Great time at Youth & Young Adult Ministers Retreat

Far Away Retreat Center was a real TREAT! Great seeing so many Region III folks represented!!!

Priscilla McKinney, St Olaf
Barbara Zick, Prince of Peace
Felix Fabellano, Our Lady Star of the Sea
Danny Bailey, St Nicholas
Chad Hill, Our Lady Queen of Heaven
Ryan Flannery, honorary St Andrew

Rich Shively lead the reflection on Wednesday. He is truly gifted in presenting a prayerful environment. Here are the reflection questions he shared:

1) How is your love relationship with the Lord?
- Do you spend time alone?
- Do you share this with others
- Love: do you receive and offer ?
- How do you deal with differences?
- How do you know the Lord more intimately/ mature in your relationship?

2) What about your sense of call?
- Are you open to continuing discernment?
- How do you pay attention to open and closed doors?
- In what new ways are you being called?

3) Being Renewed in Faith
- Can you think of a time when your heart really burned inside you?
- Does your heart still burn? Why or why not?
- If there are obstacles, what are they and what do you do about it?

We hope to see you all again next year! In the meantime, feel free to share your reflections on the blog!

A great weekend at Youth Ministry Studies class!

What a blessed weekend spending time with a group of committed faithful attending Year 1 of CMD's Certificate for Youth Ministry Studies. Equipped with a better framework about Youth Ministry, I am energized to see how I can better serve those in my home parish and the region. There was a strong representation from REGION III - Danny from St Nicholas, Carmen from the Tacoma cluster and a handful of new friends from the Korean Catholic Community Church of Tacoma.

If you were thinking about the courses - I highly encourage you to consider signing up for the next class being held April 24-25. You can start at any point of the program. Let me know if you have any questions!