Beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, St. John Neumann Parish will use the Life Teen Program for 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade religious education. Life Teen is a Catholic high school youth ministry experience created for teenagers.  Life Teen is designed to meet the educational, spiritual, emotional, and social needs of. These students are always welcomed and encouraged to bring their friends to the Life Teen Program.  Each Life Teen session contains four parts in order to meet the needs of our youth: Gather, Proclaim, Break it down and Send off.

Within the context of faith, high school youth are moving from a child-like spirituality to one that will hopefully reach its pinnacle, through the work of Life Teen, into an adult faith commitment to Jesus Christ and the Catholic Community.

Our Life Teen program will meet on the First and Third Sundays of the month (except April 2018 which will meet the 2nd and 4th Mondays) from 7:15 to 8:45 pm beginning on September 17!  Each night will have a different theme about our faith, and will challenge our youth to grow in a deeper relationship with our Lord.

Our High School program continues to help form our students into a deeper relationship with Jesus while helping them to build a stronger relationship within our Community. 

Other Components to the High School Program

• Participate in 2 organized Work of Mercy

•  Participate in 2 Community Activities or Works of Mercy

• Attend one retreat, the NET Retreat on Wednesday, October 25, from 5-9 pm

• Assist at least one Teen Liturgy as a member of hospitality, lector or altar server.

• Attend the Passion Play.

Our vision is to see all our students take more responsibility for their ongoing Faith Formation as it will better prepare them to be active young adults in our Catholic community.   Community Events, Retreats and Service Projects are offered year round, so please take advantage of them, especailly the Summer ones when students are less involved in other activities. To see these upcoming events, go to the youth ministry page.  
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Note: Catholic school students are not required to attend the Chosen program but are invited to do so.  Catholic school students do need to fulfill all the other Faith Formation activities listed.

In  High School, we ask all of our students to assist at least once a year in at our 6 PM Mass as Lectors or Hospitality.  For those who are active altar servers, lectors or hospitality ministers who serve throughout the year, do not have to sign up.

When signing up, either choose to be a Lector or Hospitality.
When serving, please arrive by 5:30 pm on that Sunday evening, dressed in your Sunday best.  

What is
       Hospitality - Greet people as they come into the Church and hand out any worship aids
                           -  Help with the collection and bring up the gifts
                           - Pass out bulletins
                           - Help organize the Church after Mass
        Lector - Proclaim one of the readings - Must prepare ahead of time!  

 

The success of our Faith Formation programs relies heavily on the volunteerism of our confirmed SJN Parishioners. Please consider sharing one of your most valuable assets with our children…your TIME! There are many ways to get involved within the Life Teen Program, whether it is working directly with the students or helping in the background! 
We are looking for people to help in a number of different ways, but especially as a Core Team Member and Facilitators of the Works of Mercy.  If you are interested or have questions, please contact Michael! 

Life Teen Core Team members are volunteers for our newly adopted Life Teen program. Core team members will attend sessions meeting on Sunday evenings from 7:15-8:45 pm, twice a month.  They will help facilitate the various components of the sessions, including small group discussions.  Core team members will also meet for regular planning sessions with other core team members. 

Youth Works of Mercy Facilitator: Do you enjoy serving those in need?  Are you looking for more opportunities to do so?  Are you interested in sharing this desire with the youth of our parish?  Then please consider becoming a Youth Works of Mercy Facilitator, who will help organize and lead youth on various works of mercy projects throughout the academic year.