By Silvi Pirn, Minister for Youth, Young Adults, and Mission Kenilworth Union Church Youth Ministry is now offering Service & Leadership Certificate Courses for high school students. The courses are suitable for all high school teens serving in Music Ministry, in Sunday School, in Worship, at Youth Groups, in IMPACT, with almost all [...]
November 11–14, 2021
Registration Deadline
Friday, October 15.
From the journal of Silvi Pirn Early last week I was trudging up a 500 foot uphill climb on our six-mile trail over rocks and roots with what felt like 80 pounds strapped to my back (probably closer to 40 lbs.—but it felt so heavy!) The weather was hot. I was drenched in [...]
Livestream Worship at 9:30 a.m., Worship in the Sanctuary at 10:30 a.m. (for families of high school seniors and Junior Bell Choir only please), and Outdoor Worship in the Memorial Garden at 1 p.m.
Katie, Christine, and Silvi show us the new and different places that fall worship and programing are happening.
By Silvi Pirn On August 2, this year’s team of 11 youth and 2 adults set out for an unconventional, but deeply spiritual week outdoors for the annual Confirmation Wilderness Course. The Course has become a staple of KUC Youth Ministry summer programing. Each August, before fall sports tryouts begin, we take a [...]
July–Sept.
Challenge Yourself
To Serve Others!
By Silvi Pirn Some time toward the end of last summer, I decided—or maybe it was God who decided for me—that the theme for this year’s IMPACT High School program would be “Pain.” Our high schoolers have been preparing to work in the Bahamas this year. Hurricane Dorian destroyed swaths [...]
By Silvi Pirn Take me by the hand;Lead me down the path of truth.You are my Savior, aren’t you?—Psalm 25:5There is no path more important for young people to find and follow than the one of God’s truth and purpose. Claire and I, your youth directors, are humbled and delighted to be here to [...]
2019 Wilderness Confirmation Course by Silvi Pirn Several times last week I thanked our God for the unique tradition of a Confirmation Wilderness Course. I have talked to a lot of people who attend and lead at a lot of other churches and I have never heard of another church that takes [...]