Weekly Update: November 4

Hello Friends,

We praise the Lord that the past two weeks have been filled with powerful youth meetings and exciting new opportunities to expand our ministry to youth of the region. 

We continue to meet regularly with our Christ Church Schenectady and Christ Church Ballston Spa bible studies.  Each are becoming well established times of fun and fellowship and growth in the Lord Jesus. 

Last weekend Father Tyler visited St. Luke’s Cambridge.  The congregation shared an intimate time going deeper with the Spirit and following the morning worship did some brainstorming on creative ways to reach out to youth in the town through building personal relationships.

Tyler has established an exciting new connection with the organization Youth For Christ.  They have a ministry called Point Break which is an anti-bullying program that brings Christian strategies for the increase of love, compassion and light in public schools around our region. This program is an incredible inroad into our communities to meet and reach out to youth in our parishes.  Fr. Tyler had the opportunity to participate in the program when it was offered to the South Colonie High School last week and is hoping to become a facilitator for the program in the future as well as a liaison between YFC and our churches to help get it into more schools in the region. If you think the High School in your town might be interested in taking part in this program please contact Father Tyler.

This weekend is the annual Fall Confirmation Retreat.  All adolescent confirmation candidates are encouraged to join us for this retreat as we trust it will be an important step in helping candidates understand what it means to surrender your life to the Lord Jesus Christ and to be confirmed as a disciple of His.

Looking ahead, Sunday November 13^th we are excited to return to St. Luke’s Mechanicville for Fr. Tyler to preach and then to have a pizza party with the youth group.  The following Sunday, November 20^th, we are excited to be planning to visit Christ Church Duanesburg for the first time.

Finally we are eager to share our plans to start a monthly youth night of prayer, ministry and worship in the Albany area.  If your youth are searching for a regular time to seek the Lord and worship with fellow young people in the Albany region, please contact Father Tyler.

As always, thank you for all your prayers and loving support.

Thanks for reading and may Christ be with you!

Father Tyler Slade (Youth Director, Diocese of Albany) and Audrey Slade (Youth Coordinator, Diocese of Albany)