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.
Learn more about the Lutheran Youth Organization at "What is the LYO?"
LYO restructuring update
The Lutheran Youth Organization has been undergoing a study and restructuring process since 2007. The new LYO Restructuring Team will be posting updates beginning November 2009 with “mini surveys” for people across the ELCA to provide input on particular areas of change that will be considered.
Please take the LYO Vision & Mission Survey
Thank you for taking 10-minutes out of your day to contribute to the restructuring process of the Lutheran Youth Organization! The work is currently focused on establishing strong vision and mission statements. Then in 2010, the work will be focused on revising the organizational structure to support the new vision and mission statements. There will be opportunities for online feedback at all major future steps of this process. Click Here to take survey
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2009 CSLYOPs: "Discipleship: It's What We Do"
The 2009 Council of Synod LYO Presidents (CSLYOPs) gathering took place November 5-8, 2009. It was hosted by the Central/Southern Illinois Synod
at Lake Williamson Christian Conference Centerin Carlinville, IL.
Lutheran Youth Organization Elects Nicolette Faison President
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (ELCA) -- Delegates to the 2009 Lutheran Youth Organization (LYO) Convention elected Nicolette Faison, Elmont, N.Y., July 29 to a three-year term as LYO president. She succeeds Nathaniel Viets-VanLear, Chicago.
About 200 delegates of the youth organization of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) met in convention July 26-30 at the University of Southern Mississippi. The LYO is an organization of nearly 100,000 high-school age members of ELCA congregations across the United States and Caribbean.
Faison, 17, is a member of New Hope Lutheran Church, Valley Stream, N.Y., and will attend Wagner College, Staten Island, N.Y., as a freshman in the fall. After graduating from Wagner, she plans to pursue studies at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (LTSP) and become a pastor. Wagner is one of the 28 colleges and universities of the ELCA; LTSP is one of eight ELCA seminaries.
Faison said she supports the LYO goal of "uniting the youth and making sure our voice is heard in the church." She would like to see youth increase in their leadership skills and use those skills in the ELCA.
LYO Convention survey/evaluation We know that the LYO Convention was 3 months ago, but we're still interested in learning how to improve future LYO gatherings based on what you remember and what has been helpful (or not) to you.
Please help us by completing an online survey/evaluation by
December 1, 2009. It will only take you 5 minutes to complete.
CLICK HERE to go to the survey. Thank you!