updated: 06/30/2008
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Thank you for your interest in becoming a part of Holy Cross SAND Youth Ministry programs and events. We look forward to seeking, awakening and nurturing discipleship with you. Have a great summer.
upcoming events and information
- 1st Year Candidates: sessions are done for the year
- 2nd Year Candidates: sessions are done for the year
- Make-up Packets: if you missed a session you'll need to complete one for it - Check the outstanding packets that you need to complete on the STATUS pages of the website first and then download the corresponding packet #'s on the MAKEUP page.
upcoming events and information
- July 13th: after 10:30a.m. Mass in the YM Room - all High School teens and interested adult mentors are encouraged to join us to share about our lives and God's place in them on a deeper level most Sundays following 10:30a.m. Mass. All are encouraged to attend 10:30a.m. Mass together if you do not attend with your families on a regular basis. Join us and please invite your friends to come along!
upcoming local service and info about our summer trips
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FLINT Trip - fulfill the
requirements:
to earn eligibility
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the mandatory interest meeting has passed. If you did not attend or contact with a valid excuse prior to the meeting, you are no longer a potential candidate for the trip to Flint. Please visit the Flint Trip page to become clear about what is required of candidates for this incredible week of service. There are a number of requirements with which the teens must comply.
- Nazareth Farm 2009: lottery drawing for group weeks in the Fall of 2008 - The drawing will take place this coming November of 2008 for the Summer 2009 Trip.
upcoming retreats and information
- Fall 2008 Retreats: What is coming up in the Fall/Winter - December 5 to 7, 2008 - The first of 3 FOOTPRINTS Confirmation Weekend Retreats during the school year of 2008-2009.
The point of our journey of faith as Christians is,
ultimately, to become disciples of Jesus. We are called to
come to Jesus, to fall in love with our God, and to follow
in God's footsteps in the way that we live our lives. The
name of High School Youth Ministry here at Holy Cross is an
acronym, S.A.N.D. It stands for the process of Christian
conversion, transformation into authentic disciples of
Christ.
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SEEKING
DISCIPLESHIP:
All people are searching to fill that hole in their hearts.
Many fill it with things that simply won't satisfy it's
need. That whole was meant to be filled with God's love and
relationship. It is the
only thing that can fill that hole in our
lives.
To come to know our God, one must first realize a desire, a
seeking to fill that emptiness in our lives, our hearts.
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AWAKENING
DISCIPLESHIP:
"Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened
for you." God's promise to us is true. If we
seek God,
we
will
be found by God. It is that epiphany that we, like St. Paul
and many others who have gone before us, will experience in
our lives if we seek God. When we seek with authenticity,
God will awaken us by filling that emptiness in our hearts.
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NURTURING
DISCIPLESHIP:
If you leave food out that has been cooked, without doing
anything to preserve it, it will go cold and become rotten.
When we have become awake in our faith life to the love
that God is offering us, we need to nurture that faith,
that relationship with God.
SAND Youth Ministry's mission is to offer teens
opportunities to seek out God, to become awakened to His
love for them, and to offer communities and experiences to
continue to nurture that relationship, that journey of
faith.