Calling all youth in grades 6 – 12!  Join us for a NET retreat, 3 – 8 P.M. on Sunday, April 30, 2017 at the Parish Center of Saint Patrick Catholic Church.

The FREE event, which includes dinner, is open to all students— home school, public school, private school in 6th – 12th grade. We have students from St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church & School.   Youth through the Pierce Deanery have been invited.

Dinner will be provided. The retreat include games, skits, small group, and prayer time.

Net Retreat

What is NET?img_36751

For more than 30 years, NET Ministries has trained more than 2,300 young adults in how to share their faith across the country through personal witness to junior high and high school youth through retreats. These teams of young adults ages 18-28 live out of one suitcase each while spending nine months leading lively retreats and personal discipleship groups at various parishes and schools. This year, NET Ministries has 150 young adults split into 14 teams.

Faith & Fun

With an invitation from the bishops of each diocese visited, the teams encourage local youth to take a more active role in their faith. Each retreat features small group discussions, large group presentations, prayer ministry, lively games, dynamic music, dramatic and funny skits, and inspiring talks to motivate the teens to be unafraid to accept God in their lives.

NET Volunteers Here at Home

Anna and Joe Skillman— Pastoral Assistants for Youth Group and img_36831Confirmation at Saint Patrick Catholic Church both volunteered for NET Ministries after college and had a great time, noting that, “getting to know the host families was one of their favorite parts of the experience.”  Now they reach out to NET Ministries for Confirmation and Youth Ministry retreats.

NET Ministries has been challenging young Catholics to love Christ and embrace the life of the Church since 1981. More than 1.7 million young people have attended one of over 29,000 retreats that have been led all across the country. NET team members complete five weeks of intense training before being commissioned to serve the young people in this mission.

I saw men and women around my age loving God and it encouraged me to stay strong. What NET Ministries is doing is brilliant. They are encouraging, understanding, energetic, charismatic, and above all incorporate God into everything that they do.a young persons reflection of her experience

About NET Ministries, Inc. 

NET Ministries is an international Catholic youth ministry that is committed to challenging young Catholics to love Christ and embrace the life of the Church. The organization’s acronym stands for National Evangelization Teams. Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, NET offers training in youth evangelization and leads approximately 1,000 retreats annually. Each year, young adult volunteers are sent out in teams across the United States to conduct retreats for Catholic teens. The 14 NET teams share their faith with 75,000 youth nationally on an annual basis. Drama, music, games, small group discussions, and large group presentations are all used to present the Gospel in a dynamic way. To learn more about NET Ministries, follow on Twitter or Facebook, or call 651.450.6833, or visit www.netusa.org.

Tell me more about the NET Retreat

Anna & Joe Skillman, Youth Ministers

253-383-2783

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