updated: 10/01/2008
the Calendar for SAND Youth Ministry's Adult Advisory Board Meetings
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.