{"id":25035,"date":"2025-04-04T22:23:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T22:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=25035"},"modified":"2025-04-04T22:23:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T22:23:37","slug":"national-youth-cabinet-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2025\/national-youth-cabinet-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"National Youth Cabinet plans for National Youth Sunday 2025 and National Youth Conference 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>By Becky Ullom Naugle<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Church of the Brethren\u2019s National Youth Cabinet met March 21-23 to discern the theme for National Youth Sunday 2025, scheduled for May 4, and for next year\u2019s National Youth Conference (NYC) 2026, scheduled for July 18-23, 2026, at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park, Colo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Youth members of the cabinet are<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <strong>Daniel Bowen<\/strong> from McPherson, Kan., and Western Plains District,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <strong>Nissie Cadette<\/strong> from Coral Springs, Fla., and Atlantic Southeast District,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <strong>Kayleigh Chapman<\/strong> from Hagerstown, Md., and Mid-Atlantic District,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <strong>Zach Diamond<\/strong> from Eden, N.C., and Virlina District,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <strong>Tyson Hall<\/strong> from Mount Sidney, Va., and Shenandoah District, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <strong>Katie Phipps<\/strong> from Bremen, Ind., and Northern Indiana District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adult advisors are<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <strong>Rod Matz<\/strong> of Asheville, Ohio, and Northern Ohio District, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <strong>Emily Van Pelt<\/strong> of Rocky Mount, Va., and Virlina District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/YouthCabinet-500px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/YouthCabinet-500px.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/YouthCabinet-500px-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The National Youth Cabinet. Photo courtesy of Becky Ullom Naugle<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>NYC coordinators <strong>Anna Schweitzer<\/strong> of Southern Ohio and Kentucky District, currently attending college in Bloomington, Ind., and <strong>Rachel Johnson<\/strong> of Atlantic Northeast District, currently serving in Brethren Volunteer Service in Elgin, Ill., also met with the cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Youth Cabinet is accompanied by <strong>Becky Ullom Naugle<\/strong>, director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry for the Church of the Brethren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congregations are invited to celebrate the leadership of their high school youth by participating in National Youth Sunday, with a suggested date of May 4. The cabinet selected Romans 12:4-8 as their focus scripture, with the theme \u201cEmbodying Our Gifts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worship resources, written by the cabinet, will be available in early April at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/yya\/national-youth-sunday\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.brethren.org\/yya\/national-youth-sunday\">www.brethren.org\/yya\/national-youth-sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#MissionAndMinistryBoard #StrategicPlan #RacialJustice #LoveOurNeighbors #Discipleship #NewTestamentGiving<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/new-interim-leadership-positions\/\">Madalyn Metzger and Rhonda Pittman Gingrich to serve in new interim positions with the Church of the Brethren<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/global-church-of-the-brethren-communion-meets\/\">Global Church of the Brethren Communion meets in Spain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/grant-of-500000-to-church-supports-bdm\/\">Grant of $500,000 to the Church of the Brethren will support Brethren Disaster Ministries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/god-at-work-in-the-dr\/\">Discovering joys, challenges, and God at work with the churches in the Dominican Republic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/global-mission-executive-visits-burundi\/\">Global Mission executive visits Church of the Brethren in Burundi, meets with church leaders from Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of the Brethren\u2019s National Youth Cabinet met March 21-23 to discern the theme for National Youth Sunday 2025, scheduled for May 4, and for next year\u2019s National Youth Conference (NYC) 2026, scheduled for July 18-23, 2026, at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park, Colo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[548,259,3246,1646,1320,3143,2195,1998,1858],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-25035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-national-youth-cabinet","tag-national-youth-conference","tag-national-youth-conference-2026","tag-national-youth-sunday","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-2026","tag-service","tag-worship-resources","tag-youth-and-young-adult-ministries"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25048,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25035\/revisions\/25048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25035"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=25035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}