The NFCLYO CORE Team

Going to be in 10th-12th grades next year?  Want to take your faith journey to a new level?
Apply to the CORE Team!  See below for details.

The 2009-10 CORE Team (Year VII)

Christians Out Reaching Everyone (CORE)

CORE is an unique leadership/discipleship group of excited, faith-centered and talented senior high youth in the Niagara Frontier Conference.  CORE members place their faith as one of their most important values (if not THE most important), and they are eager to show that faith in their words and actions, especially to their peers!

CORE 2010-11 Year VIII Applications Will you be in 10-12th grade next school year?  Have a servant's heart, a strong faith and want to get out and make a difference in your peers and others?  Consider applying for the next CORE Team! The CORE Team is an ACTIVE group that witness their faith through leading youth events, ministering with those that are disadvantaged, and much more.  CORE Team members DO and BE their faith! To apply to the CORE Team, download the Application Pack, complete it, and have 3 references complete a reference form for you.  The application and references are due in by August 10. Application Pack This file has the CORE Team intro letter, application and reference forms.  Please complete these forms and mail them to the address shown by the deadline. COREVIIIapplication.pdf (6 pages, 225 KB) You will need Adobe Reader installed on your computer to open this file. If you are unable to download or open these files after installing this program, please email the web servant with any problems.

The CORE Mission Statement

CORE is an excited, faith-centered team of youth that reaches out to youth and others in need,
bringing God’s love and word to everyone.

CORE's Purposes

C - Christians: fellowship, connecting with others
O - Out: ministry, loving our "neighbors" everywhere
R - Reaching: evangelism, making disciples, mission
E - Everyone: worshipping and loving God

CORE Team Mission Trips
Each year, the CORE Team travels to an out-of-town place to experience and immerse ourselves in various mission settings to serve the least, lost, loneliest and left behind in our world.  We minister with the disadvantaged, the homeless, those struggling to get by from disaster, and more.  Here's a recap of two recent mission trips taken by the CORE Team...
	Mississippi Gulf Coast - Spring 2008  The NFCLYO CORE Team journeyed to Ocean Springs, Mississippi to help bring hope, rebuild homes, and rebuild lives still struggling to recover from the effects of hurricane Katrina in 2005.  We were hot, sweaty and dirty, all along interacting with residents, others helping with us, and with God's spirit flowing through it all. This file is a video montage from our trip, which features storm damage from soon after the storm, and the CORE Team's efforts on the trip.  coremissiontrip08video.wmv (28.8 MB; 7 min., 41 sec.) uses Windows Media Player
	Chicago - Spring 2010 The CORE Team joined together with youth from Zion, Clarence Center, on this urban immersion trip to inner-city Chicago.  We traveled by overnight train and used all public transportation as we sought out and served those without.  We served at a women's shelter, a mobile health clinic and food distribution ministry, an immigrant after-school program, in addition to meeting the needs of people we saw on our travels.  This trip was a real eye-opener to the issues of poverty and social justice and challenged all to seek out ways to make an impact in their own communities.
Pictures from the CORE Team's mission trips are available in the Picture Album. Thanks to all who supported the CORE Team on these journeys.

What CORE does

CORE was started in the fall of 2003 as a group of 12 youth (akin to disciples) that made it their mission to get out to churches in the Niagara Frontier Conference to get youth fired up and excited about their faith, being involved in their church and following Christ's example of making a positive difference in the lives of others, their church, their schools and their communities.

The premise is that youth can get through to their peers (and adults) about faith and youth ministry in ways almost anyone else cannot do, and can do it almost immediately...what better way to talk about faith and youth ministry than to have actual youth talk about it!

CORE loves to visit churches on Sunday mornings during worship times to offer temple talks about supporting youth ministry in the NFCLYO, Lake Chautauqua Lutheran Center (LCLC), and getting the word out that youth ministry is taking place to the parishioners in the pew that would otherwise not know it.

CORE's church visits extend beyond Sunday mornings as well.  CORE has led youth group meetings and sessions, confirmation classes, meetings and retreats, and more.

CORE is involved in the larger church too, being active in the Upstate New York Synod Lutheran Youth Organization and their meetings and events, and also plans and goes on a service mission trip each year to experience ministry to the disadvantaged, taking those experiences and translating them into future directions for CORE's own ministry.

CORE works behind the scenes, planning NFCLYO youth events, and leading worship and other parts of those events too.

CORE members are always discerning their call to service and ministry, and are always open to new or different directions to focus their time and talents in their ministry.

CORE can come to you!

If you, your youth group or church is interested in having CORE come for a visit on Sunday morning, or are interested in ways CORE can bring their energetic, unique and spirit-centered ministry to your youth (and adult youth workers too), we would love to hear from you!!!

You can contact Rick, the NFCLYO Director of Youth Programming (and the CORE Team lead advisor) at (716) 465-1321, or email Rick at rick@nfclyo.org for more information.

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A ministry supported by Lutheran Charities of WNY & the St. John's Lutheran Home for Children