Catholic Youth Ministry Show, Episode 4
Are you a new youth minister or veteran needing some help and perspective? Mark Hart shares why you should considering coming to our Spring Training in Georgia. Also, three of our podcasts hosts share why you should considering listening to our network of podcats. Greg Iwinski shares a Catholic perspective on this week's best movie, Mark Hart lets you know how to grow deeper in scripture, and Allison Oertle helps you share your faith with others in The171.
Featured Blogs
Life Teen Military Ministry
Every wonder what happens when a military family from your parish moves to a base overseas? In 1985, the Archdiocese for the Military Services (AMS) was created by Pope John Paul II to provide the Catholic Church’s full range of pastoral ministries and spiritual services to those in the United States Armed Forces. This includes [...]
Life Teen Missionaries in Haiti
Tomorrow two of Life Teen’s finest will travel to Port-au-Prince to serve the people of Haiti: Stephen Smith and Eric Martin. Let me introduce you all to these gentlemen and share why they’re going.
Do you really want to change a teen’s life?
If you want to change a teenager’s life than don’t just pray for them…pray with them.
It’s a Mystery: Drawing Teens Into a Time of Mystagogy
Scripture, Sacraments, and the community. Where in our faith do those three things come together? The Mass. Simply put, the process of mystagogy is to make their lives a liturgy. The community comes together to hear the Word of God (with the Gospels as preeminent) and celebrates the Eucharist.
Introducing Come Adore
I remember the first time our Life Teen program had Eucharistic Adoration during a Life Night. Almost all of the teens in the room had not experienced Adoration before. Most of the Core Team wasn’t that familiar with this form of prayer either. All in all, a bunch of newbies. Between our Pastor and myself we did our best to explain (in 5 minutes or less) what Adoration is, what you need to do, and how Jesus is fully and truly present in the Eucharist.
*New Life Support: Feb 1, 2010
- Liturgy Planning Guide
- Curriculum Guide: Scripture Semester
- Spotlight: Volume #9
- Life Teen Core Training: Core Recruitment
- Baptized. A Core Retreat Resource
- Video Support #9
- Come Adore: A Teen Guide to Adoration
- Spirit & Life: Interpreting the Bible in Ordinary Time. - A book by Scott Hahn
- We Are The Beggars. - A new CD from Ike Ndolo
- Every Day. A new CD from Jacob and Matthew
- Life Teen Peg Game. A new toy for your desk!
- Life Teen Resource Catalogue
- 2010 Life Teen Events Brochure
Comprehensive
Youth Ministry
Renewing the Vision: A Framework for Catholic Youth Ministry sets forth three goals and eight components for comprehensive youth ministry. Life Teen, as a parish-based youth ministry model, fulfills all eight components through a sacramental sprituality, resources, training, and direct parish support. Our mission is very simple: to lead teens closer to Christ.
Systematic
Catechesis
Life Teen has created a systematic and engaging curriculum that follows the USCCB's framework for high school catechesis.
- Learn More:
- 8-Semester Life Teen Curriculum
- 6-Semester Edge Curriculum Outline coming soon!
5 iPod/iPhone Apps To Help You Be A Better Catholic!
I confess – I am a gadget geek. I have a few close friends who are Apple fanatics and a couple of years ago they bought me a Mac laptop and a year later an iPhone. I must admit that I have had to watch the amount of time I spend on “screens” as I [...]