TO E

DUCATE BY

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VANGELISE B

Y EDUCATIN

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THE LIFE

FAITH

IN THE WORLD

WITH OTHERS

TOWARDS GOD

WITH ONESELF

GROWTH

-human

-Christian

DIMENSIONS

- body

- intelligence

- feelings

- will

ALL-ROUND DEVELOPMENT

A personal encounter with the young person and finding his place in

the educational environment

AIM

COMMUNITY ASPECT

EPC VOCACIONAL

GROUP ACTIVITY

EVANGELISATION-CATECHESIS EDUCATION- CULTURE

PASTORAL

CHARITY

POINT OF DEPARTURE

A PERSONALITY CONFORMED TO CHRIST

IN ACCORDANCE WITH SALESIAN YOUTH SPIRITUALITY

DYNAMICSOF

GROWTH

DYNAMICSOF

GROWTH

Make him capable of assimilating culture critically and of an ethical discernment according to a Christian vision of life

EDUCATIVE-CULTURALDIMENSION

Encourage a process of personal and social growth that makes the young person responsable of his own life and capable of opening himself to God

Place him in a responsible way in his social and cultural context ready to fight against every kind of marginalisation

Help the young person to make values his own and to develop the religious aspect of his personality

Help the young person to orient to their full maturity in Christand to their growth in the Church.

Irrelevance of the faith

Religiuos pluralism

Secularisation

Christian commitment and missionary awareness

Systematic process of education to the faith in

a group

Educational environment full of evangelical values

CHALLENGES: CHOICES:

EVANGELISATION-CATECHESIS DIMENSION

GROUP ACTIVITY DIMENSION

The group as the educational andevangelising hallmark feature of our ministry

Linked to the SYM as the positive experience of the Church

Open to all young people, with an animating style and growth-enabling

Accompanig them to assume with responsability his place in society and in the Church.

* Systematic discernment process

* Vocational culture: the life as a gift and a service to community

* Clear and explicit vocational proposals

* Vocational testimony of the educators

VOCATIONAL DIMENSION

Helping the young person to live his life as a vocation and to undertake his own role in the Church and in society

* With the Salesian Family and the local Church

More of strategic choices, vision-setting, evaluation

Less of initiatives here-and-there, activities left-and-right, and improvisation

• Precise and concrete objectives

• Progressive sequencing and linkaging of activities

• More and more persons and groups who share the objectives and work as a team

Building the EPCCommon mission - shared mentality

Changing the situation

1

2It creates a sense of a common mission, a shared way of thinking, combining of resources

El proceso educativo3Develops in the young a sense of community, a social and ecclesialconscience

The salesian educative-pastoral project constructs the EPC and develops within it

TIME FOR ANALYSING THE SITUATION

• Situation of the young and their environment;

• Situation of the EPC

• The most important and pressing challenges

TIME FOR PRODUCING THE PLAN OF OPERATION

• The educational choices that are most urgent and possible: AIMS

• Concrete steps to be taken progressively to achieve these aims

• Courses of action and concrete steps

TIME FOR EVALUATION• Prepare instruments for evaluation: INDICATORS that are objective, concrete and capable of measurement

• Indicate when and how