Youth Ministry
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2025 Youth Trip to North Carolina – Final Day
This blog – of our last day – was written by Molly McCue Here we are, the 5th day of our North Carolina disaster relief trip of 2025. Our last…
Read More2025 Youth Trip to North Carolina – Day 4
Today’s 2025 Travel Blog comes from Jen Diebling, the aunt of one of our travelers. As a reminder each teen traveled with a “serving companion”. More on that later. My…
Read More2025 Youth Trip to North Carolina – Day 2-3
Days 2-3: Building Community at Camp & Service Projects By Andrea Frey & Julia Miller As we sit to reflect and write, it is late into the evening on our…
Read More2025 Youth Trip to North Carolina – Day 1
Day 1: Our First Full Day By Charlie Sayre Our first full day began around 5:30 a.m. with our early risers, surprised to see it still pitch-black outside (the sun…
Read MorePrayer Partners Needed for Our Youth Travelers
Next month 38 High Schoolers and their parents will travel to North Carolina to partner with Lutheran Disaster Relief in their continued work to renew the spaces, stories, and lives…
Read MoreA Diverse Experience of Christian Community in New Orleans
Wow. What a week. We traveled hard and well. We have been bumped into by the Spirit, by ourselves, by one another. Through the official Gathering experiences we engaged hard…
Read MoreChildren, Youth, Family (CYF) Committee Family Interviews Summary
Staffing changes and a need to understand how to best plan programming and staffing for family needs prompted the CYF committee to plan and execute family surveys. The survey was…
Read MoreELCA National Youth Gathering Day 5
Written by: Ashlynn Caldwell Friday morning started with a leisurely wakeup call and some bagels and coffee. The rain pushed back for long enough to wander around the French Quarter,…
Read MoreELCA National Youth Gathering Day 4
Written by: Molly Mccue and Angela Miller SERVICE: Community service is a creation of God that never ceases to stir so much want in me. After every service project I…
Read MoreELCA National Youth Gathering Day 3
Written by: Liv Enstad Today was a day of authenticity and feeling seen. We started the day with a nice walk in the humid French Quarter with a stop at…
Read MoreELCA National Youth Gathering Day 2
Written by: Berit Enstad New Orleans, LA- “Our first great act in this world is to be changed, from a creature that lives in the depths of the womb, into…
Read MoreThank You, Good Shepherd!
Supporting the Youth Last Friday night the Verona Campus was full of young children enjoying the love and attention of our High School youth at Share The Love Camp. Monday…
Read More2024 Registration is Open for Pine Lake Camp
A great chance to grow in community and make new friends Thanks to the generosity of the Good Shepherd Foundation, campers receive a $50 discount toward full-week camp and $25…
Read More2023 High School Youth Trip – Saturday, August 12 – Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Ben Johnson Thursday, August 10, 2023. We awake to an early morning with alarms set to 5:15 to embark on one last adventure and one last moment of stillness…a surreal…
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