With the power of Google forms, you can now register for the May event online! Just click here, fill in your info, and hit send.
Then, before you head to the weekend, print and fill out this two page waiver form. Oh, and don’t forget to bring a cheque or cash to help us pay for your tasty food!
What are you planning for the May long weekend? We’re planning a kickin’ youth event featuring music, friends, and God.
“The Mystery of the Disappearing Christians”
(aka Spring Fellowship 2010)
An event for youth ages 14 to 25.
Dates: May 21-24, 2010
With Keynote Speaker: Deb Stanbury!
Location: Camp Cairn, near Baysville, Ont.
(Don’t worry, we’ll have cabins and running water.)
Register before May 1 and get $10 off your registration fee!
Pay just $60 before May 1 or $70 after.
But make sure you register before May 17!
Just fill out this form and send it with payment to:
PYPS Registration
20 Windrush Trail
Kitchener ON
N2P 2A7
Or, you can fill out this spiffy Google form!
Just make sure you bring your signed form and payment to the weekend.
“But how can people call for help if they don’t know who to trust? And how can they know who to trust if they haven’t heard of the One who can be trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells them? And how is anyone going to tell them, unless someone is sent to do it?” Romans 10:14-15
By popular demand, the weekend will feature the return of the coffee house! So bring your musical skills, stand-up comedy routines and crazy dance numbers.
Worship is also more like an open jam session, so for those who are musically-inclined, bring your instruments along if you’d like to use them to worship God. If you’re musically-challenged, never fear. We’re pretty sure the heavenly choir sings off-key.
This summer the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, an organization which includes the Presbyterian Church in Canada, will be merging with the Reformed Ecumenical Council to create the World Communion of Reformed Churches. The merger will take place in Grand Rapids, Michigan this June.
But a pre-council youth gathering will take place before the historic amalgamation from June 14 to 17 at Calvin College in Grand Rapids. The forum planning team has put out a call for two additional delegates from WARC to attend the forum. It’s a great opportunity and expenses will be covered for delegates. For the purposes of the forum, youth refers to those aged 18 to 30.
If you’re interested, morve fast and send an email to Jeff Crawford, our synod youth consultant at youth.cnob at gmail dot com.
Thanks a ton to everyone who came out and made Winter Weekend a success! The folks at St. Andrew’s, Kitchener were just swell (they even decorated their hall for us!) Our billet hosts were generous. Waldo was just as much fun to find in real life as he is in books. Worship was powerful, and Mark Gaskin’s theme addresses were were insightful.
With references to 1 Corinthians 12, he encouraged us to worship fully with our minds and bodies. And looking at the passage from Isaiah 6, he suggested that we, like Isaiah, live in a time of a king’s death—times of transition—as old institutions and ways of doing things pass away like former kings, and we’re left wondering what the new ruler will be like. In such times of turmoil, bland religious faith fades, and only deep and meaningful faith can be sustained. The same is true for worship.
Our own worship was vibrant and included a wealth of musical talent from the members of PYPS, as well as snazzy dancing and thoughtful prayers.
As well all head back home, and many of us set the guitars and drum kit aside for electric organs, we’ll try to remember the call we felt as we came together, the movement of the Spirit in our midst, and the fact that worship is a state of body and mind that always extends beyond the borders of the temples we build.
“Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?’
And I said, ‘Here am I. Send me!’”—Isaiah 6:8
Our sincere apologies for the lateness of this info. That Christmas sneaks up on us every year and it’s jut so hard to wean ourselves off the eggnog.
Theme: Shout to the Lord! Worshipping God through Song and Dance
Keynote Speaker: Rev. Mark Gaskin
Dates: Feb. 12 to 14, 2010 – Registration begins at 7 pm Friday and the event will end at 1:30 pm on Sunday.
Location: St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Kitchener, Ont.
54 Queen Street North, Kitchener, Ont.
Cost: $50 per person
To register, print and fill out this registration form and mail it with a cheque (made out to “CNOB PYPS”) to:
PYPS Registration
16 Wimbleton Cres.
Kitchener ON
N2B 3K5
True to its name, Winter Weekend will include some outdoor activities, so be sure to bring warm coats, hats, scarves, boots, and mitts to keep you toasty out of doors.
Welcome to the homepage of the Presbyterian Young People’s Society! We’re a gang of youth between the ages of 14 and 25 from various places in the Synod of Central, Northeastern Ontario and Bermuda. We’re best known for three events we run each year. The next will be coming up in February and will probably take place in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.
This website is currently under redevelopment, so we ask for your patience while we fiddle.