Youth Ministry
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Youth Ministry at Holy Spirit Catholic Church is founded on the understanding that our youth are an essential part of the Body of Christ and the Church and as such share in the responsibility to evangelize with and to their community through words and actions. Our program is based on recommendations from A Vision of Youth Ministry, USCCB Department of Education, 1986, which specifies four areas of concentration, detailed below.
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Part One: The Growth and Development of the Church's Ministry with Adolescents
Adolescents who participate in parish youth ministry programs identify faith and moral formation as a significant contribution to their life, have a profound sense of commitment to the Catholic Church, attend Sunday Mass regularly, and show continued growth while they remain involved in youth programs. These are positive signs that the Church's investment in ministry with adolescents is making a difference in their lives and in the life of the Church.
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Part Two: Goals for Ministry with Adolescents
Goal 1: To Empower young people to live as disciples of Jesus Christ in our world today.
Goal 2: To draw young people to responsible Participation in the life, mission, and work of the Catholic faith community.
Goal 3: To foster the total personal and spiritual Growth of each young person.
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Part 3: Themes and Components for a Comprehensive Ministry with Adolescents
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Part 4: A Guiding Image for Ministry with Adolescents
A Vision of Youth Ministry captured the dynamics of ministry with adolescents through the story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus (see Lk 24:13–35). This story became a guiding image for ministry with its emphasis on the relationship between young disciples and their Lord, a relationship characterized by presence, listening, faith sharing, and celebration. The Emmaus story will continue to guide the Church's ministry with adolescents, but a new image is emerging—the image of young people with a mission. Just as Jesus sent out the Twelve (Lk 9) and the seventy-two (Lk 10) to carry out his mission, today he sends out young people to proclaim the Good News and to build a world that is more just, more peaceful and more respectful of human life and creation.
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Youth group
(Postponed until further notice due to COVID-19.)
We invite all our high school youth to our Holy Spirit Youth Ministry every Thursday at 6:30pm in the Youth Building. It's the place where faith turns into action. We offer bible study, activities, prayer, music, games, fellowship and much more. Come and see and bring a friend, everyone is welcome !
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Life Teen Blog
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Doing ministry day in and day out is awesome and an incredible privilege, but nothing, including youth ministry, can replace your personal relationship with Jesus.
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We all have taken on a ‘do whatever it takes’ mentality in ministry over these challenging and uncertain months. But, as we have all taken on new responsibilities, new roles, and navigated through...
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As leaders in ministry, we need to have a diversity of friends. Instead of surrounding ourselves only with fellow youth ministers, it is important to reach out and create friendships with those of...
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At the moment, 2020 has felt long. It has felt arduous and unfair. It's been uncomfortable and I've been tempted repeatedly to go mad by this plaguing question of "why?" It's such a...
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Youth Group CalendarJanuary 2021
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