Youth Group
Every Sunday (6:30–8:30 pm) from September through May our senior high youth gather for Youth Group. The group spends considerable time forming relationships with each other and adult leaders, so that Youth Group becomes a place of safety, belonging, openness and support. Each gathering has a focus such as learning, service or fun.
Trinity uses several curricula, including Journey to Adulthood and training in Peer Ministry, through which youth deepen their relationships, strengthen their connection to the scriptures, and practice their faith through prayer, sharing and learning.
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Taking Their Place
Youth and young people are not the church of tomorrow, they are the church of today. Youth ministries at Trinity equip young people to claim their rightful place within the larger congregation. Trinity youth avail themselves of ministries in the church according to their interests and gifts. They help lead Sunday worship (lector, acolyte, server, instrumentalist, Hand Bell Choir, preaching, Maundy Thursday service) and engage in service (Blessing of the Animals fundraiser for Episcopal Relief and Development, Advent Alternative Giving program, clothes and supply drives for White Earth, Mental Health Initiative).
Holy Pilgrimage
The “Journey to Adulthood” program culminates in a pilgrimage to a holy place or site. Senior high youth will be exploring and potentially preparing, during the 2019-2020 program year, for a pilgrimage to Spain to walk the Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James) that people of faith have been walking for more than 500 years.
Confirmation
Trinity annually offers a 12-week confirmation class, which is an opportunity for our young people to make a public and mature affirmation of their Christian faith. The class is a time to question and learn.
Service Partnerships
It has been said, “You are not doing youth ministry until youth are doing ministry.” At Trinity, youth lead the rest of the congregation in significant outreach projects. Much of that work has been partnering with Indigenous communities.
Several times per year, the senior high youth pull a full shift at First Nations’ Kitchen (FNK), a ministry of All Saints’ Episcopal Indian Mission. FNK has been serving healthy, organic, traditional Indigenous food in a welcoming family environment since 2007. FNK models environmentally sustainable practices and serves fare based on an ancestral diet of First Nations people (buffalo, wild rice, elk, fish, venison and turkey). Trinity senior high youth have been a full partner with All Saints’ since 2010 and raise money for needed supplies, equipment and wild rice.
For six consecutive summers, Trinity youth traveled north to spend a week serving members of the White Earth Nation who do not live on the reservation and thus cannot be served by the tribe. Along with youth from neighboring Episcopal churches, Trinity youth were full partners in the White Earth Mission Project, hosted by the White Earth tribal government. In addition to working on housing projects and sponsoring a Vacation Bible School for Indigenous children from Cass Lake in the summer, Trinity’s senior high youth engaged in fundraising all year long to provide the supplies and materials needed for the week up north. Additionally, the youth took their partnership seriously, engaging in anti-racism work throughout the year, broadening their knowledge of the history and culture of Ojibwe people. The White Earth Mission Project is temporarily on sabbatical due to changes in leadership and a healthy reimagining of the partnership and its work. Learn more about the White Earth Nation.
