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OSHAWA PRESBYTERY YOUTH
Youth at Fall Event 2009
Here is a listing of information about youth events in the Oshawa Presbytery and the Bay of Quinte Conference
NOTE: resources for Racial Justice Training can be found at the bottom of this webpage.
 THE DONDI PROJECT NATIONAL DRUMATHON
Friday, October 1st, 2010 and Saturday, October 2nd
Pickering Village United Church
300 Church St. N. Ajax
www.pvuc.ca
Dondi, Angola is the site of the Lutamo School established and supported by the Methodist and then United Church of Canada. Thousands of children received an education there, helping them to escape the cycle of poverty. It was also the site of a hospital established by medical missionary Dr. George Burgess, the late brother of Helen Doidge Hall of Pickering Village United Church. However the school was destroyed during the civil war and has been unusable ever since.
At the request of our partners, the Evangelical Congregation Church in Angola, we are raising funds to rebuild this once vital school. This project was begun by the Men’s Ministries of the United Church of Canada, but it’s time for all of us to pitch in and support education in Angola.
On Friday, October 1st, a drumathon will begin in Dondi, Angola and continue for a total of 32 hours, with groups across Canada participating in turn. We will take our turn at PVUC with friends from Mt. Zion and Greenwood United from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. (to 11 p.m. optional) with drumming and song. Drummers, singers and visitors of all ages are most welcome. Then we will re-gather to mark the end of the national drumathon from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, October 2nd. We ask participants to gather sponsors for them to participate in this event. Participants and visitors may also contribute during the event. Please feel free to come out for as much of the event as you are available for.
More information will be available soon, but for now, please set these dates aside. For further information, contact the church at 905-683-4721 or
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For more information about the Dondi project, go to www.dondiproject.com
To see the Dondi project video, go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=57lDihsZEb0
To register as a participant, go to https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEZ1Q2s1eU96ZGxROGFuQ1VTZmRLTmc6MA
To download a sponsorship form, go to https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B0U3JGlhQAUmNzk2ZDNhNGQtNjE0OS00NmM3LTk2MWYtMmVjMjQ2MTQyZjRk&hl=en
To ask others to sponsor you, have them go to the following link:
https://spreadsheets3.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHhlWkhTWkIyUUEzZWRISGVqZ2FLTXc6MA
BAY OF QUINTE CONFERENCE
YOUTH FALL EVENT
Friday, November 12, 7 p.m. to Sunday, November 14, 1 p.m.
for youth grades 7 and up
Pickering Village United Church
300 Church St. N. Ajax ON
During this weekend we will be looking at the theme of Christmas and consumerism.
Click on the link below to download a registration form.
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PRESBYTERY YOUTH NETWORK
We are linking United Church Youth Groups in the Oshawa Presbytery to share in different events throughout the year, whether they be sports events, 30 hour famine or social gatherings. If you would like your event publicized on this website or emailed to our contact list, please send your information to
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P.S. To see Pickering Village United Church's youth video, "Serving Christians in a Hurry", click here.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
 Youth Forum 2010 at Conference AGM in Brockville, Ontario
YOUTH MISSION AWARENESS PROGRAM (YMAP) trip to Cuba
March 13-March 20, 2010
Twelve teenagers (14-17), five leaders and five other adults went to Cuba to meet and learn from our United Church mission partners including the Presbyterian Church in Cuba and the Christian Centre for Reflection and Dialogue. This exposure trip enabled interaction between Canadian and Cuban teenagers, educated the participants regarding the church in a different context; it was truly an experience of a lifetime!
Youth Forum 2009 at the AGM of Conference in Pembroke, Ontario
Bay of Quinte Conference Fall Event 2008
YOUTH FORUM 2008 at the AGM of Conference, Napanee, Ontario
YOU to YOUTH: in September of 2009, we met our $60,000 goal!
YOU to YOUTH
linking youth together to fight HIV/AIDS
BACKGROUND
At the Annual Meeting of the United Church’s Bay of Quinte Conference in June of 2007, a Youth proposal challenged Youth Groups in the Conference to raise $60,000 for a youth-related outreach project. On October 13th a group of youth met as a part of the Conference Mission, Outreach and Advocacy (MOA) division and decided to take on an “Extra Measures” request from the Christian Council of Tanzania who want to start a project with HIV/AIDS positive youth. In Tanzania, as in many countries in Africa, lack of sexual health education and a reluctance to be tested due to the social stigma placed on those with HIV/AIDS result in the continued spread of the disease. A 2006 World Health Organization report states that one third of all those currently infected with HIV/AIDS are youth between the ages of 15 to 24; more than 2.6 million young people are infected each year.
THE PROJECT
The Christian Council of Tanzania has organized the “POSITIVE YOUTH ALLIANCE”. With our help,this project would extend to more HIV positive youth from Musoma and Geita. They would receive testing and treatment as needed. They would be a part of support and counseling to help overcome the stigma of living with HIV/AIDS. They would receive training and funding to establish income-generating activities. These youth would in turn spread their message in secondary schools and churches to encourage other youth to protect themselves and to be tested for HIV. There is the potential to reach tens of thousands of youth and parents with their message.
OUR RESPONSE
Coming out of the October 13th MOA meeting, we decided to hold an event called “YOU to YOUTH” to educate ourselves about HIV/AIDS and brainstorm with youth in the conference on how to take this issue back to our congregations and meet our goal of raising $60,000. At this event we heard from people who have worked on the front lines against AIDS in Africa. We drummed along with the Abbey North Drummers. We lived and learned as a community and developed educational and promotional resources; we developed strategies and tools for fundraising in our congregations and communities, some of which wel presented in the Sunday worship.
RESOURCES
We developed a number of resources to be used for fundraising for the anti-HIV/AIDS project in Tanzania.
To see the video message, click here.
To view "Esther's Journey", click here.
To download the drama script, click here.
To download the Christmas Card, click here.
To download an informational handout, click here.
For the PowerPoint presentation, go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=Koq2wCpj-B8
For the extended version of the You to Youth video as seen at the Conference AGM, go to
www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=3e801470d0292b97af2f
Racial Justice Training resources:
wallofhistoryexercise
racialprivilegeawarenessracetothecentrepeggymcintosh
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