HOW TO REGISTER

(If you've never registered for one of our events using Tithe.ly, or you need a quick refresher, check out our guide to registering online)

1. Distribute the 2023-2024 Youth Event Individual Registration Form to all participants, and make sure all adult and youth participants, as well as parents/guardians of all minors attending, have reviewed our COVID precautions and expectations on the website. Your church’s primary leader will use these forms to complete the registration online. You’ll need to turn in the originals of these forms for each participant, including adult leaders, when you check-in on Friday, February 9 (if you need to retain them for your own records, please make copies). Remember to collect any scholarship applications also.

2. Registrations are due by Wednesday, January 17. There is a one-week late registration grace period where registrations will incur a $50 late fee.

3. Using the Individual Registration Forms, register your group online.

4. If you received any scholarship applications, please enter them into the online form.

5. Once you have completed entering the information online, you may pay in full with a credit card directly in the form.

6. If you prefer to pay by check, or you are awaiting scholarship decisions, you may enter the promo code “CHECK” in the appropriate box and click “Apply Discount.” If you are awaiting scholarship decisions, you will be contacted directly with your adjusted total and information about how to submit your payment.

7. If you are paying by check, make sure to note your total before clicking “Apply Discount.” Please send a check made out to “Delaware-Maryland Synod” with the name of the event in the memo line and send to: Delaware-Maryland Synod, ATTN: Treasurer, 5699 Meridale Road, Baltimore, MD 21228.

If you have any difficulties with the registration form, contact Deacon Julie Stecker.

SERVICE PROJECT INFORMATION

As part of our commitment to serve our communities, local and global, we are assembling Lutheran World Relief School Kits at our youth events this year. To help us collect all the necessary items for these kits, which are distributed among those in need, including the victims of natural disasters, we are asking each congregation to donate supplies to our effort. Many churches host a donation drive for their assigned item (found in the list below), placing a labeled box in a common area of the building and inviting everyone in the congregation to participate. This is a great way to lift up the important role young people play in the life of the greater church! Placing a short blurb in your bulletin or newsletter and announcing the drive during worship goes a long way to ensuring we can assemble the largest number of kits.

All of the items, which can be found here, are helpful.  However, we specifically ask that every congregation bring at least four notebooks per participant and one other item by name of your congregation:

• Church names beginning with A-G - crayons (boxes of 24 or 16)

• Church names beginning with H-R - rulers

• Church names beginning with S (including Sts!) - drawstring bags

• Church names beginning with T-Z - scissors (blunt tip)

When you arrive at the event on Friday night, you will be able to drop off your collected supplies in the same place you check in. Thank you so much for supporting our commitment to service at youth events!