Debbie Vanelli, Director ◊ 361-573-0828 ex 32 dvanelli@victoriadiocese.org Jose Ortega, Associate Director ◊ 361-573-0828 ex 50 jortega@victoriadiocese.org
Youth Office Calendar - download all the upcoming dates!
Special Social Justice Information Issue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mark
your Calendar!!! - Souper Bowl of Caring is February 7, 2010.
Download all the resources you need to make a huge difference in your
community and all resources are FREE!!!!!!
Looking for a summer service learning
opportunity for your high school youth ministry ? - Check out Young Neighbors
in Action
Young Neighbors in
Action is an exciting, integrated service-learning experience for
parish and school teams of older youth and adults. Young Neighbors is more
than a week of service. It is an extended program that provides the
experiences, skills and learning needed to make change possible.
Click here for more information.
Now
there is a service learning program for your middle school students as well!
Tell your middle school youth that… In Just5Days, you will make a real difference. In Just5Days, you will experience your Catholic faith in new ways. In Just5Days, you’ll make friends near and far. Interested? click here for more info.
Food Fast is Catholic Relief Services’ 24-hour awareness program for Catholic youth. Focusing on global poverty and hunger, Food Fast offers a journey of solidarity with our brothers and sisters overseas, as a way of living out our Catholic faith -without even leaving your parish!
Find out more and order your FREE Materials by clicking here
Know a young person that would like to volunteer for a week, a month, or maybe longer? Check out this great resource!
Catholic Network of Volunteer Service (CNVS), established in 1963, is a non-profit membership organization of 200 domestic and international volunteer and lay mission programs. Currently, more than 10,000 volunteers and lay missioners serve in these programs throughout the U.S. and in 108 other countries.
Another Mission Trip Opportunity for your Consideration.........
Catholic Heart Work Camp
What is Catholic HEART Workcamp? What will it be like? Why have so many said it was a memory that will last a life time? Find out why over 10,500 participants and over 450 Catholic Parishes were involved in 2009. Find out what CHWC will offer young people, and what it will offer adults? Also read testimonies from several camp participants. Check it out - click here.