ST CYRIL YOUTH MINISTRY

04/22/2023 SAINT CYRIL OF JERUSALEM YOUTH MINISTRY

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ADULT LEADERSHIP TEAM


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YM ALT• Welcome• Web site

– Goals and Objectives– Four to five meetings– Plan out four months at a time

• Adult Leadership Team – article• Youth leadership team• High School 9-12• Middle School 7-9• 9th grade is overlap year. These kids can attend either or both• Everything we do for high school is considered part of GYM• Everything we do for middle school is considered part of GENESIS


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• JUSTICEWORX 2013• STEUBENVILLE 2013• JUSTICEWORX 2014– Do we do it– Trenton, Philadelphia, Appalachia

• SERVICEWORX -2014– Combine parishes and have at St Cyril’s


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• SUNDAY EVENING MASS– Begin promoting immediately– Bulletin-Announcements-E mail-Bulletin stuffer not and in

September– Prayer chapel– 5:00PM– High school program (9-12) to follow from 6 -7 or 7:30 or

8:00pm. One aspect of GYM– No longer than 8:00pm– Open to all but success will be determined by how many

youth attend the program afterwards


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• GENESIS-– Sunday’s– Same time– Varying format– Dates TBD– More service opportunities– Social activities?– Prayer Services– Family faith formation and service and prayer– Fun nites


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YM ALT• GYM-----

– Faith formation– Service-family– Steubenville-follow up– Justiceworx– Prayer services– Search– Monthly open discussion– Fun nites– Sunday evening program following youth Mass– Cemetery Walk– Teen leadership Program in September


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YM ALT• SURVEY-

– 75 responses from parents and youth-card– How best to handle peer pressure-52– Why do I need my Faith-45– Addiction-44– How to handle social media-37– How to handle bullying-37– Why am I Catholic-30– High school sexual morality-28– Middle school sexual morality-25– What does the church teach-19– High school bible study-16– What is the Gospel message-13– Middle school Bible study-10


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YM ALY• SURVEY-Misc

– Four asked for additional service opportunities– Four suggested dealing with diversity and celebrating our differences– Two suggested a youth music ministry and more praise and worship

music– One suggested “self esteem” “Decision Making”– Comments:

• Social issues• High school meet on Sunday morning just like GENESIS• How to make good moral decisions when the right thing to do isn’t easy• Who is God; Holy Spirit; Trinity; how do we use the Bible? Stress and school

issues; ways to deal with problems; current issues; prayer; open discussion sessions; how does God play a role in college life; open communication with parents and guardians; movie nites; dances


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• GYM-– What’s happening? Let’s get to work

• Sunday evening Mass– September 29th 6:00 to 8:00PM– Program on addiction….Jackie Calkins…heroin addict…21– 30 to 45 minute presentation followed by open discussion, followed by

discussion of questions presented on index cards; followed by break out groups each led by an adult and teen

– Speaker would float– Need to establish team of adults and teens– We would meet at least once to prepare as a group so all are on the same

page. Hopefully Jackie Calkins could be with us for that session– Social time and pizza

– How do we promote


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• GYM-– Program for October and November on Sunday evening– Advent Penance Service with visiting Priest– Search– Open discussion on first Thursday of month– Steubenville prayer follow up on first Saturday of the

month following the Saturday evening Mass from 6:30 to 7:00PM

– Service opportunities..St John’s 12.30.13..– Caroling 12.01.13


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• Programs for families– Webinar• Hoe and Healing for kids who cut• Senior Night: Preparing for the next chapter of your life

story• Pornography and your Kids: What You Need to know

and What You Need to Know• Raising up Youth who believe in sexual integrity


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• GENESIS-– First program September 29th

– Addiction– Need speaker – Open format much the same as the high school program– Program on October 6th; – October 13 all social– October 20th and 27th

– Five sessions


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• GENESIS:– Topics for October 6th, 20th and 27th

– Advent penance service with visiting Priest– Service project…St John’s..11/26-Wednesday– Caroling 12.1.13– We can do service projects on days when they are out of

school and on Saturdays and use the sites we have used with ServiceworX and JusticeworX in Trenton and Philadelphia.

– September 5th– Parish picnic– Parish service day…..need your help with these.


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• How do we promote?– Article in Intelligencer about our mission trips– Adults and teens in back of church with flyer and

memento-– Bulleting stuffers– E mail– Web site– Publish calender of events apart from web site

calendar…..magnet


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INFORMATION AND PICTURES

• Steubenville.org• www.shutterfly.com– [email protected]– Trenton– [email protected]– steubenville

http://www.shutterfly.com/

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


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Steubenville


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STEUBENVILLE


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APPALACHIA


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