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Middle School Youth Group meets from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM on Wednesday from September
through May (with monthly summer programs) High School Youth Group is a menu-based program that allows youth to pick and choose
those events that interest them. |
Confirmation Service Hours Form |
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S.T.A.Y. Connected (St. Theresa’s
Active Youth) – YOUTH MINISTRY NEWS
FAITH IS COOL BUILDING FAITH I BELONG HERE
STAY Vision Statement – St. Theresa Youth Ministry is about discipleship, connection
and sharing our gifts with our faith community and all who come in contact with
us throughout our journeys. All who
interact in youth ministry are companions on the spiritual journey towards
Jesus the Christ. We are a Eucharistic
community that strives always to put our faith in action.
STAY Mission Statement – As a faith community that walks as companions along the
spiritual journey with our youth we strive to “to empower young people to live
as disciples of Jesus Christ in our world today.” (Renewing the Vision 9). With this discipleship we “draw young people
to responsible participation in the life, mission, and work of the Catholic
faith community.” (Renewing the Vision 11).
Thus our ultimate goal is “to foster the total personal and spiritual
growth of each young person.” (Renewing the Vision 15).
Comprehensive Youth Ministry - Youth ministry is more than programs and events. It is “the
response of the Christian community to the needs of young people, and the
sharing of the unique gifts of youth with the larger community.” (A Vision
of Youth Ministry, p. 6, quoted in RTV 1). To be most effective, this is a
ministry to, with, by, and for young people that involves their families, their
parish community, and the larger community. At the heart of ministry with young
people is the presence of caring, supportive relationships where youth
experience the Good News in the flesh.
A comprehensive approach to youth ministry utilizes the eight
components identified in Renewing the Vision as a framework: advocacy,
catechesis, community life, evangelization, justice and service, leadership
development, pastoral care, and prayer and worship. These components guide our
efforts in proclaiming the Good News, connecting young people with the faith
community, and calling our young people to the challenge of discipleship.
Youth Ministry requires the entire faith community - “This is
what is needed: a Church for young people, which will know how to speak to
their heart and enkindle, comfort, and inspire enthusiasm in it with the joy of
the Gospel and the strength of the Eucharist; a Church which will know how to
invite and welcome the person who seeks a purpose for which to commit his whole
existence; a Church which is not afraid to require much, after having given
much; which does not fear asking from young people the effort of a noble and
authentic adventure, such as that of the following of the Gospel.”(Pope John
Paul II. 1995 World Day of Prayer for Vocations)