CY - Canada Youth

12/21/2020

From the folks who brought you CY, a special message on this, the longest night of the year, especially for young adults.

From the folks who brought you CY… The Weight of Waiting An online series designed especially for young adults who might be looking for a sense of Sanctuary Stability and Community. In this series, we hope you will find some inspiration, encouragement and connection. We’ll talk about all

07/08/2020

This CY T-shirt is still going strong 6 years later ... wish we could all be Face to Face!

07/07/2020

Remember when ... it was only supposed to happen once?

07/05/2020

03/14/2020

Canada Youth 2020 – POSTPONED

In conversation with Brock University, and to ensure that CY2020 is a joyful and successful gathering that can include as many people as possible, the difficult decision to postpone CY to July of 2021 has been made. Moving this event to next summer will allow congregations and planners time to work towards making CY2021 a joyful gathering of people from all across the country.

To receive updates or to ask questions, contact the CY Coordinator at [email protected]

03/07/2020

The Youth Track is for youth in high school (completed grade 9). It is an opportunity to learn, laugh, and worship together with other young people. CY celebrates the unique place of youth in our church and provides a landmark event in their faith journey.

02/27/2020

The Discipleship Track is for young adults who have graduated high school up to age 25. It provides a place to come together to worship God, be fuelled by great conversation, engage in challenging small group discussions, and have fun with others who are in the same stage of life!

02/21/2020

How is your congregation fundraising for CY2020?

Each year, Morningside-High Park Presbyterian holds a homemade jam and jelly sale. This year, some of the funds are being directed to help support CY2020!

We have some fundraising ideas on our website but we would love to hear how your youth group or congregation is fundraising. Comment below or send us a picture of your initiative!

02/18/2020

We are thrilled to announce that John W. Vest will be the Keynote Speaker for our Leadership Track!

John describes himself as a “church hacker” attempting to overcome the limitations of church as we know it. He is passionate about faith formation for emerging generations and is the co-founder of the Progressive Youth Ministry conference. An enthusiastic pitmaster, John has managed to unite church and BBQ, a dream he is making a reality with a food truck called Redemption BBQ and a new worshiping community called the Joyful Feast. John lives in Glen Allen, VA with his wife and two young sons.

John has served as the Visiting Assistant Professor of Evangelism at Union Presbyterian Seminary and worked with the Presbytery of the James in Richmond Virginia in the areas of evangelism, new church development, and church revitalization. Prior to his appointment at Union he served in congregational ministry for fifteen years in the Chicago metropolitan area. He holds degrees from Rice University (BA), the University of Chicago Divinity School (MDiv), and McCormick Theological Seminary (DMin), and has studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

02/16/2020

The Leadership Track is for congregational leaders of every kind and specially designed to equip lay people and ministers for greater service in the church. If you are lay, clergy, paid or volunteer leadership, the Leadership Track will have something inspiring for you. For the first time this track will run the entire length of CY2020.

02/12/2020

Since 2000, CY has been a gathering place for enthusiastic people to worship, play, create, pray, learn, make new friends, study scripture, laugh, discover, reflect, sing and share. More than 4,000 people have attended CY since it began and the impact has been felt in our camps, congregations, colleges and the courts of the church.

02/09/2020

Seeing 20/20. There is a story in the Gospel of Mark about Jesus healing a blind man. Jesus uses all the usual methods of healing we find in other healing stories: touching, spitting, laying on hands. But when Jesus asks the man if he can see, the man says he can see people, but they look like trees that are uprooted and walking around. It’s surprising to think Jesus’ healing doesn’t quite work on the first try. But the story reminds us that none of us have 20/20 vision. Sometimes we look but do not see; we have knowledge but don’t understand; we want to live with hope, but our vision is clouded. In the story, Jesus lays his hands on the man’s eyes again and this time the man sees everything clearly. (Mark 8:25-28). We all want to see things rightly. We need (as it says in the Bible) “to have the eyes of our heart enlightened so that we may know hope” (Ephesians 1:18).