2009 SCYL Officers

The 2009 Swedenborgian Church Youth League Officer and Chaplain elections took place at the Almont Winter Retreat this past December. The results are:

President - Nina

East Coast and Public Relations Officer – Rachel

Midwest and Service Officer – Sam

Canada and Activities Officer - Jake

West Coast and Fundraising & Finance Officer - Cody

Editor, Clear Blue Sky and Communication Officers – Alex and Holly

League Chaplain – Rev. Dr. David Fekete

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Some of the SCYL Officers return to another year of service, while we as welcome some new teens to League leadership as well. We say farewell to 2008 officers Sola, Naomi and Kristina. Both Sola and Kristina are 18 now and are ready to move out of the SCYL ;-( . Sola did a great job as President of the SCYL last year and Kristina was an inspiring writer and editor of Clear Blue Sky. We will miss them at our retreats and gatherings, but we’ll catch them at summer camps and maybe Convention. Naomi can run for office in future years and we encourage her to do so. Thank you Sola, Naomi and Kristina for your excellent leadership in the SCYL.

We have a fantastic group of Officers elected to serve in 2009. We welcome Nina, our newly elected SCYL President. This is Nina’s first year as an Officer. She enjoys brownie batter, skiing and musicals (Nina got a lead in her high school production of “Anything Goes”). She is very involved in church retreats, camps and Convention and has been quoted as saying, “I need to get a job so I can have money to travel to more retreats.” Nina’s is very sociable and has an exuberant personality. This combined with her ability to energize, engage and motivate others will help her to be an outstanding President.

We greet two first-time officers working together as a Clear Blue Sky (CBS) editor team, Alex and Holly. Alex has been actively involved in the Fryeburg New Church (he assisted his grandmother, Martha, with the primary Sunday School class), youth group, retreats and Fryeburg Assembly. Holly has also been very active in Fryeburg church activities, Convention and retreats. They are very enthusiastic about CBS and hope to get exciting new issues out soon.

Sam returns to the SCYL after a year off to serve as our new Midwest and Service Officer. Welcome back Sam! Jake starts his third and final year as Canada and Activities Officer. Along with encouraging Canadian teens to participate in the SCYL, he will assist in planning our Convention outings in Seattle this summer. Cody begins his fourth year of service to the SCYL returning as the West and Fundraising/Finance Officer. Rachel returns for her second year as East Coast and Public Relations Officer. We are happy to see Jake, Cody and Rachel coming back to another year of service.

Rev. Dr. David Fekete was re-elected to his second year as the League Chaplain. David did a great job last year traveling great distances to attend and lead sessions at both the Memorial Day Fryeburg Maine and Almont Michigan Winter retreats. He also attended Almont Summer camp and was the teen boy’s dorm dad (I hear he makes up great Mad Libs). He writes monthly chaplain posts for this blog and is available to talk to all teens whenever you might need advice or just a friendly voice on the line. Please feel free to email him or call him. He is your Chaplain!

Please congratulate all of our 2009 SCYL Officers and our League Chaplain. This is an exciting and talented group. I look forward to lots of new and wonderful SCYL happenings this year. Look for profiles of your Officers in coming blog posts. I’m thrilled to be working with this team and I hope that you get to know them better in the coming year.