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- 10. STRATEGY -------- School Missions and Outreach Follow Up and Residential Retreats Parish and Deanery Youth Ministry
- 11. Three Step Process 12 months prior to Mission Week Mission Experience Follow-up
- 12. Missions Autumn 2011 Follow up weekend December 2011 Strategy and Process in Gateshead Year 8 retreats for the whole year group over 4 nights with Sixth Form Helpers. Summer Festival at Youth Village 50 students from both schools St Thomas More Blaydon Sixth Form Retreat for 72 students St Thomas More Catholic School, Blaydon
- 15. Next steps: Deanery Group Co-workers meet on a regular basis to develop Youth Ministry in Gateshead
- 16. Diocesan opportunities for volunteering Diocesan Youth Council members from both schools Youth Ministry Team Gap Year volunteers Young entrepreneurs with St Cuthberts Care CAFOD group Lourdes volunteers from schools and parishes I have enjoyed being a volunteer at Lourdes so much this year. Although we go to Lourdes to help and assist pilgrims, they in return help us. The experience enables us to become more aware, to stop our busy lives for a moment and reassess what is truly important in life.'
- 17. Opportunities for volunteering with organisations Gateshead Youth Assembly Duke of Edinburgh Award St John Ambulance Fairtrade and Traidcraft Shoe Box Appeal Food Bank
- 18. Opportunities for volunteering in the local community Choir performance in local care home SVP group including harvest collection for SVP soup kitchen in Wrekenton Volunteer gardeners at St Annes Church, Harlow Green, supported by parishioners Sixth Form volunteers at a mother and toddler group in St Wilfrids, Old Fold Sixth Form Community placements in primary schools, charity shops, refugee and asylum seekers charities and care homes
- 19. Opportunities for volunteering in the local community Fundraising events in parishes including Christmas fairs, cake sales and afternoon tea dances Helping at Church services including altar servers, readers, musicians Youth Band joining Churches Together at local supermarket Service Projects e.g. Peoples Kitchen, Justice and Peace Volunteering at Childrens Liturgy and Confirmation groups Individual volunteers
- 20. Helen volunteering in South Africa
- 21. How is volunteering encouraged? Inviting young people to be part of something Whole school encouragement Fostering a culture of volunteering from a young age Providing opportunities and life changing experiences Inspiring by example and witness Encouraging older young people to work with younger Giving affirmation and practical support Bringing adults and young people together
- 22. What encouraged you to volunteer? To give something back to a world that has been so kind to me. Helen Hearing about people in need and knowing that I can help. Leah How can you grow in volunteering? In your school you take part in various activities that habituate you not to shut yourselves in on yourselves or in your small world, but to be open to others, especially to the poorest and neediest, to work to improve the world in which we live. Be men and women with others and for others, real champions in the service of others. Pope Francis speaking to young people