Program Goals and Objectives

Goals

Youth ministry is based on the USCCB document, Renewing the Vision: A Framework for Catholic Youth Ministry. The goals of youth ministry are to:

  • Call young people to be disciples of Jesus Christ
  • Draw young people into the life, work, and mission of the faith community
  • Foster the total personal and spiritual growth of young people
Objectives

Specifically, youth ministry has the following objectives:

  • To enable young people to hear the Good News of Jesus Christ
  • To connect young people with the life of the parish community and to make them more visible in parish life
  • To enable young people to know and understand the teachings, traditions and practices of the Catholic Church, deepening their Catholic identity
  • To connect young people with caring, believing adult role models
  • To provide young people with service opportunities
  • To provide a safe environment and a place where young people share and grow together in faith, learning more about being Catholic
  • To develop an intentional outreach to uninvolved and unchurched youth
  • To involve young people in prayer and worship
  • To enable our young people to become happy, health and holy adults.