Please
have the following
information at your finger
tips for each youth
and adult participant before
going online to register
your group.
The following participant
information is required to
complete your group’s
registration:
- Each
participant’s full name
- Home
mailing address and zip
code
- Age
and grade in school for
fall 2009
- Day,
evening, and cell phone
numbers
-
E-mail address
- Full
name and phone numbers
for emergency contact
person
-
Relationship of
emergency contact to
participant
-
Ethnicity (there are 7
ethnic community
references commonly used
by the ELCA) **
-
African American or
African Descent
-
American Indian and
Alaska Native
-
Arab and Middle
Eastern
-
Asian and Pacific
Islander
-
Latino/a
-
European American
-
Multiethnic /
Multiracial
-
Special needs
(wheelchair access,
Spanish translation,
Braille, signing, etc.)
Registration
worksheets are available to photocopy and use for
collecting information on your
adult
leaders and
youth
participants before registration opens on September 15, 2008.
** Why
do we ask for ethnicity
information as part of the
Gathering registration
process, even if you're not
registering for MYLE?
The ethnicity field in the
registration form for the
2009 ELCA Youth Gathering
provides critical
descriptive information, a
kind of map, of the
racial/ethnic diversity of
participants within this
major ministry of the ELCA.
Just like a congregation's
annual report to the church,
when joined with the reports
of 10,470 other
congregations, it helps us
to see patterns, small and
large.
-
It helps us to detect
and provide valuable
evidence for signs of
growth in participation
of persons of many different
ethnicities.
-
It also helps
us see clearly our challenges, as we
continue to lean into the
ELCA's 20 year old
commitment to becoming a
church of 10% persons of
color and/or primary
language other than English.
That vision, that gracious
calling, ours since
Pentecost, is strengthened
by the careful and
confidential collection and
use of this kind of data.
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