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St Leo's LIFE TEEN Program <<Click here for details

Life Nights - for High School Teens <<Click here for details

EDGE - for Junior High School Teens <<Click here for details

Vacation Bible School <<Click here for details

ST. LEO's LIFE TEEN PROGRAM
        In January 2008, The Church of St Leo’s the Great began a program designed to help bring teens closer to Christ. LIFETEEN. It is a whole program geared at presenting the Catholic faith to teens at their level, and in ways they can both understand and enjoy. According to the Life Teen mission statement “Life Teen is an international Catholic movement that serves the Church by providing resources and faith experiences that help lead teens closer to Christ. This is accomplished through a vibrant Eucharistic spirituality and by creating opportunities for teens to grow in their faith.”

        At St. Leo's Church in Hilton, NY, Sunday nights are youth nights. the evening begins at 6PM with our Life Teen Mass, a Mass for teens, and by teens, where they actively participate in all aspects of the Mass from Alter serving, Lectoring and being Greeters and Eucharistic Ministers. Life Teen Masses are energetic, lively Masses with great music and allow them to hear the word in ways that are meaningful to them. For more information about Life Teen Mass, click here. or click on the [LifeTeen Mass] link on the top of any page. After Mass our teens gather for youth group. Life Nights for the High School teens, and The Edge for our Junior High School teens.
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LIFE NIGHTS - for High School Teens

Life Nights

Right after our Life Teen Mass ends (about 7pm) our teens gather for Youth Group. The High School teens head downstairs to the youth room and usually start with a light snack, and then we start the evening off with ice-breaker relative to the night’s theme. Life Nights, as they are called, involve a rotation of catechetical (teaching), issue and social nights. Catechetical nights occur about every other week, and try to explain various parts of our faith to the teens, while issue nights revolve around social justice issues that affect us all, like homelessness, violence, sex or drugs and alcohol. But it’s not at all like a classroom setting. Life nights incorporate a wide variety of tools from book lessons, to games, role-playing, story-telling and music to bring the lessons to life. Teens often break off into groups of 3 or 4 plus an adult for small group discussions, and then get back with the whole group to share thoughts and ideas. Sometimes the discussions can get pretty lively, especially when we get on a hot topic or an emotionally charged issue. Those nights the adults can learn as much as the kids!

Social nights occur about once a month, and are just that.. SOCIAL! We might play kickball or Frisbee, or other sports, listen to music and have food, play games, or just talk about ideas and plans for the year and ideas to keep Life Nights a place to have fun, to hang with friends and a place to live out faith.

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The EDGE - for Junior High School Teens
More to follow on this in the near future
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VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
More to follow on this in the near future
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