Drum Roll Please… The Gathering Theme Song!
This is a special double entry from the writers of the theme song for the Gathering! Check out the video for the theme song! – Judi Tyler I have been learning to write songs and hymns in the past few...
ReconcilingWorks: Gathering in Beautiful Diversity
– Aubrey Thonvold I know firsthand just how magical and life changing the Youth Gathering can be. I went to my first Gathering back in the 90s when I was a freshman in high school. It was powerful to be...
Transformation Through Walk for Water
– Iain Chester My first experience of the ELCA Youth Gathering was less than two years ago in Detroit. I learned quickly that a Gathering is unique and that there is nothing quite like worshiping in an NFL stadium filled...
Meet Kinda
– Kinda Makini Blessings from me to you! My name is Kinda Makini. I am honored to serve as the Team Leader for the Multicultural Youth Leadership Event (MYLE) for 2018. Through MYLE, we live to empower young people of...
Experiences that Changed Everything
– David Hunstad In 1973, I was a junior in high school and I had an experience that indeed “changed everything.” I went to the All Lutheran Youth Gathering in Houston, Texas. I came from a small town in Wisconsin...
Where “ITs” At
– Keith Amano We’re everywhere. Hopefully you don’t notice us too much, but we’re in and out of rooms, behind curtains and walls, and, yes, even under tables. We zig-zag around town, loading and unloading van-fulls of equipment. We’re the...