Mark Your Calendars for the

2025 Presbyterian Youth Triennium

July 28-31 in Louisville, KY

The Presbytery of the Coastlands is forming a delegation to attend the national Presbyterian Youth Triennium! In July 2025, the Presbyterian Church (USA) will welcome thousands of high school age youth and their adult youth workers to Louisville, Kentucky for four days of worship, recreation, bible study, outreach, and faith formation all around the theme of “As If We Were Dreaming. Talk with your high school youth about this life-changing event. It is open to rising 9th Graders through High School Graduates.

Alicia Morrison, The Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville, Rev. Sharyl Dixon, Kingston Presbyterian Church, and Robin Garzoni, Slackwood Presbyterian Church are serving as your Triennium Registrars and Planning Team for the Coastlands Presbytery. They can be reached at coastlandsPYT2025@gmail.com with any questions.

About: Complete the Interest Form for anyone interested in attending the Presbyterian Triennium 2025. Triennium is in Louisville, Kentucky from July 28th through the 31st. We will be gathering on the 27th for fellowship and dinner prior to departing to travel overnight to Louisville.

Submitting the interest form is not a commitment, but a way to help us know how many people we should plan on attending.

We will be partnering with the Presbytery for Southern New Jersey and going by Charter Bus together. As a result, space is limited we will be taking 24 youth and 4 adults, so please get your interest form in as soon as possible. This form can be completed for youth participants and chaperones (interested chaperones will need to complete a background check per our child protection policy). We will provide bus transportation departing for Louisville KY on Sunday, July 27th and return late Thursday night, July 31st .

The cost for each participant is still being approved by Presbytery and we are waiting to hear about Synod funding as well. We will update the final cost as soon as we can.

Triennium Interest Form

Theme: Once we have experienced God’s sacred dreams, we are never the same. Like the Magi who were told in a dream to go home by another way, we must find a new way forward. Or as the prophet Isaiah proclaimed, “You shall go out with joy…” We conclude our Triennium experience affirming that it is not to end our dreaming. Instead, we are to Wake Up and Dream. We are challenged and commissioned to imagine new ways of manifesting the gospel of Christ in our own contexts, having experienced God’s presence and power together. We invite you to join us as we worship, learn, fellowship, and play as a hopeful and joyful community of faith at the 2025 Presbyterian Youth Triennium. The experience will be

one of those life-shaping faith forming events that you will never forget! It will be As If We Were Dreaming.

Triennium Information and FAQ: · Triennium Website (https://presbyterianyouthtriennium.org/)

· For commonly asked questions (https://presbyterianyouthtriennium.org/faqs/)