The Lutheran Youth Organization
The voices of young leaders
The Lutheran Youth Organization (LYO) is an organization of high-school age young people who are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America . There are nearly 100,000 ELCA youth across the United States and the Caribbean.
The LYO is a place where the voices of young people are lifted up in the church. This ministry happens through young people discussing and advocating issues of importance to them concerning faith, youth ministry, the ELCA, local communities, and the world.
To learn more about the Lutheran Youth Organization, please visit additional Web pages for LYO on the Archive site of the ELCA.
The 2009 LYO Convention in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Delegate Handbook
The 2009 LYO Convention Delegate Handbook can be printed by synod delegations. Print out your own copies to bring to Hattiesburg. Binders and dividers will be handed out on-site for you to fill in.
It's important that all youth voting delegates be familiar with these materials before arriving in July.
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2009-2012 Multicultural Advisory Committee (MAC) application for nomination
The
Multicultural Advisory Committee (MAC) is an advisory committee to the
Board of the Lutheran Youth Organization. The purpose of MAC is to help the Lutheran Youth Organization strive to be more inclusive and to voice the concerns and needs of youth of color and whose primary language is other than English. Members of this committee are elected from within their own ethnic constituencies at the
MYLE event held every three years alongside the
ELCA Youth Gathering.
All MAC nominees must be members of a congregation that is recognized as a congregation of the ELCA and shall be age 15 to 18 and/or entering grades 10-12 at the time of the MYLE event, July 19-22, 2009.
MAC Application for Nomination forms 
must be received by mail or e-mail by
June 30, 2009. Individuals will also have the opportunity to nominate or be nominated off the floor during the MYLE caucuses. Individuals who are nominated off the floor will still need to complete the
Application for Nomination form.
Youth who are nominated will be elected by their peers during the final ethnic caucus.
2009 CSLYOPs to be in Illinois
The 2009 Council of Synod LYO Presidents (CSLYOPs) meeting will take place November 5-8, 2009. It will be hosted by the Central/Southern Illinois Synod
at Lake Williamson Christian Conference Centerin Carlinville, IL.
See the highlights of the 2008 CSLYOPs meeting of amazing and faithful young leaders. Use the Diversity Circle activity in your congregation or synod.