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New Jersey Synod Youth Ministry
 

God is crazy-in-love with young people: children, teens, young adults - God loves ‘em all!  God is alive in, and works through, young people.  Don’t believe it?  Read the Bible.  Look around you.

 

In the New Jersey Synod we seek to be a church that loves young people with the love of Jesus and walk with them as they grow in faith and lead lives of Christian servanthood.  We do this first and foremost in our congregations.  We also do this through synodical youth events and training opportunities, and by helping connect them with the wider church and God-in-the-world!

 

Please contact our Youth Ministry Team Leader if your congregation would like an assessment of its youth ministry, help in dealing with a particular problem relating to youth ministry, or are looking for new ways to strengthen and grow the faith lives of the young people in your congregation and community.

Information regarding our synod’s youth ministry events can be found here. Support and training opportunities for adults involved in youth ministry can be found here.

Congregational Training Opportunities

  • Boundaries and Safety Training- The care and safety of children and young people are of paramount concern to our church.  Your congregation should have a regularly updated Congregational Safety Policy that includes sections specifically relating to children and youth.  If you would like help in crafting or updating such a policy or would like to hold a Boundaries and Safety Training for your congregation, please contact the office to help you in this matter.

 

Youth Ministry Mission Team

Our synod has a Youth Ministry Mission Team which helps provide oversight and direction for our synodical youth ministry offerings.  Many thanks to all who serve on this Team!

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Debra Porowski (Faith, Hillsborough),  LEADER

youthmin@njsynod.org

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1930 State Highway 33

Hamilton Square, NJ 08690

609-586-6800

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“Our synod office is located on land which is part of the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape, called “Lenapehoking.” The Lenape People lived in harmony with one another upon this territory for thousands of years. During the colonial era and early federal period, many were removed west and north, but some also remain among the continuing historical tribal communities of the region: The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation; the Ramapough Lenape Nation; and the Powhatan Renape Nation, The Nanticoke of Millsboro Delaware, and the Lenape of Cheswold Delaware. We acknowledge the Lenni-Lenape as the original people of this land and their continuing relationship with their territory. In our acknowledgment of the continued presence of Lenape people in their homeland, we affirm the aspiration of the great Lenape Chief Tamanend, that there be harmony between the indigenous people of this land and the descendants of the immigrants to this land, “as long as the rivers and creeks flow, and the sun, moon, and stars shine.”

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