The young people of Adat Yeshua are part of the wider Messianic youth movement in the UBMJC, which is led by Leaders from within the movement. We are inspired to walk in the way of a Messianic Jewish lifestyle, which our parents follow. We are taught at all the conferences such as the Yeshua Conference in August and the Day Conference in March in Leicester. Additionally the Messianic youth meet during the national UBMJC High Holy Day celebrations.
The Youth Movement in the UK is ever growing and so teaching for us is very
important, as we need to carry on with the change in Judaism that the people
we look up to have already started. We are taught to follow in their footsteps
and be a light in our every day surroundings, which to most of us is at school.
At our age many children ask questions and the teaching helps us answer their
queries about their life and where they are going. It is our job to answer
those questions and leave them with answers.
When the UK youth comes together, we are taught and we pray together which
we all benefit from. We partake in all the festivals, which sometimes
means days off school.
The photos on this page show the Adat Yeshua Youth group at the festivals
in our congregation as well as at the recent immersion, held for the first
time UK movement wide in which 8 people were immersed, predominately young
people!
Our congregational youth group is led by Lenka Marvanova, who co-ordinates
us and produces our regular programme of events. As a youth group, we like
to take an active role in what goes on around us in the movement and so we
like to be involved! We are really pleased that Lenka Marvanova is our Youth Leader!
Written by Emily Sheldrake, Adat Yeshua Youth Group.
Adat Yeshua Youth Leader Lenka Marvanova
Hello
from the Adat Yeshua Youth Group!
The Adat Yeshua youth group has been very busy over this past year.
We now have fortnightly meetings with our youth leader, Lenka. We have been looking at topics such as biblical history and how to deal with day to day situations. During these meetings we also pray as a group and this has proved quite productive with our personal problems for example with exams!
We have recently been to Israel with the whole of the UBMJC and so the youth went too. We all enjoyed ourselves there and friendships were built on, and some new ones were made. This building of friendships has been occurring at all of the conferences too, where we have been having teen meetings. We now have a Youth strand at all UBMJC conferences (Sukkot, Shavuot) and at Yeshua Conferences.
A youth retreat is planned for next April over a couple of days. The event will include things such as rock climbing and it promises to be the youth event of next year and we are all looking forward to it!
After the amazing success of our first youth retreat last year, we thought it would be hard to have better, but Dani seems to have done it for the second year with the same level of teaching and activities. This year we were accompanied by Rabbi Dr Julian Scott who led us in prayer and gave us some excellent teachings – perhaps the only person who could make a teaching on death lively! He also taught us about some really practical issues, namely money management which was applicable for the older teens who are thinking about University. We had lots of fun designing and budgeting for a house that we would like to have, working constructively in teams to achieve the cheapest house that included everything we would need to live. Unfortunately, one team got a little carried away, buying 2x £1000 ride-on lawn mowers!
Either way, the youth are once again indebted to Dani for all of her preparation for this successful youth retreat and a huge thank you is definitely due!
Lydia Sheldrake