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Day 1
Dear council - The EYE group arrived safely in San Antonio, TX this afternoon, and everything is going well. Our youth are amazing they act as if they have known each other forever and by dinner had organized a Frisbee game with other youth from NJ, FLA, HI, and the list goes on.
This evening we will participate in the welcome presentation, have our new tie-dye banner that our youth created, hung in the Auditorium with all the other diocese, Jim and I will have attended our orientation, the youth will have attended an ice cream social and had our dorm meeting. It's quite a full schedule.
The youth and I will update you everyday!! Thank you again for approving the monies to enable 9 youth to attend this AMAZING event!!!
God bless & peace,
Anne Plumer-Fisher
Day 2
Today was filled with lots of firsts:
- We celebrated a holy eucharist with 1200 other youth and adults
- We heard the Presiding Bishop's sermon - AWESOME!!!
- We all learned something new about ourselves in our small group discussions
- We heard Bonnie Anderson speak to us about our baptismal covenant
- Our youth all danced together with all the other youth at the afternoon forum
- We all continued to meet new friends from all the the US, Ecuador, the Virgin Islands, Micronesia
- We participated in an amazing FIESTA where the youth all visit the different dioceses and trade pins, t-shirts, toys, etc that represent their state
- We had some great discussions with our youth about their faith and how do they share their story with others
The youth are really excited about coming back and sharing their story about EYE with the council, the convocations, and any of the churches that would like to hear about their experience here at EYE.
Thank you for keeping us in your prayers, wait till you see all the pictures!!! We even got Bonnie Anderson in our group photo today!!
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| NH youth with Bonnie Anderson |
God bless & peace,
Anne
Day 3
The best things about today's activities:
- We attended an evening Eucharist all in Spanish, and we all loved it, especially the music!!!!!
- The youth continue to build new relationships with their peers in small groups and throughout all the activities
- I had some great conversation with the Bishop of Michigan and the Bishop of Oklahoma
- Jim Sims, our male chaperone is amazing, and he was the perfect choice to attend with me.
We finished our evening with songs sung by Jim.
Thank you again for everyone's support!!!
God bless % peace,
Anne
Day 4
Well what a day!! We started off with our usual routine of breakfast morning program (guest speaker was a clergy member from Mississippi who talked about Hurricane Katrina and what can be accomplished and how thankful he is about the amazing youth that he has met and worked with), small groups and lunch then off to San Antonio to see the Alamo, and the Mexican market place. For dinner we were invited to a special dinner with all of our Province I peers and continued to build our faith community.
After dinner the youth experienced their first healing service and they were blown away! I can honestly say I have never felt closer to God!!! At the end of the service we had everyone do a laying on of hands with all the bishops that are here before they go off to Lambeth. WHAT A GOD MOMENT!! 1100 strong!!! We then had designated time for Diocesan Sabbath, and Jim and I took the kids to a small waterfall area with benches and he played his guitar and sang to them.
One more day left and the youth don't want it to end
God bless & peace,
Anne
