Youth Ministry School: CARE 101

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Don Bosco Retreat House, Lawaan, Talisay City, Cebu, August 11-12, 2018

Forty-five leaders coming from different Don Bosco youth centers, and neighboring parishes and organizations attended the weekend Youth Ministry School module on CARE 101 which is a general orientation of new leaders to what youth ministry is all about. The organizers, the Commission on Youth Ministry (CYM) with its sector, The Salesian Youth Movement (SYM-FIS), facilitated the group using the Church’s pastoral cycle for its presentation particularly the RECOGNIZING, INTERPRETING, AND CHOOSING which in the old times is known as the SEE-JUDGE-ACT method.

The contents of the seminar-workshop is as follows:

1.Who are the youth?
2. Youth studies.
3. What is youth ministry?
4. Paradigms of youth ministry
5. Profile of a youth minister
6. Settings for youth ministry

The days of the CARE 101, which is an acronym based on the gospel of the Emmauas (Luke 24, 13-35) and the first of the series of three modules, where intertwined with sharing, group work, and role-playing for internalization.

The CYM and the SYM organizers would like to thank the different pastoral animators or youth directors of the following groups for allowing their leaders to be formed in the Youth Ministry School:
– DBYC-DBTC (14)
– DBYC-Lourdes (12)
– DBYC-Pasil (7)
– MME (Mary’s Missionaries for Evangelization) (3)
– Holy Cross Parish – Basak, Pardo (3)
– San Lorenzo Parish – Tisa (2)
– PYCC- Minglanilla (3)
– University of San Carlos (1)