Like our Institute invitation? (click PLAY above)

It's time to begin our Summer Institute classes next week so we've been getting our classes organized, preparing materials, and finding and inviting students to participate. This involves calling, visiting, emailing and even text messaging! This is far different from how classes are set up in the well-organized Church units we have known through the years. We must find our own students. The local leaders do not organize the classes. Nor do young people ordinarily search out a class.

Young single adults in New York, ages 18-30, are busy in school and/or work, sometimes with more than one job, and have great distances to travel to get where they need to be, some relying solely on public transportation. We began the Stony Brook University class with one student and now have eleven on the roll. This is progress!

We are so thrilled when our dear young people can find the time to attend Institute class. They strengthen eachother and add so much to our lives! It is fun for us to prepare and take some "home cooking" to class for them since we know they are at the end of a busy day, having had little or nothing to eat. They are so happy and appreciative.

Institute provides a great social and spiritual time to mingle. That's its purpose.