Saturday Night Life An Activity by the Youth Ministry
The Saturday Night Life formation series was launched with its first session last Saturday, July 13. It was the first time for the different organizations under the Youth Ministry to come together, so to ease into things, the session was mainly for participants to get to know each other and the different organizations.
For many years, the parish has been committed to engaging the youth. The Saturday Night Life formation series is a project dedicated to helping the youth find a home in the parish. There are four main organizations under the Youth Ministry: PREX Youth, CTK-Days with the Lord, Timothy Youth Ministry, and Libis Youth. Each of these orgs are communities of their own, having their own timeline of activities, practices, and traditions apart from those of the parish.
The main goal of the formation series is to give these orgs a common platform in the parish where they can share about themselves and their communities to the rest of the youth. Something they can all own together. It is also something consistent that they can look forward to every month. The long term goal is for Saturday Night Life to be a series of talks from speakers that the youth can relate to, and those who can hopefully inspire the youth to keep the faith and be the stewards of God’s creation.
As always, the event started with a prayer, giving thanks to the Lord for giving us the opportunity to bring people closer to Him. Participants then sat in a circle to introduce themselves with a few fun facts. It was interesting hearing about each person, learning that we can all have a common ground even though Saturday Night Life An Activity by the Youth Ministry By Michaela Maliksi we’re from different walks of life. There was a fifteen-year-old, still in high school, a fresh graduate from college, and of course, the two ministry heads that have been long done with college. There were also ice breaker games to test if they really remembered each others’ names. The participants enjoyed and it was exciting to witness them getting more and more comfortable with each other.
PREX Youth and Days with the Lord took turns then took turns introducing their orgs to the rest of the group. A representative from each org shared a brief background and what their group stands for and aims to contribute to the community. One commonality that we discovered was that each org has their own set of songs that they sing when they have their retreats or batches. So each sharing session ended with the representatives singing a few songs that the rest of the group sang along with. It was a nice moment to be sharing with each other what we hold dear to our hearts. The night ended with a fellowship around food, of course.
Overall, it was a successful first session and the participants all said that they’re already looking forward to the next one. The spark that CTK’s Youth Ministry hoped to ignite has started through the exchange of phone numbers and befriending on social media. The next session will be on August 10, and the parish is more than ready to welcome even more participants then!
