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LutherTube: “How Could Anyone” (from DAYLE 2009)

The video features scenes from the closing worship of the 2009 DAYLE, the Definitely Abled Youth Leadership Event, in New Orleans. A pre-event to the ELCA Youth Gathering, DAYLE brings together young leaders with a wide range of physical and...

Diggin’ the work

Brittany Christensen, 19, of Pipestone, Minn., was among the 12,000 ELCA teens sent out on work projects in New Orleans today. Here she’s digging a hole for plants in the front yard of a homeowner in the Lower Ninth Ward. The...

LutherTube: Youth Gathering Opening

Courtesy of LutherTube by Brett Nelson and Zack Stoudemayer: Scenes from the Opening of the 2009 ELCA Youth Gathering from the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. 37,000 youth from near and far have come to worship God and serve in...

LutherTube: MYLE Closing Worship

Courtesy of LutherTube by Brett Nelson and Zack Stoudemayer: Scenes from the Closing Worship of the 2009 MYLE, Multicultural Youth Leadership Event, a pre event to the ELCA Youth Gathering in New Orleans. MYLE is a multi-ethnic and multi-generational event...

Super youth

On on the opening night of the 2009 Youth Gathering, Lutherans streamed into the New Orleans Superdome. * They tried various ways to keep from getting separated. *

Lutherans unmasked

ELCA teens love the masks of New Orleans . (Left) Devin VanBibber, 16, and Austin Bates, 15, are headed to the downtown convention. They’re both members of Grace Lutheran Church, Bandera, Texas. Oakly Zinc,  16, of Hillsboro, N.D., turned out at Youth...