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Introducing Life Teen’s “Catholic Trivia DVD”

It is the 8th hour of a 12-hour bus ride and you are second-guessing your own sanity for planning this trip. It is “free time” during your fall retreat and God decided to reenact the great flood; the teens are stuck inside and have a bored, crazed look in their eyes. You have a group of middle school youth who can make anything into a competition and are currently betting on how long it will take you to make another corny joke. Any of this sound familiar? As youth ministers, Core Members and

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Introducing the Oneight DVD Resource!

Confirmation Preparation. Do those words strike fear in your heart? Do visions of bored and/or angry teenagers, paperwork, service hours and saint names fill your brain? All too often, the process of preparing young souls for the grace of Confirmation is seen as a burden and not the gift that it is. Close your eyes. Dream big. If you could create the ideal Confirmation Preparation program for your parish, what would it look like? Who would you ask to present to the teens? What would you

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Give It Away Now – The Can It Edition

Join Life Teen parishes on September 27, 2009 for our Second Annual Global Life Night and Food Drive! What: Global Life Night – Life Teen and Edge parishes around the world doing the same Life Night and service project When: September 27, 2009, the Sunday closest to the feast day of St. Vincent de Paul How: Canned Food Drive – get your parish and community involved by promoting the event beforehand and setting up donation dropoff sites. Use the “Give it Away Now – The Can It Edition”

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It’s Summer Time!!! Find Out What’s Keeping Us Busy

I can’t even believe it, but summer is here. Next week is our first week of summer camp at Covecrest! The annual Life Teen Training Convention is just a couple of weeks away and Life Teen at Notre Dame is one month away. Wow! You can bet we are all busy managing our to-do list, our schedules and getting really excited to spend time with everyone we will see at all the Life Teen events this summer. Here’s a look at some exciting stuff happening this summer at our events: Summer Camp at Covecrest,

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Give It Away Now Life Night & Clothing Drive: Final FINAL Results

Life Teen Family, It is with great joy that I greet you! On September 28, 2009 Life Teen parishes from all around the world participated in our first ever global Life Night called Give It Away Now. In honor of St. Vincent de Paul, we asked all the teens and Core members to empty out their closets, bring in their clothes and weigh their donations. The clothes were then taken to a local St. Vincent de Paul Center or another charity in need and the total weights were sent to us. Or original goal

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Give It Away Now! – The Results!

On September 28th, Life Teen asked its over 1100 parishes to join together in the first ‘Global Life Night.’ The night, entitled ‘Give it Away Now!’ was an effort to gather over 50,000 pounds of clothing for the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Parishes from all over the country responded, gathering clothes and having donation drives…. and the response has been overwhelming! After the first two days of reporting, the goal of 50,000 pounds had already been smashed – there were over 150,000 lbs