Tag Archives: Tragedy

Life Teen Core Training

Core Training: Pastoral Care

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We are ecstatic to announce a new resource in our Life Support box: Life Teen Core Training. Through both written and video resources, we will help you train your core Members whenever they join your team. This will hopefully allow you more time with your teens and less time behind a desk. In every Life Support box you will receive a new training resource for your core team. This 8-part training series will cover topics including: Core Recruitment Life Nights: Gather, Proclaim, Break,

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Responding to the Death of a Teen

By | May 31, 2011

I minister in a town of about 50,000 drawing on 3 different high schools. In the last 18 months, 8 high school teenagers have died unexpectedly from car accidents, illness, and suicide. In the midst of all of this tragedy, I have learned 4 important lessons about how we should respond to teen death within our communities.

Life Night

Hope: A Life Night in response to a tragedy

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Goal for the Life Night: This night is designed to be used if there is a tragedy in your parish or local community such as illness, car accident, suicide or death. In moments of crisis, teens need a safe place to process, grieve and pray. It is important that the Life Night following a community tragedy gives teens this opportunity. The main goal of the night is to allow the teens to express their questions and emotions while also placing the tragedy in the context of the cross of Christ. We