Goal for the Life Night: Confront teens with the fundamental reality of the person of Jesus Christ and demonstrate how that reality demands a verdict in the way they live their lives. Life Night at a Glance: This night will begin with some humor as the CSI (Crucifixion Scene Investigators) enter and begin collecting evidence. [...]
Goal for the Life Night: To help teens understand the reasons and purpose for (redemptive) suffering within the Christian faith. To challenge the teens to identify their own crosses and then to embrace them with trust and hope instead of resistance and complaint. Life Night at a Glance: Teens are bombarded by a culture whose [...]
Goal of the Life Night: By the end of the LIFE Night, the teens should have a blast, build community, and realize that they should always be ready to beat certain types of sin with the power of the Holy Spirit. Life Night at a Glance: This LIFE Night will provide the teenagers with an [...]
Goal of the Life Night: To challenge the teens in their own faith walks, helping them to recognize the dangers of judgment and the effects of hypocrisy in their daily lives. Life Night at a Glance: This night has an aggressive and intentional message that we need to get rid of judgment of others in [...]
Goal of the Life Night: To take a critical look at the amount of time spent daily with various forms of media in relationship to time spent in other activities, especially prayer. The night helps teens recognize what factors shape our identity and encourage teens to seek Christ more deeply. Further, it will develop a [...]
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 [...]