YOUTH FORMATION
Creating spaces in the middle and high school years for youth to grow in faith, spiritual friendships and a sense of belonging.
A key part of the formation of our youth happens through participation in weekly worship and Eucharist. In addition, we offer a weekly youth group, where we eat together, play together, and nurture faith together. Outside youth group, we encourage our teens to regularly engage with the scriptures, we host occasional parties and retreats, and we serve the wider community of Charlottesville as members of Christ’s body.
WORD & TABLE
We value the practices of living out life together as followers of Jesus with our Youth. The rhythms of our Sunday liturgy together, modeling ancient Christian practices, loving our neighbors, the work of justice, all of these things are done alongside youth. Our desire is for our youth to be with us as much as possible in our worship together, not as passive participants, but as active members of our community.
FORMATION
Our youth group meets on Sundays from 11:30-1:30. We eat lunch together following corporate worship, play together, and have focused time in formation. This fall, Father Bliss is teaching a 10-week course called Rooted in the Faith: Youth Catechism. We hope to offer youth a framework that is good, true, and beautiful: a way of understanding the Christian story they have inherited, the life into which many of them have been baptized, and the practices through which Christians across centuries have learned to inhabit that story.
READING PLAN
We want our students to graduate high school having read through the whole of the Scriptures. To that end, we have created a reading plan that will take students through the Bible in three years. Our plan includes readings for 6 days each week; each day assigns readings from the Psalms, Gospels, and one other book of the Bible. Our aim is to introduce students to the books of the Bible as complete literary units, with their own design and method of communication. Thus, our reading plan is intended to teach our students the language of prayer (Psalms), keep them in touch with Jesus who is at the heart of our faith (Gospels), and introduce them to the unified story of the Scriptures that find their fulfillment in Jesus (Everything Else). All are welcome to join us in the journey.
Youth Milestones
For students from 6th through 12th grade, we desire to help them grow more deeply into a life with God and within the life of the Church. These milestones are woven into our larger formation pathway at All Souls, marking and celebrating significant steps as youth learn to inhabit the practices, relationships, and responsibilities of Christian life with deepening maturity. Rather than forming faith in isolation, they are invitations into deeper belonging, participation, and shared life with the people of God.
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At the beginning of summer, we celebrate rising 6th graders as a way to welcome them into the Youth Ministry, and to include them in all our summer fun!
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At the start of each Fall semester, we gift our freshmen with new "adult" Bibles as a way to signal that they are taking more ownership in their faith and in their engagement with the Scriptures.
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Each spring we celebrate the students who are graduating high school, sending them off with gifts and prayers for the season ahead.
MEET THE TEAM
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Pr. Brendan Jamieson
Associate Pastor
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Flynn Pinkston
Minister of Youth Formation
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Youth Ministry Team
Providing support and leadership (+ glow lights).
Youth Safety Policies
Anyone working with your children at All Souls receives a background screening and Sexual Abuse Awareness Training. We maintain appropriate adult: child ratios in each classroom and adhere to a comprehensive Child Safety Policies Handbook. We welcome any feedback, concerns or questions. We are here to serve you and your family.
