I see youth ministry as our

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• I see youth ministry as our
• effort to help our young people
• just feel at home here in their
• parish. It is as simple as that.
• Coordinator of Youth Ministry

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• I see a lot of teenagers that really love to be
  involved in their parishes, and youth ministry
  gives them the opportunity to share their talents
  with their whole parish and to help build their
  faith even more.
• Youth

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• Loving God, we know that
• we are less when we do not
• use the gifts and talents of
• our young people.
• Response Help us to make them integral to
  all that we do and all that we are.

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• Ive seen young people bring their parents and
  their other family back into churchto a more
  active role in the church. What a blessing to see
  kids getting parents back to church.
• Adult Leader in Youth Ministry

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• My son was waiting up for me (after the
  retreat). He wanted to tell me all about what had
  happened. After everything was said, he said to
  me, Mom, I know that Jesus loves me and
  everythings going to be okay.
• Parent of Youth

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• Jesus our Brother, we need
• to pay attention to the whole
• family to all that is good
• and holy, and all that might be broken.
• Response Help us to
• support, enrich, and enliven
• our families of youth.

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• what got me so excited was that faith became
  tangible. You could see it and feel it and hear
  it. Its awesome listening to those kids share
  and demonstrate their faith.
• Adult Leader in Youth Ministry

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• We are going to love you. You are welcome. We
  are happy you are here, but we are going to
  challenge you.
• We are going to talk about faith,
• and we are going to talk about God,
• and we are not going to be ashamed of it. That
  has been working.
• Coordinator of Youth Ministry

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• Spirit of God, we know
• that you are ever present
• in our ministry efforts.
• Response Help us to touch young people with your
  Gospel message, with your healing touch, with
  words of challenge and inspiration.

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• I was making all the homeless people happy and
  laughing and then I realized, Hey, Im doing
  something good for a change! Maybe I could do
  this all the time. So I started going to the
  youth ministry a little more and a little more,
  and here I am.
• Youth

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• And it was really amazing how God let
• me be my own kind of leader. There was
• this girl there and she was crying every
• night because she didnt feel like she fit in
• so I would sit with her at lunch and I would talk
  with her. It was really amazing how
• God let me be a leader in my own way
• in just helping other people.
• Youth

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• Creator God, we will need all
• of our resources to build up
• our young people, allowing
• them to grow in confidence and grace.
• Response Help us to be transformed by their
  growth
• and contributions.

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• A welcoming, loving, and supporting environment
  in which a young person
• is able to feel like they have a place,
• and they have a voice, and that they count in who
  they are, and what
• they are, and what they dream,
• and what they think matters.
• Parish Staff Member

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• I think youth ministry in this
• community is at the heart of
• what we do as a parish.
• Pastor

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• Source of Wisdom, we need
• to support each other as we
• minister to our young people
• Response Help us to build up each other and
  affirm
• our different gifts all of which
• are needed in this ministry.