May 2006

In Attendance:               

Sr. Tere, Linda Lussier, Nikki Arrington, Emily Froeba, Jason Froeba, Anne Marie Froeba, Connie Bowie, Bo Turner, TiAnna Alford, Father Mike Pendegraft, Anne McGaugh.

The meeting began with a prayer led by Anne

CMD:               

Nikki asked those present that are students in the CMD program if they want to get together over the summer to do homework together.  If you do, please contact Elisa Wern.

REAL WORLD:

Emily distributed brochures about the service opportunity offered to high school students.  The one conflict is that it is scheduled during the Diocesan Youth Leader program.  The other concern is that there are maximum space allowances.  So, register early.    Registration will close when it has reached capacity and a waiting list will be formed.  This program is not a “drop off” ministry.  Youth must be accompanied by an adult chaperone from their parish.  For more information, please contact Emily Froeba.

GOLF TOURNAMENT:

Anne thanked those that contributed their time, talent and financial contributions to make this tournament a success.  The final amount cannot be disclosed yet, because we still have an outstanding bill and donations.  The fruits of this tournament cannot be under estimated, the camaraderie of the youth ministers and volunteers are immeasurable.  Overall it was a fantastic experience. 

YOUNG ADULT OPPROTUNITIES:

This summer the “Jacksonville Area” will again sponsor Theology on Tap.  These sessions will be held at Mudville Grille on Beach blvd. the first Friday of June, July and August.  The first session the topic is “The DaVinci Code”.  The hope is to expand Theology on Tap to the Gainesville Deanery in the fall or early spring.  There is also a young adult retreat June 30-July 2 at Camp Kalaqua (sp).  Registration forms will be available soon.  This retreat is open to anyone age 20 –39 in the diocese.

YOUTH LEADER:       

The Diocese is once again sponsoring Youth Leader, a leadership development program for high school students July 16-21 at Marywood. All parishes are encouraged to promote and attend this event.  Youth are permitted to participate one time in this learning opportunity.  Ideally the program is for rising Soph., Jr.’s and Sr.’s in high school.  Please contact Anne for more information.

NATIONAL ENCUENTRO:

Sr. Tere reported that there are 10 representatives from the diocese who will meet in South Bend, IN with approximately 5,000 representatives from all over the US.  This program began with parish initiative and participation with youth and young adults and progressed to a Diocesan wide program fro youth and young adults to the Regional Encuentro for Young adults.  Initiatives are discussed and prioritized among the participants. 

ST. AUGUITINE CATHOLIC NEWS:            

Each parish was asked to contribute an article for consideration to be published in the first dedicated youth issue.  The deadline for this is May 10.

OTHER:

• Anne discussed the importance of a Diocesan Scouting committee and representation throughout the Diocese.  Contact cards with current committee chairpersons were distributed.  Please advocate with your Pastor or parish council for a parish representative to the Diocesan Scouting Committee.  For more information, contact Anne.
• Contact Information- Anne distributed a new contact sheet.  Unfortunately many corrections needed to be made.  So she noted them and will send out updated version ASAP.
• Policy Manual- Anne is in the final stages of creating a Policy Manual for youth ministry.  Keep your fingers crossed it goes through quickly.
• Loyola-  Bo distributed information from Loyola University about beginning study for a Master of Religious Education or a Master of Pastoral Studies.  For more information, please contact Bo.
• Summer meeting:  no plans were made or confirmed for the “annual” summer meeting/party in June.  Therefore, our next meeting will be August 22 at Queen of Peace in Gainesville.  Our hosts are:  Bo and Ronnie.

April 2006

April 4, 2006

GAYLE MEETING

Meeting for HS retreat – we discussed changes in the format of this weekend.  We will now be starting Sat morning, 9am, finishing Sunday morning after 11:30am Mass. 

More details forthcoming.  The updated retreat registration form and flyer will be available on the website. 

We welcomed Linda Lussier ( MLuss18609@aol.com email)  to our group!  She is working on youth ministry at St. Phillip Neri in Hawthorne. 

Diocesian update from Anne

• 15 passenger vans – mailing went out
• Some parishes have them and continue to use them, our dioceisan insurance does not cover any of them
• 12 passenger vans are also not approved
• Please contact her for more detailed information, or refer to the detailed page that was mailed out with the last Jacksonville deanery YM meeting notes

NCCYM

• Adult conference is in Las Vegas
• Check out the website http://www.nfcym.org/nccym/index.htm for more information and to register online. 

Event information

• Certificate information -- whenever you sign a contract, you need to have a certificate stating insurance coverage – “Certificate of Insurance”

YM retreat – did not occur due to lack of registration

Encuentro

• Anne attended this event in Atlanta with Sr Tere two weeks ago – she found it to be a good experience of what the Hispanic community needed
• Anne discussed that there is going to be a great growth in the presence of Hispanic ministry in our areas, be open and be welcoming and ready – she will be attending the  National Encuentro at Notre Dame this summer. 
• We had a discussion about the language and cultural differences within the Hispanic population, especially related to parish level activities. 
• Anne suggested that parishes, expeically rural parishes explore the ways that a college volunteer would be stipended to come teach First Communion Prep, etc.  She also mentioned that we could contact Sr Tere’s order for some assistance

YouthLeader

• Program for HS students
• Dates for this summer are July 16th – 20th, 2006
• Contact Anne for more information
• $150 per person
• At Marywood this year instead of Camp St John

Youth Rally

• Feb 10 + 11th 2007
• Vision is to create a youth conference/convention style
• Need to look at who came and why, and who didn’t come and why not
• Previous events are planned by adults, we need to involve some youth in the planning
• Committee plans a common theme with a banner from each parish, with display of what has been done all year
• Awards at end of weekend
• Friday night – about $85 registration – get t shirt and event, does not include food and lodging

RETREAT ministry

• Diocesian vision is for a cafeteria style menus including
• Two separate times NET will come in
• Diocesian endorced deanery level retreats
• Liturgical days of reflection around advent and lent

Youth Council

• Anne wants to have by the end of the summer to have a Diocesan Youth Council in place, does not want it to be “one more thing”
• Parish youth ministers and schools will select young people to apply to become a member meet about 6 times per year – would be installation, commissioning, responsible for youth retreats, rally, etc

We had some conversation about using college frosh and soph as helpers for middle school, and the importance of ensuring some separate ministry time for new high school graduates before involving them in ministry with high school kids, their peers  

Concerns about bus scheduling through St Pat’s – Nikki is working on getting the system streamlined

Steubenville Trip

• Money due to Emily by April 19th
• Mandatory Meeting is 6pm for youth, 8pm for parents on May 31st, at St Augustine’s in Gainesville
• There are a couple of spots open, contact Emily at St Augustine’s if you have interested youth
• We had some discussions about a stop in New Orleans on the way there about activities that we could do to help the youth appreciate the situation there

Real World

• Sunday July 16th through 20th, opening and closing with liturgy
• Each day will highlight a Catholic Mentor – such as Dorothy Day, Mother Teresa, etc
• More details to follow

Next Meeting

MAY 9th in Mayo, at Our Lady of Guadalupe.  Contact Sr Tere if you need directions...Her email address is tere@claretiansisters.org

MARCH 2006

GAYLE AGENDA for upcoming meeting

A couple big things on the agenda...

1.  Emily had her baby, she's beautiful, mom and dad and baby are great!

2.  The high school youth rally report.  Good, bad, and suggestions.

3.  News from Anne

4.  Planning team and meeting date for the high school retreat.

5. Updated Flyer for the high school retreat

6.  Resource List

7.  Website

8.  Youth ministry access

9.  Set meeting dates for the fall.  (Yes I know it is not yet May, but...I'd like to at least get the DATES down, so bring your calendars...)

10.  Parish reports...

11.  Anything else...(including CMD discussions)

12.  Emily – change of date for real world, and need for chaperones  

FEBRUARY 2006

Topics for Discussion

Parish News

• Talent show at St. Patrick's - Great parish wide activity
• Live Stations on March 31st at Holy Faith
• Diane St Onge is ordering a teen version (St. Patrick's)
• Cornerstone Media has a CDROM using popular media http://www.cornerstonemedia.org/stations.html
• Confirmation
  • June 11th - St. John's in Chiefland
  • April 30th - Holy Faith
  • April 29th - Queen of Peace 6pm
  • April 30th - St. Patrick's 11am
• Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mayo is raffling off a calf
• Bo Turner- Mission trip at Queen of Peace, Song of Mark youth musical will be held April 1st and 2nd
• March 4th Rummage Sale at Holy Faith with proceeds going to youth group

Retreat  Vocations

• SAVE THE DATE FLYER - open to 9th through 12th graders, cost will be $35 dollars for the weekend, financial aid is available
• Dates May 5th, 6th, and 7th @ Hurley House, St. Augustine’s
• Topics and Speakers will be discussed at March meeting

Jr High /Sr. High February 25,26

St Pat’s buses are reserved - meet at St Patrick's at 8:30am.

• Individual parishes to register and hand in money

Souper Bowl of Caring

Anne shared that you can use monies for parish level activities

CMD weekend March 4-5,2006

• February 10th is registration deadline 

Steubenville South

• We will be attending Steubenville South June 23rd to 25th in Alexandria LA again
• Update from Emily- chaperones will meet after this meeting to discuss details

REAL WORLD 2006

  Dates for July 11-15th, 2006

• Will most likely have 2 tracks – one for new attendees, and a second to increase the challenge for those who attended last year
• Talked about increasing involvement for adult volunteers: mentioned Anne Viera, some college student adults, and possible UF College of Ed volunteers

NEW BUSINESS

Diocesan Events-Anne

• Province meeting will be held in one week, please contact Anne if you have input to share
• Scouts Award ceremony March 19th at 3pm, Anne will share list at March meeting in case youth ministers are interested in attending to support their youth
• YM retreat April 1st and 2nd, Free to youth ministers, to held at FCCJ at Yulee. Flyer to be mailed out to youth ministers soon
• Golf tournament April 24th.  at Timaquana Golf Tournament, Anne has asked YM to be involved in any way they can
• October 13-15th 2006 is Provincial Youth Workers conference in St. Pete/Tampa area, open to all who do and are involved in youth ministry

Location of March meeting  March 13th in Chiefland

Directions: Take Newberry Road to Trenton, past Newberry.  At the light where there is a capital city bak and HItchcock's, turn Left - 129.  Take this road to Chiefland. 

From Google Maps

Head west from W Newberry Rd. go 0.9 mi

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November, 2004

We held a joint meeting at St. Catherine's in Orange Park, FL.  In attendance representing GAYLE were:

         Barbara Fleury, Holy Faith, Gainesville

         Bo Turner, St. Madeline's, High Springs

         Emily Froeba, St. Augustine's, Gainesville

         Ronnie Jordan, Holy Family, Williston

         Elisa Wern, Chair, GAYLE

I.  Prayer/Introduction.

II.  Souperbowl of Caring:  Emily Hegg, Jacksonville Director shared a Video providing an overview of the program.  She also distributed packets with additional information including a letter-listing Bishop Galeone as an “advocate.” A show of hands demonstrated that this project is already a successful youth activity within many of our parishes. 

Youth programs can register on line and/or call 904 288 8414 (800 358 7687).  We are trying to monitor which of our parishes participate, as well as, how much is collected locally.

This year there is a recommendation that money can remain within the parish with the St. Vincent de Paul Society.  

Copies of the video are available on loan from the OCF. Some packets are also available or could be obtained from Emily.

III. Certificate Program: currently we have 21 registered for the program to begin in January.  Once all registrations are collected we will be able to determine scholarships.   The calendar for 2006 is being established.  Onie asked that youth ministers let her know ASAP “blackout dates” to avoid in scheduling the weekends.

IV.  CMD Youth Leader: July 17-21, 2005 at Camp St. John.  Onie and others mentioned the importance of teams attending together so as to foster the linkage back to the parish. The costs look that they will be approximately $250. 

V.  National Catholic Youth Conference: October 27-30, 2005 Atlanta. Onie distributed an explanation flyer (attached) providing an overview of the fees/expectations as well as encouraging the viewing of the promotional video on the website (www. nfcym.org/ncyc).

VI.  National Evangelization Teams: (www. NETUSA.org)

March 10 to 20, 2005 Onie has contacted interested parishes and indicated the following schedule:

                                    March 11/12                    San Juan del Rio

                                    March 13                         St. Catherine Confirmation  8/9 graders

                                    March 15                         St. Pius School

                                    March 16                         Holy Family/San Jose High School

                                    March 17                        St. Matthew 5-9 p.m. Junior High

                                    March 18                         St. Elizabeth Ann Seton  Middle School

                                    March 19       GAYLE @ St. Patrick's

N.B. All sessions but San Juan del Rio are opened to parishes.  Contact youth minister at specific parish.   

VII.  Youth Rally: Onie contacted Mary Ann, chair, who has been in contact with speakers etc.  The tentative date will be in February 2006. We are looking toward a presenter who could address Saturday (Junior High) and Sunday (Senior High). Possible names that one or other person recommended were:   Father Stan Fortuna, Ralph Poyo, and Jason Evert.  A suggestion was made to have a Friday evening for young adults.  Location: Bishop John J. Snyder High School or somewhere in Gainesville. 

VIII.  Golf Tournament: March 28, 2005 two committees will operate, golfers and youth ministers with donations/day of assistance.  Details will be forthcoming once the committee meets in December.

IX.  Florida Conference of Diocesan Directors of Youth Ministry: Onie mentioned that the province is planning a Catholic Youth Day April 9, 2005 at the Island of Adventure.  The Youth Office needs to purchase tickets and sell to parishes: $38 youth and $44 adults. 

• Other:

• Networking among Parishes: Randy mentioned how helpful it has been to have the opportunity to share opportunities and resources with other parishes.  He wondered about the interest in sponsoring The Prodigal Son arranged by the St. Vincent Farm Community.
• Fund Raising: Randy offered several practical and successful opportunities that have assisted him in the ministry at the Cathedral.  He offered to share with others some of his successes!
• Sister Lucy shared about the Catholic Foundation whose mission is evangelization and youth.  She also had a web site for recycling inkjet cartridges (www.empties4cash.com)

NEXT Meeting:    December 6, 2004      GAYLE @ Home of Nikki Arrington (n_arrington@alumni.ufl.edu)

                               December 14, 2004    Advent Retreat at Marywood (contact Diocesian office if interested)