Youth Events
YODAH (Youth of Dayton Are Here)
YODAH (Youth of Dayton Are Here) is a group for high schoolers and young adults who want to get more in touch with their spiritual side. It is a welcoming, fun community for any and all who would like to come. They play games, examine and discuss what they should do with out time in this world, pray, sing, and laugh! Come join YODAH every Wednesday at Christ Church Dayton from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Youth Committion Meeting:
Thursday, November 10 at 6:00 p.m. in the Parish Hall
Waffle Shop set up :
Sunday, November 13 after the 10:30 service
Youth Group Lock-in:
Saturday, November 19 at 7 p.m. through Sunday, November 20. (No Youth Group Meeting)
Procter Reunion & Service at Christ Church Cathedral
The reunion will be held on November 20th, from 3pm-5pm at Christ Church Cathedral, Cincinnati. They will begin with a Procter Summer Camp style worship service in the Undercroft(church word for basement) of the Cathedral, that is being put together by some of the leaders of youth program around the diocese. Afterwards, they will have light refreshments and an opportunity to socialize with people from around the diocese that we only have the opportunity to see once or twice a year in diocesan-youth-event settings. The "social hour" will also be an opportunity for representatives of the Genesis retreat, Exodus retreat and Procter Summer Camping Program to give presentations. Please track our event page down on Facebook, type in Procter Reunion, and RSVP. If you have any questions, please contact Slocomb Reed at the Cathedral, slocomb@sbcglobal.net. All are welcome! Tell a friend and bring two! For more information, click here.
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Genesis 9 Information: December 9-12, 2011 Youth Commission meeting:
Monday, December 12 at 6 p.m. in the Parish Hall
Youth Group party and cookie baking:
Sunday, December 18 from 12 noon to 3 p.m.
Christmas Caroling:
Sunday, De4cember 18: Meet at the church at 3 p.m. and be ready to leave at 3:30 p.m.
Winter Family Camp! 
The dates for Winter Family Camp are Dec. 29 to Dec. 31. Cost is $120 per adult, $60 per child. Camp begins at 4 p.m. on Dec. 29 and ends at 11 a.m. on Dec. 31. Activities to include field games, fishing, basketball, arts and crafts, cornhole, campfire, Bible study,worship, kids movie night and adult Euchre tournament with open bar. The camp chaplain will be the Rev. Gayle Hansen Browne and the staff: your favorite summer counselors!
For more information and registration links, click here: Winter Family Camp Information
Youth Group Meeting:
Sunday, January 15, after the 10:30 a.m. service
WOYO (Winter Outreach Youth Overnight) 
The Church of the Redeemer January 28-29 for the first WOYO retreat! WOYO stands for "Winter Outreach Youth Overnight", and it is a regional diocesan youth event for grades 6-12.
Families will be staying at Redeemer, and the diocesan youth will be preparing and serving food, helping with homework, and running games and activities for the families on Saturday. We will also have a worship service Saturday evening and we will join the Redeemer community for an Intergenerational worship on Sunday morning at 10am. This event will surely be fun for all! ...and get an AWESOME t-shirt!!
Date: January 28-29, 2012
Registration Deadline: January 22, 2012
Where: The Church of the Redeemer, Cincinnati, Ohio 45208
Time: 1pm arrival on the 28th, all invited for worship at 10am on the
29th, must be picked up by 12pm
Grades: 6-12
Cost: $20, scholarships available upon request, please contact Rob Konkol
Register Now: WOYO Registration Form . For more deta8ils, click here.
Exodus 9 Information: March 30 - April 1, 2012
Exodus is a high school aged retreat program for youth in grades 9 thru 12. This retreat is designed, created, and implimented by high school students from across our diocese. Each retreat is different in design, location, and staff. Exodus 9 will be held at the Procter Center March 30 - April 1, 2012. Erik Nelson is the Design Team Leader. Cost is $35, scholarships are available upon request. Register Here: Exodus 9 Registration
MVERN heads to Russia in 2012!
Miami Valley Episcopal Russian Network is happy to announce "To Russia with Love VI", a pilgrimage to Sablino, Russia for youth of the diocese. The trip is scheduled for June 27 through July 11, 2012. Meet new people, share a common faith and work together to make a difference in both yourself and others. We'll be spending eight days in Sablino, working in the local youth camp and improving the facilities of the Sablino Youth Center. The trip includes time in St. Petersburg and Novgorod, two cities with abundant history and culture.
For more details about the trip, please visit www.mvern.org or contact Mary Kay Allen, MVERN board member: marycraig2@frontier.com
Good Earth Hunger Mission 2010
Christ Church youth and adult volunteers returned from Athens
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Older youth and adults arrived early in the week to work on the building of an outdoor shower to be used by mission groups coming to the farm. Other youth and chaperones joined them later in the week and helped with the garden, pantry, and farm chores.
To see pictures from the Youth Group Mission Trip, click here.
A Week in the Life of Good Earth Farm
Good Earth Farm is on the outskirts of Athens, Ohio at the end of Armitage road, a long country lane named after an early landowner. A peaceful and quiet location most of the time, except when a train rolls through, whistle blowing, on the adjacent tracks (usually in the middle of the night!) There are many friendly greetings exchanged throughout the day with passersby on the much traveled bikeway, which also runs alongside the property.
Paul and Sara Clever operate the farm in partnership with others who share their mission of responding to hunger by growing, gleaning and donating food to feed the hungry in their local community. By word and example, they bring to those who cross their path a better understanding of sustainable living. On the farm they live by a rule of life, beginning each day at 6:30 am with Morning Prayer, and ending most days with Evening Prayer at the setting of the sun. Good Earth hosts a weekly Community Eucharist and provides the evening meal, oftentimes welcoming anywhere from 20 to 40 friends, visitors, farm volunteers and parishioners from Good Shepherd Episcopal Church. The days are long and ordered for our hosts - both long term residents and short term interns. They share daily chores and tasks in addition to their areas of specialty: Dan, the garden; Kelley, the livestock; Kyle, the beekeeper; Heidi, the preservationist; Kelly, public relations; and John, cook extraordinaire and all-around general helper.
A week at Good Earth Farm was much more than a mission trip for the youth and adults of Christ Church, Dayton - it was an experience of living and worshiping in community where hard work is satisfying, difficult issues are explored, and life lessons are learned.
In the course of our time on the farm, our mission team donated and constructed an outdoor shower house to be used by visiting groups. We harvested, weeded, and replanted in the garden, and also gleaned peas and beans in the fields of another local farm. We washed, weighed and delivered the fresh produce to the Community Food Initiative ‘donation station’ at the farmer’s market for distribution to area food pantries and soup kitchens. In addition to donating produce, we used some of what was harvested in many of the meals cooked and consumed throughout the week. Some assisted with farm chores such as milking the cow and gathering fresh eggs from the hens. An afternoon was spent washing, coring, and chopping cabbage that was then preserved into sauerkraut. At the Athens County Food Pantry we boxed and bagged hundreds of pounds of food to be distributed to local families. We were truly a part of the process of feeding folks in need.
That second week of June at Good Earth was probably one of the busiest times they have seen yet this season. In addition to hosting our group, the summer camp counselors from Procter came for a full day of volunteer work and team building, preparing an herb garden and working in the field. All week long people came to the farm - some to volunteer for a morning or afternoon in the field, some to feed us a meal or drop off a dessert. Others came to work on special projects like Dick, a parish member from the church who is working to set-up an outdoor kitchen. Robert; their landlord, neighbor and friend, comes with his tractor to assist in moving large and heavy objects such as floors, walls, and roofs for the building projects – or lends his ATV for smaller jobs.
The transformation that took place on the farm in just one week was amazing! What we found on arrival is not what we left behind on June 20. And what we took with us will stay with us forever. Clearly, the Holy Spirit is at work in the place, a life-giving spirit of cooperation and common ministry that is shared by all who come into her presence. Blessings to Paul, Sara, and their dedicated team who care for the Good Earth and her people. Godspeed!
More information about Good Earth can be found at the following link. http://www.chogs.org/goodearth.htm
Ongoing Activity:
Soda Can Recycling:
Recycling continues on the first Sunday of each month as a fundraiser for the youth program. Please drop your pop/soda cans off by the ticket booth in the church parking lot for pick up. It is greatly appreciated if they are rinsed first! The Youth Program can earn anywhere from $10 to as much as $40 a month. The money is used to help offset the registration fees for youth events including Genesis, Exodus, and Summer Camp. Thanks to all those who regularly contribute and thanks to the Nixon family for their coordination of this fundraising effort!!