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Episcopal Youth Community (EYC) | Download EYC Brochure |
| Interested in Joining the EYC? If you would like to join the EYC contact Christ Church’s Director of Youth Ministry Krista Miller. She’ll be happy to talk to you on the phone, eat an ice cream cone or e-mail you with information. You can find her at kmiller@ccbny.org or 914-337-3544 X103. |
Youth Group – the Episcopal Youth Community 2007
The first and great commandment is this: you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. And the second is like unto it: you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
The Truth of Christianity is not accessible to us without practice. The purpose of the Christ Church EYC is to engage in the practice of Christianity. We intend to seek this truth through a fellowship of love, through reflection on Spirit and Truth, and through action in service to the community and world of our neighbors.
At Christ Church students who have chosen to be confirmed, and any guest they choose, have the privilege of joining the EYC, the Episcopal Youth Community of Christ Church. This group engages the practice of Christianity in several ways. We meet regularly for the purpose of reflection and fellowship, often over a meal. We take field trips in the greater New York metropolitan area to encounter the Holy Spirit at work. In addition, we explore the meaning of Christian service through a variety of community service projects throughout the year that include everything from building projects, to serving food, to singing carols.
The EYC takes very seriously the Christian formation of its members. One powerful way we practice this is by traveling together in pilgrimage and in service. Two times a year the group spends time together in active Christian mission, for a week of prayer at the Taizé monastery and a building project either domestically or abroad.
Please contact Krista Miller for more information, kmiller@ccbny.org.
Weekly Youth Meetings
Monday Night Live
Monday Nights 7:00-8:00 PM
Monday Night Live is a time to gather, ask questions, pray, and discuss our faith in the context of teenage life today. We also eat snacks, build lifelong friendships and have fun!
Lunch
Wednesdays During Bronxville School’s Lunch Hour
Once a week, usually on Wednesday, the EYC meets Youth Minister Krista Miller and Father Bird for lunch. Locations alternate between Fr. Bird’s house and a location in town. During lunch we engage in the very serious activity of hanging out and filling our bellies. Sometimes we get to play with toy trains too!
Christian Service
Two Days Each Month
The EYC puts Spirit to work in regular active Christian mission throughout the greater New York metropolitan area. One Friday a month we bring food, clothes and toiletries to Manhattan’s homeless population through work with the Midnight Run organization. One Sunday a month is spent, painting, building and repairing area churches, soup kitchens and other places in need. The EYC takes very seriously the Christian formation of its members. One powerful way we practice this is by traveling together in pilgrimage. During the weeklong February break as well as the first week in August, the group spends time together in active Christian mission, praying and working on a building project.
Weeklong Pilgrimages
Your February Break
Taizé
This February break the EYC will spend a week in personal prayer at the Taizé Monastery in France. Taizé is monastery for all Christians focused on peace and reconciliation that draws tens of thousands of youth between the ages of 14 and 30 each year. It is a place where teenagers from around the world gather to spend time in personal prayer and silence, build friendships and learn about other cultures. When Christ Church was at Taizé this past February there were teenagers from thirteen different countries present. We learned the same game and its accompanying song in four languages! Many teens on the trip went home feeling that Taizé was the place where they truly discovered their personal relationships with God and begin to understand the things we all have in common.
Registration for the Pilgrimage to Taizé is due October 1st.
Your First Week in August
Mission Trip to Costa Rica
During the first week of August 2008 the EYC will travel to Costa Rica for the first International EYC Mission Trip. Hosted by the Anglican Diocese of Costa Rica, the teens will work with a local church on construction and repairs as well as building a relationship with the church. The EYC will also have time to experience the culture and landscape of Costa Rica through activities such as surfing, hiking, viewing volcanoes and more.
Registration for the EYC Mission Trip is due
November 1st.
Diocesan Events
Youth Ministry at Christ Church will open its doors to teenagers around the New York area by hosting two
Diocesan Events in the building. These events will be a wonderful way for our teens to build friendships,
worship with others and gain skills planning the events.
Diocesan Youth Convention - November 9th and 10th
Protecting God’s Creation – April 12th and 13th