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GO OUT !
 "Do
not be afraid to go out on the streets and into public places, like
the first apostles who preached Christ and the Good News of salvation
in the squares of cities, towns and villages. This is no time to be
ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.
Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable routine models of living
in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern
metropolis. It is you who must "go out into the byroads and invite
everyone you meet to the banquet which God has prepared for his people.
The Gospel must not be kept hidden because of fear or indifference.
It was never meant to be hidden away in private. It has to be put on
a stand so that people may see its light and give praise to our heavenly
Father"
Pope John Paul II World Youth Day 1993
SOHO MISSION SCHOOL
One of the newest evangelisation schools founded by Westminster diocesan
priest, Fr Alex Sherbrooke for more details visit www.stpatricks.uk.com
or write Fr Alex Sherbrooke, St Patricks Parish, 21a Soho Square, London
WiD 4NR tel 020 7437 2010
CROSSROADS at THE HOUSE OF THE
OPEN DOOR
Based at the House of Open Door community in the Cotswolds. Students
can spend up to ten months with the community, helping them with their
work and receiving formation mainly from other community members. Less
stress on the academic and more on personal formation. Flexible length
of stay - from a few weeks to ten months. Cost £3 a day to cover
food. Further details from Sherna and Simon Forrest, House of the Open
Door Community, Childswickham House, Childswickham, nr Broadway. Worcs.
Tel 01386 852084 www. houseoftheopendoor.org
SPEC TEAMS
The Westminster Diocese funds several mission teams based at All Saints
Pastoral Centre, London Colney. Run by Sandra and David Satchell, under
the wise gaze of Fr Vladimir Feltzman SPEC recruits and trains a children's
team for the Loft, to work with 7 - 13 year olds and a Peer Ministry
Spec Team, which runs residential retreats and goes out to secondary
schools in the diocese. The advantage of diocesan backing means as well
as board and lodging participants receive £160 a month pocket
money, as well as excellent training in a beautiful setting. Further
details SPEC, All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney, St Albans,
Herts HL2 1AF. Tel 01727 828888 or fax 01727 822927
LIVING WATERS
Scottish based evangelisation school, newly formed last year on the
initiative of local Scottish priest Canon William Fraser, and headed
up by American Kevin Lynch and Canadian Sarah Grant, who are former
students of the John Paul II Bible College in Canada. The team is a
mixture of Scottish and international students, who travel throughout
Scotland and the UK sharing their faith through drama, music and testimony
and teaching. They are looking for young people aged 18-28 to join them
for this coming academic year. For further details contact: Living Water
Ministry, The Visitation, Taynuilt, Argyll, PA35 1JQ. Tel 01866 822
172 or fax 01866 822 269 or website www.kilmoretrust.org.uk
KERGYMA TEAMS DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING
SCHOOL
This is the response of the ecumenical lay missionary organisation,
Youth With a Mission, to the Pope's call for a new evangelisation and
their desire to help equip young lay Catholics to meet this challenge.
Kergyma, seeks to draw on the vast experience of YWAM in forming young
people from all over the world, yet respecting and encouraging their
students' Catholic identity and what this brings to them. This year
the Kergyma Training School will be based in Dublin where it will be
headed up by a Catholic New Zealander, Rob Clarke and his wife Anne,
who live in Dublin. The seven month long DTS has several aims: to help
students develop their relationship with God and their spiritual life,
to give them experience of Christian community life and to equip them
with practical ministry skills for contemporary youth ministry in a
Catholic context. As part of this for the first time this year students
will receive training in web design and radio production in conjunction
with the New Media Training Centre. There will be the equivalent of
11 weeks teaching spread over the duration of the school with input
from national and international speakers and opportunity for outreach
in schools and parishes. For further details contact Rob Clarke, Gap
Year DTS, 54 Elm Mount Avenue, Beaumont, Dublin 9 or website www.kerygmateams.org
CROSS PURPOSES (SION COMMUNITY
YOUTH DISCIPLESIP TEAM)
This is an opportunity for young adults 18-25 to join the youth outreach
team of the very well established Sion Community, which has been one
of the pioneers in evangelisation in England and has an enviable track
record for leadership formation. The Youth Discipleship Team headed
up by Sarah and David Beresford, has its own base at Chalfont St Peter
in Buckinghamshire, and runs missions and retreats in secondary schools.
The Team are given six weeks of initial formation to equip them for
their work, and then ongoing formation throughout the year. Team members
receive a small wage for their work. Further details from Sarah Beresford,
Sion Youth Discipleship Base, Holy Cross Convent, Gold Hill East, Chalfont
St Peter Bucks or look at their web site www.sioncommunity.org.uk
ICPE (International Catholic Programme
for Evangelisation)
The first Catholic evangelisation school for young people founded by
Mario and Henry Capello from Malta in the 1980s, offers 3 month training
courses with one month's outreach in a foreign country. Courses all
over the world. Further details of ICPE courses from ICPE, Via Della
Stazione Aurelia 95, Rome 00165, Italy. Tel 00 39 06 6651 2891 or fax
00 39 06 6651 2894
YOUTH 2000 (England and Wales)
MISSION TEAM
This mission team has evolved over the last few years out of the work
of the Youth 2000 movement which promotes Eucharistic faith and marian
spirituality among young people. The team which is headed up by Josie
Callaghan, is based at East Keswick near Leeds. The gap year opportunity
runs from Sept/October 2003 to August 2004 . It includes an ongoing
formation programme, individual spiritual direction, community living,
front line evangelisaton work helping to run youth festivals, prayer
groups and speaking in schools all round the country, travelling in
the famous "Mission Van". For further details contact: Youth
2000, PO Box 176, Leeds LS17 9XU
YOUTH 2000 (Ireland)
This is a more informal team that has evolved out of the ministry of
ex-gangster, John Pridmore, who has been touring Ireland over the last
couple of years, sharing his testimony in schools and parishes, and
showing how God can change lives. The team of eight, currently working
with him, have come mainly by word of mouth and already have some training
or formation with other communities. The team live by Divine Providence
and those who want to join must commit to taking a year's consecration
to poverty, chastity and obedience while they serve on the team. There
is a two week informal discernment process for those who would like
to join. For further details write to Youth2000 Mission Team, 5 Morrmount
Cottages, Dermine, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, Ireland.
PILGRIM COMMUNITY
formally the Nottingham Pilgrims - was founded by Fr Jonathan Cotton,
a priest from the Nottingham diocese, and Sr Angela Murphy, as an opportunity
for young Catholics to have a gap year being formed and going out evangelising.
Over the years, however, it has diversified and evolved and become not
just a youth ministry team but a lay community with several people having
taken life vows to the community and other former mission team members
wanting to continue their involvement and commitment, even when their
time of service on the mission team has ended. This had led to a lot
of reflection as to what their call is. The community have thus decided
this autumn not to have a youth mission team but pray and discern how
they might live out their commitment to evangelisation and to each other
in the light of the changing circumstances of their lives. After 13
years the community had to leave their base in Matlock and have now
relocated to Monks Kirby, a small village near Rugby, where they have
been lent a former convent building. Here they have a few spare rooms,
so visitors are welcome. They will be recruiting a mission team next
year to begin autumn 2004. To contact them write to The Pilgrim Community,
St Joseph's Convent, Brockhurst Land, Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, CV32
ORA.
YMT (YOUTH MINISTRY TEAM)
This is the youth mission team of the Hexham and Newcastle diocese headed
up by the energetic Fr Dermot Donnelly. Funded by the diocese, the team
was the initiative of Bishop Ambrose Griffiths, who invited Gerry and
Katie Nelson, a young lay couple to train a team of young people to
go into schools and parishes. Initially just an opportunity for a year's
service YMT has developed and grown and now has a full time staff of
four, who organise the work of the mission team and its various outreaches.
YMT are not recruiting another mission team this autumn. Instead they
are consolidating their work in the diocese, developing local leadership
among young people in preparation for next year (autumn 2004), when
they will be taking on a new team and launching new projects. So watch
this space! For further details you can contact them at their HQ at
YMT, 16 Arthur Street, Blyth, Northumberland, NE24 1EA. Tel 01670 351703
or check out their web site www.ymt.org
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