adults, for the youth! It has been going on in this region for more than 40 years! What will we do there? At Youth Forum we will play silly games, eat yummy food, make music, learn new things, meet new people, participate in Worship, explore and deepen spirituality and faith and create community. Youth Forum is hard to explain, it...

Join us for a week-long, volunteer-led, sleep-away camp for kids aged 8 to 15. We welcome campers of all backgrounds from Quebec, Ontario and beyond! Although the camp operates primarily in English, we welcome Francophone campers. Our theme for 2022 is "Caring for Creation" Cost: 400$ (funding and multi-child family deals available) Download brochure: https://nakonhakaucc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Camp-Tri-fold-Brochure.pdf  Registration:...

Recently, in February, Grade 5 students began their « Delicious » unit about food. From my vantage point, that represents repetition over 5 groups of a unit I’ve done at least 4 times with the same book.  Bluntly, the topic of food, restaurants and role play has been done countless times over my twenty year career.  The challenge is how to keep it fresh, up-to-date...This winter, the hook : sprouts.  To add to the grammar lessons and practice pages of the workbook, I did a demonstration of...

Mary Hatfield was the face of Quebec-Sherbrooke Presbytery youth ministry for almost 20 years. Youth ministry in the Townships began as an initiative of the Rev. Ron Coughlin and Professor Ken Johns. Not long after it was decided to hire a youth worker to carry on what they began on a volunteer basis, Mary and her husband Carson were engaged, and then Mary became the fulltime youth worker. She organised – with some faithful volunteer assistants as well as groups of young people – two annual...