Vina Strachan (convener)
Fay Lamont
Ghislaine McLean
Fiona McRitchie
Lisa Anderson
Christina Thompson
Kirsty Drumm
Nicola McRitchie
Jenny Potter
James Westwater
Diary
Contacts
Report 97
Visit 99
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| Report 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Eventful - Exciting - Emotional - Energetic would be how I would describe my first year as Youth Convener. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Our year began skating around the ice at Forfar and attracting some male company! Another Four-day event brought opportunities for our young folk to discover more about their faith, themselves, their leaders and Bishop Neville. ("He`s all right, is he?"). This time together led two young people to baptism. Four weeks later parents joined us for our Re-union and experienced some of the fun and worship we had enjoyed. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Glen Esk was the place for 24 hours of T.T.C. - Time To Chat, Time To Care, Time to Talk to Christ etc. A happy time of fun, fellowship and growth shared by all. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In July we defied the Scottish summer and had a ball at out beach party. 3 young ladies experienced the breadth of Provincial culture at Strathallan and have since met with some of them here and as far away as the Diocese of Moray. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Our winter session began uniting us in sharing our interests, feasting with puddings (ie desserts), prayer, dance, drama, nonsense talk and a God-spot. From this came a determination by the young people to have a roadshow of worship in any of the churches in the Diocese to build a bridge between them, the church and other young people. Holy Rood, Carnoustie, allowed this to happen one Sunday evening (ANY OTHER OFFERS?). A representative of our youth, myself and Fay attend the Provincial Youth Network throughout the year sharing ideas and concerns. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As I said at the beginning it has been an exciting, emotional and energetic time for me; exciting to be able to encourage our young peoples` Spiritual development and relationships within the Diocese, to reach other young people to become involved in youth events, to have fun, friendship and a sense of family. Watching and listening to them expressing what it means for them to be part of Diocesan Youth and using their God-given gifts was a very emotional experience ("made Vina`s eyes mist up"). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A big thank you to the Youth Action Group and the young people who have energised me throughout this year and to the Province and the Diocese who provided £1500, all of which has not been used yet, helping to fund the above programme. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| I look forward to another exciting, emotional and energetic year. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Action Group: Vina Strachan (convener) Fay Lamont Ghislaine McLean Fiona McRitchie Lisa Anderson |
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| Youth Forum: Christina Thompson Kirsty Drumm Nicola McRitchie Jenny Potter James Westwater |
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