Countdown to a life–changing trip for the Albany Youth Team
Twelve young people from the Diocese, and two adult leaders, will fly out to our link diocese of Albany in upstate New York on Friday where they’ll spend two weeks helping at Beaver Cross Ministries Summer Camp.
Not only will they learn a lot and and grow personally and spiritually, but they’ll have the chance to impact other young lives as part of the Beaver Cross team.
This expression of the link between Down and Dromore and Albany has been happening since a team of young people travelled to Beaver Cross in 2003. Since then a number of groups have travelled in each direction, with Down and Dromore regularly hosting American teams at Summer Madness.
The Revd Adrian Dorrian will be leading the Down and Dromore team. He said: “This is the first time in several years we will have sent a team out to Albany. It’s wonderful to see so many of the team members coming up through our own Kilbroney Adventure Camps (which owe much of their structure to Albany’s model), but also to see interest from young people who are active in their own parishes but don’t necessarily connect with our camps.
“Experience at residential Christian Camps can be life changing. It was at a Camp that I made a commitment to Christ for the first time, and the couple who lead the ministry at Beaver Cross now were in fact young Camp Counsellors when I was last there in 2009. Not only will our young team contribute a lot at Beaver Cross but they’ll also have much to offer their home parishes and the diocese when they return.”
Please pray for the group who are away from Friday 6–Wednesday 25 July.
Revd Adrian Dorrian (left with Bishop Harold and the 2018 Albany Team