Nazarene Youth

The talk has been focused around what service projects will make the larger impact on our districts long after the event and also the city of Louisville. For anyone who went to NYC St. Louis they will defenitly remember the feeding of the 5000 (which turned into 11000), there is a lot of talk around that model but expanding and improving it to include many other aspects like clothing, health supplies, school supplies… And also allowing the kids to be involved in the process right to the end. We would be interested in your input.
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How can we prepare/follow up with our kids while we are in Canada Atlantic before and after NYC2011?

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We will be posting updates from DLC 2010 and also announcing a contest for you to win your trip to ski rally 2010!

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Hey everyone,

This post is coming to you live from the most crazy hotel of all time. We currently are at www.galthouse.com. This potentially could be where we stay for NYC. Given our first nights experience, IT SHOULD BE!

Anyway, I just wanted to put to rest any thoughts that Louisville is some kind of town located in Hicktown, USA. This place I believe will be a wonderful place for 10,000 NYI teens to come and share the love of God. Why do I say this? Is it because there are football stadiums, baseball fields & huge universities around? Nope. Is it because it is home to 3 Golden Corral Buffets, dozens of Chik-Fil-A shops, or an all-you-can-eat KFC buffet? Nope. So why is it? what does Louisville need that it doesn’t already have? I think the answer is simple:

Jesus.

That’s it. I am not implying that Jesus has never visited here and we’re going to bring him here. However, as we drove down Seventh St. on our way home from church we saw something we don’t see in the Maritimes often. One street. Five strip clubs. Seven adult film stores. Once again on one street.

NYC 2011 will prove to be a life-changing event for all of our teen I have no doubt about that. But the potential kingdom value of this trip is as Mastercard would put it… Priceless.

Be excited. Downtown Louisville is beautiful at night. Museums, bistros, and restaurants line the streets. Indiana is right across the river. More importantly, Jesus is as much Lord here as He is in Canada Atlantic.

Will you join us here in 2011? I hope you will!

Greg Krauss

From The Desk of the VP

You  better have!  We got up bright and early and headed down for breakfast and from there we found Louisville First Church of the Nazarene.  It was a great service.  Very contemporary worship and a guest speaker, Rob North.  He is a missionary from Africa.  It caused me to reflect a lot on my recent trip to Rwanda.  After that we hit up Golden Corral where we all ate more than we really should have.  What will the afternoon hold? Not sure. Maybe a nap, maybe some touring around.  Check back tonight and we will let you know.  Also keep watching our twitter for UStream broadcasts.  We will be releasing NYC info every once and a while and may even post a contest in the next three or four days where you could win your registration to this February’s Ski Rally!!!

Who cares where all the Cowboys have gone!
(It’s a song.  Too Young? Look it up.)
Some of you may notice that this Sunday as you sit in church and look around at all those in attendance, that one very special, very important individual is missing.  Yes it is your youth pastor.  This coming week Greg, Matt, Ryan and Elliott will be travelling down to Louisville, Kentucky.  We are looking forward to travelling to the south where we can wear our shorts and swim outdoors…. wait….what……it’s -9 degrees today in Louisville! OK so it’s definitely not a vacation.  But I will tell you what it is. It is a time of planning and gathering info about NYC2011.  Many of you have been waiting for this material and we will be glad to bring it home and share it with you all.  So start spreading the word, the count down is on!

Be sure to follow us all week here on the blog and also on our Twitter Accounts. Here are our Usernames:
Elliott- @revsinister
Greg- @kraussdaddy
Ryan- @rfilsinger
Matt- @mattbarbour

NYI- @nyiatlantic

Hey folks: just thought I’d point out that WestJet has a seat sale going on until, well, tomorrow. It’s around 50% off (give or take depending on flight) so that’s pretty sweet if you’re trying to secure a decent price for, say, a trip to Calgary for the Connect Youth Workers Conference the first weekend of March (looking at $300 round trip from Moncton before fees). Or even for securing a reasonable cost of getting to Victoria, BC, for a buddy’s wedding, or some other plausible scenario.

Should also point out that apparently Carry-On Baggage is disallowed for US flights (or at least the term has been redefined: Laptops and Man-purses seem to be OK) while “Temporary Emergency Measures are in Effect.”

So, not a specifically NYI related post (except for the CYWC–wait, is that acronym copyrighted by YS??), but thought I’d drop the info.

And NYI Execs: please feel free to start adding content to this site (particularly Rally Related–ie: 550px-wide banner version of the poster).

~Jon

Well, the district NYI website is going through a complete overhaul/reboot and will take a little bit to be fully ready. That said, I hope that the use of Wordpress for content management will make the whole experience better and easier to spread information about upcoming rallies, camps, and other district news, etc.

That’s the deal. If you happen to be on the NYI Council and want to help add some content at this stage, fire me a text, email, or phone call (if you’re on the council, you should have my contact info).

Other than that: in case you haven’t heard: the “Not-in-November” Rally is in February 19-20 in Fredericton (confirmed yet?). Oh yeah: we’ll be skiing/snowboarding.

~Jon