MEMORANDUM
FROM: Pastor Jose H. Cortes Jr.
Director of Adventist Youth Ministries
TO: Church Adventist Youth Leader
Church Pathfinder Director
Church Adventurer Director
Church Communication/Bulletin Secretary
Greater New York Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
DATE: November 6, 2008
SUBJECTS: (1) Adventist Youth Emergency Services Corps Certification (AYES Corps), Adventist Youth Leadership Certification & Master Guide Consecration, Investiture, and Graduation Services (November 22, 2008 @ Grand Concourse): (2) III Adventist Youth Evangelism & Leadership Congress, January 23-25, 2009; (3) AY, Adventurer & Pathfinder Monthly Report (4) Pass Information to New AY Leader in your Church
1. Adventist Youth Leadership Certification & Master Guide Graduation, November 22, 2008 @ Grand Concourse Seventh-day Adventist Church: The Adventist Youth Ministries Department of our Conference would like to extend an invitation to the Teens, Young Adults, Adventurers, Pathfinders, and Master Guides to be part of the Adventist Youth Emergency Services Corps Certification (AYES Corps), Adventist Youth Leadership Certification, Master Guide, Pathfinder Leadership Award (PLA) & Pathfinder Instructor Award (PIA) Consecration, Investiture, and Graduation Services
The program will begin at 9:30 AM, with Sabbath School, and it will continue at 11:00 AM with the Consecration Service. The Consecration Service Speaker will be Pastor Don King, President of the Atlantic Union Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Graduation/Investiture Ceremony will begin at 4:30 PM.
We advise everyone attending to come early to secure a seat. We are also requesting that anyone coming for the entire day brings a sack lunch (sandwiches, fruits, etc; please, nothing which needs to be warmed). Food will not be provided, but there will be space available to eat, outside of the sanctuary.
After the Graduation/Investiture Ceremony is finished we will have a 30 minute meeting with all those who are interested in taking the Adventist Youth Emergency Corps Class (AYES Corps), Adventurer Leadership Certification Class, the Master Guide Class, the PLA, and PIA Classes in 2009. It will be a preliminary meeting to make sure that everyone is on track for 2009.
Please post attached Mini-Poster on your church’s bulletin board. Postcards of the event are in English & Spanish (Front & Back) are also included to invite friends and family.
2. III Adventist Youth Evangelism & Leadership Congress, January 23-25, 2009@ The Hilton Stamford Hotel, Stamford, Connecticut): The III Adventist Youth Evangelism & Leadership Congress of the Greater New York Conference will take place on the Fourth weekend of January, from January 23-25, 2009 at Hilton Hotel in Stamford Connecticut.
The program will focus on training leaders and youth in the areas of Evangelism, Small Group Ministry, and Preaching. It will also include Leadership Training in the following ministries: Teens, Young Adults & Collegiate, Adventist Youth Society, Adventurers (Basic Staff Training), Pathfinders (Basic Staff Training), Master Guides, Bible Bowl, and Youth Emergency Services (AYES CORPS); the Adventist Education Track will also be provided
by our Office of Education and the Atlantic Union College. The workshops and the general sessions will be very spiritual, dynamic, and life-changing.
Hotel reservations are not included in the Congress registration cost. Participants are responsible for making their own travel & lodging arrangements. Reservations can now be made with the Hilton. You will be able to call the Reservations Line and ask for the Seventh-day Adventist Rate. The phone # to call is: (203) 967-2222 or you can go to our website www.gnycyouth.com and click on the link of the hotel to make a reservation online.
Some of the Public Transportation Options are:
Metro-North-Stamford-New Haven Line (2 minutes from the hotel)
(800) 638-7646
101 S State St, Stamford, CT
Amtrak – Stamford (2 minutes from the hotel)
(800) 872-7245
499 Washington Blvd, Stamford, CT
Greyhound Bus Lines (2 minutes from the hotel)
(203) 327-7622
30 Station Pl, Stamford, CT
More information concerning this event (including fee) will be coming soon. Please keep an eye out on the website for updated information, flyers and registration forms. www.gnycyouth.com
3. AY Monthly Report: Several churches have turned in their AY MONTHLY Report; it is not too late to turn in some reports and let us know what your church is doing in the area of Adventist Youth Ministries. You will find a copy of the AY Monthly Report included in this packet. To get an original copy you can go to our website, www.gnycyouth.com.
In the upcoming days we will post the nomination forms for Teen of the Year and Young Adult of the Year. You can get them in the website and submit it to our office before December 11.
Greater New York Conference’s Teen, Young Adult, AY Ministry, and AY Leader of the Year Awards will be announced during the II Adventist Youth Evangelism & Leadership Congress in January. Club Monthly Report and Nominations for Adventurer, Pathfinder, & Master Guide of the Year: Clubs are sending in their MONTHLY Report; it is not too late to turn in some reports and let us know what your club is doing. Copies of the Monthly Report and the Nomination Forms can be found on our website, www.gnycyouth.com.You can submit the forms to our office before December 11.
Greater New York Conference’s Adventurer, Pathfinder, Master Guide, Directors, and Clubs of the Year will be awarded in our Recognition Day 2009. 4. Pass Information to New AY, Adventurer and Pathfinder Leader in your Church: As the year closes, I would like to thank you for the service you have provided to the young people of your church and for supporting the Conference-wide Adventist Youth Ministries Movement. If you have been chosen to continue, I pray that we will be able to work closely together during 2009. If by any chance, there is a new AY, Adventurer and Pathfinder Leader in your church, I would like to request that you pass on this information and ask the new leader to check with us, via E-mail or telephone very quickly, that we may be able to establish contact and begin communicating right away. We would not want our young people to miss out in the great things of next year, just because they don’t have the information.
Remember we are trying to send most of the information via our website and E-mail. We are trying to keep paper and postage info to a minimum, it is the XXI Century. All of the event information, posters, reports, and lots of resources can be found at our website: www.gnycyouth.com.
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