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December Newsletter

This holiday season, we want to take a moment to extend our gratitude. We are so grateful for your continued support and participation. We literally would not be here without you. Thank you!

As you reflect on your year-end giving this National Day of Giving, we hope you will consider the Center for Continuing Education. Our community has grown to include learners from over 200 countries and over 10,000 participants in our on-line and in-person events and programs. We are funded solely through individual, church, and foundation gifts so your donations enable us to continue to provide the […]

November 28, 2023 No Comments

Youth Group Handbook

Sample Youth Group Handbook

© The Congregational Church of New Canaan

Table of Contents

Youth Ministers

Mission Statement and Beacons

Youth Group (YG)

What is YG?
General Information
Mission Trip
2010-2011 Calendar of Events

Middle School Youth Group (MSYG)

What is MSYG?
General Information
Mountainside Mission Trip
2010-2011 Calendar of Events

Junior Youth Group (JYG)

What is JYG?
General Information
2010-2011 Calendar of Events

Guppies

What is Guppies?
General Information
2010-2011 Calendar of Events

Mission Statement

We gather in the hope of creating a Christian community where youth can come to know that they are loved while learning to love themselves and others. The youth groups strive to be a sanctuary where youth are free to be themselves and embrace the knowledge that we […]

March 11, 2020 No Comments

Scripture

Have you ever wondered how scripture can inform your anxiety, your activism, or how to navigate racial or gender dynamics? Listed below are passages from scripture that help inform how Christians can think about a variety of topics that relate to youth ministry.

Imagination & Creativity

Intergenerational Ministry

March 13, 2020 No Comments

“We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing…”

Adrianus Valerius’ Christian hymn, We Gather Together, is often sung at Thanksgiving. While times are challenging, we do have much to be thankful for today. At YMI, we’re thankful for all of you working in ministry with youth, and we know you are trying to find ways to continue to gather your youth group when we must stay physically separated. There are a lot of creative and wonderful ideas that youth leaders are sharing. Here are just a few ideas that we’ve compiled at YMI today:

First, if at all possible, keep your regular weekly meeting time via Google Hangout, Zoom […]

March 23, 2020 No Comments

Margaret S. Clark

Dr. Margaret S. Clark is an experimental social psychologist with additional interests in personality. Her research focuses on optimal intra- and interpersonal functioning close relationships, the social functions of emotion, and the intersection of those two areas.

Clark has long been interested in the normative nature of interpersonal processes as they occur within family relationships, friendships, and romantic relationships and in how the norms that apply to such relationships differ from those that apply to relating to acquaintances and business partners.

Much of her early work was devoted to demonstrating that the norms governing the giving and receiving of benefits in such […]

June 30, 2021 No Comments