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2024 ELCA Youth Gathering
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2024 ELCA YOUTH GATHERING JULY 16-20, 2024 NEW ORLEANS
Who can attend the
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Youth participants must be in eighth to 12th grade at the time of registration (fall 2023). Adult leaders accompanying youth to the Gathering must be at least 21 years old at the time of the Gathering.
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What does it cost? |
Registration $375/person
Please note that hotel, meals and travel costs are not included in the Gathering registration fee. We encourage congregations to budget $70 per person, per day for meals and $175/night plus tax for a room. Typically three individuals are assigned to a room. *Financial assistance is available to youth participants only in the form of registration-fee credits. Please talk to Hannah or Kale if needed. |
Schedule (Theme of day)
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(Travel dates TBD based on flights)
Monday, July 15 - Travel day Tuesday, July 16 BRAVE 7-8:45p Mass Gathering - Superdome 9:15-10:45p Community Life 11:00p Final 15 (At hotel) *Wednesday, July 17 AUTHENTIC *Thursday, July 18 FREE *Friday, July 19 DISRUPTIVE Saturday, July 20 DISCIPLES 9:30- 11:30 a.m. Closing Worship - Superdome Sunday, July 21 - Travel day |
*Wed-Fri will be assigned based on:
~Accompaniment Day - These include “action” “awareness” and “advocacy.” Action projects could be painting something, cleaning up a park or performing other physical work. Advocacy projects could be neighborhood organizing, community building or working with global partners such as ELCA World Hunger. Awareness projects could be diving into New Orleans culture and learning how food, history and music tie into the community. ~Synod Day Experience 10a-2p ~Interactive Learning Space 10a-3:30p |
Created to Be theme
We have been created to be ourselves. Created by the Holy One. Since the last time the ELCA came together for an ELCA Youth Gathering, our young people have experienced several major life events. Still today, we are experiencing an ongoing public health crisis mixed with an economic and political crisis. However, we can rest assured that we are created to be in relationship with one another.
We are created to be brave, to show up with an open mind and heart, willing to be challenged.
We are created to be authentic, to bring our whole selves and know that we are loved by our Creator.
We are created to be free, to be transformed by the gospel.
We are created to be disruptive, to work for justice for all our siblings.
We are created to be disciples, to be sent out into the world to love our neighbor just as we are loved by God.
Our host city, New Orleans, has always been its true, authentic self. Our theme, “Created to Be,” highlights the arts, music and soul of this beautiful, vibrant and resilient city. New Orleans was built to host and be a city where all God’s children come together.
We plan to dive deeper into justice, mental health and anti-racism conversations throughout the Gathering. These are hard conversations, but our church desperately needs to have them. We also hope to foster relationships and be a sanctuary for one another. We are saint and sinner simultaneously, and we need forgiveness when we aren’t or can’t be brave, authentic, free, disruptive disciples.
We have been created to be ourselves. Created by the Holy One. Since the last time the ELCA came together for an ELCA Youth Gathering, our young people have experienced several major life events. Still today, we are experiencing an ongoing public health crisis mixed with an economic and political crisis. However, we can rest assured that we are created to be in relationship with one another.
We are created to be brave, to show up with an open mind and heart, willing to be challenged.
We are created to be authentic, to bring our whole selves and know that we are loved by our Creator.
We are created to be free, to be transformed by the gospel.
We are created to be disruptive, to work for justice for all our siblings.
We are created to be disciples, to be sent out into the world to love our neighbor just as we are loved by God.
Our host city, New Orleans, has always been its true, authentic self. Our theme, “Created to Be,” highlights the arts, music and soul of this beautiful, vibrant and resilient city. New Orleans was built to host and be a city where all God’s children come together.
We plan to dive deeper into justice, mental health and anti-racism conversations throughout the Gathering. These are hard conversations, but our church desperately needs to have them. We also hope to foster relationships and be a sanctuary for one another. We are saint and sinner simultaneously, and we need forgiveness when we aren’t or can’t be brave, authentic, free, disruptive disciples.