“We’ll get to experience, up close and personal, the best of youth ministries,” Crabtree continued. “It gives us a chance to bring our own youth together, conference-wide, and to celebrate all the great diversity of the UCC as it will be present. “For the Florida Conference, hosting NYE creates a moment for people to understand the wider church and its many ministries - to see their mission gifts at work,” Crabtree said. Davida Foy Crabtree, interim conference minister for the Florida Conference of the UCC, is excited the conference has the opportunity to welcome the wider church to the ‘Sunshine State.’ “This allows families to do both, while maintaining the integrity of a youth event.” “We’re expanding it further and now we’re saying that families can come, that you don’t have to choose between sending children to a summer camp or taking a family vacation,” Middleton said. For the first time, families could stream National Youth Event online and be a part of it. In 2012 we introduced technology at the event and said technology should be a sacred tool of worship.

Waltrina Middleton, minister for youth advocacy and leadership formation. “The life of the church is changing and we have to expand the way we look at and do youth ministry,” said the Rev. The first NYE took place at Carleton College in Minnesota, and every four years since has ventured to campuses in Minnesota, Iowa, South Carolina, Tennessee and Indiana. The gathering in central Florida will mark the first time that NYE will take place somewhere other than a college campus. The decision to make the event into a family-inspired gathering where everyone is welcome prompted the decision to take NYE to Walt Disney World. That’s because the event will take place at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., from July 26 through July 29. And so should their parents and the rest of the family, too. The youth throughout the United Church of Christ should plan on bringing sunglasses and short sleeves to National Youth Event 2016.

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