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Join us for Youth & Young Adult Worship on January 17, 11 am!
Sign-up to help lead!
Our next youth and young adult worship service on Zoom and YouTube live is on January 17 at 11 am. Help us make this a worship by and for young people! If you would like to be a reader, preacher, or provide music for these services, sign-up here. Otherwise, mark your calendar and save the date! It will be a typical Rite II Eucharist service with spiritual communion. We will have an informal "coffee hour" after the service when you can catch up with other Zoom attendees.
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The Wonder of C.S. Lewis
by Deacon Mary Donovan
C.S. Lewis, the Oxford Don whom we celebrate in November, was a writer of great talent and insight. His Chronicles of Narnia are children’s fantasy books but also Christian theology books. Reading the tales of Narnia, the fantastic land beyond and through the wardrobe, is a delightful allegory of our faith.
In The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Christ figure is the lion Aslan, and the children Peter, Susan, Edward and Lucy are the leaders of the war against the White Witch. Pure fantasy and yet they remain totally a Christian saga of good warring against evil, of Christ’s redemptive power. The lion Aslan is sacrificed on an altar of stone and comes back to life, is resurrected. The children each are given a gift to combat the White Witch, and with the gifts they succeed in taking back Narnia, frozen in ice, to a land of warmth. Lucy is given a healing cordial and a knife to defend herself. Susan gets a magical horn to summon help and a quiver of arrows that never miss. Peter gets a sword and a shield. Even when the children don’t see Aslan, and fear he has left them, they know he is with them.
In the Chronicles, C.S. Lewis gave us a story to recognize the Kingdom of God. Each of us has a gift, and we need to find it, to recognize it, and to use it for good. Maybe not arrows, maybe not healing cordials, but we each have our uniqueness in our own Chronicles that we can learn to use for the Kingdom. May we never walk past a closet door again without stopping to wonder, what is beyond that door?
Read along with Summer Intern Jonah Brandley as he tours through The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe on the first season of our podcast: https://edokformation.podbean.com/
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A Simple Advent Practice for Parents
As we come to the end of the calendar year, the beginning of a new church year and we prepare for the celebration of Christ’s human birth, I wondered if a simple prayer practice could be helpful in the midst of all of this. There are four weeks of Advent and each has a one-word theme: peace, hope, joy and love. In some ways Advent is an observance of Mary and Joseph’s pregnancy, the waiting for their child to come into the world. Ever since becoming a parent myself, I see this season in a whole new way and hear the stories leading up to Christmas through the lens of a parent. So each week whether in your already established daily prayer practice or in a journal or talking with your co-parent or friends consider those things about being a parent that bring you peace. What are the things that you hope for in yourself as a parent and for your children. Where are the joys in parenting? What are some ways you can speak to that immeasurable love that you have for your child? Each week try to focus on the peace, hope, joy, and love that comes with being a parent. Happy Advent!
Michael J. K. Funston
Associate for Youth, Young Adult & Campus Ministry
https://www.facebook.com/groups/edokparentministry
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Advent started on Sunday, Nov. 29
Looking for resources to use during Advent? Here are a few:
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Youth & Young Adult Event Calendar (updated August 31, 2020)
*Denotes college-age events.
Dec. 6, Youth Game Night & Compline, 7-8:30 pm
Jan. 3, Youth Game Night & Compline, 7-8:30 pm
Jan. 7, Young Adult Alternative Break Day*
Jan. 15-18, Mini-Miqra* online Friday 7-8:30 pm, Saturday 10-12 and 1:30-3, Sunday 11-12, Monday 10:30-11 am
Jan. 16-18, MIQRA online Saturday 4-5:30 and 7-8:30; Sunday 11-12, 1:30-3, and 4-5:30; Monday 10:30-11 am
Feb. 7, Youth Game Night & Compline, 7-8:30 pm
Feb. 27, Youth Commission Retreat TBA
Feb. 28, Summer Youth Ministry College Internship applications due*
Mar. 7, Youth Game Night & Compline, 7-8:30 pm
April 17, Middle School Retreat TBA
June 5, Mega Camp Staff Training @ Camp Wood YMCA
June 6-12, Episcopal Summer “Mega” Camp @ Camp Wood YMCA
June 17, Youth Commission Meeting Online, 10 am – noon
June 22-27, MissionWichita @ TBA
July 17-18, Camp Canterbury* @ Camp Wood YMCA*
July 22-23, Happening #95 Staff Day, Thurs, 7 pm – Fri., 7 pm
July 23-25, Happening #95 @ Grace Cathedral, Topeka
Summer 2022, Mission Trip* to South Padre Island, TX, Sea Turtle rescue
The Episcopal Youth Event and the Youth Trip to General Convention of the Episcopal Church are offered every three years, with a mission trip offered in the third year.
*Events noted with an asterix are open to college-age adults, defined as those age 18-24 and at least 3 months after completing high school.
More info and registration forms available online:
http://edokformation.wordpress.com
Join us for weekly Young Adult programs:
(all events are outside with masks or online)
- The Word@Washburn, Washburn Student Union, Mondays, 12-1 pm, discussion on the week’s lectionary (will resume on January 25)
- Canterbury @ K-State, 1823 Laramie, Manhattan, Mondays, 6:30-8 pm, dinner, program, and Compline (will resume on January 25)
- Canterbury House of Lawrence, 1116 Louisiana, Lawrence, Tuesdays 6-7:15 pm, dinner and program (will resume on February 2)
- Young Adult and Graduate Student Small Group is for any young adults who would like to join. Wednesdays 7-8 pm on Zoom, email Will Chaney for the link, whdc425@gmail.com
- Campus Ministry Small Group, for any college students who would like to join, Wednesdays 8:15-9:15 pm on Zoom, email Clarke for the link internku@episcopal-ks.org
- Baker University Chapel, Thursdays 11 am @ Osborne Memorial Chapel
- Tea & Compline, Thursdays, 9 pm, on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CMEC.KS
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Stay in contact with Youth & Campus Ministry
 Parents, college-age students and youth can sign up to receive text messages from the Youth Missioner. These will include event registration reminders as well as spiritual encouragements. Parents Young Adults and Youth, to sign-up, send a text message to 81010 and include as the body of your text one of the following codes:
- College-Age folks and their parents send @edokYA
- High School Seniors and their parents send @edok2021
- High School Juniors and their parents send @edok2022
- High School Sophomores and their parents send @edok2023
- High School Freshmen and their parents send @edok2024
- 8th graders and their parents send @edok2025
- 7th graders and their parents send @edok2026
- 6th graders and their parents send @edok2027
- Volunteers or others interested send @edokother
Parents, you can join as many lists as you want to make sure you get messages sent to all of your children.
Not a parent or a youth? You can join by sending a message to 81010 with the code @edokother
Follow EDOK Youth Ministry on social media:
Follow EDOK Campus Ministry on social media:
2020-21 Formation Team
Anastasia, Michael, Karen, & Clarke
Youth, Young Adult & Campus Missioner:
Karen Schlabach, kschlabach@episcopal-ks.org, 913-708-5927
Associate for Youth, Young Adult & Campus Ministry:
Michael Funston, mfunston@episcopal-ks.org, 785-231-8785
Program Assistant at Canterbury House of Lawrence:
Clarke Mortensen, internku@episcopal-ks.org, 937-919-3273
Program Assistant at Canterbury at K-State:
Anastasia Cunningham, internksu@episcopal-ks.org, 920-267-0652
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Advent
Young Adult Alternative Break Day
Miqra readers needed!
