Our Mission Statements

To encourage young people to build an intimate Relationship with God with Him as our Guiding Companion.

To Acknowledge the gifts that God has given to us and to Empower us to use them through this Journey of faith.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

BLYM 15 Oct Updates

Hello everyone!

Surprise! Surprise! It's me giving the updates this week. Once in a while, I will get the itch to write something, so for this week, I'm writing! Btw, do you know that we have our Facebook account? It's fun and it's pretty informative (well, on the way to making it more interactive) So come by and join us at
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14846641385 ! Now on for the updates..

1) Cell group is on for this week and the letter is "I" relating to your life. Interested? Call Pat @ 91135139 for more details or join us at The Lighthouse (aka The Youth Room, Lvl 4) at 8.15pm!

2) For all the youths in the parish, there will be a 4 weekly Advent sessions by Father Michal, starting Nov 28! Watch this space for more details!

3) A time to know more new friends and experience nature during this Ubin trip on 22 Nov! Please reply back to email for interested participants.

4) An interactive, fun and comfortable way to know more about your faith and ask things that you had never asked before - Youth Alpha For ages 15 - 19. Starting in Nov '08. Contact Celine for more details @ 90906469 or sign up now!

5) Tuition is suspended for this year but will resume next year. If you are interested to help out in tutoring youths or to join us for tuition, please call Joachim @ 92394826.


6) Presenting "Roman Catholicism 101" to young people who want to explain your Catholic faith to non-believers : Seven controversies explored such as, Does Belief in God demean us? The Catholic Mass. boring & irrelevant? 13 Dec - 14 Dec @ Choice Retreat House. Check out http://www.catholic.sg/act for more details.

Ok, that's all and have a blessed week ahead!

Joachim

7 comments:

Maureen said...

#8 made me think of my teen blog noquestionleftbehind.blogspot.com. We tackled the how to the questions of non-Catholics recently.

Unknown said...

Hi maureen, that's a very interesting blog that you have written. Would like to know which country you are from?

Maureen said...

I'm from the U.S. Michigan to be exact. The teens who answer the questions are from Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Unknown said...

Wow, that's incredible. How did you manage to get the kids to go and research on these type of stuffs?

Maureen said...

I begged :-). No, really we all had fun doing it. I lead a teen group and asked who would like to participate. More kids said no than yes, but the ones who said yes were very enthusiastic. I let them pick which questions they wanted to answer. I didn't force anything on anyone and instead let the Holy Spirit work through them.

And we're continuing the work -- I've added three more teens to the team to answer questions we're currently getting through the blog. If you read the kids' bios you'll see that some of them comment on what a good experience it was for them to answer all these questions. They put a lot of prayer, time, and research into it and that can be very rewarding.

I homeschool, so for my son Christian I counted the No Question Left Behind work as his religion studies for the year. He got an A. :-)

Unknown said...

Haha. That's fun. Could be something we could maybe work on over here in Singapore. Could we exchange emails so that I could get back to you for any suggestions or advice? Mine is joachim_liu@yahoo.com.

Maureen said...

I'm emailing you right now. It'll start with mwittlans in case it gets caught in your spam filter.