Thursday: 9:00 to 4pm
What's an Extravaganza? Register Now! Speakers Talent Workshops Schedule Exhibit Hall Intensive Care Courses Theme Development Extravaganza FAQ's Housing Costs Travel Discounts Scholarships The Tom Hunstad Award Event Leadership Future Extravaganzas "Bring a Friend" Promotion LACE New Orleans Bus Tours Food Options The Details:
Schedule: Wednesday12pm - 5pm;
Reception at 9:00 PM Wednesday night.
(Total of 10 to 12 contact hours.)
Cost: $150
What is Intensive Care?
JUST LIKE THE WEATHER, SHIFTS ARE DRAMATIC AND UNCONTROLLABLE. Some shifts are sudden, like when you find out that someone you are called to serve is in a crisis. It may feel as though the earth has moved out from under your feet, not unlike an earthquake. Other shifts are gradual, more like a gentle breeze that rearranges the sand into a new landscape. You don’t see the shift in one day but over a week, a month, a year you see that the landscape is dramatically different. THESE MOMENTS REQUIRE INTENSIVE CARE. Shifts are fragile, new holy ground. They require of us new insights and skills, openness and awareness. These are the moments where God cradles us and ushers us into a new era of understanding or being. These are the moments in which we celebrate God’s presence with us. YOU KNOW HOW TO PREPARE FOR SHIFTS IN THE WEATHER. IT’S TIME TO PREPARE FOR SHIFTS IN YOUR MINISTRY.
IC #1: Crisis: It Happened To Us
Leader: Nancy Going
Description: Crises happen in all shapes and sizes: sometimes in the personal lives of youth or families, and sometimes to an entire community. Crises have some patterns, so we'll talk about what happens as events of a crisis unfold. We'll also spend much of our time together helping you understand your own reactions and your role with those in crisis. We will help you define your default mode and help you to explore options for care in a variety of crisis situations.
Bio: Dr. Nancy Going has over 20 years of ministry experience during which a few crises have happened, some of which she didn’t cause.
Leader: Dr. Jeremy Meyers
Description: In 1520 Martin Luther defined the Christian life as simultaneously being set free from and set free for. How does the Gospel set our youth free? From what does it set them free? For what does it set them free? Much has been written recently encouraging us to view youth and family ministry through a vocational lens. Together we will examine this notion and its implications for our ministry with youth and their families. Vocation is the call to pick up the cross and follow Christ into the world.
Bio: Jeremy Myers is assistant professor of religion at Augsburg College.
IC #3: Jesus Justice Jazz Prep Course Leaders: Kathy Hunstad and Heidi Hagstrom Bio: Heidi Hagstrom is the Director of the ELCA Youth Gathering. Kathy Hunstad is Director of Youth Ministry at Trinity Lutheran Church in Moorhead MN and the Community Coordinator for New Orleans Youth Gathering.
IC #4: Transforming Lives Through Service Learning Description: This Intensive Care will lead participants through a process of Service Learning developed by the SALLT Project (Service and Learning Leadership Training) developed by Trinity Lutheran College. When four intentional steps of Preparation, Action, Reflection, and Celebration are followed, six outcomes of Compassion, Community, Advocacy, Lifelong Servanthood, Leadership, and Exploration of Vocation grow and develop in young people. Participants will learn and experience the SALLT process, including a service experience in New Orleans. Although gathering attendance is not a prerequisite, strong emphasis will be placed upon using this process for the Youth Gathering in New Orleans. Those who do so will be invited to involve their youth in a SALLT research project for 5 years to see how the outcomes are becoming a reality. Limit: 25 Bio: Mark Jackson and Dave Ellingson are Professors of Children Youth and Family Studies at Trinity Lutheran College in Seattle, Washington Description: The college planning and selection process can be a challenging and overwhelming experience for high school families in your congregation. Inspire, engage, and empower your students and their families to select a college/university where they will most likely discern and embrace their vocation. Learn about how to assist your families in accessing and maximizing scholarships, grants and other forms of financial aid. Help your students critically evaluate and explore options so that they are able to make well-informed decisions. Assist your students in making the most out of campus visits and college fairs by equipping them with the appropriate questions to ask and exposing them to valuable research regarding the college experience. While in college, students deepen their faith and intellect and become prepared to lead, care about, and serve in God’s beloved world. Bio: Dr. Ralph Wagoner has served as the president of the Lutheran Educational Conference of North America for 9 years. In his career, he has spent 49 years in education, including 13 years as a college or university president, 10 years in development and 5 years as teacher and administrator in public schools. He received his bachelor's degree from Gettysburg College, a MS from Westminster College and a PhD Kent State University. Laurie Brill earned her M.A. degree in Counseling, and a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, both at Lenoir-Rhyne College. She worked for 8 years in college admissions and 2 years as a college counselor at a Boston area high school. For the past 10 years she has served with LECNA as the director of marketing.
Description: Come join us for an intense preparatory session before you bring your youth group to the 2009 ELCA Youth Gathering! You will get the inside scoop on the schedule, transportation, service learning opportunities and how to prepare your group to enter New Orleans as respectful, attentive, humble guests. You will have a chance to tour the city and get familiar with the “lay of the land” before you arrive with your teenagers. This is a great chance to equip your volunteer leaders (because, of course, you will have gifted them by bringing them along to the Extravaganza) and get key information that will help address the anxieties of the parents of the teens who are coming to the Gathering. You yourself will "get oriented so that you might be equipped" (Ephesians 4), to enter Jesus, Justice, Jazz, a faith-forming experience for teenagers that is full of God’s power to stir up new life.
Leaders: Dave Ellingson and Mark Jackson
Leader: Laurie Brill and Dr. Ralph Wagoner