Loading...HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. -- At a time when many teens are thinking about driving, high school students will be focused on walking during Winterlight Dec. 27-Jan. 1 at Kanuga Conferences.
The 36th annual conference for students in grades 9-12 will center on the theme “Walk This Way.”
“The week will be a community exploration of how we can walk as Christ did and be an image for God,” said Scott Jeffries of Raleigh, N.C., who is coordinating the conference with Dee Zeller of Stevensville, Md. “We will examine our lives to see who, what, when, where and how we can walk in love in order to fit that image. It will allow us to see how we used to walk, how we are currently walking and how we can change our walk to live as Christ's image and grow closer to God.”
Many teens have already embraced the theme by choosing a service project to be completed during the conference.
In an online poll at www.facebook.com/YouthAtKanuga , participants voted overwhelmingly in favor of Stop Hunger Now, a Raleigh, N.C.-based nonprofit that helps fight starvation by providing lifesaving meals to some of the world’s poorest countries. Teens and youth leaders will spend the afternoon of New Year’s Eve filling bags with dehydrated vegetables, soy protein, rice and chicken-flavored vitamin supplements that could provide a healthy school lunch in Tanzania or get distributed after a natural disaster.
Winterlight has included a service project in its program since 2006. This will be the fourth year of partnering with Stop Hunger Now.
Begun in 1976, Winterlight draws students from many states and dioceses. The conference provides a supportive Episcopal community where young people gather to explore their faith, make new friends and ring in the new year.
Affiliated with the Episcopal Church since 1928, Kanuga is a 1,400-acre camp and conference center in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Hendersonville, N.C. Sibling discounts and financial aid are available. For more information, visit www.kanuga.org or call 828-692-9136.
