A great Outcome

So one of the great outcomes of Vineyard days was gathering Sheri and Trevor as reps for the newly forming National Youth Development group for the Canadian Vineyard. These are great, great youth leaders and visionaries with a passion for youth in Canada. Here is what they came up with..... enjoy.





Hi Friends-I wanted to give a quick update on what came out of my time in Ontario for youth ministry development group meetings:3 of the 4 Development Group reps were present- Sherri McConnell from B.C. , Rob Hall from Ontario and myself representing the Atlantic. (Katie Schenk from Edmonton is the Prairie rep, but she couldn’t make it). Sherri is going to connect with her over the Christmas break, and gather some of her input. Monique also joined our talks from a National office perspective. This was the first face to face meeting for us all and it went well. We shared our personal visions for the next generations of the Vineyard in Canada, got to know each other, and then began talking about some plans moving forward.





Key points:


1) For the National Celebration in Penticton, we discussed running a concurrent equipping conference for students/young adults. Being in Kelowna, Sherri is developing a lot of this, so more details will unfold in the next couple of months.


2) We agreed to connect with Vineyard student ministry leaders within our regions, developing relationships and encouraging, resourcing them in any way we can. There are possibilities of equipping weekends for leaders within the regions.


3) The idea of short-term missions opportunities for Canadian Vineyard youth has a lot of energy on it. Beginning in the summer of 2011 we want students to be able to choose one of several missions outreaches lead by Vineyard leaders and joined by people from around the country. We plan to have the locations set by the National Celebration in 2010 so we can promote them and students can decide where they want to go and begin saving for the next year. Our first immediate action is for each team member to put together a photo/bio/personal elements of vision and send it to the whole team and to Jon for the website. I feel it was a valuable time- thanks for making the resources available.