What’s it about?
The decision to return to New Orleans in 2012 was easy. The relationships that were built through service and learning in 2009 call us back to stand with the people of New Orleans.
The thousands of orange-shirted ELCA teenagers who earned a respected place in the post-Katrina recovery story will return, not only to reprise their service effort, but to listen to the testemonies of how the Holy Spirit has worked in the lives of these particular Christians to remind them that they are bound together with the God even through tragedy.
What will we do there?
The gathering program is built around three core practices in which the participants will be immersed in before they come to New Orleans, while they are together in New Orleans, and, hopefully, in the community of their congregations when they return home. The core practices –Discipleship, Peacemaking, and Justice– serve to practically clarify the Greatest Commandment: to love the Lord our God and our neighbor as ourselves.
What’s the theme?
The theme is citizens with the saints: Jesus is out peace. In his life and death on the cross, Jesus broke down the dividing walls so that we are no longer strangers and outsiders, but we are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God. The foundation of God’s house was built of the apostles and prophets, and Jesus, the cornerstone,holds it all together.
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