Resources

Contemplative Outreach Ltd. and the Archdiocese of St. Louis will be hosting a seminar for those who work with youth on Thursday, January 10th, 7-9 pm and Saturday, January 12th, 9:30-11:30 am at the Cardinal Rigali Center. This seminar will provide an opportunity to learn more about Centering Prayer, our Christian contemplative tradition and ways that you can bring it to young people.  This seminar is offered free of charge.  If you would like to attend this seminar, please R.S.V.P. to coyouthandyoungadult@yahoo.com with the date of the seminar you would like to attend.

Are you looking to find great resources for your youth ministry, but you don't know where to look?  Maybe you are looking for a great night for your teens focusing on Advent.  Here's a whole page of free resources just waiting to be downloaded.  What are you waiting for?  

      Paul Masek, the coordinator of the REAP Team of our Office of Youth Ministry here in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, has just published Stirring It Up.  This three-part book project, which was developed with Catholic teenagers in mind, includes a book "Stirring It Up" (practical tips for staying close to God), another book "All Bottled Up" (letters from teens answered) and an audio CD "Stirring It Up More" (which contains additional inspirational material).

If you are a youth minister and have ever wondered if what you were doing at your parish was really making a difference, you probably asked yourself at least once should I stay or should I go?  Am I right?  Duffy Robbins a member of the Youth Specialties Resource Seminar Team has provided some great insight into this topic.  He speaks not only from his personal experience but also from the experiences of other youth ministers.   

If you're looking  for a ministry that will lead people closer to the heart of Christ through Adoration, here's just the ministry for you- ADORE ministries. 

 "ADORE ministry dreams of a New Springtime igniting the Church - a revival where Christians bow their lives before God. They also dream of a generation completely free to worship God. ADORE is a ministry with a passion for leading people to God, as they blend the traditions of ancient worship with the penetrating freedom of modern worship. Through preaching that cuts to the heart and worship that leads to a deep encounter with God, the ministry of ADORE is captured in Psalm 86, "all nations shall come to ADORE you and glorify your name, O Lord."   ~taken from Adoreworship.com~

Do you wonder why, as Catholics, we do some of the things we do?  Do you ever find yourself wishing for short, simple answers as to what the Church teaches and why we claim it as truth?

Let 100 Things Every Catholic Teen Should Know bring to light a bunch of things you might already know and a ton of stuff you probably don't.  Mark Hart and Todd Lemieux have an undeniably unique way to make the most controversial and complicated Church teachings, entertaining and effortless to follow.  Let these two authors show you not only how great it is to be Catholic, but how fun it is to be Catholic, as well.

Are you looking for a way to reach out to those teens who don’t know Jesus, but you just simply haven’t found the means to?  Do you have new teens come for a prayer night, but then never return and are looking for a way to keep them coming?   The Source for youth ministry can provide you with some great examples of what actually works and what doesn’t in their latest article on effective outreach.