Catholic Youth Rural Outreach at Box 277, Bigfork, MT 59911 US - Where is Youth Ministry on a Ski Trip?

Youth Ministry occurs...

1. When the youth team plans the who, what , when, where why and how of the trip...

2. When youth not normally active decide to go on the trip...

3. When adults who have never helped decide to chaperone...

4. When youth from outside the parish without a church attend the trip...

5. On the bus ride up when 48 adults and youth are together laughing and talking...at a "church" function!...

6. When youth who aren't active see how close the active kids are...

7. When youth who aren't active are greeted and welcomed...

8. When youth from outside the parish see how close the group is...

9. When youth from outside the parish are greeted and welcomed...

10. When adults get to know the youth...

11. When youth get to know the adults...

12. When adults get to know other adults...

13. When youth get to know other youth...

14. When the youth minister leads a prayer for a safe bus ride...

15. When some of the teens and adults pray before having lunch...

16. When the group gets to stay overnight at a church for free...

17. When that church provides doughnuts and juice in the morning...

18. When the group attends mass in the morning...

19. When teens are invited to the next activity...

20. When the high school retreat is promoted on the bus ride home...

21. When a teen with no church tells mom and dad he wants to do more stuff with the church...

22. When an inactive teen tells mom and dad he wants to do more stuff with the church...

23. When an adult decides to he wants to help out with more youth stuff...

24. When youth see their new friends in school the next day...

25. When the teens and adults see each other at mass the next week...

and....