Immaculate Conception Catholic Church at 500 E. Seventh Street, Auburn, IN 46706 US - Youth Ministry
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Youth Ministry
Parry Leavell, Youth Minister Phyllis Gurtner, Religious Education |
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Welcome to our website and thank you for visiting our youth ministry page. At Immaculate Conception, we realize that the youth of our parish are our future. In realizing this, we work to minister to our youth of the parish by leading them in their growth and understanding of our faith and our Savior, Jesus Christ. Please check out our meeting times and come and see what Jesus Christ is all about.
High School Grades 9th through 12th
LIFE TEEN is a comprehensive program designed to minister to high school teens of all faiths from a uniquely Catholic base. Reaching teens on spiritual, emotional, and social levels, LIFE TEEN responds to the need to be loved, offering meaning and direction and hope in a world plagued with indifference, aimlessness, and shallow materialism. (www.lifeteen.com) The LIFE TEEN Mass To provide direction, LIFE TEEN encourages teens to embark on a journey of faith in a relationship with God through Jesus Christ and His Church. At a LIFE TEEN Mass, teens experience the depths of God's love through the Word, the teen community, and the Eucharist. All teens are welcome to gather around the altar as a family to intimately experience the Eucharistic celebration. Following the Mass, trained youth ministers and core members lead the teens deeper into their Catholic faith in the LIFE Night experience. Teens grow as a faith community, growing in understanding of what it means to be young and Catholic in the world today. (www.lifeteen.com)
Middle School Grades 6th through 8th
“The Edge” is a new Catholic centered youth ministry aimed at middle school aged adolescents. “The Edge” is designed to meet their educational, spiritual, emotional, and social needs. As part of the Catholic Church’s mission to evangelize and spread the gospel message of Jesus Christ, middle school youth are encouraged to go out and bring their friends to “The Edge”. (Life Teen) If you are in middle school (grades 6th, 7th and 8th), there is only one place for you to be Sunday nights…THE EDGE! Parents…be sure to make JESUS & THE EDGE the priority in your middle school youngsters’ life on Sunday Night at 6:00 p.m. Check the bulletin for our schedule
The words of Pope John Paul II to young people: "It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is he who provokes you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for compromise; it is he who urges you to shed the masks of a false life; it is he who reads in your hearts your most genuine choices, the choices that others try to stifle. It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be grounded down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal." (www.lifeteen.com)