Do you remember your NFTY Convention?

Do you still have vivid memories of your teen years in Jewish youth programming?

Do you want your teens to have similar experiences?

Then send your teens to NFTY Convention 2009, where high school age youth experience the power of Reform Judaism with hundreds of their peers from all over North America! And join them there at the URJ Youth Workers Conference!

NFTY Convention is an opportunity to energize and motivate your congregational teens in a way unlike any other. Teens who participate in this transformational experience will return home with:

• leadership training
• ideas that will enhance your youth program
• motivation and methods for acting on important Reform Jewish issues
• connections to teens in their region and around North America
• an understanding of the valuable voice that our youth have in NFTY and in the Reform Movement – and the skills with which to use that voice
• memories of celebrating Shabbat, singing, dancing and laughing that will last a lifetime.

The experience of NFTY convention can have an impact not only on those who attend, but on the rest of your congregation as well. By sending a delegation of teens to NFTY Convention, you are making an investment in your current and future youth program, as well as in your current and future youth leaders.

Please support your teens’ in attendance at NFTY Convention:

• Consider ways that your congregation can help with scholarships, fundraising, or acquiring grants from local agencies.
• Convey the significance of NFTY Convention to your youth leaders and encourage them to attend
• Plan to attend the Clergy Track at the URJ Youth Workers Conference 2009, a concurrent conference which provides professional development for youth workers, clergy and youth committee members. The clergy track is designed by clergy for clergy. Check it out at www.rjyouthworker.org/ywc/.