The deadline for registration has come and gone, and some happy campers will be going to the iLive, iLead, iAm Conference at the end of next month. Wondering what to expect? Here’s a bit of a sample agenda:
Monday, 28 July 4–6pm Registration: Drop off at the Lavrock Centre 6pm Supper 7pm Worship 8pm Official opening of the conference
Typical Day from Tuesday, July 29 - Friday, August 1 7–7:30am Rise and Shine 8am Morning Prayer 8:30am Breakfast 9am Session 1 10:15am Break 10:45am Session 2 11:30am Free time 12pm Lunch 1:30pm Fun (Includes swimming, hiking, sports) 4pm Evening Prayer 5pm Supper 7pm Session 3 8:30pm Fun (Includes skits, campfire, dance, games, movies) 10:30pm To rooms 11pm Lights out
Saturday, August 2 7:30–8am Rise and Shine 8:30am Breakfast 10:30am Eucharist 12pm Lunch 1–3pm Depart for home - Pick up at the Lavrock Centre
Is there anything else we can tell you? Ask a question in the Comments section!
Again, we apologize for the inconvenience, but online registration really didn’t work out.
iLive, iLead, iAm is a week-long conference sponsored by the Diocese for Anglican youth aged 12–15 from 28 July–2 August. It will be a week of fun at the Lavrock Camp and Conference Centre, but it will also be an opportunity to grow in your faith and meet other young Anglicans from around this diocese. And the best part? It’s absolutely free!
Space is limited, though, so if you want to be a part of this exciting opportunity, you need to jump now! We will be taking registration from 30 young people between now and 15 June. We tried an online registration form, but it didn’t work right. So we’ve got to change things up a bit.
If you want to come to the conference, here’s what you need to do:
Send an email to Robert Cooke at cooke@mun.ca. In that email, you’ll want to give him the following information:
Your name
Your mailing address
Your age
What Parish you belong to
Your phone number and email address
Rob will put your name on the list and send you a parental permission/medical information form.
You send back those forms, and that’s it! You’re registered!
You come to the conference in July and have a great time.
You tell all your friends how great it was.
Next year, the conference is even bigger… (well, you get the picture)
If you have already filled in an online form before 27 May, we’ve got to ask you to register again. Sorry about that. Just email Rob with your info, and he’ll make everything better. He’s good at that.
Want to know what to expect before you sign up? Ask us some questions in the Comments section!
We’re sorry to announce that online registration for the ‘iLive, iLead, iAm’ Conference has been disabled.
Over the past few weeks, we have gotten reports that people have been submitting online registration forms, but that the forms are not getting through. Unfortunately, we will have to ask all those who have already registered to do so again, by more conventional methods.
By the end of today, we should have a process sorted out, so keep watching this site for an update. In the meantime, the deadline for registration has been extended to 15 June.
The Emmaus Project apologizes for any inconvenience this causes.
[Editor’s note: As the one who originally set up the online registration form, I’ll add my own personal apologies for the technical difficulties. If you promise not to hold it against me, I promise that we’ll still have a great conference! –- Fr. Jonathan]
The Emmaus Project presents: iLive, iLead, iAm An opportunity for post-confirmation youth ages 12–15 to explore their roles with respect to their lives, their faith, and their community.
This conference will be held at the Lavrock Camp & Conference Centre from 28 July–2 August 2008. It’s free, completely sponsored by the Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, but spaces are limited, and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. An application form is available online at this site from 1 May–1 June, or until all 30 available spaces are filled.
Come be a part of this exciting new opportunity to meet other young people from the diocese and explore what it means to be an Anglican right here and right now!
Did you ever wonder what the crossing of the Red Sea would have looked like? Wonder what it would have looked like from God’s perspective? Biblical scenes have been artistically portrayed in countless media throughout the centuries, but never before like this!
A ‘creative collective’ called The Glue Society, out of Sydney, Australia, was commissioned to create a series of depictions of biblical events as they would have been seen through the ever-watching eye of Google Earth. These are not real Google Earth images — they’ve been photoshopped, but incredibly well, don’t you think? The series of four images also include Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, Noah’s Ark, and the Crucifixion. (more…)
From The Times
December 10, 2007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3026245.ece
Archbishop discards dog collar ‘until tyrant goes’
In one of the most dramatic political interventions by an Anglican cleric in modern times, the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, cut up his clerical collar on TV yesterday and vowed not to put it back on until President Mugabe was thrown out of office.
Ugandan-born Dr Sentamu, who in his youth fled the atrocities of Idi Amin, told the Sunday AMprogramme on BBC One that the Zimbabwean leader had “taken people’s identity . . . and cut it to pieces”. This had prompted him to do the same.
The protest is unusual in modern Anglicanism in both its courageous iconoclasm and in its stand against Mr Mugabe. Although Dr Sentamu has been an outspoken critic of Mr Mugabe, some senior clergy have balked at speaking out against the dictator for fear of endangering church workers in the country. But his excesses have reached a point where church leaders believe that they must now oppose him in the name of justice and with whatever tools are at their disposal.
Dr Sentamu called upon the people of Britain to unite in opposition both to the Government of Mr Mugabe and the atrocities in Darfur.
During the interview with Andrew Marr, Dr Sentamu said that his clerical collar “is what I wear to identify myself, that I’m a clergyman”.
He said: “You know what Mr Mugabe has done? He’s taken people’s identity, and literally, if you don’t mind, cut it to pieces, and in the end there’s nothing.”
Dr Sentamu went on to chastise African leaders at the Africa-EU summit for their support of Mr Mugabe while the people of the country continued to suffer under what he termed self-destructing racism. “A white man does it the whole world cries. A black person does it, there is a certain sense, oh this is colonialism. I don’t buy this.”
He added that Gordon Brown had been right to boycott the summit because of Mr Mugabe’s presence.
A relatively modern invention, the clerical collar is worn by clergy around the western world. However, it is not obligatory.
The other day, I was reading a very good article written by the Rt. Rev’d Lindsay Urwin, the Bishop of Horsham, England, entitled ‘Living in Two Time Zones.’ Here are some choice excerpts. (more…)
The last time I wrote about Advent, I was lamenting the tension between Christmas and Advent, the ‘Now, Now, NOW celebration of our culture versus the expectation and preparation of our church. The more I’ve been turning it around in my mind the past few days, the more I’ve been asking myself why I ever enjoyed Advent. What’s so great about a season of ‘not yet’?
The more I think about it, the more I think that the best part is the expectation. If you like, make the comparison waiting to take that first bite of an ice cream sandwich. Compare it to the drawn-out, exhilarating expectation before that first kiss. But I’ve also got some first-hand experience of waiting for a Messiah.
I was in Kindergarten. Like you sometimes do in Kindergarten, I got a little bit out of hand one morning. I’m not sure that I remember what exactly I did to get in trouble. I think it had something to do with making too much noise, but it’s a long time ago… Anyway, where other people had been making noise and getting away with it, I was the one who got caught. I was the one who got in trouble. I was the one who had to sit on the ‘baby chair’ at the front of the class.
As I sat there, burning with shame and embarrassment, two other thoughts were foremost in my mind. One was the incredible unfairness of this whole ordeal. Everyone else had been doing exactly the same thing - why was I the only one to get singled out as a baby? And the more I sat there, stewing over the injustice inherent in the Kindergarten ‘baby chair’, all I could think about was this – my grandparents were in town that week, and Poppy Rowe was going to pick me up from school that day. And when Poppy Rowe came, boy, was he going to make Mrs. Payne sorry for putting me in the baby chair! That might have been the only thing to keep me going for the ten minutes? fifteen? that I had to sit in that awful chair.
In the same way, the people of Israel were waiting for God to intervene in their history, and make everything right, just like Poppy Rowe. He was going to put an end to their exile, but things weren’t going to stop there. He was going to turn the whole world upside down.
Looking back on it, though, I realize that it’s probably just as well that Poppy Rowe didn’t come get me right at that moment. He taught school back in the thirties, in the days of ‘the strap’. My guess is that he probably would have had more sympathy for the kindergarten teacher than for me. If he had shown up at that point, I probably would have gotten a lot more than I’d bargained for.
The Jews of Jesus’ time were just itching and waiting for a Messiah to come and make everything better for them. And indeed he came, and in a way, he made the whole business of being human much less of a struggle, but not at all in the way that they expected. Even John the Baptist had to deal with doubts and uncertainty, as he struggled with the fact that Jesus wasn’t exactly the kind of Messiah he had been expecting.
What have you come out to see? What are you expecting from this Christmas? To gain all the blessings God has in store for us, would we be prepared to be surprised? If God is prepared to give us our heart’s desire, would we be prepared to have our prayers answered, not in the way we’re expecting, but in the way that is best for us? As we prepare for Christmas, and the coming of Christ in our hearts, perhaps these are the kind of questions we need to ask ourselves first and foremost.
The deadline for registration has come and gone, and some happy campers will be going to the iLive, iLead, iAm Conference at the end of next month. Wondering what to expect? Here’s a bit of a sample agenda:
7–7:30am Rise and Shine
So we’ve got to change things up a bit.
Did you ever wonder what the crossing of the Red Sea would have looked like? Wonder what it would have looked like from God’s perspective? Biblical scenes have been artistically portrayed in countless media throughout the centuries, but never before like this!
The other day, I was reading a very good article written by the Rt. Rev’d Lindsay Urwin, the Bishop of Horsham, England, entitled ‘Living in Two Time Zones.’ Here are some choice excerpts.
The last time I wrote about Advent, I was lamenting the tension between Christmas and Advent, the ‘Now, Now, NOW celebration of our culture versus the expectation and preparation of our church. The more I’ve been turning it around in my mind the past few days, the more I’ve been asking myself why I ever enjoyed Advent. What’s so great about a season of ‘not yet’?