St. Nicholas Youth & Family Ministry

I love books. I am one of those people who can spend hours on Pinterest looking up nerdy bookworm pictures and pinning them to my "Nerd" board, like these: My love of books definitely stemmed from being read to extensively as a child, so as I grew older it was no surprise that I spent a lot of my time reading, even during the summer break (though I did spend a lot of time outside as well). Reading was always a way I could enter into the minds of other people to help me learn

Christ is Born! Glorify Him! Христос Раждається! Славімо Його! Happy New Year! I can't believe it's already 2018; honestly December just flew by and here we are. I hope everyone had a great Christmas and brought in the New Year with style. Most of you who are in school still have a week off (so lucky, I've got to add), but I wanted to come here to give you all a reminder on the programs that are continuing this year, as well as a heads up on the great new stuff being planned

Okay, so I'm almost two weeks late, but better later than never – I mean, well-wishing never expires, does it? All that to say, Happy New Liturgical Year! That's right, as of September 1st we are in the new year, according to church tradition. What does that mean for our St. Nicholas Youth? It means the start of Fall programming! Yay! So, what have we got starting up? First of all, we've got the ever-classic Sunday School program for the little ones, Bozhi Dity or "God's Chil

I love games. Hide-and-Go-Seek was a staple among the neighbourhood kids, Christmas with my family is traditionally card game central, and Apples to Apples is great to play among friends. When escape rooms started popping up around Edmonton, therefore, I knew I needed to check one out and soon! Luckily we had another young adult night come up for June so I finally got to check off one of my bucket list items by planning a Breakout Night! The six of us got together last Friday