Upcoming NE3 YOUTH GROUP Schedule:

Sunday Night Youth Ministry

• Who: Middle and High School Youth 6th-12th grade
• When: 6pm-8:00pm on Sunday Evenings
• What: Fellowship, Food, Faith Sharing, Fun                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
• Family of Parishes Middle School Retreat
  • April 21-23, 2023
  • Montezuma Retreat Center
  • Planning meetings will begin in mid-February
  • High School Youth and Adults plan and lead the retreat
• Vacation Bible School
  • June 12-16, 2023 (Tentative)
• Cross Training: Middle School Faith and Service Camp
  • June 26-30, 2023
    • St. Luke Parish
    • Daily Mass, Tuesday Adoration, Learn new styles of prayer
    • Service Projects
    • Canoeing, Kings Island, Pool Party
• High School Mission Trip
  • July 9-15, 2023
    • Harlan, Kentucky
• Steubenville Conference
  • Date TBD
• National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC)
  • November 16-19, 2023
  • Indianapolis, Indiana
  • https://ncyc.us/
  • Fundraising opportunities will begin in March

Please stay tuned for more information, flyers, and invitations for these events.
 

Contact Becca Elrich 
Volunteer Point of Contact Youth and Young Adult Ministry
937-426-1733 ext 303
[email protected]

St. Luke Youth Ministry

Guided by our Patron Saint, the youth of St. Luke can learn about our Catholic faith and turn this learning into action.

It is the aim of the Youth Committee that our youth grow in their faith through four main avenues:

• ·         Community
• ·         Service
• ·         Catechesis
• ·         Liturgy/Prayer

Community

·         St. Luke youth ministry offers a variety of ways that youth can get involved in the Parish community.

Middle School and High School Youth Ministry

·         Middle School and High School Youth Ministry meet on Sundays from 1:30pm-4:00m. A typical meeting includes the following elements: Prayer, Fun, Faith Sharing and lots of Food!

Middle School and High School Parish School of Religion

·         From September through May, the High School Youth are welcome and encouraged to join their peers on a journey of discovery. We consider the truths of the Catholic Faith and we apply these truths to our particular situations in life.

Activities

Middle School and High School Retreats

·         We offer a Fall and Winter retreats for the Middle School and High School Youth

·         Dates will be announced later.

Service

·         Throughout the year the youth of St. Luke have various opportunities to serve the community of Beavercreek, Dayton and other communities.

Work for Donations

·         This service opportunity is truly a unique experience, the youth of St. Luke work in and around Parishioners homes and the youth receive some monetary donations that assist them with paying for certain summer trips.

·         The parishioners and youth have continuously stated that this service activity is an excellent opportunity for the youth and parishioners to work together.

·         Retreats and trips are usually funded by Work for Donations: Gospel Road, NCYC, and Cross Training.

Gospel Road

·         The youth of St. Luke spend 1 week in Harlan, Kentucky or Chicago, Illinois or Detroit, Michigan working on homes that house people who experience poverty daily.

·         This trip encompasses all four avenues of faith formation, but we choose to put it under service. This mission trip offers the youth an opportunity to integrate their knowledge of faith with action.

Cross Training

·         Our youth spend one week during July or August experiencing a variety of different service projects.

·         The goal is for the youth to integrate their knowledge of faith with action.

·         The youth are given an opportunity to understand and experience the fact that faith and fun can be and should be integrated.

Catechesis

·         Teaching the faith and learning about the faith are integrated into all of the programs, events, activities and meetings for the youth.

·         Catechesis occurs during every event and this is made possible by the openness of our adult volunteers and older high school youth to witness their faith and the desire of our youth to learn more about their faith and share their own experience with other youth and adults.

·         We choose to adopt of model of Catechesis that is similar to Jesus’ example and the Apostles.

·         When Jesus met with people he made it a point to serve both their spiritual needs and their physical needs. We follow this example and we look to bring the youth to a point of integration in their life, wherein the physical and the spiritual are united serving the Lord.

Liturgy/Prayer

·         By the grace of God we have a lively community of believers that call St. Luke Catholic Church their Home.

·         Our goal is to facilitate the integration of our youth into the liturgical events and practices that occur at St. Luke and within the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

·         We encourage our youth to pray daily and to join the other members of St. Luke once a week for our communal prayer, the Mass.

·         We hope that our youth serve in a variety of ways with the Mass at St. Luke.

·          Many of our youth already serve as ushers, lectures, extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist and Altar Servers.

·         “Prayer is the Language of Hope” – Joseph Pieper

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Upcoming NE3 Youth Events