The DYA Daily Journal

If you've been reading my posts over the past few days, you know that I am writing about happenings at the 2009 Duke Youth Academy for Christian Formation. If you'd like to know more about DYA, check out this post or this website.

One of the creative ways that DYA keeps parents, pastors, and friends back home 'in the loop' about what our students are doing each day is through the DYA Daily Journal.

This year the Journal is a bit different than in years past. Before, the Journal was narrative in form with a picture or two posted beside the text on each day (like in the 2008 edition, which you can see here).

But the 2009 edition is a little fancier - we've incorporated a slide show for each day that shows photographs of lectures, the arts, fellowship, and worship. And the text is still there too, which gives a rundown of the theme of the day together with highlights of the activities in which we're engaged. The slide show for any particular day will start automatically when you click on that day's Journal entry. So far we've got entries for our first two days, on Baptism and Creation.

Click here to check out the 2009 Journal.

And for any pastors and youth ministers reading this post, leave comments if you have any questions about anything I share related to DYA. I'm focusing on this because it is what I'm doing this summer, but it is also a program I believe in very much. There's just nothing better to help high school youth learn to live deeply the Christian life in a holistic way. I hope you'll think about directing some of your own kids to DYA next summer!