Please consider joining for an upcoming fall student ministry retreat:
Mondo | October 11–13 | Camp Bob Cooper | $150
Content: “Four Chairs” (An overview of identity + belonging in Christ. Each ‘chair’ represents and answers the the questions, “Who am I and who is Jesus?”) | Speaker: Hunter Myers
Registration open until October 2nd at 11:59pm
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Regenerate | Nov. 8–10 | Camp Bob Cooper | $150
Content: Sessions designed to activate students to live into their Gospel identity and purpose. | Speaker: The Rev. Canon Aaron Buttery of the ACNA’s Next Generation Leadership Initiative
Registration open until October 30th at 11:59pm
Registration for Regenerate and Mondo is being handled through group leaders. If you are a parent of a high schooler looking to register, please register through your home parish church. If you do not have a home parish, or your church doesn’t have a youth group, please contact Hunter Myers at hunter@your-cathedral.org to register!
Each retreat includes:
- Four large-group sessions with games, testimonies, worship music, biblical teaching, after which follows church group time small group discussion, application, and prayer. You and your leaders get the last word and help the Gospel truths land!
- Meals all together (breakfast Saturday – breakfast Sunday) with snacks and free snacks throughout the weekend to supplement (leaders can retrieve snacks for your groups; please don’t let students go to town!).
- Recreation options (climbing wall, pole course, and archery) provided by Camp Bob Cooper in three rotations, practical workshops taught by clergy and student ministry leaders, open activities including basketball + volleyball + football/ultimate frisbee field + 9-Square-in-the-Air, and more!
- Nightlife activities, including the MONDO Relay! Past high school nightlife activities included a square dance, bonfire with s’mores, and glow-in-the-dark capture the flag.
- Tech-free time away. We ask group leaders to confiscate all smart devices and cellphones throughout the weekend. Tech-free time is a high priority for spiritually-significant time away with teenagers!
- Ladies Cabins and Gents Cabins (across the campus from each other!) assigned by church group. Plus, we guarantee at least 8 hours of sleep time in the schedule, and we enforce lights out.
- Closing Holy Communion on Sunday Morning as well as prayer ministry offered after the Saturday Evening large-group session.
- A full but not over-full schedule. We want students to experience a slower pace where the Holy Spirit can move through conversations and Gospel responses (surrendering one’s life to Christ, desiring Baptism, Confirmation, or re-affirmation, exploring a call to ministry, repentance of specific sins, and more).
Registration Process:
- The diocesan portal is for parish group leaders, not for students/parents.
- Parishes host their own registrations internally, then submit their registrants and payment through the diocesan portal.
- A parish group leader can be any adult who is responsible for leading students on the retreat. (i.e. a group leader does not have to be a paid, full-time youth minister!)
- The base cost for each attendee (including group + adult leaders) is $150. This includes snacks on Friday night, four meals, cabins, and recreation rotations by Camp Bob Cooper on Saturday morning + afternoon.
- The deadline for registrations is 10 days prior to the retreat
- Need-based scholarships will be available for students. The scholarship form will be sent out in early September.
- You can pay for your group online through the portal, OR you can pay later via check.