St Peter's Parish youth ministry is part of the international Life Teen movement. http://lifeteen.com/cym/
Life Teen is a movement of the Holy Spirit, consecrated to Mary, that is igniting our Catholic faith in communities around the world.
St Peter's Life Teen serves Middle and High school youth through teen focused events like youth nights on Fridays (called Life Nights), service projects,retreats, termly youth masses and an annual summer camp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQV6xqCAoak
We aim to help our teens to feel at home in their parish community and to be active participants in their Church.
On Sundays there is a Life Teen scripture group which breaks open the Scripture reading of that Sunday and where the youth can relate the gospel to their own lives.
For details on the youth group, or to volunteer to on our Core team of helpers, please contact the youth ministers Teresa Kehoe or Alison Wickham. You can contact either by leaving them your contact details at the sacristy.
Life Teen is a movement of the Holy Spirit, consecrated to Mary, that is igniting our Catholic faith in communities around the world.
St Peter's Life Teen serves Middle and High school youth through teen focused events like youth nights on Fridays (called Life Nights), service projects,retreats, termly youth masses and an annual summer camp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQV6xqCAoak
We aim to help our teens to feel at home in their parish community and to be active participants in their Church.
On Sundays there is a Life Teen scripture group which breaks open the Scripture reading of that Sunday and where the youth can relate the gospel to their own lives.
For details on the youth group, or to volunteer to on our Core team of helpers, please contact the youth ministers Teresa Kehoe or Alison Wickham. You can contact either by leaving them your contact details at the sacristy.
St Peter’s Catholic Youth Ministry 2015
It has been another busy year at St Peter’s Edge and Life Teen. If you are unaware, St Peter’s Edge is our Catholic youth ministry group for young people aged 9-13 while St Peter’s Life Teen is our group for young people aged 14-19.
We as a youth group pay an annual subscription to www.lifeteen.com which is a lay movement of the Holy Spirit, dedicated to the Eucharist and consecrated to Mary. It is an international movement with groups all over the globe. Membership buys a parish a full year’s worth of weekly youth nights – catechetical, issue based and social. In addition, the parish receives books and journals on the most up to date topics and developments in the Catholic youth ministry field, music for praise and worship as well as Mass; Liturgy planning guides, catechetical guides and much more.
The whole aim of our parish youth ministry is to make disciples.
The highlight of 2015 for us has been the recent Life Teen Summer Camp. These camps happen in many countries and we are blessed that in the UK Life Teen has partnered with our own diocesan youth service, the Kenelm Trust and uses Alton Castle as the base for this camp.
A group of 10 young people accompanied by Teresa Kehoe, one of the parish youth ministers, attended the camp this year. 3 USA Life Teen staff members (Summer Missionaries) flew in to oversee the camp, give the talks, lead the Liturgies, join in activities and generally help leaders and young people enter more fully into the Glory of God, becoming intentional disciples.
It was stunning to see young people praying and worshiping with passion and energy. Seeing all the young people going to the Sacrament of Reconciliation was inspiring. Our XLT night was awesome! XLT is a praise and worship evening (XLT is short for Exalt) which culminates with Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and a candlelit procession into the Church to sing the divine praises – Blessed be God indeed! Daily Mass was a staple of each day and we as leaders were astounded that when the youth found out we had half and hour from 7.00-7.30am each morning for Adoration in the Church, many of the 14-18 year old lads and girls turned up and joined us!
In addition to the above, we had days filled with activities – hiking, biking, climbing, survival and so on; very messy games (mud and water feature a LOT in Life Teen camps!); a daytrip out to a waterpark to try their hands at sailing, rafting, windsurfing and kayaking. And of course we had our annual, purely for fun, social – a day at Alton Towers.
To hear one of our young people (one of our own group in fact) who is not Catholic, nor even Christian, ask at the end of camp – how can I become Catholic – speaks for itself. If you want to join us for next year’s camp please reserve your space now by registering your interest with Teresa - bookings are already flooding in. This year there were 120 at camp! The dates are: August 14-19 2016. If this clashes with exam results you can of course leave at any point to go home for those all important exam results (and come back!).
We have a Come and See evening in the parish centre on Friday September 4th at 7pm for all current youth group members of both groups as well as any other youngsters plus parents who are interested in our work or in joining. You can bring a friend and do not have to be Catholic to join. We’ll serve refreshments, tell you about 2015-16 plans, upcoming trips and show you a short film from the 2015 camp – so if you were there you can spot yourself
It has been another busy year at St Peter’s Edge and Life Teen. If you are unaware, St Peter’s Edge is our Catholic youth ministry group for young people aged 9-13 while St Peter’s Life Teen is our group for young people aged 14-19.
We as a youth group pay an annual subscription to www.lifeteen.com which is a lay movement of the Holy Spirit, dedicated to the Eucharist and consecrated to Mary. It is an international movement with groups all over the globe. Membership buys a parish a full year’s worth of weekly youth nights – catechetical, issue based and social. In addition, the parish receives books and journals on the most up to date topics and developments in the Catholic youth ministry field, music for praise and worship as well as Mass; Liturgy planning guides, catechetical guides and much more.
The whole aim of our parish youth ministry is to make disciples.
The highlight of 2015 for us has been the recent Life Teen Summer Camp. These camps happen in many countries and we are blessed that in the UK Life Teen has partnered with our own diocesan youth service, the Kenelm Trust and uses Alton Castle as the base for this camp.
A group of 10 young people accompanied by Teresa Kehoe, one of the parish youth ministers, attended the camp this year. 3 USA Life Teen staff members (Summer Missionaries) flew in to oversee the camp, give the talks, lead the Liturgies, join in activities and generally help leaders and young people enter more fully into the Glory of God, becoming intentional disciples.
It was stunning to see young people praying and worshiping with passion and energy. Seeing all the young people going to the Sacrament of Reconciliation was inspiring. Our XLT night was awesome! XLT is a praise and worship evening (XLT is short for Exalt) which culminates with Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and a candlelit procession into the Church to sing the divine praises – Blessed be God indeed! Daily Mass was a staple of each day and we as leaders were astounded that when the youth found out we had half and hour from 7.00-7.30am each morning for Adoration in the Church, many of the 14-18 year old lads and girls turned up and joined us!
In addition to the above, we had days filled with activities – hiking, biking, climbing, survival and so on; very messy games (mud and water feature a LOT in Life Teen camps!); a daytrip out to a waterpark to try their hands at sailing, rafting, windsurfing and kayaking. And of course we had our annual, purely for fun, social – a day at Alton Towers.
To hear one of our young people (one of our own group in fact) who is not Catholic, nor even Christian, ask at the end of camp – how can I become Catholic – speaks for itself. If you want to join us for next year’s camp please reserve your space now by registering your interest with Teresa - bookings are already flooding in. This year there were 120 at camp! The dates are: August 14-19 2016. If this clashes with exam results you can of course leave at any point to go home for those all important exam results (and come back!).
We have a Come and See evening in the parish centre on Friday September 4th at 7pm for all current youth group members of both groups as well as any other youngsters plus parents who are interested in our work or in joining. You can bring a friend and do not have to be Catholic to join. We’ll serve refreshments, tell you about 2015-16 plans, upcoming trips and show you a short film from the 2015 camp – so if you were there you can spot yourself
