SENIOR CAPSTONE
YOUTH Ministry
Senior Capstone: Fall 2025 (Class of 2026)
We are on a faith journey and each step invites you to deeper into discovery, relationship, and understanding. This capstone offers a holistic balance between community, personal and spiritual development. IT IS CAPSTONE LIGHT. We don’t require any outside work besides working on your growing edges and living out your values. One of the highlights is faith panel with all the clergy where our seniors get to ask all of their questions. The goal of this senior capstone is for you to move in deeper relationship and understanding with the grace of God, the love of Christ, and the fire of the Holy Spirit that will embolden us on the journey of faith as the body of Christ.
We do begin with time around the Enneagram
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Understanding your Enneagram
Choose one area where you can invite the Holy Spirit to bring healing and transformation based on your new learnings. As you read through your report, follow the coaching guide to grow and develop.
- Choose one area of development for your faith practice.
_____Gratitude
*Reflect daily on three things for which you are grateful. Train your mind to look for things that for which you are grateful. Find small holy moments in the ordinary things of life. Keep track and create a practice. HOW: A) Keep track in a journal with your family at dinner. B) Use the App: 5 Minutes of Gratitude to Reflect on your day
_____Social Connection
*Write a letter every month to someone from your family, your friends and those that are important to you. Begin to identify members of your faith family. Connect with them through a card, letter or send a picture of the two of you. Thank them for the gift they are in your life. Be specific. *Every week, find 15 minutes to give to someone in your family or a good friend and spend time with them. Invite them to be the center of attention. Listen. Buy their favorite coffee or drink and just be present.
______Mindfulness/Meditation/Prayer
Start with practicing deep intentional breathing daily. Move to spend 5-10 minutes in silence. Pray daily through meditation app’s or breathing practices and work through the prayer book. Apps: Insight timer, Head Space, Calm
III. Create your Core VALUES and hold yourself accountable.
Choose just three core commitments. You can choose your own or from this list: Honest. Hard-Working. Family Matters- Family Centered, Empathy, Global Action, Environmental Justice, Social Justice, responsibility, Mindfulness, Generosity, Service/Outreach, Contentment, Joy, Listen-Patience. ETC
*Keep your Core Commitments and revisit them daily.
*Who is on your Board of Directors for your Life? Who gives you guidance, support, mentors you? Do they know they play this role? Let them know.
*Identify the 5 most important people in your life.
*There is a great thought that You are the average of the 5 people we spend the most time with. Who are the 5 people you spend the most time with?
Who gets most of your time? Where does your time go? What needs to change if anything?
Senior Capstone
2025-2026
We want to invite you to consider being part of the Senior Capstone for 2024-25. This is an intentional group experience of self-awareness. No homework, no big project. Just learning along the way, eating together and a retreat for seniors.
Dates:
September 22: (MONDAY NIGHT) Parent and Youth Kick-off, 7pm
*Parents and Seniors come and learn understanding your enneagram and how this will guide us throughout the year.
Sept. 27/28: Sr. Capstone RETREAT
Saturday 10am-Sunday Noon
October 12: Leroy Fox Patio, 7pm
November 9: Mama Ricotta’s, 7pm
December 14: LOCATION TBD, 7pm
January 25: CLERGY FAITH PANEL, 11:30
February 22: LOCATION TBD, 7pm
March 29: RuRu’s, 7pm