2006 NCCYM—Workshop Round C

Saturday, December 2, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

C-1: Reaching Teens through Theater Ministry

Robert Tessier, Youth Ministry Coordinator, Arlington, Va. and former clown for Ringling Brothers

This workshop will present the benefits of integrating theatre into modern youth ministry from one-act plays to full costume productions. The workshop also aims to give each attendee extremely practical knowledge on how to create an effective theatre ministry, no matter the size of parish.

C-2: Developing Youth Music Ministers

Sponsored by OCP

Curtis Stephan, OCP/Spirit and Song composer and Music Director of St. Ann Catholic Parish, Carrolton, TX

Learn about the practical nuts and bolts of recruiting, developing, and utilizing music ministers well. Learn how to intentionally equip our church with music and ministry skills needed today.

C-3: Why Church? Young Adults Search for Meaning and Belonging

Sr. Jamie Phelps, Director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies and Professor of Systematic Theology at Xavier University of Louisiana

This workshop will ask participants to engage in an analysis of young adult culture and consciousness. The process will help identify the concerns of culturally diverse young adults that can find hope in a church that engages them to respond to the liberating texts of the Gospel and church traditions as these correspond to their search for meaning, relationships, and a sense of belonging (community).

C-4: Insights into Jesus: From Galilee to Trinity to the Present

Dr. Robert Ludwig, Director of the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University in Chicago

The great mystery of Incarnation begins in Galilee in the twenties: something happened in Galilee! That something becomes the spiritual center of a movement that required that “God” be redefined as Trinity, and this is the heart of our life in Christ today.

C-5: Creating a Parish Culture for Youth Ministry Through Faith Assets™

Sponsored by Center for Ministry Development

John Roberto, former director of the Center for Ministry Development and a Project Coordinator for the Exemplary Youth Ministry Research Project.

Discover the good news from a major ecumenical research project about the power of Faith Assets™ to create a parish culture, leadership, and youth ministry that promotes a vibrant faith in young people today.

C-6: Character-Based Mentoring

Sponsored by St. Mary’s Press

Jerry Goebel, works with incarcerated and recovering youth in Washington State through a character-based mentoring program called LIFECoaches.

A young person with a strong sense of significance and value is far less likely to be manipulated by either unhealthy peer relationships or a noxious culture. Values and character are developed in the give and take of relationships with a healthy adult. Learn how to provide opportunities for character-based mentoring both in your church and to high-risk youth in your community.

C-7: Our Catholic Tradition: 2006 Years Old, Born Again Yesterday

Fr. David Sharland, Director of Formation and College Outreach, Youth Apostles Institute

With traditions in our church older than Christ, yet with music and movements as new as i-Pods, youth ministers face the challenge of being new and fresh everyday. How can we hand on things as old (and beautiful) as chant and incense to a postmodern generation that begs for us to be relevant?

C-8: Teen Media and Culture: Trends, Implications, and Response

John Beaulieu, Director of Youth and Young Adult Outreach, Franciscan University of Steubenville

This interactive workshop is an overview of the current trends and statistics regarding the use and content of teen media culture. We will look at how these trends are impacting our ministries and how we can respond in a relevant and effective way.

C-9: What the NSYR Means for Rural/Small Town Youth Ministry

Leigh Sterten, Co-founder, Ministry Training Source, and Director of Youth Ministry,Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau

The National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) is a groundbreaking, comprehensive look at the attitudes and behaviors of young people today. Understanding it through the lens of the rural/small town setting, and making useful applications, will be the focus of this workshop.

C-10: Tools for the Vineyard: Empowering Lay Leaders for Ministry in the Fields

Sean Reynolds, Director of the Office of Youth & Young Adult Ministry, Archdiocese of Cincinnati

Learn about two terrific “power tools” now at our disposal, and how they can be put to work for the reign of God. Use Coworkers in the Vineyard (USCCB, 2005) and the National Certification Standards to develop competent and capable youth ministry leaders, for “the harvest is rich, but the laborers few.”

C-11: The Sacrament of Confirmation: Exploring the Ritual and the Journey of Faith

Sponsored by GIA Publications

David Haas, Director, The Emmaus Center for Music, Prayer, and Ministry

This session will help youth ministers and catechists who are attempting to move confirmation beyond "Catholic graduation" and discover its transformative and faith filled potential as a ritual journey. The ritual will be explored to help unpack a theology and vision for the sacrament - not just for its ritual celebration, but for designing an entire program that will provide clarity and effectiveness for the candidates, as well as for the sponsors, the family, and more importantly, the entire parish. Liturgical, musical, and catechetical ideas will be shared.

C-12: Learning about L.I.F.E.: A Family-Based Program on Relationships and Abuse Prevention

Sister Kieran Sawyer - founder and director emeritus of the TYME OUT Youth Center in Stone Bank, Wisconsin and known nationally for her programs in adolescent catechesis and youth ministry.

This new family-based program presents the positive, loving relationships of Love, Infatuation (or falling in love) and Friendship as the context for talking about Exploitation and abusive relationships.  The program is designed to guide parents of children from preschool through high school in discussing these important topics with their own children at each stage of the children’s relational development.

NCCGSCF Track
C-13: Bullies, Peers, Power, and Pressure: What's a Girl to Do?

Camille Massing, Youth Minister, Singer-Songwriter, and Presenter, Littleton, CO

Self-esteem, mass-media, body-image, and power plays. Girlhood is under attack today by many forces in our modern society. Learn to help girls build positive self-worth, discover their real beauty, become women of character and integrity, and be transformed by Christ’s vision of them.

Hispanic Track (Presented in Spanish)
C-14: La  Espiritualidad y la Juventud Latinas: Un Regalo para la Iglesia Católica de los Estados Unidos (Latino Spirituality and Youth: A Gift for the U.S. Catholic Church)

Padre Jesuita Allan Deck Figueroa, Presidente del Instituto Loyola para la Espiritualidad en Orange, CA

(Fr. Allan Deck, President of the Loyola Institute for Spirituality in Orange, CA)

La característica más distinta de los Hispanos es su Espiritualidad. Cómo es? Cómo se describe, cómo se entiende? Cuáles son sus rasgos principales? Cómo está cambiando hoy en día y cómo afectará la Iglesia norteamericana por nacer donde los Hispanos serán la mayoría? Qué papel juega la juventud hispana en este drama?

(The real distinctiveness of Latinos is found in their spirituality. How can one describe it, what are its main features, how is it changing, and how will it affect the church in America?)

Best Practices in Adolescent Catechesis Track

Sponsored by the Partnership for Adolescent Catechesis: A collaborative effort between NCCL, NCEA, and NFCYM

C-15: Best Methods in Adolescent Catechesis: Faith Theme: "Sacraments"

Four practitioners from across the country will share their unique and creative catechetical methods that focus on the faith theme of “Sacraments"

C-16: Best Models in Adolescent Catechesis: Diocesan Focus

Four diocesan leaders from across the country will share their unique and creative models for integrating adolescent catechesis into overall diocesan program structures.