It’s finally here, High School Youth Ministry, which at Saint Lawrence the Martyr will be known as 3toLive!® Our first meeting will be Sunday, April 20th, immediately following the 6:00 PM Mass in the Community Center.
Why 3toLive!®, you may ask? Each of the Youth & Young Adult Ministries is designed to build on each other. In Junior High Youth Ministry, the F.O.R.C.E., we hope that teens come to realize as their lives become more complex, it is by Following Our Risen Christ Everyday that we can find ourselves and our path. Having an idea of that, in High School, while following our risen Christ, we come to learn the strength of the threes in our lives, The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and our family, our friends, and our community. It takes 3toLive!®
The purpose of ministry, especially Youth & Young Adult Ministry, is to bring our faith and our gifts together in community. It is how we, especially teens, can explore who we are as people, in the context of our faith, and how we fit into our community.
Having said that, 3toLive!® is Youth Ministry, not Youth Group. In the context of the parish, that mean gathering of the young Church of today with and among the broader community. This means participation in other ministries such as Liturgical Ministries, Social Concerns Committee, even the Parish Pastoral Council at some point. This also means that Youth Ministry needs the parish’s support and participation for Youth Ministry to survive. We need Adult and Young Adults who are willing to be Catechists, Chaperone Ministers, Mentors, Support Services Ministers, and of course advocates.
Among the activities we have already started as 3toLive!® are planning and sign-ups for the Diocesan Tahoe retreat and forming a leadership team.
3toLive!® is open to teens who are in High School. Teens can bring friends as long as those friends are also in High School. Teens do not have to be parishioners, Catholic, or Christian. They just have to have an open mind, be willing to share, and be open to self-discovery.
If you are a High School teen or have one at home and have any questions feel free to come to our first meeting. We do ask that teens attending the meetings make an effort to attend the 6:00 PM Mass before our 3toLive!® meetings begin.
If you have any questions, concerns, would just like to talk, or would like to give your time in ministry to our Youth, feel free to contact Bruno Martínez, Director of Youth & Young Adult Ministry, at 408.869.8254, check out our blog: http://3tolive.blogspot.com/ or email at bmartinez@sbcglobal.net.
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