The NFCLYO CORE Team

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! There are two open CORE Team meetings on Tuesdays, May 11 & 25 from 7-8:30 pm at Amherst Lutheran Church, 5125 Main St., Williamsville.  These open meetings are for those interested in getting to know CORE better before applying.  The next year of the CORE Team begins shortly after Senior High Week at LCLC. Applications for CORE Team Year VIII will be online for download coming soon...

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

The CORE Team's 2008 Mission Trip to the Gulf Coast On April 14-18, 2008, ten members of 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, which hit on August 29, 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. We've posted pictures from our Mission Trip taken by several of us in the NFCLYO Picture Album. We also have a video montage from our trip, which features storm damage from soon after the storm and in April 2008, and the CORE Team's efforts on the trip.  Click below to view it. coremissiontrip08video.wmv (28.8 MB; 7 min., 41 sec.) uses Windows Media Player Thank you to all of our supporters for this journey, we have had many individual and congregational contributions to make this trip a reality!!! The 2009-10 CORE Team is planning a mission trip to inner-city Chicago this spring!  Stay tuned for details...

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