Youth Ministry

New Orleans will be the site for the 2010 National LCMS Youth Gathering and English District Youth Event. The 2010 NYG will take place July 17-21. The NYG website is up and running at http://2010.lcmsgathering.com. Do check it out!

Youth In Missions

The youth of Our Savior Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hartland, Michigan are active in local, national and international mission work again this summer through the Youth in Missions program. Deacon Christopher Thoma began this program which consists of a variety of local, national and international services opportunities for the youth in his congregation.

Since the summer of 2003, Deacon Thoma and several high school youth from Our Savior Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hartland, Michigan have been traveling to the outskirts of Saint Petersburg, Russia to hold Bible camps for children from local orphanages. What a wonderful opportunity this has been for the high school youth to speak the hope that is theirs in the Gospel of Jesus, participate in the Divine Service with brothers and sisters in Christ from Russia, teach the catechism and build relationships with other Russian youth!

This summer from June 21 to July 6 of 2007, a team of participants will be traveling back to Russia to once again serve His lambs in Russia! This project is the international face of the Youth In Missions program. The local events through this program take place regularly throughout the year and involve such opportunities as working at homeless shelters, serving at a soup kitchen and raking leaves for the elderly. The national opportunities involve participating in one of the LCMS sponsored servant events. This year, the youth will be traveling to North Carolina from July 6 until July 18. Thus far, the international project has been working with the orphans in Russia. For more information, please see the Youth In Missions web page at www.oursaviorhartland.org/youth.