Track the Young Adult Festival at General Convention 2009

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In less than a week thousands of Episcopalians will converge on Anaheim for our church's triennial gathering. We'll be there along with 70 young adults at the third Young Adult Festival at General Convention.Click the above link to visit our official page and track the experience of young adults at GC 2009.

In an effort to stay connected with high school graduates and college
 students, the Diocese of New Hampshire is 
launching a new website this summer, www.nhepiscopalstudents.org. It
 offers one centralized web presence for the 
five campus ministries across the state, with a profile page for each 
ministry site as well as space to post 
information about diocesan, provincial and church-wide events.



Because fewer schools are collecting and distributing information about
 the religious preferences of students,
nhepiscopalstudents.org also contains a web form, where students (or, with 
their permission, parents & clergy) can 
input their home and school contact information, their home congregation
(if any) and the school where they will 
attend. The information automatically feeds into a Google spreadsheet, 
which becomes a central database of college 
students in the diocese, as well as students from New Hampshire
 congregations attending school elsewhere. 
Diocesan staff will forward student contact information to the campus
 ministers at the various schools and help 
students stay connected during their transition to or through college. We 
are currently in conversation with other 
chaplains from Province I about expanding this effort to include students 
and schools throughout New England.



The site was built using WordPress, an open source blog software, with the addition of the events category 
plugin and category page plugin. The design is a customization of the 
Atahualpa theme. The form was built using 
Google Docs, and it stores data into a Google Docs spreadsheet. The 
project was created by Kelley Muir, a member
 of the Diocese of New Hampshire's Youth & Young Adult Commission, as a
 pre-formation project of Float Left Labs
, a New Hampshire-based non-profit media house, which 
employs college students to complete
 projects for other non profits. If you're interested in developing your own media presence, feel free to contact Kelley.

-The Rev. Josh Thomas, Diocese of New Hampshire

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