Goal of the Life Night: To help teens compare their current friendships with their friendship with Christ and challenge them to spend more time with Christ and more deeply embrace a friendship with Jesus. Life Night at a Glance: This LIFENight will give the teenagers an opportunity to see Christ as a friend. This will [...]
Goal for the Life Night: To connect the Holy Spirit to the everyday decisions that we make to either give life or take it away. To challenge teenagers to examine their actions and to unconditionally set the Holy Spirit in motion by putting others before themselves. Life Night at a Glance: This night is a [...]
The goal of the retreat is to empower all the teenagers to make personal commitments to change the way they are living and to instead live for Christ. The teens will be able to recognize the sin in their lives, reconcile that sin, and make a commitment to change their lives. Furthermore, they will have the opportunity to join together with their peers to keep that commitment and set a foundation to walk the walk in their daily lives. This decision will allow Christ to become so present in their lives that when they leave the retreat they will be living witnesses to the world or Christ “In the Flesh” to those they encounter at home, in school, and everywhere they go.
Walk into most Catholic Churches today and take a look around. How many teenagers do you see in the pews? Where are they? How do we find them and bring them into a more active life in the Church? Well, the answer many times lies in the hearts of the teens themselves. They are the [...]
Pope John Paul II continues to be the chief youth minister in our Church. This retreat taken from the Pope’s Apostolic Letter – “NOVO MILLENNIO INEUNTE” that calls us all to enter this new Millennium contemplating the face of Christ. The theme song is off the “Declaration” album by Steven Curtis Chapman. We at Life Teen pray that this retreat will help the teens that you serve to truly follow our Holy Father’s call for them to become “Morning watchmen at the dawn of the new millennium.”