Cathedral Formation

Faith in 3D: January at Disneyworld?!

Passport/Mission Exchange is a phenomenal program of camps, mission and opportunities for faithful adventure coordinated jointly by the Episcopal Church, Community Fellowship Baptists (progressive Baptist denom.) and the Presbyeterians.  They just sent me information about a MLK weekend program called FAITH IN 3D at disneyworld for all 6-12th graders.  The total cost would be around $500 each, but I am sure it would be worth the work and the money.  If any families of next year's youth are interested let me know by mid summer.

Auction and Breakfast Thanks!

A huge thanks and a bundle of praise to all the teens and families that helped make the auction and breakfast happen.  We raised nearly $3000 for our excursions this summer.  Yall rock.

Emails will be going out this week with packing lists.  A few deposits are still outstanding; and we also need DEFAULT OUT OF TOWN PERMISSION FORMS (to your right on the blog) for ALL TEENS AND ADULTS.  These forms must also include copies of medical insurance cards and a photo or photo id.  :)

Also check out the photos!

Pilgrimage Auction and Breakfast

Pilgrimage is a core practice of our youth ministry programs. It flows out of the Rite 13 liturgy and toward the process of Confirmation. Supporting our youth program today helps promise a youth program for the future.

Our Journey youth are hoping to make a pilgrimage to DC this summer. We need your help to make this journey. Please join us for worship and for a Silent Auction and Breakfast.   

All R13 and Journey Youth need to be at the Cathedral by 7:30 on Sunday Morning the 4th of May.  Parents are also needed. 

A copy of the Auction donation form is downloadable here: Download formandletter.pdf

Mid Elementary Bibles

· If you are 7, 8 or 9 years old and did not receive the gift Bible in from the Cathedral before, please have your parents contact us SOON. We need a SOLID count, so please call or email. 

· We hope to bless and share these Bibles with you during the 9am service on May 18th. 

To let us know that you would like your child to receive a Bible on the 18th please click the COMMENTS link below.  I will receive an email with your information.  Or you could just click, email me. 
 

Graduate Recognition

We would like to celebrate our high school graduates this spring at the 9am Eucharist on June 1. If a teen in your home is graduating from high school please contact us as soon as possible with the following information. Your reply can be sent by mail, email or dropped off at St. John’s by May 29th.   You can send us the information by clicking the COMMENTS link below.  Its just that easy.   

· Full Name

· High School

· Hobbies, Activities and Achievements

· Future Plans

· The most important thing I learned in high school was….

Navajoland Mission Meeting

We hope you will join us at the Navajoland Summer Mission Meeting, April 27^th, (this Sunday) at 1pm in the Library.   All people interested in participating in the Navajoland Mission this summer are encouraged to attend this planning update.   This is  a flexible and family friendly mission opportunity with  both 'fix-it' work and  children's ministry work. 

Lunch will be provided, and childcare will be available on request.

Please RSVP to the Dean’s office so we can order properly for lunch. 

Be seen, Be Heard, Be Hungry!

On April 25 and 26, teens from across the Diocese of the Rio Grande will gather at the Cathedral Church of St. John to “be seen, be heard, Be Hungry” during the 30-Hour Famine for World Vision. The 30-Hour Famine is an international youth movement to fight hunger. From 12:00 on Friday through

6:00 pm, Saturday, 30 hours, the teens will fast to earn funds that will go to help feed the least, the lost, the hungry and the poor in God’s Kingdom. Why 30 hours? It takes about 30 hours of fasting for most westerners to feel the hunger that most of the world’s poor feel all the time. 

The youth will spend the time in community service at places like Joy Junction, the Roadrunner Food Bank and other area service projects. Please pledge generously when you are approached by the youth and pray for us as we seek to be God’s hands and feet on the earth. For more information, please visit:  www.30hourfamine.org or contact Fr. Daniel at

850-3975

or  revdcave@gmail.com.

Rite 13 Joys

Thanks and blessings to all the Rite 13 class families and to the Eatons for hosting a lovely brunch this past Sunday.  Please be sure to keep an eye on the Mystery Trip dates and deposit ($75.00 due May 1). 

Back from the Emergence

I just returned from a continuing education conference in Denver titled THE EMERGING CHURCH FOR THE EXISTING CHURCH.  What is the emerging church you might ask?  The emerging church sector includes both independent and mainline congregations that seek authentic Christian practice in ways that are both ancient and future.  The emerging church movement hopes to be beyond denominational-ism and fundamentalism and liberalism and modernism.  In some ways it is taking the principles of Montessori education (interactive, tactile, deliberate, simpler) and utilizing them for adult worship and formation.  The honorary godparent of the Emerging church movement is a man named Brian McLarren.  His current book is Everything Must Change.  A prominent Anglican emergent leader is a young woman named Karen Ward.  A quick google will give you much to ponder.
The conference leads me to a couple of questions for families to consider:

• what interest is there in small groups of families that meet for prayer and study in your own neighborhoods?
• what interest is there in finding ways to integrate arts and formation for both children and adults?
• how we do a better job of sharing what we do with the community and our neighbors?

Spirit of God Pentecost Writing Contest

Take a look at this writing contest about Pentecost and the state of the world.  What can the divine wind, spirit, breath and energy of Pentecost inspire us to do in the cause of justice and peace?  Maybe we can have a contest of our own.  Hmm.